If you go to a church or other reverberant space and clap your hands, you immediately become aware of the acoustic environment you're in. Altiverb is a so‑called convolving (or sampling) reverb, and as such joins the £4500 Sony DRE S777 and £5500 Yamaha SREV1 - both hardware units - at the top of the 'real reverb' tree. Dutch company Audio Ease, who until recently have produced plug‑ins exclusively for MOTU's Digital Performer sequencer, are about to release their Altiverb in VST and (H)TDM formats to join the MAS‑format, G4‑only Altiverb that's been out for about nine months already. It's possible all that's about to change, though. For project studio owners the very best reverbs have always been aspirational and, more often than not, unaffordable items. Going down the hardware route (as so many people still do) quite respectable multi‑effects units can be had for £250, but companies like Lexicon and TC Electronic still charge four‑figure sums for their most classy sounding products, reflecting the finely honed (and often jealously guarded) algorithms they use, and the R&D time spent getting them to sound as they do.
Altiverb 7 release date software#
Things are, of course, better than they were 10 years ago, but good software reverb plug‑ins are few and far between, and even quite disappointing ones may well eat half your processor power. That's principally because creating believable acoustic environments will always be a complicated business, requiring complex mathematics and lots of processing power. Some things never change though, like the search for really good, affordable reverb processors. For example, most sequencers come bundled with dozens of plug‑ins, which could easily cost thousands of pounds to replace with hardware. You can get a lot of recording gear for comparatively little money these days, especially if you're prepared to commit to a software‑based setup.
Altiverb 7 release date mac#
Now Audio Ease's Altiverb brings the same convolving technology to the Mac - at a fraction of the cost. The latest technological advances in reverb design have yielded expensive hardware units that can 'sample' the sound of real rooms.
A mono-to-stereo instance of Altiverb running an impulse response of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
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