[sdiy] Cheapest good sounding digital reverb?

[Mattias Rickardsson]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 16:52, ColinMuirDorward <colindorward at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thinking more about this and wondering what would be the sonic difference
> between polyphonic reverb and "paraphonic" reverb.
> Unless each voice is using a different reverb, wouldn't they sound
> identical?
>

One obvious difference would be that the voice can have envelopes (etc)
that control reverb parameters of the voice's reverb.

A less far-fetched reason to have reverb per voice would be if there are
considerable nonlinearities in the reverb, making polyphonic reverb sound
very different than the same reverb applied on the sum of voices. Some
existing electromechanical instruments can have a similar behaviour. That
could end up really interesting, but almost feels more like part of a new
instrument rather than a reverb you put on a polyphonic instrument. And
perhaps the desired effect could be implemented in other ways than
multiplying the number of reverbs.


> A post-reverb VCA will change this, since you can have different notes
> gating on and off at different times, but this seems a high price to pay
> for a very subtle effect. Polyphonic effects I would be chasing are delay,
> chorus, flange, pitch, etc; those which could take advantage of per-voice
> dynamic manipulations.
>
> At any rate, I'd love to hear anything that comes out of this, reverb or
> otherwise. There is probably lots to discover in this under-explored
> terrain.
>

Definitely, it would be nice to hear what comes out of it! :-)

/mr
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