... to keep expectations from going up through the clouds ... [:)]
The MIR will be able to do a healthy amount of real-time processing, with carefully chosen curtailment (is this the proper word?) within the actually necessary amount if IR-data to give the user a meaningfull and convincing auditive impression. The _full_ load of several hundreds of IRs will still have to be rendered off-line, until computers are powerfull enough for our needs.
Sharing the processor-load between several machines is of course a tempting scenario, but I can't promise that this will already be possible in the first incarnation of the MIR. We'll see ... [;)]
The MIR will be able to do a healthy amount of real-time processing, with carefully chosen curtailment (is this the proper word?) within the actually necessary amount if IR-data to give the user a meaningfull and convincing auditive impression. The _full_ load of several hundreds of IRs will still have to be rendered off-line, until computers are powerfull enough for our needs.
Sharing the processor-load between several machines is of course a tempting scenario, but I can't promise that this will already be possible in the first incarnation of the MIR. We'll see ... [;)]
/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library