tail adjustment in convolution effect

nothing on this in the manual. what's the difference between, say, moving the line to the extreme right as opposed to the extreme left??

thanks

 

This line just divides the early reflection part from late reflection part. Each of these two parts can have individual Size, Lowpass and Highpass adjustments.

 

OK Great. Thanks.

 

Follow up question... does NI provide a description or characterization anywhere of its own impulses? For example, a description of "E245 3.4s B.wav"? Obviously it's 3.4 seconds long, but what else (if anything)?

 

Nope... Some of those are easy to figure out.

 

Convolution vsts like QL Spaces brag about "true stereo" impulses: does Kontakt's convolution verb do "true stereo"?

 

Nope. True stereo convolution takes 2 stereo samples: left to left+right and right to left+right. Kontakt and Reflektor only process left to left and right to right.

 

Interesting... I'm looking at some IRs as we speak that consist of "left" and "right" wave files. I assumed that the "correct" approach would be to highlight the left side of the source wave file and run the left IR and ditto for the right side of the source wave file.

I think the approach/assumption that I'm making still applies.

postscript: I like kontakt's convolution effect, except that it doesn't permit, or SEEM to allow, a FINE adjustment of wet and dry.

I must be wrong on this.

 

If you mute right, or hard pan left, a normal convolution plugin will still not process the left channel like how it works in real acoustics. You need true stereo convolution for that. It's not the ir files, it's the program.If you put the Kontakt convolution module in a sendFX slot it adds to the signal so you can control wet. If you want to control dry, put a gainer behind the Sends module in the InsertFX row
If you put it in an insertFX slot you can control dry and wet both.

The Waves Silver Bundle is still on a discount for $150 (website thinks it's still Dec 31 2014), it has IR-L, my go-to (true stereo) convolution reverb. On the website they have a whole bunch of true stereo samples for download for their convolution software. Silver usually costs $600 and has C1 (crystal clear compressor), L1 (the limiter used in most hits since the mid nineties), PAZ analyser, Q10, etc.
If you click this link you might get another 10% off.

 

Sure does, hold Shift while changing wet or dry sliders. To get wet/dry sliders, convolution needs to be loaded as an insert effect, not a send.