[sdiy] Midiverb reverse engineer project?

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 18 Oct 2016, at 11:56, Mikko Helin <maohelin at gmail.com> wrote:

> You don't need to reverse engineer the hardware, the sound is in the
> algorithms I guess.

Is that right? Did any of the early units do anything special on the analog side? Compander or tone filters or anything? I don't know anything about the Alesis reverb units, and I never owned one.

Aside from that sort of pre/post processing, I agree - you should be able to take a recent basic DSP and recreate it exactly. Doing it on an FV-1 would be a nice touch, since Keith Barr designed that chip.

Tom