<![CDATA[Numerical Sound - Media]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:31:00 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Hollywood Impulse Responses Wins Sonic Joy Award 2008]]>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:34:30 GMThttps://www.numericalsound.com/media/hollywood-impulse-response-wins-sonic-joy-award-2008Numerical Sound has just won a Sonic Joy Award 2008 for Hollywood Impulse Responses from AudioNewsRoom.

]]><![CDATA[Bruce Botnick comments on Impulse Responses from Ernest Cholakis]]>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:32:51 GMThttps://www.numericalsound.com/media/bruce-botnick-comments-on-impulse-responses-from-ernest-cholakisThe Nov/Dec issue of TapeOp magazine includes an interview with Bruce Botnick. Among many other projects he worked on all of the Doors albums, Jerry Goldsmith, and the Beach Boys Pet Sounds Album. He was talking about having to recreated the sounds of the echo chambers they had used, for a surround release of their back catalogue. He uses Altiverb and had this to say:

"The best impulse responses I ever heard are from Pure Space [Classical and Mystical Reverberation Impulses]....Ernest Cholakis out of Canada is the genius/mad scientist who listens to music. He's mathematically figured a way to eliminate all of the electronics from the sample. They sound extraordinary. An acoustic room-it blooms. You make the sound and then it [snaps] responds and the room does it's thing. The majority of the digital reverbs are very linear and they die off, but Ernest's samples are extraordinary. I've got one that I think sounds super close to chamber four at Capitol, which is *the* chamber."

]]><![CDATA[Tempo Variations]]>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:30:36 GMThttps://www.numericalsound.com/media/tempo-variationsTempo 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.

Graph of the quarter note tempo variation (bars 1-39) of the great French pianist Pascal Roge, performing Gymnopedie No. 1 by Eric Satie.
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]]><![CDATA[Hollywood Sound Impulse Response Collection]]>Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:23:35 GMThttps://www.numericalsound.com/media/hollywood-sound-impulse-response-collection
January  2014 - Numerical Sound, a developmental leader in innovative audio products like DNA Groove Templates, Drone Archeology, and critically acclaimed Reverb Impulse Responses (convolution reverbs), announces the release of their newest product, the high resolution Hollywood Sound Impulse Response Collection. 
Tailored for film composers, recording engineers and post-production houses, the Hollywood Sound Impulse Response Collection comes with 241 combination early reflection/reverb tail impulses plus 27 bonus reverb tail only impulses.  These accurately match the  scoring stage sizes of such recording venues as Abbey Road, Air Lyndhurst, the Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage at Sony, and others. 
The Hollywood Sound Impulse Response Collection does not imitate these existing scoring stages and studios, but rather, through a proprietary convolution process, offers a larger than life high resolution alternative in 24bit with one bundle including both 44.1k or 48k .wav files and a second package containing 88K and 96k high resolution .wav files.

The complex Early Reflections start with an intimate 52ms followed by 73ms, 100ms, 125 ms, 150ms, and finally a dramatic 200ms. Early reflections are grouped by three colors: brighter, darker and warm.   

These six ER's, each with its own three colors, are then applied to these reverb tail lengths: .7s, .85s, 1.0s, 1.2s, 1.5s, 2.0s, 3.0s, 4.0s, and 5.0 seconds. These tails have super wide stereo fields and richness of space with no trace of the direct or dry signal which is common in many IR's currently available. This richness adds a 3-dimensional quality to any  orchestral instrument (live or virtual) but can also be used with any style: live or virtual audio track.

Thus, these ER/Reverb Tail combinations enable any composer, engineer or post-production house using an A/B comparison approach to create a larger than life high resolution sound quickly.

Two Hollywood Sound Impulse Collection packages are available direct from Numerical Sound and selected vendors. The first is the 44.1/44k package with 241 ER/Tail combinations plus 27 bonus “tails only” per audio format, for a total of 536 impulses.

The second Hollywood Sound Impulse Collection is 88K and 96K that comes with 241 ER/Tail combinations and 27 bonus “tails” for a total of 536 impulses in all.

Both products are available for immediate download. Can be used in any convolution reverb.

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