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Bruce Botnick comments on Impulse Responses
 
In the Nov/Dec issue of TapeOp magazine Bruce Botnick (Doors albums, Jerry Goldsmith, Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album) says "The best impulse responses I have ever heard are from Pure Space...Ernest Cholakis out of Canada is the genius/mad scientist who..." Read More
   
 
HIR Wins Sonic Joy Award 2008
 
Numerical Sound has just won a Sonic Joy Award 2008 for Hollywood Impulse Responses from AudioNewsRoom.
   
 
Wusik Sound Magazine Review
 
"Which brings me to my conclusion: if you want realistic reverbs, HIR is not only one of the highest quality offerings out there but also the lowest priced and most flexible...An excellent buy, both for the value and the performance." from the review of Hollywood Impulse Responses by Per Lichtman. Read the review (Select "Human Impulse Responses" from the menu at the lower right).
   
 
Praise for HIR
 
"...if you're into sound-design and you'd like to have that "larger than life" sound on your tracks, I would get it as quickly as possible..." from the review of Hollywood Impulse Responses by Audio News Room. Read the review.
   
Numerical Sound
Inspired by Gould
 
Here is recording that was inspired by Glenn Gould's 1981 performance of the Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations. It was rendered with ProAudioVault's Blüthner Digital Model One, Apple's Logic 8 with Kontakt 3 and uses the Hollywood Impulse Response number 101 mixed in at -20db relative to the dry level. Play recording.
   
 
Tempo Variations
 

Tempo variations are essential for a realistic midi performance. What is surprising is how complex and changing they are. Here is the graph of the quarter note tempo variation (bars 1-39) of the great French pianist Pascal Roge performing Gymnopedie No. 1 by Eric Satie.

Here is a midi sequencer based on these tempo variation on a sampled piano - the Blüthner Digital Model One. These tempo variation clearly add to the musicality of a midi sequence. Play recording.

   

Press Releases

March 3, 2008, Numerical Sound releases "Hollywood Impulse Responses", Press Release (1.2 MB, PDF)

Media Coverage

January 2009, Hollywood Impulse Responses receives The Sonic Joy Award 2008

2008, review of Hollywood Impulse Responses by Audio News Room.

2002, technology review in Sound on Sound, "Hit Factors - the Link Between Music and Emotional Response", by Craig Anderton.

2000, technology review in EQ Magazine, Industry Insider report "The Quantification of Emotion", by Craig Anderton (230 KB, PDF).