OUT NOW: AIR Studios Reverb
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Introducing our first-ever effects plug-in AIR Studios Reverb, an immensely detailed convolution reverb - created in collaboration with the team at London’s iconic AIR Studios.
Explore now: www.spitfireaudio.com/air-stu...
Spitfire Co-Founder Paul Thomson takes us through our first-ever FX plugin where you can position sounds anywhere in the legendary Lyndhurst Hall - one of the world’s most sought-after recording spaces.
Explore the libraries of sounds used in this video:
Spitfire Solo Cello: www.spitfireaudio.com/spitfir...
BBC Symphony Orchestra Core: www.spitfireaudio.com/bbc-sym...
Originals Intimate Grand Piano: www.spitfireaudio.com/origina...
Bernard Hermann Composer Toolkit: www.spitfireaudio.com/bernard...
Spitfire Studio Brass: www.spitfireaudio.com/spitfir...
Hammers: www.spitfireaudio.com/hammers
How it works:
• How It Works - Air Stu...
Chapters:
00:00 Trailer
00:38 Intro
02:53 Close mic: Spitfire Cello audio demo
04:20 Control highlight: Source
06:38 Xylophone audio demo
06:49 Mic options
09:00 Control: Damping: French Horns
11:11 Control: Shape
12:42 Bernard Hermann: Mixed Flutes audio demo
14:09 BBC Timpani Percussion audio demo
15:46 Control: EQ
16:20 Control: Shape
17:20 Blending Close mic and Reverb
18:24 Layout B
19:06 Control: Shape
20:04 Layout B: Xylophone audio demo
21:30 Xylophone Extended audio demo
22:18 Hammer Percussion audio demo
22:46 Creating a chamber sound
26:20 Control: Stretch: Granular & Retro presets
27:40 Preset folder: Intimate Grand Piano demo
29:06 Preset folder: Studio Brass Trumpet
30:29 Outro 
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Who's excited?!
I am.
Today, I am actually even more very excited than Paul! This is what was never supposed to happen, but now it has. A big day indeed
I am, but what we really need now is the ability to offload mic positions in the Spitfire player, so all these recent libs with hundreds of gb of mic signals can be more accessible to us mere mortals who are using rigs where we don't want an array of HDs - then we can bring back the mics with this...
Would love to hear it with vocals
ME! Thank you for this, though, it'll be a while before I'm able to afford it 😭
No demo for a $349 effect plugin? What planet do you live on? It definitely sends the message that you don't want it to be tested.
1) IR's without user watermarks are the easiest thing to steal. Unless they go ilok (lets be glad they haven't), this is a reasonable precaution IMHO.
2) If you really need a demo, compare this vid to timpani and xylo in Spitfire Symphonic/Redux Percussion. There's no better A/B possible than that... literally.
This is so funny because Spitfire and AIR both swore they would never sell an IR of the Hall at AIR. They used this line to sell their larger libraries.
About to say the same.
Yep - I got the same response when I suggested it some years ago.
Maybe they're about to demolish it.
@@Bucking_Fastardhighly doubt that, place seems to be in mad demand constantly
Yeah and orchestral tools said they would never do discounts, things change…🤷♂️
nice ...but I miss the demonstration of what a complete orchestra sounds like. you only show individual instruments. ...and it would be interesting to see whether the CPU burns if you use a separate instance of this plugin for each orchestra section. you are primarily an orchestra library company, but you do not show any examples here or on the website that demonstrate the product with all the sections of a complete orchestra. that surprises me.
I’d really love to see a demonstration of using this for other modern forms of production. Not just for orchestral instruments but for vocals and other instrumentation. It’s an intriguing reverb!
What about CPU usage? It hovered around 10% throughout the demo here, which is quite concerning.
Yes, Spitfire! Please answer this.
and you just know he was using a top rig, so that 10% might be a lot more for others
I don't think you are going to get an answer on that. This thing will needs a really powerful machine.
This is the only thing preventing me from buying it.. I'm not sure if my rig can even handle it 😬
Props to the Spitfire UI team. Great Work!
Another amazing complicated extensive release from Spitfire. I must say I am deeply inspired by their work. So rich sounding, such a great layout. I use their sounds everyday in my productions. Amazing work guys, all the way.
I had the chance to try this reverb and it's truly a well made one. The CPU usage isn't crazy even with a big template. Well done!
As an owner of the dry libraries this is very good news!
what do you mean dry libraries? Are they all dry libraries with differing mic positions?
@Fwuzeem lots of Spitfire products are wet libraries, which means that they're already recorded in the Lyndhurst Hall and wouldn't need this convolution reverb that emulates it. I own the Spitfire Studio Orchestra recorded in an absorbent space with little to no reverb.
This reverb with SoundPaint would be a great combo
Business I get it but I never thought I would see the day were AIR lets an impulse response out of the room.
Funny thing is if there’s impulses at some point an AI will be able to use that to recreate the room algorithmically. Of course by then it might not matter and can generate any instrument in any room based on any recording you like.
I would have liked to see it used with more instruments together rather than one at a time.
Brilliant! Really tailoring your reverb sound with this one. Been waiting for this for years, thanks. Like many others I've been suggesting this for years also.
This is epic! I love Liquidsonics cinematic rooms but the sound of Air Studios is the Cinematic Sound!
I’ll be using both!!! This reverb to get all my libraries to have that cohesive Air Lyndhurst sound, and then Cinematic Rooms to give that extra bit of tail and glue in the mix
@@KM-tv5km This is my plan also 😀 The Vienna MiR was on my radar but not any more 😅
I'm looking for the trial. I always test plugins before I buy them. Is there a 14-day or 30-day trial anywhere?
The do not allow testing nor do they give refunds.
@@lyncisAt oh... thanks for the heads up. It looks nice and sounds nice
£300 for a reverb with only 1 room haha. This is miles behind Vsl Mir Pro 3D.
1) MIR @ release = 2x the cost (no rooms, which cost this much alone, just the plugin)
2) The canopy height, material, gallery damping, and mic options offer 100x more control than MIR.
3) VSL has always got the low end wrong in recording. This sub IR option far exceeds MIR.
I owned MIR for years. It's great for some uses, but it never came close to having this much control. 3D interfaces are useless in a world where sound is what matters. This quite literally offers vastly more sonic possibility than MIR.
@@utah-composer hahaha
The price is ridiculous. Especially for owners (like me) of 50% of all Spitfire Libraries. It looks to be in beta state too, with not efficient CPU load. Spitfire is monetizing everything to insane extent. Originally the prices of Spitfire libraries were to compensate the original players for the libraries.
Nothing wrong with the price. Obviously you have not looked into what high quality reverbs cost. The hardware used to cost tens of thousands of dollars (Lexicon 960L at around $40’000, TC6000 about $25’000 without additional options). Now you take the leading products such as the inventors of the convolution technology Audioease’s Altiverb, their light product costs $500 and the full version is a $1000. VSL’s MIR Pro 3D you pay around $700 for just the engine and you pay additionally at various prices for their impulse response packages.
I am not going to argue about the product being still in beta stage. I am sure it’s been probably done that way, judging by what the state of most of Spitfire products has been at release day for the last few years. Many companies do that and there are always bug fixes for any software.
@@zaharishtonovI was about to say the same, but you said it all. The price is not high at all. Everyone commenting on how the cost is “ridiculous” obviously never bought high end reverbs. I was honestly expecting it to be a lot higher, being the world's most sought-after scoring stage!
Huge fan of Spitfire and happily invested in the Spitfire ecosystem, so I'm deeply curious about this reverb. As a person who's not an expert in reverb, I would have liked it if Paul started first with the presets and showed how the most common settings are already there for you. Kinda like how Paul always demos the basic sounds of a new sample library, and later gets into the mic positions. At first, as a reverb novice, the UI looks too complicated and overwhelming. Also, jumping back-and-forth between changes in the plug-in and the sound library was a bit hard to follow when the changes weren't being shown on screen. I have BBCSO Pro and Abbey Road One, and also some very dry libraries that are non-Spitfire (e.g., SWAM). I find myself wondering if this would be a smart and easy way to blend my dry libraries into the Spitfire / Air Studios sonic world, using the presets for each instrument type. Eager to learn more about this!
That's exactly what it will be good for 👌 I just wish they did demos
This is actually amazing. I’ve been wanting a quality reverb plugin for a long time for my Spitfire libraries. Very exciting.
This is absolutely an incredible piece of tech, creating the ability to have control of not just the plethora of mics AND positions, but also the physical options of the room like the canopy and orientation. However, I'm left with a huge question - is it possible to have multiple inputs? This feels like a direct competitor to MIR, where you place your whole orchestra in the space, but currently this seems like you'd have to set up a separate instance for every instrument/section, rather than feeding each signal into one reverb unit. I can see your CPU usage is hitting something like 5 to 15%, and if you need to use this separately for violins 1, 2, violas, trumpets, flutes, each percussion station etc, this seems like it'll completely consume your processing headroom. I suppose you could try and place stereo fields per section and have one reverb per stem, but then that would loose a lot of the whole point of all the individual control and placement options with the source tab. Also, is this multi-output? With the Canopy mics, this seems like you're possibly making an Atmos capable plugin?? Can we control sending the Ambients out to the rears and Canopy up above?
Congrats! Amazing release! I will for sure get this when I can. It will help with the SSO glue a lot where I had to bring in outside libraries.
Would it be possible to include a top-down photograph of the AIR room where the 3D mic placement is? That way we can see exactly what it looks like in real life from above to help further make decisions. Also, I know the Spitfire Symphony Orchestra was created in AIR, so would using this reverb in that VST be useful and not sound off adding this reverb? Thanks Spitfire.
Thanks, This is what I was looking for for years!!!!!!!!!!
Great natural sound! Amazing!
Sounds great but multi channel instrument feed into the reverb is missing like Vienna MIR has. If you want to use this for a whole orchestra you need to setup 20 Aux channels with 20 Reverb instances, not sure if the CPU likes that. In MIR you need just one reverb. But actually the Spitfire seems to sound better and I already have so many libraries recorded in Air so it would be cool if a multi instrument feed will come.
Also, are there presets for every instruments (1st, 2nd Violins, Bassoons, Trumpets, etc...)?
Will disabling certain mic positions result in less processing power required?
Are there plans for a version where we can send multiple instruments into one plugin and have multiple outputs for each individual instrument or at least each mic position?
I never thought I'd see the day!
I know this isn't the intended use of this plugin, but I would love to hear the application of this reverb on different genres of vocals.
My biggest concern with this library is the CPU usage on large compositions. What does the CPU usage look like when you're running an entire orchestra+ through it? I don't know if it would be possible to do but a plugin that "feeds" into a master plugin might make more sense? Like each track plug-in contains the settings, positioning, etc and then that feeds into the master reverb plugin which does the calculations. I've seen it done with other plugins. It's not perfect, but I feel like this reverb is going to make my PC sweat.
Can we use physical CC controllers to control this plug-in? And is it ready for work in Atmos setup?
Was super excited till I saw the price lol. I understand that Air hasn't ever been sampled for IRs but ooof it's quite a steep price. Probably can't get it now. Hopefully in the future they'll be a 40-50% discount 😃
You couldn't get a cheap orchestra with cheap mics and cheap AE's in a cheap room for this price. Just a thought.
@@utah-composer oh I know but I can also grab other reverbs including Berlin Studio and Valhalla Room/Vintage Verb for cheaper. It's a steep price for a reverb that's built around one hall.
for libraries already recorded there it's a bit redundant ;)
Not much. You have surround and atmos mixing that becomes a lot better using this instead of the pre made mic positions, especially if you are combining multiple libraries. Also, if you are adding a vocal to the orchestra, than you basically would need to stand in the same room.
Incredible product, well done Spitfire. Obviously this was a ton of work. I'm quite impressed!
Sounds Amazing!
The sensitivity is amazing.
This new Reverb can be really useful for the future composing!
@spitfireaudiollp Does this work with Ableton 12??? Because it says it doesn’t support Ableton 11 yet?
Heck yeah, excited for this!
Amazing sound
Thank you. This is a dream coming true.
Question: Did you have to fight with your engineers on the shape of the reverb direction? :-) I imagine they wanted it to 'radiate out', which is what I would've expected. It seems the direction is implemented like an arrow instead and gets narrower in the direction.
Wow a reverb!
What do you use? just curious
Congratz to this major release! This will be one of your best products, ever!
Wonderful!
How do I get all the factory presets shown here? My one only has a handful of these and I really enjoyed the intimate piano preset you showed at the end of the video. Cheers!
Amazing to see Air Lyndhurst as a reverb! Something they said they'd never ever do, so very pleasently surprised! :D
I do wish this was also created for Maida Vale Studios, a true timestamp in history which we could all use forever too!
How does this work with libraries such as BBC SO, do you have to strip everything back to a dry sound so that you can include instruments from other libraries and bring them all into the. same space
It's all personal preference, but what I've commonly seen in other positional reverbs like Berlin/Vienna is taking every individual instrument back to close mics and then setting that close mic instance into the reverb.
He actually does exactly this at 5:37
Typically what I do when combining different libraries is isolate just the close/spot mics, sometimes a tiny touch of tree mics for a group of players (but turn off all the room/ambi/outrigger mics) and then it allows me more control to glue them within the same space.
Please don't use spot mics + reverb lol
@@snarf1504 for a mockup anyway it sounds totally fine in a full mix context... is there a reason why not?
What is the suggested workflow for an orchestral mockup? Basically make all instruments dry/close mic and maybe make one AUX send per section? Is it designed to have let’s say 15 instances loaded on a decently new computer? I’m on a Mac Studio M2 Ultra
Waiting to buy the plugin
Amazing work
Yet another outstanding product! Can't wait to start using it. Combine Spitfire sample libraries and this reverb plugin, and you have as close as you're gonna get to recording real musicians at Air. Of course, if budget is not a concern, it's still better to record live musicians right there in Lyndhurst Hall!
I've bought it and enjoying it so far! However, Paul from around 3 mins onwards you talk about dry and wet signal and pre-fader etc. but it doesn't show on screen what you're doing. I think a video about this and how it all works would be very useful, in terms of the DAW and the reverb itself. For those of us who are relatively new to mixing it's a little bit confusing.
Does this have support for surround (5.1 and higher)? It would be cool if I can place an instrument inside the room and have that reflect on my 9.1.4 Atmos mix
Quick question for anyone who has tried this/knows what this can be: Is this usable as a super simple mixer? So using the presets without changing to much to get an orchestra from different libraries to sound better equipped to as one single orchestra
It's fantastic to have access to this iconic hall but I can't help wishing it came with IR's of the booths and other studio rooms at Air Lyndhurst
please explain how this should be used with multiple instruments... do you expect ONE stereo bus and ONE FX send per section?
Abby Road is next for FX2
Love the Air Lyndhurst sound, probably my fav of all the halls for orchestral work :) There is no polluting slapback echo as in Teldex and other more edgy, less damped halls.
Sounds really good, but it's just a big mixer of IRs of the same room is it not? Is this also supposed to be a reverb bus or per instrument?
@spitfireaudiollp do people use it for dry vocals?
Legendary!!
I was just about to purchase Altiverb for "orchestra hall use only" - Now there's AIR.
Any suggestions?
To equip (and place) a full orchestra obviously at least one plugin instance per instrument group (flutes, oboes, horns,...) is required.
Adding up to 15 or more instances!
Thus my primary question would be how demanding CPU-wise the plugin is.
Let VSL multi-sample the Air Studios and put it in their MIR Pro 3D engine. Then we’ll see 😄
Note: You can’t take a close mic recording and throw it into a convolution reverb, expecting it to sound as if the source is wherever you position it! It will sound like a close mic (with all the close detail, which is impossible to hear from a distance) superimposed with an impulse response all together.
You need true dry recordings from the tree mic position (at least). Which means this method here will only work realistically with some libraries (like Spitfire Studio Orchestra), but most will not work properly.
Would like to hear a drum set and vocal demo with this verb. Coming soon?
great 🥰
Never really had interest in MIR by Vienna but its the same idea. This actually looks and sounds incredible but i do wonder about a full orchestra situation (what it sounds like and how practical it is to use multiple instances)
Wow.
The price tag 😱💔🫂
Can this be used to affect my own audio recordings? lets say we have dry recordings of a Native American flute. Does this work with our own audio recordings?
I would assume so. You just put the instance on your track as an insert or on bus if you're grouping, for example, and then open up the plugin to adjust the settings.
Yes, love your reverbs. Can you put this on vocals and acoustic guitar, presume so?
Why not???
Oh indeed of course. Best clarify that though, just in case 👍
You can put it on anything. Also on your voice, and you can sing along the Spitfire Symphony Orchestra! 🙂
Looks like an amazing plugin
Buz 2 things are nl go
- to high cpu (he uses top noth setup of course and still has up to 11/12% cpu for one instance
- price should be arround 250 w intro under 200
I have a suggestion: In your polyphonic instruments you could add an option to spread the different polyphonic simultaneous voices in the stereo field, so it gives an impression of a wider sound and players actually spread out spatially! Because it feels weird to for example press down a chord on a solo instrument like a cello and have the 3 voices exactly at the same place.
some of the presets Paul uses aren't in the plugin. Spitfire - how do we get them?
Thanks for this professional reverb plugin. I have an important question: Is this only for productions of music or is it useful in processing actors’ voices? For example, I am a sound engineer for dubbing films. I need the reverb to be realistic and in many places. For example, in a car, in a commercial store, in a large palace, in the kitchen, in a large, empty agricultural place, or in any other natural reverb of the voice of the dubbers? Thank you ❤❤🎉
It sounds like you need a more general convolution reverb... check out Convology XT. The AIR Studio Reverb specifically provides the sound of AIR Studios. It's not meant to simulate many different places.
You cheeky @@@@ you did it again 🖤🖤
Atmos Support?? Might be interesting like Black Hole Immersive which I use a ton in stereo also
This is really awesome. I hope that in the future we will start to see important plugins such as EQ and compressor, it will be a really nice ecosystem.
I really don't think we want Spitfire wasting their time making compressors and EQs, there are already more of those than you could ever need and Spitfire are better placed to make interesting sampler instruments
What I really don’t get: how can a impulse response of an EMPTY room mimic the Sound of a room when it is Full of orchestral players. Never ever does a flute Sound the same in this room when it is empty than when the flute is Surrounded by the Rest of the orchestra. 😊
Hi Paul! Can you please show how AIR Studios Reverb works with Atmos?
349.00 tho? Thats a steep price for a reverb....
Trying to compete with Cinematic Rooms
I see $279 currently
@@hzambrana Yeah its on a discount right now.
@@hzambrana You missed the marketing phrase “introductory offer”, did you?
All depends on the CPU hit now. If it is too intensive on the CPU usage, it may not be worth steep price. We'll see, I guess.
Good job the French Horns demo was done using Studio Brass - as opposed to Symphonic Brass recorded at...AIR Studios!
I'm not a fan of the Lyndhurst hall sound but props must be given to the depth of this plugin.
Will you be releasing any more Spitfire Labs modules?
Yeah, Labs+ is coming.
I told some pianists/friends:
You can now place YOUR piano in AIR Studios!
I am here early and not sure how broke I am about to be.
Love how spitfire hearted this post 😂
Seriously save your money.
Don't think it'l happen but and Abbey Road Studios one would be amazing!
Now to just Convince Abbey Road to allow the same thing in their studio, but I doubt they'll allow that. 😜
Great, really. I buy it. But please: Release ARO Violas and Bassi now, or my ARO Violins and Celli are useless.
Abbey Road reverb next?
FFS Paul; how about putting some resource into finishing the missing Abbey Road Orchestra Pro 2nd Violins, Violas & Basses before punting out this new stuff? I’ve spent a heap of money on 1st Violins, Cellos & Percussion, never mind AROne & it’s drip drip additions! Anyhoo, I’m too angry now to even listen to this demo - not “So much fun” or “Exciting” for us ARO Pro users fed up with having to mix in other libraries’ Violas, Basses & the rest. Sadly, it now seems clear just how cynical the glacial roll out of the entire Abbey Road project has been all along. Shame 😤
You won't have to wait long!
Where does it say anything about AIR reverb?
I think it leaked on the preview picture judging by comments at VI Control before being changed.
I'll stick to algo reverbs
350? Come to Earth spitfire.
I’m confused, you have to put this on every single instrument track?
Have a look at bussing, this should answer your question!
@@tomharding1322 Well, if you want to position each section in different positions in the room, you should have an instance for each section, at least.
@@paopis correct, for the previous users confusion, looking into bussing would cover this.
This is brilliant! The price tag, though 😖
0_o Air giving up their convo reverb! :O
Today I was literally searching for AIR Lyndhurst Impulse Response on Google 😂
Just purchased Berlin Studio. Can't afford to buy ...
😀
So now everyone can be like Hans Zimmer