KVR Audio

Funkybot · Post by **Funkybot** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:15 pm

Anyone tried this one out yet? I just gave it a quick go through several presets on the Vintaudio Steinway Upright and I'm pretty impressed. The demo limitations of not being able to tweak decay and predelay really sucks though. On the bright side the presets aren't terrible for once and the ratio of presets that sounded great on these samples vs. the ones that sounded bad was phenomonal. The CPU hit is extremely light too. At two hundred bucks w/o the ability to play with the predelay and decay this is going to need a lot more testing but so far I'm quite happy. Anyone else have any comments?

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:04 pm

I've tried it on some loops and playing some synths trough it. It's not really to my taste.. a bit "sterile" somehow. I like it when a reverb has a bit more character. It's very transparent smooth and like they promised, very dense but this doesn't always give a good reverb IMO. It's pretty much opposite sounding to a good lexicon which some people might like.

Cheers!
bManic

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:05 pm

Forgot to add that for 200$ I'd personally go for the Princeton 2016 room reverb plugin instead which is much more to my taste. It might not be as 'realistic' as the aniwida reverb but is more musical IMHO.

Cheers!
bManic

Funkybot · Post by **Funkybot** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:55 pm

On the piano stuff I ran it through, I thought it did have quite a bit of character. It seemed a bit more dense and realistic in some room settings than the 2016, but you're right the 2016 has something about it that I can't nail but just enjoy. The problem is that the 2016 only offers a room setting at $200 whereas the Anwida offers Rooms, Halls, and Plates at the same price. I'm gonna try it out on things like acoustic guitars and vocals when I get the chance, but so far this I'm still highly impressed with this verb. My biggest fear is that as it just feels a lot denser than the 2016 to me, that it may end up swamping a mix if I use it on a send and have several instruments going through it, and sadly that's going to be the hardest thing to test with the sound cutting out every 30 seconds. I'm a big fan of the fully working 14 day trial version m'self, at least for reverbs.

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:57 am

The anwida room,hall, plate etc all sounded very much the same to me with different 'envelopes' and density but the same sound so I don't really see the anwida as that flexible..

but that's just all IMHO.

-bManic

TotcProductions · Post by **TotcProductions** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:20 am

bmanic wrote:The anwida room,hall, plate etc all sounded very much the same to me with different 'envelopes' and density but the same sound so I don't really see the anwida as that flexible.. but that's just all IMHO.

-bManic

I agree....just tried the demo. Seems very much like the DX reverb they put out. I like the silverspike stuff better for synthetic reverb.

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