[sdiy] MIDIVerb reverse engineering
Eric Brombaugh
ebrombaugh at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 21:35:35 CEST 2025
Back in 2021 Paul Schreiber and I reverse engineered the MIDIVerb I and
although Paul posted a number of Youtube videos to discuss what we'd
learned, we decided at that time to keep the design materials we'd
generated from that effort private. Now that Paul is no longer with us
I've open-sourced the materials on Github:
https://github.com/emeb/MIDIVerb_RE
This repository includes schematics, presentation slides, source code
for the disassembler, emulator and compiler, as well as SPICE and
Verilog models of the logic. Anyone at all curious about how this
product democratized the world of algorithmic reverb is invited to take
a look - it's a fascinating glimpse into 1980's minimal TTL design and a
testament to the genius of Alesis founder Keith Barr.
Eric
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