Vegas 6.0b + SIR reverb issues

rohde wrote on 7/10/2005, 10:39 PM

Greetings!

I've just wrapped up an interesting experience - mixing a full CD project using Vegas. I love Vegas as a video editor, and it works pretty well for audio projects too.

One of the issues I ran into, however, had to do with the SIR VST plugin. This is a impulse response reverb plugin.

Actually, the plugin itself works great and sounds great. Latency is correctly compensated for, and there are some really nice reverbs available.

However, the one really annoying issue is that it doesn't persist the name of the impulse file correctly. So, the next time the project is opened, it is using the default reverb impulse again. All other settings are stored correctly.

As a workaround, I've attempted to use SpinAudio's VST wrapper with bad results (crashes - loses track of the dll), as well as the fxpansion VST wrapper that I own a license to (no latency compensation).

I've also tried this on my laptop (Dell latitude 800 w/ 1.6GHz proc), and my main machine (dual Opteron 246's, Tyan K8W motherboard), all under Windows XP SP2. Same results either way.

Anyway, I'm seriously considering another CD project for Vegas, but I'd really like to know how to get SIR running reliably as it is a wonderful tool.

Thanks.

-Rohde

PS you can find the SIR plugin here:

http://www.knufinke.de/sir/index_en.html

Comments

James Young wrote on 7/11/2005, 4:55 PM

I can't replicate the problem, as I don't have vegas 6 (no problems in vegas 3 and 5 btw), but does saving the settings as a preset work the way it's supposed to? If nothing else, maybe that will save you time recalling the impulse file.

Oh, and what is the default reverb impulse? Everytime I load up SIR, which I use alot, there is no impulse loaded by default. Is there an extra settings tab underneath the plugin that might clue us in on the problem? I know with the wrapper I use there are some options under there which can screw stuff like this up sometimes.

Good luck!

Geraldo wrote on 7/12/2005, 8:53 AM

SIR version 1.010 works really good here. .

PipelineAudio wrote on 7/13/2005, 4:05 AM

If you are using my impulses, there is a problem with a few of the TC M5K ones not "sticking" in SIR when you save or close vegas. Other users at www.noisevault.com have reported the same deal, but noone can figure out what is going on. Frustrating!

rohde wrote on 7/13/2005, 9:56 AM

1.010? The latest I see is SIR 1.007.

Is this something we should be looking forward to?

BTW, I am using quite a few different impulses from noisevault - the EMT plates, KSP8, MC5K, 890L...

As far as setting the default impulse, this is done through clicking "Setup" inside the DIR plugin window. You can set some CPU usage option as well as the default impulse.

Thanks everyone for their help.

-Rohde

rohde wrote on 7/13/2005, 9:58 AM

Hi James.

Saving the impulse seems to work through VST wrappers which is what you would need to use SIR in Vegas prior to 6.0. Unfortunately, I haven't found any stable VST wrappers that also take care of the latency compensation (well, at least any that I have access to).

-Rohde

rohde wrote on 7/13/2005, 10:22 AM

My bad - it is version 1.010.

It looks like presets may be the way to go on this. When reloaded, it will go back to whatever the preset is, and this correctly saves the impulse name.

Now if I could just figure out how to add presets to a preset bank...

-Rohde

James Young wrote on 7/13/2005, 12:19 PM

http://www.knufinke.de/sir/faq_en.html#send