bitflipper
I imagine a meeting in the Waves boardroom...
Engineer: "We've got this new reverb, but it's nothing special."
Marketer: "Not special? We in marketing don't believe in that concept! Surely, it's good for something? Think!"
Engineer: "Well, I guess it would be good enough to use on a P.A. or something"
Marketer: "There you go! We'll call it 'IR LIVE' and convince those rubes that it's different from the convolution reverbs they already own."
V.P. of Marketing: "It's settled then. It goes 'on sale' in February."
I think it's pretty shrewd trying to expand their market base.
Plugin use is no longer restricted to home or studios.
Marketed as 'LIVE'- for FOH mixing, lo-latency, no audio dropouts or glitches when switching in or between other presets.
Needed? that's another question. Lo-latency would appeal to me if I did.
edit @ Mike: I have Pristine Space too. I used all the time until I started working with SONAR x64 a few years ago & it started crashing. Alexsey's been asked for a 64b version of it for a few years now. Unfortunately I think he's late to the party. If he released something like 'LIVE' today at this price it would probably be a big hit for him.