“Dietz is the one to blame that I'm doing the whole thing at all!“ Herb likes to quote his own one-liner, which has quite a long history – from the times before the Vienna Symphonic Library took form in his mind: back then, Herb produced his self-composed orchestral scores for the films he directed with the limited sonic possibilities of conventional sample libraries. Dietz, who mixed many of these pieces in the studio, kept nagging about the moderate quality of their toilsomely assembled sample sounds and pestered Herb with the key features of one “serious“ orchestral sound library: The samples would have to be completely free from hiss and noise, each one perfectly in tune of course, and more carefully produced to begin with. His anger found an open ear, and the rest is history ...
***Dietz' life before and besides the Vienna Symphonic Library took place in the studios of his hometown Vienna (and the remaining Europe), where he mixed and/or produced the music of chartbreaking acts like Falco, Count Basic, dZihan & Kamien, Aphrodelics, Marque and many others, as well as scores and sound design for movies and large-scale multimedia events.
BTW – Dietz won his first spurs with the legendary “Austrian Sound Library“ for the Ensoniq EPS 16plus – at times when the quality of a sampling library was measured by its smallness: The whole set fit onto less than 10 floppies, 720 KB each. :-)
Florian Walter took over the development of MIR in summer, 2007 and is enthusiastically working on making a great idea into a great piece of software.
He was first confronted with the topic of convolution 5 years ago; since then, it has taken a firm hold on him. During his studies he already implemented different processes and also developed a room simulation system for wave field synthesis at the Fraunhofer Institute. Since 2004, he has been working for Müller-BBM, where takes care of the proper reverb in concert halls and opera houses with the room acoustics system Vivace.
“MIR is a step into a new league in every respect – concerning the sound possibilities as well as the technical challenges. I‘m very happy to be part of this development!”