Vienna MIR is a very different product than Vienna Suite. While the latter is "just" a bundle of high-quality plugins, MIR is much more:
(Quoting the manual:)
What is Vienna MIR?
Vienna MIR is an innovative, highly integrated software package for mixing, spatialization (distribution in space) and reverberation of
virtual orchestral instruments. Vienna MIR is meant to be used “stand-alone”, much like you would use a mixing console in the
analogue world.
Vienna MIR offers integrated sample-players, advanced stage positioning possibilities, sample-based reverb (socalled
impulse responses), and individually assignable signal processing.
Its main goal is a fast and intuitive, yet highly realistic approach to the realisation and mixdown of virtual orchestral music.
Vienna MIR's main components and core technologies are:
• a host and MIDI-interface for Vienna Instruments
• unique instrument-conscious (signal dependent) directivity handling
• a spatialization tool for instruments or ensembles on detailed virtualisations of real halls and stages
• a host for 3rd-party VSTi’s (virtual instruments adhering to the VST standards)
• a host for VST effect and signal-processing plug-ins
• a convolution-based reverberation tool, derived from world class orchestral venues
• an advanced multi-format mixing engine with instrument-specific, hand-tuned presets
• an inviting, hands-on graphical user interface
• project-oriented file management
[...]
Vienna MIR is designed to be self-explanatory. In spite of the underlying complex technology, you can simply look onto a stage and interact with
the musicians you invited to play on it, without the need to use any technical abstractions like faders, buttons, numbers or editors.
[...]
Working with an orchestra in its natural environment may seem a self-evident task: A big stage in an acoustically suitable hall. Nevertheless, in our
work with virtual orchestras we unintentionally have gotten used to accept all kinds of technical abstractions of this logical model. We’re dealing
with mixer channels, pan-pots and faders, equalizers, auxiliary sends and reverb engines – only to achieve an effect that “just happens” in the real
world: The impression of depth and room, the perceptibility of the instruments’ positions and their mutual relation.
Vienna MIR reintroduces the “natural” environment to the virtual domain, so that we finally are in the lucky position to forget about most of the
annoying (or at least tedious) detours. The MIR engine offers a holistic approach to the spatialization of virtual orchestras, allowing the user to
interact with the players more like a conductor than an engineer. MIR is all about “room”, and both the interface as well as the underlying processes
serve this sole task only.
I hope this gives you an idea. ;-) ... The MIR manual is available as free download from your User Area, if you want to know more:
-> [URL]http://www.vsl.co.at/en/68/428/709/376/239.htm[/URL]
Oh, BTW: MIR will host your virtual instruments as well as plugins (like Vienna Suite). :-)
Kind regards,