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Altiverb 8 is available

Guy Rowland said:
Hi Anders, hope you're well!

Can Virtual Here do this? I'm guessing not, but thought I'd ask!
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Thx Guy, all fine here.
Hope all is well with you!
I haven't been using Virtual Here since we got the Dongle Server.
So take all of this with caution :)

As long as you run a Virtual Here server on your NAS, Rasberry pi or Main rig AND the unit is connected to internet you can access your iLok or other USB connected units.
There are ports that needs to be open on you router.
However I believe there's a way, thought a subscription service, to access you Virtual Here without opening ports. We didn't.

Important.
You can't share the license. Meaning as soon as one user access your ilok it will be locked for others.
And this was the reason we moved away from Virtual Here.
Someone always forgot to release the licenses and since none of us are programmers and know how to write the necessary code needed it was a hassle to VNC into the computer and then release the license. May sound like a small problem but when it takes more than ten minutes to start your DAW it kind of takes the fun out of it...
And that is why we bought the Dongle Server.


To recap.
If you have the Virtual Here server on your main rig your DAW can't be running since it then will block you ilok.
What you could do is to have Altiverb on a dedicated iLok and only activate it when you need it.
It is free to use with one connected USB-device.

Sorry to de-rail the thread.

Back to Altiverb.

Best,
Anders
 
I'll upgrade, it's all small changes sure, but at least they really do not milk you, it's been 13 years
Teldex said:
I’m a long time Altiverb user; started with version 6. It has always served me very well, especially for symphonic productions.

The upgrade price will always give rise to mixed opinions. For me it’s a case of how much the upgrade has to offer: if it is years of work bringing about fantastic new features and improvements, ok I might be willing to pay a reasonable amount. In the case of this Altiverb upgrade, for the standard version anyway, I can’t see anything noteworthy on offer beyond one or two performance enhancements, so I’ll stick to 7 for now.

For those in this thread applauding the generosity of the Spectrasonics guys, I am still on Omnisphere 1 after many years because of their $249 upgrade price to Omnisphere 2. Not saying $249 is good or bad, right or wrong; just saying I couldn’t bring myself to reach for my wallet, especially after the initial expense of the original product.
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Mostly the resizable GUI, VST3 version, Apple Silicon etc. In my case those matter. Of course theres new IR's and some tweaks as well, but IMO the fact it's been 12 years or so, I'm OK with a one time payment of under $100.
 
machinesworking said:
I'll upgrade, it's all small changes sure, but at least they really do not milk you, it's been 13 years

Mostly the resizable GUI, VST3 version, Apple Silicon etc. In my case those matter. Of course theres new IR's and some tweaks as well, but IMO the fact it's been 12 years or so, I'm OK with a one time payment of under $100.
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Unfortunately the resizable GUI won't appear for the AU plugin in the foreseeable future (if ever), I heard. A bit of a bummer, but at 100% the new one is still much slicker than the old one.
 
I would upgrade to version 8 (from 7) if the upgrade price was cheaper, and, I hadn't discovered Liquidsonics Cinematic Rooms Pro or Berlin Reverb - which are much quicker on the workflow, and easier on the CPU.
 
Simon Ravn said:
Unfortunately the resizable GUI won't appear for the AU plugin in the foreseeable future (if ever), I heard. A bit of a bummer, but at 100% the new one is still much slicker than the old one.
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So I just upgraded to Altiverb 8, I don't know where you heard this but it in fact does have a resizable GUI in the AU version, it's pretty big to begin with, but the sizes go from 25-125% and it's manually resizable in the IR browser pop out.
 
machinesworking said:
So I just upgraded to Altiverb 8, I don't know where you heard this but it in fact does have a resizable GUI in the AU version, it's pretty big to begin with, but the sizes go from 25-125% and it's manually resizable in the IR browser pop out.
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No it isn't? Only the VST version is resizable. Try using Altiverb 8 in Logic = no resize. Unless they already re-introduced it in the latest small update.

I heard this from the developer himself BTW. They had to remove it because they couldn't make it work properly under AU. Was told it wasn't likely to come back soon.
 
Simon Ravn said:
No it isn't? Only the VST version is resizable. Try using Altiverb 8 in Logic = no resize. Unless they already re-introduced it in the latest small update.

I heard this from the developer himself BTW. They had to remove it because they couldn't make it work properly under AU. Was told it wasn't likely to come back soon.
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Well I'm sitting here right in front of the computer, DP11 is open, Altiverb 8 is instantiated as an AU, and it does everything I said it does, it resizes to 125% and lower, and the IR browser resizes with the lower left corner to any size. For fun I'll open up Logic here. So, this is interesting, this might be the first time that Logic is broken with AU, and DP etc. are in better shape. As an AU in DP it resizes, there's no doubt about that, but in Logic the control is gone. I can still resize the IR browser, but not the main window. With Live it can't resize the main window, but the IR browser resizes with the lower right corner etc. just like Logic.

Opening the AU in Reaper, it works fine like DP11, both windows resize as they should. So two out of four DAWs are working fine, but something is too specific or what not in Audio Eases code? You see the arrow configuration as shown in DP11 and Reaper in the main window. So they're doing something Logic and Live aren't, [edited for new information etc.]
 

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machinesworking said:
Well I'm sitting here right in front of the computer, DP11 is open, Altiverb 8 is instantiated as an AU, and it does everything I said it does, it resizes to 125% and lower, and the IR browser resizes with the lower left corner to any size. For fun I'll open up Logic here. So, this is interesting, this might be the first time that Logic is broken with AU, and DP etc. are in better shape. As an AU in DP it resizes, there's no doubt about that, but in Logic the control is gone. I can still resize the IR browser, but not the main window. With Live it can't resize the main window, but the IR browser resizes with the lower right corner etc. just like Logic.

Opening the AU in Reaper, it works fine like DP11, both windows resize as they should. So two out of four DAWs are working fine, but something is too specific or what not in Audio Eases code? You see the arrow configuration as shown in DP11 and Reaper in the main window. So they're doing something Logic and Live aren't, [edited for new information etc.]
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Weird! Are DP and Reaper using wrapped VST plugins as AU? I don't know enough about them. Just seems weird that Logic is the only place it doesn't work.
 
Simon Ravn said:
Weird! Are DP and Reaper using wrapped VST plugins as AU? I don't know enough about them. Just seems weird that Logic is the only place it doesn't work.
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No they are not, like I mentioned Live also doesn't have the resize function. IMO it's probably just that every DAW does plugin hosting slightly differently, with DP they have their own MAS abstraction layer for audio and MIDI, since the OS 9 days when they were using their own pluging format. So they didn't remove the function obviously, they just removed it for DAWs like Live and Logic that were having issues with it for whatever reason.
 
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