Contents

• Welcome
• Non-Accel chip support in TDM version for Pro Tools 7.x HD
• Indian sampling expedition
• New impulse response releases
• Speakerphone and Snapper, what's the wait?
• Subscribe or unsubscribe

Welcome to the first Altiverb newsletter in a while. In this letter you will find news about new features and impulse responses for Altiverb. We plan to inform you about Altiverb in this way every two months, but if you don't want to receive the newsletter in future, just let us know on this page.

This issue's headlines include the brand new support for non-Accel DSP chips in the TDM version of Altiverb 6 XL and a report about our first impulse response recording expedition to India.

We hope you enjoy.

If you haven't done so already, now is the time to upgrade to Altiverb 6 XL. The Altiverb TDM version for Pro Tools now supports all HD chips: Accel, non-Accel, and all expansion chassis for Pro Tools HD systems.

This means you can now use your non-Accel chips on your PCI Core/Processor, PCI Accel and PCIe Core/Accel boards to generate convolution reverb. As an example: a 1.5 second (mono-in) stereo-out reverb uses two non-Accel chips. Accel chips do even better: a single Accel chip will give you 2.1 seconds of reverb. If you want to know how much 2.1 seconds of reverb is, please check our little example here:
http://www.audioease.com/demo/

And if you want to read the full specs, please open or download this pdf. If you have Altiverb 6 XL already, this upgrade is free, get your download here. For registered Altiverb 5 HTDM users, the upgrade to Altiverb 6 XL is just $100 in case you have purchased your version 5 after November 10, 2005. Otherwise it's $129. If you are a registered user of an earlier version of Altiverb, our on-line store will calculate your upgrade price automatically, but your reseller can also advice you on your upgrade price.

The TDM version of the Altiverb 6.1 XL runs on Pro Tools HD systems from version 6.9 up.
If you rely on Altiverb 5 HTDM, do not upgrade, Pro Tools nor Altiverb supports HTDM as a plug-in format in their latest versions.

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On August 20 2005, a letter reached Audio Ease HQ. It said:

"Dear Sir, I would like to enlighten you that since you have captured the greatest impulses and have made plugins with the best of reverbs. I thereby would urge you to build a plugin with perhaps the richest ever reverbs that any one has ever heard. Hold your heart ...I really mean what I say. As you are aware India is a Country that has rich heritage monuments & these buildings are among the wonders of the world. The monuments have been built with great acoustic conditions & have examples of genius brilliant mathematics of sound reverberations and acoustic conditions.. In eyes and ears of an Audio engineer It could only be the GOL GUMBZ of Bijapur in INDIA as an acoustic wonder of the world which has the richest acoustic reverb ever in the universe."

Read the full story here...

During the winter NAMM show back in January this year Arjen and Max went to sample the halls of 20th Century Fox, and the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic: Disney Concert Hall. Disney Hall has been released in March and the Fox stage samples are still being worked upon. They will be queued up for release soon. Since March we were happy to release a collection of aircraft, and the royal opera of Sweden. In the next newsletter we will report on Peter's sampling trip to the monuments and caves of Malta, but please read on to see what we've released lately.

Altiverb version 5.4 or higher is required to use these sets. As always these are free downloads available from: http://www.audioease.com/IR

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This warehouse is situated in the middle of Rotterdam, in one of the most beautiful parts of the ‘old city’. Captured between two rivers in the old harbor, this venue has been used as warehouse and also as exposition room. more...

The old opera was demolished in 1892 to give way to the construction of a new Opera by Axel Johan Anderberg. It is a majestic neo-classical building with a magnificent gold foyer and elegant marble grand staircase leading to a three-tiered auditorium somewhat smaller than the old theatre. more...

This magnificent orchestral studio was built in 1952/53. This is the smaller of two orchestral radio studios from the former East German Broadcast. more...

Cockpits and (passenger) cabins of 7 legendary aircraft, recorded in the Aviodrome, Lelystad, The Netherlands. more...

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The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves (among other purposes) as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. more...

Do you have a request? A space you know that you'd want us to sample? Do you need help sampling yourself? Please drop us a line at support@audioease.com, Or discuss it at our forum's IR Pages.. Many of the IR's we make are suggested to us by our users, so please make yourself heard so we can make your room heard.

Believe us, we feel the same way. Since first shown at NAMM, these products have both undergone major overhauls here at Audio Ease. Our way of developing sometimes involves drastic changes in direction as we go. It means we sometimes throw out a lot of work, work that has never seen a release, just because we get a better idea.

However, we can tell you that we are very pleased with the progress we have made in the past two months on both Speakerphone and Snapper. In fact, Speakerphone is now close to beta testing. And we are quite confident that you will find the result well worth waiting for.

More about Speakerphone
More about Snapper