hotfingers wrote:I use Altiverb (7) exclusive for all my audio work and hitherto, have been assuming that there is no direct way of using it with Hauptwerk V as a plugin. I also imagine that you cannot import the IRs – my assumption being that these would need to be in a specific format which would be different from that which Altiverb uses.
Correct -- Hauptwerk has its own convolver -- it can't directly host VST/AU plug-ins (e.g. Aliverb), and Hauptwerk's convolver's IR format is not directly compatible with Altiverb's.
(If you specifically wanted to use Altiverb or its IRs, instead of Hauptwerk's built-in convolver, then you would need to route Hauptwerk's audio output to a VST/AU host and load Altiverb within that VST/AU host, as you would have done in Hauptwerk v4, and as covered in the 'Using an AU/VST host to apply real-time effects to Hauptwerk’s output' section in the Hauptwerk user guide -- page 240 in the current v6.0.2 version.)