Soundhack does some of this, and now that Tom Erbe has ported his effects to VST maybe we can use them with the ladspa vst bridge? On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Robert Jonsson wrote: > Hi, > > This has been an very interesting thread. IRs and convolution has been > discussed before both here and there. I find it intriguing, especially since > I started poking with it myself (as a user). > > I remember Ron doing one of his usual ramblings :) sometime ago, about a > possible convolution product that he'd like to see. Basically a convolution > unit where you'd get to control the parameters. Since IR's in themselves are > rather static. I don't know the theory myself, I guess you can alter some > things in the convolution process, the best would be to alter the IR itself, > in other words, being able to create IRs. > As I recall Ron also mentioned being able to reverse bad-sounding rooms, so > you can apply a good sounding room. As it seems, many (all?) of these things > have been discussed here. > > Now, Steve mentioned BruteFIR earlier, BruteFIR is an opensource, very > capable, convolution engine which I've been pouring alot of blood in lately > to test convolution. Very rewarding when you have some great IR's to play > with. There isn't any real problem with this, you can achieve some great > sounds/effects this way. > But, reading this thread and trying to understand I can see that there are > lots of other possibilites, the coolest would maybe be the > bad-sounding-room-reverser, though I realize that this must be very complex > to actually implement. > Nevertheless, just being able to algorithmically, gui or no gui, design your > own custom environments is very appealing, and it would sure be a killer > application to use it together with a realtime convolution engine such as > BruteFIR. > > ...so... when is it ready? :) > Seriously though, is this a possibility to create? > GUI's are nice, you could create some great GUIs with OpenGL rendered rooms, > but for now I would be happy if there where just some parameters in a command > line app that I could tweak :). > > Regards, > Robert > >
