ALTIVERB 6 TUTORIAL FULL

With all of the instruments placed properly (Maarten's positionings are available in the preset menu under '/Orchestral/Orchestral Positioning track inserts/') a final Altiverb was put in the master channel to take care of the reverb tai, and Mechanics Hall in Worcester MA was selected to provide it.

Classic Orchestral Positions were selected, with percussion in the far back of the stage.Ī single master Altiverb for the reverb tail Stage positions were selected, by dragging the speaker for mono instrument tracks, or by dragging both speakers for placement of stereo mixdowns of instrument groups. Then the Altiverbs were switched to their Stage positions tabs (as shown above in threefold).The previous picture shows that the direct gain control becomes disabled, as the Stage positions control takes over the gain of the direct sound. (In the master fader, one Altiverb will take take care of the tail.)

ALTIVERB 6 TUTORIAL FULL

To ease the load on the CPU, the choice was made to not render the full tail in the instrument tracks, just the direct sound and the early refs. A setup close to a stage was chosen to achieve a wide stereo image, The Vienna Konzerthaus 10 m omni directional mics:

Each Altiverb loaded with the same microphone setup. Each track was to played back from a different position on stage.įirst thing to do was insert an Altiverb in each of the 15 instrument tracks. This is what his dry, un-positioned orchestra sounded like.Īfter that we asked him to distribute his separate instrument tracks over the stage using Altiverb 6's stage position feature. As his instrument he chose to use the Vienna Symphony Library of orchestral samples. We asked Maarten Spruijt, maker of primary demos for such renowned sample manufacturers as Vienna Symphonic Library, Spectrasonics and ProjectSAM, to compose a short movement for us. Input audio is a stereo mixdown of part of the percussion section of the demo, therefore you see two speakers on the stage. The mp3 below it is the result of the three settings. The three pictures below are interface screen shots of three settings. The following is a demo using Altiverb 6's resulting 'stage positions' feature for a specific case: Creation of a convincing stereo image of a sampled orchestra on a stage.įirst, listen to what the stage position control in Altiverb can do.

The goal was to find out what exactly the influence of stage position is on the impulse response, so an algorithm could be derived that allows the source sound to be moved around on the stage of any hall or room available in Altiverb. Orchestral Stage Positioning Using Altiverb 6ĭecember 2003 Audio Ease went to several rooms to make samples using a larger than usual set of source positions.

Altiverb 6 tutorial