KVR Audio

Caco · Post by **Caco** » Tue May 18, 2010 1:16 pm

I don't know if this will be of interest to anyone but I have posted MVerb, a free VST reverb effect, on my website.

There are very few examples of reverb algorithims available compared with other effects so I thought I would share an example of Dattorro's figure-of-eight method. I think this technique has a nicer sound to it than a schroeder reverb and is much easier to control than many FDN matrices.

All the code is available open source under the GPL License. There is also example code showing how to use it in a VST. Hopefully since it is open source people will port it to other formats, such as LADSPA etc

I have only tested it on my system so far so let me know if you find any bugs.

jens · Post by **jens** » Tue May 18, 2010 10:49 pm

It sounds absolutely great and is very low on the cpu - thanks a lot for this, Martin!

jens · Post by **jens** » Tue May 18, 2010 10:54 pm

b.t.w.: apart from the age-old TK DatoReverb (which was great as well) this is the only VST-reverb of which I know that it uses Datorro's design... what gives?

Jed · Post by **Jed** » Tue May 18, 2010 11:02 pm

Sounds really nice! Thanks heaps

Cheers
Jed

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Wed May 19, 2010 12:45 am

This sucker is really good! I appreciate the varied presets, trying to figure out someone else's parameters is always fun.

Mercado_Negro · Post by **Mercado_Negro** » Wed May 19, 2010 2:44 am

Good Lord! It is unbelievable how good it sounds with this ridiculous CPU usage, congratulations and thanks for sharing this sir, you're very generous. Clean, not grainy, not metallic and very natural, really easy to use. I'll test it properly in a couple of mixes this week

Caco · Post by **Caco** » Wed May 19, 2010 6:37 am

jens wrote:b.t.w.: apart from the age-old TK DatoReverb (which was great as well) this is the only VST-reverb of which I know that it uses Datorro's design... what gives?

I listened to a lot of reverbs developing this and I now have a good ear for what reverbs are using which techniques. I am convinced Urs Heckmann's Uhbik-A is using Dattorro's figure-of-eight. Sorry if I am giving your secrets away Urs

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Wed May 19, 2010 6:43 am

WOW!

D.H. Miltz · Post by **D.H. Miltz** » Wed May 19, 2010 6:54 am

Thank you.

Caco · Post by **Caco** » Wed May 19, 2010 2:06 pm

Mercado_Negro wrote:Good Lord! It is unbelievable how good it sounds with this ridiculous CPU usage, congratulations and thanks for sharing this sir, you're very generous. Clean, not grainy, not metallic and very natural, really easy to use. I'll test it properly in a couple of mixes this week

Thanks Mercado_Negro, I spent quite a bit of time tuning the timings to try minimise the grainy, metallic sounds that ruin many other reverbs. This algorithim suffers a lot less though to start with than many other techniques, such as parallel combs or nested allpasses

Zombie Queen · Post by **Zombie Queen** » Wed May 19, 2010 5:28 pm

Thank you very much. It's one of smoothest verbs I have been trying, sounds very sweet on vocals. I have been testing loads of affordable reverbs in this respect and on first impression, this one is the best.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Wed May 19, 2010 5:33 pm

Thanks a lot

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Wed May 19, 2010 5:44 pm

Sweet stuff.

DuX · Post by **DuX** » Wed May 19, 2010 5:49 pm

Wow, Martin, this one really sounds cool and quite useful

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It's a rather generous gift from you, thank you!

Cheers!

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Wed May 19, 2010 5:56 pm

Far the best freeware reverb, i know: extremely useful and cpu efficient!

MVerb - A Free Open Source Reverb