Creating Impulse Responses | Ableton, Max4Live

I appreciate the detailed walkthrough!

Echt geil ✌🏻

Man, that’s was so cool!
I was thinking, is that possible do record impulse response from a reverb plugin?
If so, what is best, record using a clap/clapperboard sound or a piano sound as a source?

Wondering if the balloon pop or short white noise burst method is going to be of poorer quality than sweeps? I’m going to sample my hardware spring reverbs and have been wondering which method would be best. 🤔

Ohhh that reverb in the room there is so massive & love that reverb! Wish my GarageBand program had that reverb! 🙂🙂🔊🔊🔊🔊

Amazing dude 👏

I’ve been trying to take impulse responses outside. It’s very… frustrating. And I’m very tired. Speaking of which, I found the best time to do it outside is at around 2 in the morning. Good thing we’re surrounded by farmland here or I’m sure we would here complaints about all the loud bang sounds. I’m starting to go a little crazy though so I might just go to a state park or something. It seems like there is always noise: dogs, birds, distant highway traffic, rain or snowfall, wind, people working. Can’t everyone just put their lives on hold for a few minutes for me? C’mon people! …and Mother Nature…

I may be going a little crazy with sleep deprivation.

Aaaahh this is so cool! I wonder how many people will find their way to this video, as I just did, from hearing the newest Here Be Monsters episode (144 - Keeping A Place) where the host talks about and demonstrates this process as a way to remember and trigger memories of specific places. I HIGHLY recommend that podcast, especially for this crowd, as the audio production is phenomenal and carries a warm, ephemeral, and somewhat mystical vibe not dissimilar to the music you make :).

I just realized that I worked a shitty student job for a Samsung event in the Cafe. It really is a beautiful sounding space :)

Funny coincidence

Thank you... this is refreshing info about what I've been interested in & looking for... I'm sick of only being able to find guitar cabinet speaker & guitar amp IR videos when I use search terms like IR, impulse response, convolution reverb..., that stuff is still interesting, but its hard to find videos like yours where people are making/demonstrating real acoustic spaces, so thank you!! ...side note...like I said, the speaker impulse response stuff is equally cool & interesting in it's own right... I just wish more people showed or played with other types of speakers like bullhorns/megaphones/PA horns, the small speakers in old computers & old electronic toys & radios, etc. (like Plogue's chipcrusher)... loved your video & thanks again!!! & I love Look Mum No Computer & I LOVED your video of the SUIKO ST-50!!!

Ok well, as a compulsive user of Convolution Reverb i feel a little bit idiot, I always thought it was much more complicated. Thanks

This is incredible. Thank youuuuuu

Both Nice, location as well as the IRs. Cool video Hainbach!

Can you make amp cabinet IRs with this as well?

Amazing. Can I go IR on a acoustic guitar?

It would have been nice to hear you talk in the room, then talk at home with the plug in and back and forth them... But.. Coolio..

Is it possible to derive the formula for the impulse response within ableton?

sweep but not with a broom with frequencies hahaha!

6;33 > oh wow, those sounds are close to the sounds I sampled
with my Casio sk1 in the 80s.

But then again, your samples got much more hi end :-)
Stupid lo-res sk1 ! :-( lol

Ja krass 😎 also nochmal fürs Verständnis.....krass das muss ich mir nochmal genauer rein ziehen 😊 auf jeden Fall richtig cooles video 😎 Danke 😊

feel better soon bro

I was at Berlin this May and in König Otto as well. We were strolling through Neukölln with my girlfriend and accidentally found this place. I was amazed by it's acoustics and interior & said smth like "that's the place I'd like to play live, perfect for ambient". Really nice to see that this great space is actually used for musical purposes. And I've had a brief chat with you at Superbooth. It's a small world :) Thanks and cheers from Ukraine!

What an amazing space! Looks like its closed down now though. :-(

Hey! Can I load impulse response at the very end of the signal chain?
After all effects and amplification? Where in your signal chain IR's
lay?

Hainbach, it gets cold in Nova Scotia!

My wife and I are travelling to Berlin in September and we will seek out König Otto for something to eat during our short stay :-)

Awesome! Music and technology at it's finest. And at the beginning your voice soungs like an epic godlike NPC in a game :). Convoluted sound of piano is "i have no words to describe how good it sounds". Bravo!

I don't own an OP-1, but samples in the end sound fantastic. Can I use them on Digitakt? Or is it like an instrument settings?

That's crazy! Digital age brought such amazing tools to musicians, it's fascinating. Thank you for the walkthrough!

Great video! I'd love to see a video on how to create impulses from reverb devices. I own a 1st generation HOF and I think it would be fun to make some IRs.

Inspiring! thanks

We want the IR from Konig Otto! It's such an amazing space.

STOP, STOP, MY WALLET’S ALREADY DEAD

Nice vid! One thing you can do to test how accurate the impulse response is is to play and record a test sound or song through the speakers before you sweep the room. That way you can compare how realistic it is afterwards. Also helps with choosing a pleasing mic placement.

That is a very unique sounding space. I've sampled a few spaces many years ago when I was really into convolution reverbs. Should probably start again.
Thanks again for the video!

When I entered that room a few weeks ago I also had the idea to record some impulse responses :)
A while ago I had the rare opportunity to record some impulse responses in the tower of the Jüdisches Museum Berlin. Which is a great sounding room as well. @Hainbach would you like to exchange your IRs from König Otto with mine from JMB? :)

That was amazing! And your piano has so much character...

Amazing venue

Such an amazing space! I must add the food at König Otto is really tasty!!!

Longtime channel lurker, just dropping through to say thank you for all your content! Love what you do and very much appreciate all the effort that must go into providing it.

Thank you that is a great video on the convolution - something I need to start using. Useful and informative material as always.

This was such a cool video!

König Otto seems like such a nice venue, you've been repping it really nicely at least ever since I began following your channel and no wonder with the personal connection to it. But even that aside, the sound is superb! It's also such a beautiful space, there's a real down to earth grandeour (weird combination of words) to that space.

Frequency response is an interesting creative medium as well. Acoustics is such an underappreciated part of music making in general, I know a good few venues I've went in for live shows, but came out feeling unsatisfied just because the sounds turned to mush in that particular space. It also brings out nice character to a recording, if done right, creates immersion and a literal sense of place. It can be hard to control for resonance and unflattering frequencies of course, but I see a lot of creative potential there.

And of course there's just the basic "How does the space influence how we perceive the art" that was the whole point of with Duchamp's Fountain. It's an important part of discussion and is talked about but seems like it's always a sideconversation. There are of course some markers, like "If you go to play at a nightclub, make it danceable" and terms like "arena-rock" that already put some relevance to the place, but it could be deconstructed even further.

I could totally see Ben Frost playing a regular set in a nightclub and the crowd dancing their hearts out. I could see an interesting conversation around a classical quartet going on a bar tour. Could you build a dynamic David vs Goliath-type of narrative trying to play a noise gig over a highway? Might just be that I've just missed the bigger conversation as of yet, but I feel this discussion bubbling.

Also, I finally managed to become a patron. Good stuff.

60 times in one night? I bet the dogs around there love you :)

amazing space and reverb technic!

Loving your work.

What an incredibly inspiring video!

Does anyone use Reason's RV7000 MKII reverb plugin? You can add impulses and its really easy to edit. I love the way you recorded your impulses though, I've yet to go that far with it. I wanna give a proper recording a try now. I love your channel! Keep it up.