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  • Help with Reverb options

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    Would someone give me some advice on reverb options? I recently purchased a new computer and I have Vienna Instruments Solo Strings running on it in standalone mode. I have this computer networked with my other computer (via MIDI Over Lan). This second computer runs my sequencing program.

    Besides an external reverb unit which I now use (via a SPDIF output), what are my reverb options?

    Would the reverb program go onto the sequencing computer or the computer with the samples (VISS)?

    Each computer has an Echo card in it (Mia, Gina). So what are my reverb options for using these samples in standalone mode?

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks.

    Mark 
  • S
    S

     Mark:

    I highly recommend Altiverb, a software convolution reverb made by AudioEase. It has sampled reverbs (Impulse Responses) of many great halls of various sizes (e.g the Vienna Konzerthaus, Amesterdam's Concertgebouw, Berlin's Philharmonie, the new Disney Hall designed by Frank Gehry, various rooms at the Esterhazy Palace, etc.) churches, cathedrals, soundstages, exotic spaces such as an Indian Tomb with an enormously long reverb, jazz clubs, etc., etc. Unlike many convolution reverbs, most parameters are variable - - you can change the size or reverb time of a given room, you can increase or decrease early reflections and reverb tail, set stage position, change EQ settings, choose perspective - - close, medium or distant listening positions, etc. 

    Most likely you would want to use Altiverb as a plugin in your DAW where you can dynamically vary any of its parameters by writing data to the track (AUX or Bus) to which a particular instance of Altiverb is assigned.

  • M
    M

     Stephen,

    Thanks. I've heard good things about Altiverb. Are there alternatives to using it as a plug-in? How might it work if not used as a plug in?

    Mark 
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    S

     As far as I know Altiverb works only as a plugin. I am not sure why one would want it to function differently. Essentially one instantiates it in an Aux or Bus channel then send the output of one or more virtual instruments (or audio tracks) to that Aux or Bus so that it can be mixed with original signal and sent to an output channel. One can have as many busses or Aux channels as one would like so that, for example, the early reflections of different groups of instruments can be assigned to different Aux or Bus channels according to the stage position of the instruments and then all the different groups can be sent to another Aux or Bus channel to be mixed with the same reverb tail (with the early reflections subtracted on that channel). Another virtue of having these different instantiations assigned to an Aux or Bus channel in a DAW is that these channels have tracks in which, as I said in my earlier posting, various parameters (of which there are 37) can be changed as one wishes in relation to what is happening in the music at a given moment - - by writing automation data specific to Altiverb to those tracks. This gives one an extremely flexible mixing environment.