HartleyDSP announces THeVerb - Spatial Convolutional Reverb [Beta]

[HartleyDSP]

Today, we are are releasing Beta version 0.8.0

The most exciting new feature in this version is the introduction of User IRs with Spatialization. Bring your own impulse response and spatialize it, so that you can move sources around as you can with our own library rooms. I think this is unique and it literally adds another dimension (or two) to the sounds you can achieve.



This version also includes many small but important improvements to the user interface (including interactive parameter controls within the visualizers), bug fixes and improvements and a new manual (work in progress).

Full changelog here.

I am still working on the factory library, licensing, support and e-commerce systems, but the plugin you see now is likely to be very similar to the full release this Summer.

User IRs, Room Tone filters and Reverb Time controls were all features requested by our beta testers. By joining the beta programme before release you can still easily earn a free license by submitting a 1-2 constructive reports, as several of our existing testers already have. It could be as easy as saying "yes - it works on my Windows X system with Y processor running Z DAW", "I could not get past the activation screen - the email went straight to spam", "The manual was good but section X.Y was confusing..."

I hope you'll try out THeVerb, let me know about your experience, good or bad, and if you like it, do let someone else know.

[HartleyDSP]

Yesterday the last minor version (0.9.0) before the full product goes live later this summer. The beta is now feature complete, with a curated library of 45 rooms representing a wide variety of useful and interesting spaces.



Three bundles of fifteen rooms are included with the current beta and will ship with version 1.0:

Rooms & Booths: a broad palette of recording spaces with more varied acoustic properties and including very small spaces (booths) as well as medium and large live rooms with a variety of reflective and absorptive surfaces.

Studios & Venues: a selection of recording and performance venues, inspired by real-world locations with a range of dimensions and acoustic characteristics. Studios often have extensive acoustic treatment so that even large spaces can sound quite dry. Treatment tends to control higher frequencies better than low frequencies so they tend to have a warm sound. Venues typically have more lively acoustics, and need to be large enough to accommodate a crowd - albeit sometimes quite tightly packed!

The Works: an imagined complex of industrial and commercial buildings repurposed as rehearsal and performance spaces. The everyday materials and unusual dimensions create more intriguing and distinctive acoustics.

The library can be searched by name or with built-in tags:



Beta testers still needed, earn a free full license

Beta testers can still (easily) earn a free license to the full product which is likely to retail at just under $100 (with a discount for early buyers). Just download the beta, use it, and submit 1-2 constructive reports. These don't need to be complicated; just tell us what your DAW is, whether it worked, and if anything went wrong, could be improved, or even just tell us if you have no problems.

We're very confident this a useful and innovative plugin with significant new capabilities that stand apart from regular reverbs. Free location of sound sources, multi-instance aware, realistic and varied acoustic spaces, smooth efficient UI and workflow designed to support your creativity. It's the missing ingredient when you want to create a coherent glued-together sound from tracks recorded separately. We'd be fascinated to find out what you think.

For much more detailed information -
Draft manual:
https://hartleydsp.com/manual/theverb/

Changelog:
https://hartleydsp.com/products/theverb/changelog