[LAU] Reverb to use with LinuxSampler/piano?

[Ken Restivo]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 01:34:27AM +0200, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:06:29AM +0100, Andrew C wrote:
> 
> > Personally, I find Gverb (another ladspa plug-in that can be used in
> > jack-rack) to be great for adding a small amount of reverb to whatever you
> > need.
> > Another (probably overkill and cpu intensive) solution might be jconvolver +
> > an impulse response to generate the reverb. YMMV.
> 
> The 'sala-concerti-cdm' (the small concert hall of La
> Casa della Musica) one is quite a nice reverb for use
> on piano. The supplied config files (providing mutiple
> inputs correspondig to different positions on stage) are
> indeed overkill, and you'll need to mix the reverb with
> the original signal as well. But it's easy to create a
> configuration that just provides what you need and doesn't
> require external mixing. Drop me a line if you need
> assistance.
> 
> CPU load for this one is irrelevant compared to what
> Linuxsampler requires anyway.
> 

+1 for jconvolver on piano. Pori is a nice hall, as is the Casa Della Musica to.

I once stuck a piano in a prehistoric cave using jconvolver; that was a lot of fun (and sounded surprisingly good).

If you don't want to go the whole jconv routine, the Calf reverb is pretty nice too.

-ken