Paragon from NUGEN Audio has arrived

[martinjuenke]

Paragon is the new Reverb by NUGEN:

Reverb taken to new heights
Paragon is a true convolution reverb with the flexibility and control of a classic algorithmic reverb, giving you the sound of real spaces, now with unprecedented tweakability. Via re-synthesis, Paragon offers full control of the decay, room size and brightness of reverbs modelled on 3D recordings of real spaces - with no time-stretching, which means no artefacts - not to mention spectral analysis and precise EQ of the Impulse Responses themselves.

Gone are the days of enormous IR libraries. Why have 30 recordings of different-sized churches, when you can meticulously adjust the characteristics of one church?

Perfect for surround applications including Dolby Atmos bed tracks, the reverb operates in up to 7.1.2 channels of audio.

Purity of sound
True convolution reverb
Dolby Atmos and surround-compatible
Individually configurable crosstalk per channel
Unique technology for re-synthesis of authentic IRs
HPF and LPF per channel
Spectral analysis
Switchable LFE
Seamless tweakability
Created with GIMP

The IR library isn’t too big, and it isn’t too small, it’s just right. Gone are the days of keeping an Impulse Response saved for every possible configuration of every possible space - with Paragon, all you need is a select few, which can be tweaked to create almost limitless combinations of spaces.

Using state of the art technology developed alongside the University of York’s Dr. Jez Wells, 3D Impulse Responses are analyzed, decomposed and re-synthesized to create new authentic spaces.

Paragon’s IR panel also allows you to seamlessly tweak the frequency response or real spaces, by EQing the reverb model itself and altering the frequency-dependent decay rate.

Real spaces reimagined

Paragon’s reverb decay and room size can be set significantly longer, larger, shorter and smaller than that of the original IR space, without introducing ugly artefacts as a result of stretching or removing samples. Unlike a traditional convolution reverb, Paragon does not use a static Impulse Response, and this wider scope allows you to transparently transform the sound of the space.

https://nugenaudio.com/paragon/

[perpetual3]

$599

[bmanic]

.. and the competition would be LiquidSonics Reverberate. It too has some advanced controls for completely customizing impulse responses. Probably not at the same level as Paragon though..

99$

EDIT: Actually, LiquidSonics Illusion is probably closer to this as it too synthesizes the reverb stuff.. but again it's different as Illusion doesn't seem to be able to load up normal IR's and then resynthesize them.

[Neon Breath]

$599.

Elton John's league.

[Winstontaneous]

$599.

Elton John's league.

Well, it's "easier to support 1 GearSlutz snob at $599 vs. 6 KVR slobs at $99"

[aMUSEd]

Still - Jez Wells has an interesting resume

http://www.jezwells.org/Computer_music_tools.html

[magicmusic]

I have test the stereo demo of this. I notice it do no GUI scale and look very small on 4 k monitors. It have large latency. studio one show 46.4 ms. way too slow for real time play. choose of mic distance work good on some reverbs. can really give a depth of field after volume correct so original and reverb is same loud

maybe they enhance it to work good on 4 k monitor and less latency. if latency is need not more than 5 ms the reverb should have

[c_voltage]

After some tests with couple IR and algo reverbs bought stereo version.
Small rooms quality\character is astonishing (yes, together with mention mic distance feature, works interesting).
Latency personally for me it no probs (since do not plan use it outside daw), GUI size absolutely ok too (at 2k).

The only thing that confused me, it's unpredictable L\R offsets after changing some parameters. Though there is manual adjustment of LR (I/O section), but really not very handy to appeal to it after each Decay\Size (etc) changes. In addition, it is not always possible to correct this even thru I/O (for example, we manage to equalize the balance of the reverb itself, but the mono source seems still to be shifted to the left, etc). Hope this is will able to fix without ruin quality.

[Robmobius]

$599.

Elton John's league.

Indeed... A ridiculous price LOL.

[Neon Breath]

[magicmusic]

The only thing that confused me, it's unpredictable L\R offsets after changing some parameters. Though there is manual adjustment of LR (I/O section), but really not very handy to appeal to it after each Decay\Size (etc) changes. In addition, it is not always possible to correct this even thru I/O (for example, we manage to equalize the balance of the reverb itself, but the mono source seems still to be shifted to the left, etc). Hope this is will able to fix without ruin quality.

I test the stereo version and i notice that stereo inputs(double track guitar) get smaller in stereo width room reverb and shiftet in pan too.

[c_voltage]

The only thing that confused me, it's unpredictable L\R offsets after changing some parameters. Though there is manual adjustment of LR (I/O section), but really not very handy to appeal to it after each Decay\Size (etc) changes. In addition, it is not always possible to correct this even thru I/O (for example, we manage to equalize the balance of the reverb itself, but the mono source seems still to be shifted to the left, etc). Hope this is will able to fix without ruin quality.

I test the stereo version and i notice that stereo inputs(double track guitar) get smaller in stereo width room reverb and shiftet in pan too.

Yes, Paragon definitely have problems with panning (ST at least, i not tested big version).
Also note - "Stereo Width" parameter (exists only in ST version - judging by user manual) being at maximum (200%) make reverb mono-incompatible (ie give stable full antiphase only).

[Robmobius]

[magicmusic]

The only thing that confused me, it's unpredictable L\R offsets after changing some parameters. Though there is manual adjustment of LR (I/O section), but really not very handy to appeal to it after each Decay\Size (etc) changes. In addition, it is not always possible to correct this even thru I/O (for example, we manage to equalize the balance of the reverb itself, but the mono source seems still to be shifted to the left, etc). Hope this is will able to fix without ruin quality.

I test the stereo version and i notice that stereo inputs(double track guitar) get smaller in stereo width room reverb and shiftet in pan too.

Yes, Paragon definitely have problems with panning (ST at least, i not tested big version).
Also note - "Stereo Width" parameter (exists only in ST version - judging by user manual) being at maximum (200%) make reverb mono-incompatible (ie give stable full antiphase only).

maybe they mean that this is only a version that process mono input to stereo reverb output. see the news text

NUGEN Audio releases Paragon ST – Mono/Stereo Version of its convolution reverb

and to have stereo need buy the big version

[c_voltage]

The only thing that confused me, it's unpredictable L\R offsets after changing some parameters. Though there is manual adjustment of LR (I/O section), but really not very handy to appeal to it after each Decay\Size (etc) changes. In addition, it is not always possible to correct this even thru I/O (for example, we manage to equalize the balance of the reverb itself, but the mono source seems still to be shifted to the left, etc). Hope this is will able to fix without ruin quality.

I test the stereo version and i notice that stereo inputs(double track guitar) get smaller in stereo width room reverb and shiftet in pan too.

Yes, Paragon definitely have problems with panning (ST at least, i not tested big version).
Also note - "Stereo Width" parameter (exists only in ST version - judging by user manual) being at maximum (200%) make reverb mono-incompatible (ie give stable full antiphase only).

maybe they mean that this is only a version that process mono input to stereo reverb output. see the news text

NUGEN Audio releases Paragon ST – Mono/Stereo Version of its convolution reverb

and to have stereo need buy the big version

Heh you mean that this is not stereo, but actually mono-to-stereo version ? No, i did check thru Bidule, it has two inputs, and they works ok as LR (audibly).

Unpredictable behavior in panorama, this cannot be in any case.
Well maybe I could assume that this is an intentional limitation, if the imbalance was permanent. Otherwise no.
Not exclude that this may be the result of incorrect porting from the multichannel version, who know