User Guide

Waves IR-1 software guide page 33
LOADING AND MANAGING IMPULSE RESPONSES
Loading Impulse Responses
The IR-1 presets menu is the same menu used in all Waves plugins. Use
“Open preset file…” to load a Waves setup file *.xps. Use “Import Impulse Response from
WAV...” to import IRs either from standard .wav files or from Waves Impulse Response (.wir)
files.
Under “Factory Presets” you can select “IR-1 Full Reset…” to load the default IR, “Hall - 1”,
by choosing “Impulse Response and Reset”. This loads the IR and resets all plugin settings
to the factory defaults. You can also choose to load just the default IR by choosing “Impulse
Response”. This leaves all other parameters unchanged.
Full Reset sets the plugin to a flat setting that allows for auditioning the original Impulse
Response, with two exceptions:
• The Direct On/Off switch will be set to “Off”. To audition pure convolution, you will
need to set it to On, unless the control is disabled.
• The Wet/Dry slider is untouched by the Full Reset factory preset. To audition pure
convolution, make sure it is set to 100% Wet.
Note that for most studio work, you should use the IR with auto-removal of its acoustic
direct portion (set Direct to Off) and with the dry signal replacing the acoustic direct.
The next three factory presets: Room – 1, Studio – 1, and Plate – 1 are from the Waves basic
IR library. This IR Library is available with any install of the IR-1 plugin.
Most Factory Presets offer two load options:
• Impulse Response and Reset
• Impulse Response
The first option will load the IR and reset all parameters to their default state. The latter will
load the selected preset’s IR into the current setup, automatically applying the current
parameters to the newly loaded IR.
Again, you can audition the pure convolution using the original impulse response by loading
the “IR-1 Full reset" factory-preset (or the "Impulse Response and Reset" option in each IR
sub-menu), and setting Wet/Dry to 100% wet and Direct On/Off to On.
The Impulse Responses supplied with the IR-series include the product’s basic IR set and
two downloadable IR Libraries. This gives you more than a Gigabyte of Impulse
Responses with 32-bit 96kHz quality.
The IR library is installed into the Waves Plugins folder in a sub-folder called IR1Impulses.
The Impulse files are stored in a proprietary Waves format and use the extension .wir (Waves
Impulse Response). The .wir files cannot be opened in normal Audio Editors, but they can be
imported into the IR-1.