I use Lexicon PCM70, PCM80, Eventide Eclipse for everything and OTO BIM / BAM and modular stuff for synths. I don't use plugins for production. I am looking for substitutes to play with on the computer while on the road.
Is there any plugin that sounds close to these hardware effects? I am not looking for 1:1 emulations. I just need something that shares similar properties in terms depth and overall timbre. Last time I checked around 2011-12 I got very disappointed and sort of gave up at the end.
Reverb / Delay that do really sound like hardware
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Modular Manfred Modular Manfred https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=565538
- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 87 posts since 23 May, 2022
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- KVRAF
- 35424 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
I don't really know how hardware reverbs/delays sound (only heard a couple of sound demos from Strymon etc.), but, NI Replika XT sounds absolutely fantastic to me.
Regarding the Lexicons and Eventide, you could try the Exponential Audio reverbs and the Eventide effects (they have loads of plugin fx). They sound great to me.
Regarding the Lexicons and Eventide, you could try the Exponential Audio reverbs and the Eventide effects (they have loads of plugin fx). They sound great to me.
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Modular Manfred Modular Manfred https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=565538
- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 87 posts since 23 May, 2022
Thanks, will look up. I have come across with forum comments on Eventide native being meh when comparing to the rack units but I have never tried. I realise I could just google and demo but there are tons of options and I don't even know where to begin. I am hoping for some valid recommendations and then filter a few out to demo. I have Reaktor Blocks installed as a 'modular notepad'. I realise it has a reverb block (rounds). Just about to give it a spin.
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- KVRAF
- 2244 posts since 21 Nov, 2015
I always found the PSP - Lexicons pretty good.
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- KVRAF
- 5752 posts since 29 Sep, 2010 from Maui
At least for the Eventide stuff you might look at well, Eventide 
Their plugins are pretty much the same in Hardware and software.
E.g. Blackhole and the H9 series stuff. There should be at least some
effects in the H3000 plugins series that are at least comparable to the
algorithms in the eclipse.
Their plugins are pretty much the same in Hardware and software.
E.g. Blackhole and the H9 series stuff. There should be at least some
effects in the H3000 plugins series that are at least comparable to the
algorithms in the eclipse.
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- KVRAF
- 1511 posts since 26 Jun, 2005
Valhalla Delay is said to be very hardware like, so make sure to check that one out if you haven't.
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- KVRAF
- 23469 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
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- KVRist
- 122 posts since 11 May, 2022
Eventide Black Hole is ace, dead on great bus verb, especially if your into ambient music
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vitocorleone123 vitocorleone123 https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=333504
- KVRAF
- 1894 posts since 30 Jun, 2014 from Pacific NW
I have very limited experience with hardware effects.
I'd nominate
Delay: Valhalla Delay
Reverb: Liquidsonics Cinematic Rooms Pro (and Seventh Heaven)
I'd nominate
Delay: Valhalla Delay
Reverb: Liquidsonics Cinematic Rooms Pro (and Seventh Heaven)
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- KVRAF
- 5505 posts since 2 Sep, 2019
This question is vague to the point of being meaningless.
Reverbs have been digital since the late ‘70s. Algorithms come in all sorts. A Bricasti M7 and an Alesis Quadraverb are both hardware reverbs, but they’re opposite ends in terms of quality. There are plugin reverbs that run the gamut too. So literally any algorithmic plugin reverb could sound like some hardware reverb out there. Unless you’re looking specifically for a plugin that emulates the the ADC/DAC. Then you’d want Relab LX480 which emulates the Lexicon 480L down to the 18-bit converters.
Reverbs have been digital since the late ‘70s. Algorithms come in all sorts. A Bricasti M7 and an Alesis Quadraverb are both hardware reverbs, but they’re opposite ends in terms of quality. There are plugin reverbs that run the gamut too. So literally any algorithmic plugin reverb could sound like some hardware reverb out there. Unless you’re looking specifically for a plugin that emulates the the ADC/DAC. Then you’d want Relab LX480 which emulates the Lexicon 480L down to the 18-bit converters.
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- KVRAF
- 5505 posts since 2 Sep, 2019
No. Lexicon PCM plugins don’t use the original classic algorithms. There was a whole discussion on Gearslutz years ago, about Lexicon losing the original source code and Michael Carnes creating the PCM 96 (which the PCM plugins are based on) from scratch. You’ll get closer to the PCM 91 (and the classic 224/PCM 70 units it was based on) with IK’s CSR, which Martin Lind reversed from an original PCM 91.
The Eventide SP2016 Reverb plugin is a 1:1 recreation of the SP2016 reverbs from the original algorithms, down to the original samplerate.
The Eventide UltraReverb algorithms are “derived” from the H8000 Ultra-Harmonizer, which itself includes “Eventide’s best preset-algorithms culled from over thirty years,” whatever all that means.
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- KVRAF
- 14988 posts since 26 Jun, 2006 from San Francisco Bay Area
I’ll add the 2CAudio reverbs as being some of the best.
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- KVRist
- 88 posts since 8 Jan, 2009
Seems inevitable that you’re going to see just about everybody’s favorite plug-ins mentioned here with a question like this.
That being said here’s my reply. Like others here, my experience with decent hardware delays and verbs is limited. But the plugins I get a hardware vibe from are:
-Audio Damage Other desert cities
-Fabfilter Pro-R
-Nebula 4 third party reverbs
-IRs. I’ve always liked the Kinetic Sound Prism impulses.
That being said here’s my reply. Like others here, my experience with decent hardware delays and verbs is limited. But the plugins I get a hardware vibe from are:
-Audio Damage Other desert cities
-Fabfilter Pro-R
-Nebula 4 third party reverbs
-IRs. I’ve always liked the Kinetic Sound Prism impulses.
