Topic by Amen Ptah Ra

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Topic: Limited Time, Free New Impulse Response (IR) Files and Software

PIANOTEQ already includes an impulse response reverb along with an algorithmic one.  Now a Hungarian group that incidentally also makes various sample based pipe organs, has begun to bolster an impulse response (IR) based reverb.  One that behaves like others which have been based upon algorithms.  In which a user is likewise free to make adjustments (to reverb decay, early reflections, stereo width, pre-delay, Etc.).

This impulse response (IR) based reverb is very different from others because in it you get to move your sound sources (virtual instruments) in any relationship to the surroundings from which an IR was taken and even position your listener in the area, virtually, as though that person were seated inside an audience listening to your piano performance.

An entirely free lite edition is currently available, if you just want to have other IR files to run with PIANOTEQ inside your digital audio workstation (DAW).  When you download it you do receive a discount as much as 40% off the regular price of a basic reverb package including positionable source inputs and other editables.

Interesting, the one group that also makes a pipe organ now offers a reverb with positionally moveable sound sources, while a different group that also makes a modelled piano offers additionally a selection of modelled preamps.

Now I’m using the products, a modelled piano, modelled preamp, and the impulse response based reverb as plugins.  When combined they allow a virtual recording to mimick a brick and mortar venue, physical instrument, and electronic hardware used inside the actual concert recording.

If you’re like I am, looking to add some more realism to your piano recordings, you just may want to see definitively what the developers of the reverb have to offer over others at their website: https://inspiredacoustics.com/en/exclus...ta-product

Take a preview: https://vimeo.com/489359360

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Incidentally, the Inspirata reverb plugin has presently many more reverbs of concert halls and churches than it does recording studios and scoring stages.  To get some of the latter I will use a somewhat similar but entirely algorithmic reverb Virtual Sound Stage from Parallax-Audio.  It offers a recording studio and a couple of scoring stages apart from virtual venue settings of spaces typically reserved to classical music concerts.

If you get either of the two similar, let me read your comment...

Last edited by Amen Ptah Ra (25-01-2021 09:49)
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Reply by Chopin87

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Re: Limited Time, Free New Impulse Response (IR) Files and Software

Virtual Soundastage only provides you with early reflections so I wouldn't exactly call it an algo reverb since you still need to route the software through some reverb tails.

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Re: Limited Time, Free New Impulse Response (IR) Files and Software

There was already some discussion about this software. I downloaded it and used it in Mainstage on a send bus for the reverb of my playing (I have everything in Mainstage).

To me, the sound is really good, but it has a huge problem: CPU consumption. On my iMac 2011 I simply can't play while using it, there will be constant spikes above 100% and dropouts. Base CPU usage without pressing a single note on an instance of PT goes instantly up to 70%.

Now you could say, old hardware, but I compared this to other convolution reverbs: Space Designer and the demo of Spaces II by EastWest. Space Designer doesn't sound as good for solo piano, but Spaces II definitly does. CPU usage isn't even a fraction of Inspirata though, I have no problems with spikes in any way. If you use it in a DAW on multiple tracks for positioning more then one instrument I think a lot of computers will run into troubles.

If you have a newer computer that you run it on, this is definitly the best sounding free reverb you can get. No question about it, other charge quite siginificantly for what you can get here for free.

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