From Inspired Acoustics Knowledge Base
INSP:DEC Surround Customizer in standard stereo
The INSP:DEC Surround Customizer is an acoustic output plug-in that decodes a selection of vector-based audio signals into stereo or surround channels. First introduced with the
Kispest Pipe Organ under the feature name
Adjustable Surround and it is shipping as part of virtual pipe organ products of
Inspired Acoustics. The feature is novel and unique, not only in the Hauptwerk-world, but also in the virtual instrument sampling industry as well.
Supported plug-in formats, platforms and operating systems
- VST version 2.4, 32-bit, Windows (from version 1.0)
- VST version 2.4, 64-bit, Windows (from version 1.0)
The most current version is
- version 1.0 (November 2009)
INSP:DEC Surround Customizer in 5.1 surround
The INSP:DEC Surround Customizer is a separate and independent software of
Hauptwerk specially designed to support real-time acoustic control. It works together with audio hosts as a plug-in and takes either 3-channel or 4-channel vector-based audio as an input and produces a spatially adjustable output from mono to 8-channel surround in real-time. The first product that is supplied with the INSP:DEC Surround Customizer is the
Kispest Pipe Organ with the
Matyas Pipe Organ following.
Key features
- output from mono (1.0) to 8-channel surround (7.1)
- one-mouse-click presets for all common surround types
- real-time microphone directivity control for all channels independently
- real-time microphone rotation control in 3D
- adjustable input channel ordering
- master gain control
- standard mode for simple and easy parameter control
- expert mode for the full range of parameter control
Performance
Since the plugin's graphic interface implements embedded image caching both the performance and the requirements of INSP:DEC Surround Customizer are minimum, resulting in no measurable CPU load during its operation.
How the INSP:DEC Surround Customizer works together with Hauptwerk
Using INSP:DEC Surround Customizer with Hauptwerk using the Kispest Pipe Organ
Pipe organ samples with vector-based audio data, such as the
Kispest Pipe Organ or the
Matyas Pipe Organ are equipped with different loader files (Organ Definition Files) of which one of them is encoded to support the real-time acoustic control feature. The samples for the real-time acoustic control feature are made so that once they are loaded they produce three or four different 'vector' channels of audio which are fed into the customizer plugin's input to obtain the adjustable audio outputs. Using the plug-in interface or automation-based parameters the audio configuration can be controlled independent of Hauptwerk. The plugin itself can produce up to 8 channels of audio from its three or four input channels per instance. By using many instances of the plugin parallel more than 8 channels of output can also be obtained.
The INSP:DEC Surround Customizer VST plugin can work together with the Hauptwerk* version 3. For Windows users Hauptwerk* is available as a VSTi plugin which together with the INSP:DEC Surround Customizer VST can be hosted by an audio software of your choice (such as Cakewalk Sonar for example). Alternatively Mac users can use a different dedicated system for the customization feature.
Inspired Acoustics products supporting the Adjustable Surround feature
