[LAU] [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb

Leigh Dyer lsd at wootangent.net
Fri Jan 14 00:37:10 UTC 2011


On 14/01/11 11:17, Tom Szilagyi wrote:
> On 14 January 2011 00:59, Leigh Dyer<lsd at wootangent.net>  wrote:
>> On 14/01/11 05:37, Tom Szilagyi wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Standing on the shoulders of giants[*], I am pleased to announce the
>>> public release of IR, a convolution reverb in the LV2 plugin format.
>>> Released as free software under the GNU GPL, this easy to use plugin
>>> has been created to open the fascinating world of convolution reverb
>>> to Linux-based audio engineers. If you use Ardour to create, mix&
>>> produce music, you will most probably want to check out this plugin.
>>>
>>
>> This is brilliant! I just tested your updated version in Ardour 2.8.11, and
>> it worked beautifully. The bookmark system is perfect for quickly testing
>> and assessing a variety of IR files, and while I haven't checked out the
>> envelope and stretch controls, I'm sure they'll come in very useful, too.
>>
>> I'm raving like a school kid, I know, but I've been looking for this exact
>> plugin for ages now :) It's great to finally have it.
>
> Thanks. The design is not too original, though, if you look around in
> the commercial plugin world. I just took some well established ideas
> and applied them.

Yep, it reminds me a lot of what I've seen (in magazines, etc.) of 
plugins like Altiverb and SIR2. Very cool to have this stuff under 
Linux, though!

 >> Ardour exports should work as expected.
 >
 > Forgot to add that I (still) use a single processor system, so YMMV.

Both my laptop and desktop are dual-core, so I may run in to problems :) 
I'll test it out anyway and see how I go. It's certainly not a 
deal-breaker, but it would definitely be nice if Ardour exports worked 
normally.

Thanks
Leigh


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