Dietz wrote:
Wow, this MIR thing sounds like it's going to be a product for an elite few, with monster rigs. It sounds like it'll be a product that you put in between all your dedicated GS machines and your digital audio work station. Considering that not many people like to run that many computers, I would guess that not many MIR units or software packages will be sold. That would suggest that the price will be astronomical.
Seriously, I wonder if this going to be at all practical for the way people really work, especially in bigger shops where composing and tracking is done by one crew, and the mostly dry tracks are mixed by another crew. If a person who specialized in mixing is going to deal with the final mix, they're not going to want everything already slathered in verb. They might also already be fond of the various verb units they're currently using, and further, might not be interested in something that's so specifically tied to VSL nomenclature. Mixers are also very attached to their mixing environments of choice (with automation, a boat load of favorite plug-ins, expensive control surfaces, etc.).
I'm ready to be convinced, but I'm also not certain that placing many different instruments in different places in a convolution model is going to make that big of a difference compared to what one can already do with the current version of AltiVerb. When things get convolved to a certain extent, everything is pretty well blended together. These days, with AltiVerb 5, I don't find myself being at all disappointed with the quality of the reverb on my projects. To my ears, the AudioEase IRs are quite exquisitely done. It's still the fact that samples sound like samples, and not completely like real players that gives a piece that "sampled" quality.
At any rate, this is a really brave thing that VSL is doing. They're taking risks with a brand new concept, and I hope it works out for them.
Lee Blaske
Think of the MIR as a new form of mixing console. It will _not_ be your next "reverb plugin", so the OS-discussion is futile. And yes, you will want to use a dedicated computer for this engine [;)] ... sorry, Thierry, but in your scenario you will need to use AltiVerb.
Wow, this MIR thing sounds like it's going to be a product for an elite few, with monster rigs. It sounds like it'll be a product that you put in between all your dedicated GS machines and your digital audio work station. Considering that not many people like to run that many computers, I would guess that not many MIR units or software packages will be sold. That would suggest that the price will be astronomical.
Seriously, I wonder if this going to be at all practical for the way people really work, especially in bigger shops where composing and tracking is done by one crew, and the mostly dry tracks are mixed by another crew. If a person who specialized in mixing is going to deal with the final mix, they're not going to want everything already slathered in verb. They might also already be fond of the various verb units they're currently using, and further, might not be interested in something that's so specifically tied to VSL nomenclature. Mixers are also very attached to their mixing environments of choice (with automation, a boat load of favorite plug-ins, expensive control surfaces, etc.).
I'm ready to be convinced, but I'm also not certain that placing many different instruments in different places in a convolution model is going to make that big of a difference compared to what one can already do with the current version of AltiVerb. When things get convolved to a certain extent, everything is pretty well blended together. These days, with AltiVerb 5, I don't find myself being at all disappointed with the quality of the reverb on my projects. To my ears, the AudioEase IRs are quite exquisitely done. It's still the fact that samples sound like samples, and not completely like real players that gives a piece that "sampled" quality.
At any rate, this is a really brave thing that VSL is doing. They're taking risks with a brand new concept, and I hope it works out for them.
Lee Blaske