MIR Pro 3D Plug-in

If you’re not using Vienna MIR Pro 3D with Vienna Ensemble or Vienna Ensemble Pro, its plug-in version comes into play. It relies on the MIR Pro 3D plug-in to make the connection(s) with what one would consider MIR proper, where you select your Venues and place Instruments. This separation allows you to keep the MIR Pro 3D Control UI at a fixed position, maybe even on a separate screen in full-screen mode, without interfering with the window management of your host application.

When you create a MIR Pro 3D effect insert (or use it as a panning device as described above) in one of your host application’s channels, the plug-in panel opens, and the channel is displayed in MIR Pro 3D’s channel list and Venue view.

The panel offers some of the controls of MIR Pro 3D’s Instruments list and Instruments panel – the Hide, Bypass, Mute, and Solo buttons, as well as volume control, a group and a color selector, so that these can not only be configured within MIR, but also directly in your host application. Moreover, you can adjust the instrument’s dry/wet ratio and change the wet signal’s polarity. The second button in the bottom row will focus and display the instrument in MIR Pro 3D’s Venue view.

Note

As opposed to the Vienna Ensemble-based version of MIR Pro 3D, the plug-in does not offer dedicated wet signal routing. Please take into consideration that this makes it much harder (and in certain cases impossible) to do sub-grouped stem-mixing.

RoomTone Generator

Every hall has a unique sonic signature even when there’s actually nothing to be heard. This natural noise floor gives the human ear a sense of spaciousness and enveloping beyond the actual reverb. Digital audio systems, on the other hand, are more or less free of any background noise; while this is a good thing in most cases, it makes us miss this certain feeling of “being there” when re-creating a room out of nothing but impulse responses.

If you want to have a RoomTone in your MIR project, define a separate effects channel in your DAW and assign MIR Pro 3D to it. With Vienna Ensemble Pro, create a new bus channel, insert MIR Pro 3D, and click on the insert to open its panel. After that, clicking on the leftmost button in the panel’s bottom row changes it into a roomtone generator, and deactivates all other controls except volume.