Since I just got MIR SE working (and it sounds awesome!) I am working on getting familiar with it and wonder if anyone has any tips about useage. I know I can "just listen" but am wondering what are the concepts behind these uses, and what other people are finding works best.
I also had these specific questions -
Is there any limitation to shrinking or expanding the image size of the instrument icons? (Like in Altiverb not being advisable to expand the speaker positioning too much.) I am assuming it is o.k. to make them as big or as small as you wish within the built-in limits.
What is the function of turning the icons to face in different directions? Does this actually work in a naturally recorded way, and why would you want the sound to point in another direction than front? (Except maybe for horn bells but I would assume that would be taken care of in the original samples.)
There is no MIR instrument for the large percussion set. So what are people using for this? In most music I basically use the percussion set, and then supplement it with additional instruments, but I notice in MIR all the percussion is individual instruments except for snare ensemble. Should one create a general instrument and make it whatever size or adapt the snare ensemble and substitute it?
What is advisable for the pipe organ? I wonder about this since it already has the same hall reverb built in. The actual placement of it positionally of course would be in back of the stage, but this might be double reverbed. So should one perhaps place it in the middle but front of the stage?
Is optimizing still frowned on because of alternate note issues? I am thinking I should do optimizing on a massive orchestration in order to load all instruments but have not yet determined the limits of 24 gbs of RAM.
thanks for any answers and other tips/ideas you might be able to supply!
