Audio Ease have released Altiverb 8, available in two versions:
- Altiverb 8 Regular – €499.00 + tax
- Altiverb 8 XL – €849.00 + tax
What’s new in version 8:
- New scalable user interface
- M1 / M2 & Intel macs are fully supported
- Up to 9.1.6 input and output channels for fully immersive convolution reverb (XL version)
- Automatic input-pan following reverb, locate each reverb around the panning of the source, even when multiple sources move in a single instance
- IR switches, reverb adjustments and stage position changes all practically seemless without any clicks
- New output level meters allowing manipulation of level and delay per output channel (XL version)
- Almost all of the hundreds of the music spaces (concert halls, churches, cathedrals, studios, scoring stages) have been upgraded to Dolby Atmos by utilizing the original extra recordings we have been routinely making throughout the years
- All outputs of Altiverb are always real and distinct original speaker to microphone takes (XL version)
- The newly designed browser offers more and quicker ways to find the right IR
- The new IR tool enables you to create your own IRs, with output support up to 9.1.6 channels
- The Altiverb license can be activated on a computer or on a USB iLok key. The iLok USB key is no longer required
- VST3 support
- Fully backward compatible replacing Altiverb 7 in your sessions
- Plus more….
Altiverb is a plug-in that makes your audio sound as if it was played back somewhere else, adding the acoustics of existing spaces to your own recordings or to your live audio. All spaces in Altiverb were recorded in the real world, from Sydney Opera House to a Scottish underground oil tank the size of a cathedral.
Longer than anyone in the industry, and with more ear for detail, Audio Ease has been traveling the world to record the acoustics of the best sounding spaces.
The results of hundreds of these recordings are included with Altiverb 8.
Ranging from London’s Wembley stadium to the ancient caves of the island of Malta and the churches, concert halls and rock studios from cities like Tokyo, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and New York.
The Impulse Response library is now more accessible then ever because of Altiverb’s newly designed browser. Select impulse responses by clicking photos of rooms. Instant, gapless loading, finding similar sounding spaces, organise by reverb length (RT60), and single click favorites are just a few of the possibilities. The Impulse Response Browser and the pictures in it are resizeable and contains an extensive search field. Many world class recording studio live spaces and echo chambers, from Tokyo to Paris are part of the Altiverb impulse responses library.
First class orchestral recording studios from the US East and West coast are featured in Altiverb, like Todd AO, 20th Century Fox, paramount, some of these studios do no longer exist, but their sound lives on in Altiverb.
First class orchestral recording studios from the US East and West coast are featured in Altiverb. Some of these scoring stages are no longer excistence, but their sound lives on in Altiverb.
The POST category features many different sounding spaces, every day rooms like bathrooms, restrooms, kitchens, different types of transport, trains, cars, planes, but also the not so ordinary, odd sounding, spaces like museums, huge domes or sewer pipes.
Altiverb contains a tremendous amount of classic reverb gear and purpose built echo chambers. You will find all the EMT plates you want, spring reverbs, classic digital gear like the 480, 224, the RMX 16, the 250. Add the Frank Sinatra and Beach Boys echo chambers and you have everything you need to recreate all those classic sounds.
With the sweeps and tool you get with Altiverb 8 you can capture acoustics yourself and use these impulse responses in Altiverb.
Features include:
- All IRs ever released for Altiverb
- New IRs will be added regularly, for free
- Fixes and support without yearly fees
- The option to sell and transfer your license
- Countless ways of manipulating the reverb sound with controls like reverb time, attack, brightness, pre delay, EQ, damping..
- Revolutionary stage positioning control for placing single members of a group, ensemble or even a complete orchestra on their own individual spot on stage, in any room/concert hall
Watch the guided tour HERE.
Altiverb 8 is available to Mac users (VST3, AU and AAX) and requires an iLok account.
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