Waves IR-1 Native

Wembley Arena. Grand Ole Opry. Sydney Opera House. CBGB’s. Birdland. Want to record in the world’s greatest venues? Now you can. IR1 puts the meticulously captured sound of these and many other renowned spaces in your hands. It lets you capture the sonic characteristics of your favorite rooms and hardware, and shape the reverbs with pinpoint precision. Everybody wants to play the big rooms.
With the IR1, you’re there.

Waves IR-1 is a convolution reverb unlike any other: besides its pristine samples of over 60 real acoustic spaces and over 60 classic hardware devices, IR-1 also has flexible classic controls of key reverb parameters. That's right: you can edit all the traditional reverb parameters!


Waves IR-1 Features :

• Extensive Library captured using new state of the art techniques
• 96 kHz - Support for high resolution
• Reverb Time RT60 - The IR-1 uses unique Impulse Response (IR) manipulation techniques to allow shortening and lengthening (times 4) of the Reverb Time while maintaining acoustic coherence and preserving the natural envelope and frequency content.
• Size - Controls room size and applies acoustic modeling methods on the actual ER (Early Reflections) portion to make the space smaller or larger while maintaining its signature.
• Reverb Decay Envelope - A graph-based multiple breakpoint envelope allows unlimited options for re-shaping the reverb's decay behavior.
• Density - Controls the space's density and applies innovative modeling methods by controlling the actual IR's reflections, resonance, and inherent randomness.
• Resonance - Analyzes the frequency response of the impulse response (IR) and derives the room modes allowing acoustically based control of IR modal timbre.
• Decorrelation - While not a classic reverb control, decorrelation allows greater control of the reverberation's stereo spaciousness.
• ER/Tail/Direct Independent Control - IR-1 analyzes the IR for the early reflection/reverb tail (ER/Tail) boundary marker and allows the classic control of gain and pre-delay for each portion.
• Damping - Proportional to the reverb time, this control applies innovative filtering methods to control the IR's low, mid, and high frequencies separately.
• 4-Band paragraphic EQ - A Renaissance based 4 band paragraphic EQ.
• CPU Usage Control and Direct Convolution Length Control - Allows you to maintain CPU power.

 * Waves IR-1 supports all common audio formats, including RTAS, AudioSuite, VST, DirectX (Win), MAS (Mac), Audio Units (Mac)




Totally Natural Acoustic Spaces
The attraction of Sampling or convolution based reverbs is the accurate reproduction of natural acoustic spaces. But the chief drawback of most convolution verbs is their inability to control reverb parameters in the familiar and flexible fashion offered by traditional artificial reverbs. IR-1 offers the best of both approaches without any compromises.


True Control of Reverb Parameters
IR-1 is the first Convolution based reverb that allows classic parameters to actually affect the convolution, not just "filter the result" in order to produce parameter changes.


Processing that Won't Kill Your CPU!
The IR-1's CPU Usage Control is a special "low CPU" mode utilizing intelligent algorithms that require less CPU usage while preserving high sound quality and definition. Direct Convolution Length Control allows control over the length of the actual real-time convolution. Therefore the CPU load can be reduced if desired by using a shorter convolution length and a longer reverb time.



Waves IR-1 Native Controls :

CPU Mode Full CPU or Low CPU

Reverse On/Off

IR Graph

    * Gain and Time -90dB to 0dB, 0s to 10s
    * Envelope -60dB to +30dB, with Bypass and Clear functions
    * Zoom In and out on the time axis
    * Zoom Reset Defaults to 6s display

Reverb Damping

    * Low Freq 16Hz to 16kHz
    * Low Ratio 0.10 to 2.00
    * High Freq 1,000Hz to 21kHz
    * High Ratio 0.10 to 2.00

Reverb EQ

    * Low Shelf Filter -24dB to +12dB, 16Hz to 16kHz, Q 0.71 to 1.41
    * Low Bell Filter -24dB to +12dB, 16Hz to 16kHz, Q 0.26 to 6.50
    * High Bell Filter -24dB to +12dB, 1,000Hz to 21kHz, Q 0.26 to 6.50
    * High Shelf Filter -24dB to +12dB, 1,000Hz to 21kHz, Q 0.71 to 1.41

Reverb Time Section

    * Convolution Start 0s to 1s
    * Convolution Length 0s to 6s
    * RT60 Indicator 0.1s to 10s
    * Ratio 0.25 to 4.00

Reverb Control Parameters

    * Size 0.25 to 4.00
    * Density 0.25 to 4.00
    * Resonance 0.25 to 4.00
    * Decorrelation 0 to 100%

Latency Shows the current latency in ms

Dry 0ms to 30ms delay of the dry signal

ER Buildup 0ms to 150ms

ER/TRX Crossover -100ms to 100ms

Crosstalk 0 to 100 (IR-1 Efficient module only)

Dry/Wet 0% to 100%

Dry Gain -inf to 0dB

Wet Properties

    * Direct Off to 0dB
    * Direct Pre-delay 0ms to 500ms
    * Early Reflections Off to 0dB
    * Early Reflections Pre-delay 0ms to 500ms
    * Tail Off to 0dB
    * Tail Pre-delay -100ms to 500ms

Output Gain Fader -50dB to 0dB

Output Meter -30dB to 0dB with peak hold and clip indicators



Note:
Waves products require iLok USB key authorization.
Authorizing your bundle to your iLok is a one-time process that can be completed on any computer with an internet connection. It doesn't have to be your audio computer.

The iLok authorization process consists of two phases: Selecting your products and iLok in your Waves account. Running the Authorizer to complete the process.

Note: Waves products require iLok USB key authorization.
Authorizing your bundle to your iLok is a one-time process that can be completed on any computer with an internet connection. It doesn't have to be your audio computer.

The iLok authorization process consists of two phases: Selecting your products and iLok in your Waves account. Running the Authorizer to complete the process.