IR-1 is for any DAW user who needs superior reverbs and ambiences. IR-1 is a convolution reverb which has flexible classic controls of the key reverb parameters. Unlike other convolution reverbs only the IR-1 allows editing of all the traditional reverb parameters. IR-1 comes with an extensive library of samples and presets that recreate the sonic environment of over 60 carefully sampled real acoustic spaces and over 60 samples and presets created by classic hardware devices. The technology used in creating this library is based on the culmination of years of research by leading acousticians with Waves and establishes new benchmarks for clarity and accuracy in a sampling reverb. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Past Technologies Electronic "artificial"reverbs offer the advantage of more control of individual reverb parameters, but their disadvantage is the lack of accuracy reproducing real acoustic spaces. Conversely the attraction of Sampling or convolution based reverbs is the accurate reproduction of natural acoustic spaces. Their chief drawback is the inability to control reverb parameters in the familiar and flexible fashion offered by traditional artificial reverbs.IR-1 offers the best of both approaches without the compromises. A Revolution of Control IR-1 introduces the first Convolution based reverb that allows classic parameters to actually affect the convolution, not just "filter the result" in order to produce parameter changes. This addresses the previous shortcoming of convolution based reverbs while maintaining controls familiar to artificial electronic reverbs.