Voxengo Deconvolver Substitute For Mac
Voxengo offers you high quality professional audio plugins: VST plugins and AU plugins (AudioUnits), and sample rate converters, for Windows and Mac OS X computers. Their goal is to provide user-friendly, robust, and efficient solutions for audio and music production, including mastering and surround sound plugins. I tool for mac.
6th May 2013
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Hi, I have two questions regarding convolution. Hope someone can help me with this.
1. Is there any (good) deconvolution software on Mac that will convert my sweeps to an IR in AIF or WAV format? I know I can use Apple's IR tool, but unless I am mistaken, that only gives me a Space Designer file.
2. I own Space Designer, Waves IR-L and NI Reflektor. Has anyone experienced a difference in quality when using custom (wav) IRs in these?
If so, which one of these should I use?
Thanks in advance!
1. Is there any (good) deconvolution software on Mac that will convert my sweeps to an IR in AIF or WAV format? I know I can use Apple's IR tool, but unless I am mistaken, that only gives me a Space Designer file.
2. I own Space Designer, Waves IR-L and NI Reflektor. Has anyone experienced a difference in quality when using custom (wav) IRs in these?
If so, which one of these should I use?
Thanks in advance!
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After reading many threads on IRs, I'm getting close to making my first one, but I'm confused on some points. Anyone out there with suggestions to my steps/questions below? Thx in advance!!!!
Here is what I've done so far (I may need to correct some things). I'm using Logic Pro 9 on Snow Leopard Mac Pro.
1) I was able to record a test tone. I used the tone oscillator in Logic. I triggered a 10 second sine wav that went from 20 to 20k hz over ten seconds.
2) I then added a particular plug in to the track that has a specific EQ curve that I want to use as an IR, and played the test tone on this track and recorded it onto another track. So now I have two .wav files in Logic which I exported as .wav files to my desktop. One file is the orig test tone and the other .wav file is the test tone that has been played through an EQ plug in (think of this as something similar to a custom reverb plugin).
3) I recorded them both at 48k and 24 bit, but I have to check if they were mono. I may have to redo this. What else do I have to look out for at this stage? One thing I don't understand is that the test tone is 10 sec and I'm reading the IR has to be very short or a specific size. I think the size goes down in a later step, no? How do I know if I've made a mistake at this point? Both .wav files seem to work (one is clean and the other is EQ'd).
4) So I was going to use Space Designer to deconvolve the two files, but Apple put this function in their Impulse Response Utility which I don't know how to use (I can't figure out how to load the two files into this utility). So I downloaded Voxengo Deconvolver for Windows (anyone have another alternative for this program for mac?) and ran it in Windows on Parallels. voxengo is easy to use and allows me to choose the base tone file and the tone file that I put through my EQ plugin. Voxengo worked and outputed a 37k .wave file. What I don't understand is how do I know I have the right size file at this stage? I saw posts saying the file had to be a certain size. Also, the Voxengo instructions suggested I bounce a small amount of silent space at the end of the EQ's tone file. I'm not sure if I have to bounce a particular size file or if later steps reduce it. My biggest issue is how do I know that Voxengo outputed the correct type and size of file?
5) Assuming I did previous steps correctly (I will redo them with if necesary), then I assume I can use the Axe-Fx IR converter to turn the .wav to a .sysex. Correct? Other suggestions? Does the Axe IR converter turn the IR file into the right size or do I have to manually do this in other steps?
I'm open to suggestions for programs that make this process easier.
Thx!!
Here is what I've done so far (I may need to correct some things). I'm using Logic Pro 9 on Snow Leopard Mac Pro.
1) I was able to record a test tone. I used the tone oscillator in Logic. I triggered a 10 second sine wav that went from 20 to 20k hz over ten seconds.
2) I then added a particular plug in to the track that has a specific EQ curve that I want to use as an IR, and played the test tone on this track and recorded it onto another track. So now I have two .wav files in Logic which I exported as .wav files to my desktop. One file is the orig test tone and the other .wav file is the test tone that has been played through an EQ plug in (think of this as something similar to a custom reverb plugin).
3) I recorded them both at 48k and 24 bit, but I have to check if they were mono. I may have to redo this. What else do I have to look out for at this stage? One thing I don't understand is that the test tone is 10 sec and I'm reading the IR has to be very short or a specific size. I think the size goes down in a later step, no? How do I know if I've made a mistake at this point? Both .wav files seem to work (one is clean and the other is EQ'd).
4) So I was going to use Space Designer to deconvolve the two files, but Apple put this function in their Impulse Response Utility which I don't know how to use (I can't figure out how to load the two files into this utility). So I downloaded Voxengo Deconvolver for Windows (anyone have another alternative for this program for mac?) and ran it in Windows on Parallels. voxengo is easy to use and allows me to choose the base tone file and the tone file that I put through my EQ plugin. Voxengo worked and outputed a 37k .wave file. What I don't understand is how do I know I have the right size file at this stage? I saw posts saying the file had to be a certain size. Also, the Voxengo instructions suggested I bounce a small amount of silent space at the end of the EQ's tone file. I'm not sure if I have to bounce a particular size file or if later steps reduce it. My biggest issue is how do I know that Voxengo outputed the correct type and size of file?
5) Assuming I did previous steps correctly (I will redo them with if necesary), then I assume I can use the Axe-Fx IR converter to turn the .wav to a .sysex. Correct? Other suggestions? Does the Axe IR converter turn the IR file into the right size or do I have to manually do this in other steps?
I'm open to suggestions for programs that make this process easier.
Thx!!