is Altiverb worth it?

The sheer amount and quality of Altiverb Impulse Responses(e.g. spaces and machines) is second to none.
This makes it the king of IR reverbs, IMO. And the UI is great too.

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Ive used it for years and to be honest its still a bit "Buggy" IMO. Forget trying to bring a song to a friends house that uses it too. On loadup it will crash everytime 😟


With alittle work you can get space designer to reverberate just as sweet

Just My opinion

I think version 6 is more about graphics that what it actually brings out to ears

because you can see the dude talks alot about how the things look than everything else

to me personally you can tweak spacedesign to get similar or the same besides the graphics

almost everything he did was tweaking anyway

To a certain extent convolution engines are pretty straightforward, so the investment in Altiverb is more about the excellent impulses library you get access to than the plug itself, especially if you already own a "decent" convolution reverb such as Space Designer.

If you like what you hear and think the outlay is worth the benefit over what you already have, then by all means go for it...

Before you make the investment, there are some great sites on the web that have free IR's for the download. I don't love some of the IR's that come with space designer although some are pretty good. But if you take some time to sift through some of the freebies that you can download from say . . noisevault.com then I think you'll find what you need.

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- now I'm not affiliated in any way with the people at quikquak software so I'm not trying to promote this product but I find that their Rayspace plug is fantastic. Since I bought it I don't use convolution verb anymore. Also check out the Classic Studio Reverb plug from IK multimedia. About half the price of altiverb - not convolution - but rumored to be AWESOME.

If you are a reverb junkie, like mua, get to know space designer. In my opinion is the most underrated reverb in the buisness. This thing does magic to the music!

2 things to consider:

Altiverb runs native in 5.1; Space Designer doesn't. And Altiverb 5 is worth more than Altiverb 6; version 5 has all the quad IRs, to get them in version 6 you have to shell out a total of $1k to get "XL". Other than that, if you're just running in stereo, I would say go through the hundreds of Impulse Responses available on the web and use them in Space Designer...

Here I go again:

For about $600, you can pick up a UAD-1 card from eBay, and ave enough left over to buy the Plate 140 & Dreamverb. They are incredible!

Plus you'll get other great things, depending on the card you buy.

For about $600, you can pick up a UAD-1 card from eBay, and ave enough
left over to buy the Plate 140 & Dreamverb

UAD plate gets a big shiny star from me. dreamverb gets a big booooo from me. tried it over and over, not only can I just not find what the fuss is all about sonically, but it has to win the lifetime adhievement award for the world's most hideous editor window design ever.