Reverb
TL;DW: Reverb is simplified and tuned MatrixVerb, adjusting everything for each optimum verb size.
In some ways I think this is even better, but I know people like to fiddle with knobs, so MatrixVerb had to go first. And yet…
Reverb is my new go-to reverb. Why? Because it takes all the interactivity of MatrixVerb and boils it down to ONE slider, and a dry/wet. It does all the same things: centered sounds spread, there’s a subtle detune as if sound was passing through temperature differences in the room, high frequency stuff falls away accurate to the sound of real air in reference concrete cavern recordings: it IS MatrixVerb, in every detail. Except it’s adapting all of that, on the fly, to best suit whatever size of reverb space you seek. Think in terms of ‘bigness’ and just go: if things are too cavernous, get smaller, if they’re not reverberant enough get bigger. Reverb always does its best for whatever size of space you’re making. If you need to get crazier, MatrixVerb still exists. You’ll get results faster with Reverb… so much so, that I’ve replaced MV in the Airwindows Starter Kit with Reverb. That’s how much I like it: it’s the space-maker I would show newcomers first, the most approachable way to audio ambience.
Hope you like it. It is free, and if you think it’s good to get things like this every week, you can throw another $50 a year at my Patreon as if this was a commercial plugin for you to buy. Who knows, by next year I might have made another plugin you like :D
If you’d like to see the Cheap Ass Rhymes rhyming dictionary I was talking about, it can be found here :)
I’ve been using NonlinearSpace for years, is there any reason to switch to your new MatrixVerb/Reverb? Because NS still works perfectly fine
Sounds great Chris! Good work as always
i use this when im too lazy to dial in even nonlinearspace
Hi Chris. I LOVE this reverb.
‘Spin. Spin. Spin’
Some Lexicon reverbs have a ‘spin’ on the tail which isn’t a single pitch movement or chorus but an independent ‘wobble’ within discreet echoes. So there are multiple independent modulations happening in the tail which are sutble and gorgeous.
If you could add a ‘spin’ control to the tail like this it would be ‘gorgeous’ .
Modulation on the MV and Infinity plugins would be great too.
Or were you thinking they were to be used in series with Reverb?
My dream reverb would be your ‘Reverb’ plugin with a pitch wobble in the independent delays so there are multiple independent shimmers in the different reflections. Lexicon 960 did this beautifully. Makes the tails lush and gorgeous.
Just the way this Reverb is today, sits beautifully in the mix and I have no desire to tweak it just works great. Stunning for piano and voice and those are the most revealing.
This is GREAT GREAT GREAT work. SO happy to have this.
Thank you