I have been a very happy user of MIR Pro since I purchased it earlier this year. It massively sped up my workflow, as well as being very intuitive and fun to work with. The recent update added some really cool features, and the MIRx option for the Sage Gateshead room pack was great.

I’ve been doing a lot of experimentation with samples from many different libraries, and I’ve been able to get really good results even from quite difficult sources.

During my work, some questions has arrived, which I’ll put in another post shortly. Here however is the feature request list, my wish list for future updates. Undoubtedly, you have thought about many of these, so take it for what it is. Thanks again for a great piece of software!

1. Resizable text, both in side menus and for stage instrument names.
2. Option: Width hidden until selected/mouse hoover (the width symbols makes things cluttered and is not very necessary to always have visible)
3. Drag-selection in channel list, to select many instances for mute/solo/re-arrange etc
4. To be able to chose Instrument Profile, Character Preset, and MIRx presets, from within the DAW plugin
5. The Wet/Dry within MIR from the plugin window, but the whole MIR signal. I.e to treat both MIR dry and wet as the wet signal in the plugin, so that 0% wet has the same sound as bypassing the plugin. This function could be called ”Mix %” to avoid confusion.
6. Some way to copy instrument name from daw channel name.
7. Instead of hide: transparency
8. Command+mouse click returns value to original value.
9. Global Bypass (of whole plugin, not of only wet)
10. Copy/Cut/Paste text should work in the DAW plugin
11. Also, general normal text behaviour, such as double clicking a word to select the whole word
12. Ability to solo/mute Secondary Microphone
13. To be able to see and alter the EQ curves applied to the individual instruments in character presets?
14. If not DAW routing options, then maybe soundcard routing options direct out from MIR? I.e main/secondary mic can go back to DAW or direct out to specified soundcard outputs?
15. Graphics could be higher resolution, especially the text 
16. Possibility of ”edit all” or maybe just ”edit selected”, for example, bypass Air Absorption on all instruments
17. Possibility to add MIRacle to main or secondary mic from within MIR itself

Hi Peter,

I finally found the time to give you more detailed answers now:

Good ideas. Added to list of feature requests!  

Would be nice to have, but for now, Shift-click does the trick for me. Drag-selection _is_ possible on the Venue Map, BTW.

That's a global function that should stay in MIR Pro's main window, if you ask me. 

That would be on my "list" too, but considering the number of different DAWs and plug-in hosts, this is almost impossible to achieve. 

What's wrong with double-clicking?

You can do this already, by means of the "B" buttons in the Instruments List panel. Just select all Instruments and click on it (or Alt-Click, depending on your "Auto Group" preference settings).

Same as above! :-)

Works here like expected. If this is a problem on your system, please report it (including host type and OS platform) to VSL support.

There's no way to achieve this in realtime. As you know, MIR Pro pre-renders all used IRs into a dedicated set of instrument- and position-specific IRs to reduce the number of necessary convolution processes (and thus its CPU load). There's a workaround, though: Just select the "MUTE"-preset from the Main Microphone's preset list, and you'll hear the Secondary Mic's output only.

Won't happen. :-) 

You can have dedicated outputs for the Secondary Mic right now, by using a multi-channel Output Format (e.g. Quadro).

I'm not sure that I understand the problem ...? Isn't that mainly a question of your hardware?

Well - considering that the "full" version of MIR Pro (as integral part of VE Pro) is able to do this already, this is one of the draw-backs you have to accept when using the plug-in version of MIR Pro. You will have to resort to the routing options of your DAW or plug-in host for that. :-)

Thanks again for your input, and all the best,

Thanks a lot for the time Dietz!

Some clarifications and comments:

3, 16: For some reason this didnt work for me, but it does now, including alt-click, which I missed somehow!

5: Wet/Dry: Perhaps its not strictly necessary, but I am sometimes missing this function, wether in MIR or in the DAW: that is the dry/wet on each instrument is dry signal and wet signal, but still with the pan and other functions which are present in the dry signal. Sometimes when working with more unusual sources, it would be helpful to be able to blend in the completely dry, original, un-panned signal. I thought the DAW window would be suitable for this. By no means a deal-breaker, but would be nice.

9: I see! I thought Bypass = 100% dry. And I had missed the alt-click function so all good!

8: Double clicking: DOH! :)

10, 11: Yep, works fine in MIR main window, but not in Logic X

13: Probably for the best :)

15: It looks like the text is made for a smaller, lower resolution screen, in particular the left and right sections (instrument list, output section etc). The text looks has quite few pixels, so its a bit hard to read on a retina screen. Becomes quite small and cluttered. The main Venue window is better. Such a slick plugin deserves a slick interface :)

14: The DAW/Soundcard routing options: I'm very much not clear on how to do this, but I guess I need to go back to the manual. This works also using MIR as a DAW plugin? that means only output 1/2 is routed back to each respective channel in Logic, and 3/4 is routed directly to the soundcards output?

17. Ah I see... As far as I can understand, in order to use MIR Pro in BOTH my DAW and in VE Pro, I would need to buy one additional MIR Pro license + room pack, is that correct?

Originally Posted by: peterberg

Thanks a lot for the time Dietz!

You're welcome! :-)

You seem to have a conventional "AUX send to reverb" setup in mind, don't you? While this is not what MIR Pro was made for, you can do this by using the MIR Pro plug-in set to 100% wet in an AUX bus of your DAW.

:-) ... I'll forward that to VSL's developers. As a matter of fact, the brand-new Vienna Suite Pro is Retina-compatible already, so chances are that the next big update of MIR Pro will take that route, too.

I still don't know exactly what you have in mind when you want to route something to the "soundcard's output", but in the end it is all up to your DAW, really. 

Only if you want to run it on a seperate machine. On one single system MIR Pro will open happily side-by-side in your DAW and in VE Pro.

Kind regards,

Not quite. I'm after that a Dry/Wet slider for the whole plugin signal. Could be a small rotary knob under the usual Dry/Wet slider in the DAW plugin. Maybe I'm getting used to more and more plugins having this functionality, but I think it could be useful, in particular when using MIR in more unusual and extreme ways.

Yeah, the access I'm after might just be complicating things too much. One solution that might be easier which is kind of meeting the issue half way would be to have one master EQ for the wet signal (and why not one for the Dry Signal too actually).

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Yeap, a master wet EQ would be awesome! Even though, currently, you are able to separate the wet signal, doing so, does change the sound compared to before you separate it (I tried it - it's different). And I would still need my individual wet EQs per instrument.

Yes, indeed, the wet EQ is the room EQ. Right now we have the ability to create different "banks" of room EQs, like one for Violins, Violas, etc. which I guess it makes it easier to sculpt the room sound of that particular instrument

I could potentially make one room EQ bank for all my instruments, but I like having them separate as it is now. But would love the ability to also sculpt the room EQ globally for all the room EQ banks used (mainly for convenience).

Mabye I didn't explain it thoroughly enough: If you really want to process MIR Pro's Secondary Microphone independently from the rest, you can assign individual outputs to them by using a multi-channel-based Output Format, e.g. Quatro. Just disregard the fact that the two stereo pairs are labeled "Front" and "Rear"; look at them as two independent outputs. - Be aware that the CPU-load will be twice as high then (or three times as high if you select a 6-channel format).

Kind regards,

I'd add to above post that it would be nice to be able to do this also when using MIR as a plugin with your DAW, so my suspicion is that putting some sort of master EQ within MIR is a good option then. I'd personally be happy with just another RoomEQ-style EQ on the master.

(agreeing with nektarios that the RoomEQs should stay as they are)