I am quite sure those who built the Great Pyramid never envisioned it being used for such things, but wow what a sound! You can literally hear the stone walls of the Pyramid, the drums sound so alive and vibrant. When I put those dry strings into one of the many real spaces it was just, wow! There is something surreal about being able to have your string section played back in the Kings Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza, where I think the strings sound amazing.Ĭuriosity got the better of me however, and I simply had to hear how the drums would sound in the Great Pyramid and when I first put it on, there was of course way too much reverberation, but Altiverb allows you to turn down the decay time, and when I did that I had a great sounding reverb for drums. They are not real strings, but sampled strings and they were recorded very dry. (Or so I thought) The strings I used were from a song on my album from a few years ago, with everything stripped out but the strings. Real World Spacesįor the next hour or so I prepared a string section recording to use for testing these amazing spaces as a drum kit simply wasn’t going to cut it. Before I knew it half a day had flown by as I was so mesmerized by the spaces on offer and just how extraordinary they sounded. I became curious as to how useful the cathedrals, stadiums and concert halls might be so I had a quick listen. After all, that is why we are all here right? But something happened on the way to listening to these hardware samples. This being Vintage Digital my interest as I said earlier was in these hardware reverb samples.
At around US$1000 the Audio Ease Altiverb XL starts to look like very good value indeed. A used Klark Teknik DN-780 is around US$900-1000 on it’s own, add in an Ursa Major Space Station and you could triple that figure. If you were to add up the cost of buying the hardware reverbs listed above, and remember there is way more than what I have listed here, then you start to see the true value in the Alitverb plug-in. If you accept the fact that convolution reverb using impulse responses does in fact capture these reverbs in their full, then that makes this plug-in something of a bargain. As well as the Sony there is also impulse responses for the AMS RMX16, Klark Teknik DN-780, multiple EMT 140 plates, Yamaha Rev7, Yamaha SPX990, Ursa Major Space Station SST-282, Eventide SP2016, Roland RE-201 Space Echo and much…much more. The Sony DRE-2000 for which there are a huge number of impulse responses on offer, they have left no stone unturned. To be honest, going into this review I had little interest in these impulse responses, because Alitverb also offers up a great number of impulse responses of hardware reverbs, many rare and expensive. I guess for us dealing with music mixing that would not be of much use, but for film production I can see these being very useful indeed. There are also what would seem like some pretty useless stuff like bathrooms, bedrooms and office spaces. There are countless samples from cathedrals, concert halls and stadiums the world over, each adding an extraordinary sound to your recordings. The reason it is that big is because of the enormous number of impulse responses that it ships with.
There is a whole lot more to it than that but that should be enough to understand what this plug-in is capable of doing.Īudio Ease Altiverb XL is a whopping 7GB in size which also makes it one of the biggest plugins I have ever used too. Thus recording the way a room or space responds to sound, and for our interests the decay of the sound reverberating within the space.
Like I said earlier, in simple terms it is very much like sampling, but instead of sampling a sound, it is sampling the response of the room when a test tone is played in it. The standard Alitverb is €499.00 and the Altiverb XL plug-in is €849.00 making them the most expensive plug-ins I know of, and may just make you stop reading right now, but I urge you to continue as you will see the plug-in is worth ever cent! Impulse responses, what are they? While this review is based on the Alitverb XL, it applies to the standard stereo version too and that is how we have tested it. To put it into simple terms, it is to reverb what sampling was to keyboards back in the early 1980s.Īltiverb comes in two versions, a stereo plug-in limited to 96kHz samples rates, or this the XL version which is 5.1 surround capable at sample frequencies up to 384kHz. The Audio Ease Altiverb XL plug-in is a convolution reverb, meaning it uses impulse responses of ‘real’ spaces to capture the true essence of a room or concert hall.
Sony DASH Digital Audio Recording Format.
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