Arturia releases LEXICON LX-24

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

My current most used reverbs are (in no particular order):

Arturia LX 24 (naturally I'm still in the honeymoon phase with it)
Liquidsonics Tai Chi
Liquidsonics Seventh Heaven (Bricasti clone)
Ariesverb (yes I still use it to this day but it's days are numbered as it wont be updated for M1 native)
UVI Plate (best super dense plate reverb ever made but a real CPU hog)
UVI Sparkverb (a peculiar own type of character to it that I like)
Valhalla Room and Vintage Verb (these need no introductions)
Valhalla Supermassive
Fabfilter Pro-R (very good for tucking in a bit of reverb room/hall realism behind a sound in mono)
Eventide Blackhole (I don't use this often but sometimes it's the perfect choice!)
Eventide SP2016, the new one (very unique character, usually on percussion and stabby synths)
Relab Sonig (amazing general purpose verb for many things!)
Audiority Xenoverb (versatile yet always unique sounding)
Native Instruments Raum (very unique sound texture to it's 3 algorithms)

That's almost a good list but all credibility is completely lost by the absence of any spring reverbs. Ignore this person. Nothing to see here folks. Just another loon.

My go-to list would be:
ValhallaVintageVerb
LX480
Sonsig-A
Audiothing Springs
Benson Tall Bird Spring
IK Sunset Sound and Fame Studio Reverbs (IR's of studios, but still get used all the time here)
SP2016
ValhallaSuperMassive
Big SKy (works great on guitars and electric pianos in particular)
ValhallaPlate
UADx Hitsville Chambers

Others that might get used include:
UADx AMS RMX16
Eventide Blackhole
Quantum Evolution
Cinematic Rooms
Seventh Heaven
UVI Plate
TriTik Irid (for shimmer)
Eos2 (for that Superhall algo Valhalla did)

[mholloway]

oh good more people posting lists of dozens of reverb products that are available, just what KVR needed

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

oh good more people posting lists of dozens of reverb products that are available, just what KVR needed

Sorry dude, but your "forum cop" post is way more OT than mine.

It's a thread about a new reverb product. It's hardly OT to talk about what reverbs we use regularly. And that's where the conversation naturally progressed to. There's only so much for people to say about the LX-24 itself [that's about the first few pages of any new product thread] without starting to compare to other products. Example: I have the UADx 224 and the Arturia LX-24 but I still prefer working with the VintageVerb Dirty Hall or Concert Hall to both and neither of these slavish 224's has quite worked their way on to my go-to list yet. The UAD just sounds a little flat and boring, the LX-24 uses way too much CPU for what it does, but I appreciate the extended features. Whereas the Valhalla takes on the Concert Hall algorithm are "just right" for me.

So seeing what plugins people actually use might be relevant to someone considering purchasing this.

[mholloway]

oh good more people posting lists of dozens of reverb products that are available, just what KVR needed

Sorry dude, but your "forum cop" post is way more OT than mine.

It's a thread about a new reverb product. It's hardly OT to talk about what reverbs we use regularly. And that's where the conversation naturally progressed to. There's only so much for people to say about the LX-24 itself [that's about the first few pages of any new product thread] without starting to compare to other products. Example: I have the UADx 224 and the Arturia LX-24 but I still prefer working with the VintageVerb Dirty Hall or Concert Hall to both and neither of these slavish 224's has quite worked their way on to my go-to list yet. The UAD just sounds a little flat and boring, the LX-24 uses way too much CPU for what it does, but I appreciate the extended features. Whereas the Valhalla takes on the Concert Hall algorithm are "just right" for me.

So seeing what plugins people actually use might be relevant to someone considering purchasing this.

Did anyone ask for your list of favorite reverbs in this thread about LX-24? No. Did you decide it's what the thread needed, anyway? Yes.

I get that you imagine some dude exists who thinks "I might want to buy Lx-24, but first I need to read a few lists of dozens of plugins people like that aren't Lx-24" and thereby your post is super useful.

I'd argue this dude doesn't exist, never did, and when threads about one plugin devolve into lists of tons of other plugins, the utility value of the thread is basically kaput.

[bmanic]

Dude, you can just skip the posts that don't interest you. Playing the forum cop is just pathetic. Complain to the mods if you think things go too far off topic.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

bmanic, I thought it was interesting you called out UVI Plate's CPU usage as a barrier but didn't mention it with LX-24. Using the latest versions of each here, UVI Plate in insane mode uses a little over 5% of a core, compared to the LX-24 which uses almost 13% of a single core. This is on an AMD3950x system. I haven't tried on my M1 MPB yet, but the CPU is brutal for a reverb on PC at least.

[mholloway]

Dude, you can just skip the posts that don't interest you. Playing the forum cop is just pathetic. Complain to the mods if you think things go too far off topic.

Do you not see the irony here? My opinion about long lists of plugins being useless is no more 'forum cop' than you telling me I shouldn't say such things. You're being every bit as much the 'forum police' as me by telling me that I need to behave otherwise. Multiple people posted long lists of plugins with no prompting other than "reverbs exist", and I shared my opinion about the utility value of doing so. Try not to lose any sleep over it .

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

If anyone's on the fence about this, just a reminder that there's only about 25 hours left on the intro pricing.

[mholloway]

I added LX-24 to my template, replacing Valhalla Room and the UAD 224, the day it came out, figuring I'd likely revert back a few days later...

...I haven't! Still using it every day. One Room return, one Small Hall A return. Loving it. I usually tweak the length of the hall depending on the synths I'm sending to it.

I should spent more time with the Plate modes. They have a very bright and present sound, and thus require a bit more taming with the various controls. But the Small Halls are just golden with minimal tweaking.

[teilo]

It is odd that it would take that much CPU to emulate a digital reverb algorithm that ran on an 8-bit 3 MHz Intel 8080 processor from 1974.

This is likely because it's actually emulating the 8080. It is also emulating the DACs. They did this the hard, but accurate way.

[DrGonzo]

This is likely because it's actually emulating the 8080. It is also emulating the DACs. They did this the hard, but accurate way.

Yeah - if you would just try to create a reverb capturing the general feel without trying to closely replicate anything, you would be able to do so with very little CPU resources.

[vitocorleone123]

I added LX-24 to my template, replacing Valhalla Room and the UAD 224, the day it came out, figuring I'd likely revert back a few days later...

...I haven't! Still using it every day. One Room return, one Small Hall A return. Loving it. I usually tweak the length of the hall depending on the synths I'm sending to it.

I should spent more time with the Plate modes. They have a very bright and present sound, and thus require a bit more taming with the various controls. But the Small Halls are just golden with minimal tweaking.

It adheres to the sound well, but it doesn’t get as full and/or ephemeral as something like CRP (I can’t begin to express how much I love CRP with the chorusing enabled and using all the features). A big reverb isn’t always desired, though CRP can be small, too. The Arturia seems naturally a bit brighter than my ideal through the middle, but that could still be user error/learning.

I can see this reverb being a workhorse for some, and possibly my number 2 or 3 (it’ll compete with TaiChi). Not sure the plate would replace Lustrous, though, because of the darker plates available in that reverb. Time will tell.

[Igro]

May try the demo again.
At first it was always grainy. Or is it always grainy?

[Harry_HH]

May try the demo again.
At first it was always grainy. Or is it always grainy?

No, in the beginning its grainy, and in the middle its smooth, in the end its again grainy.

[vitocorleone123]

May try the demo again.
At first it was always grainy. Or is it always grainy?

You compared the 12bit, 24bit, and "modern" modes, right? Also used the Diffusion slider?