Re: [linux-audio-user] Decent reverb, and DSP in hardware?

I'm a sucker for recorded music. And for sound effects. But to cut a long story short: I think the only *Decent Reverb And DSP* sits in the thing between your ears, surrounded by the space you take it to. Simulating space in soft/hardware is a crap compromise. Technically interesting and educational, ubiquitous, therefore well known, recognizable and all. But it takes you nowhere. Well, most people use it as sound effect anyway, don't give a hoot about space. And that is most likely a heritage from the caveman days where big animals expelled frequency-rich sounds to stun their next meal. A faint memory of that thrill seems to live in our genes. Cool thing is you don't have to be scared anymore because you know it's just a guy with a bigbuck lexicon sitting in a booth being bored to death. Wild theory to accomodate the wild animals, I'll concede that. Probably great. I use convolution for lots of things *but* reverb. By the way: Don't expect any upcoming realtime convolvers to sound like what they promise. It's tricks and good mixing of different effect stages that make these algorithms usable in realtime. Basically I'm trying to say that you should care for the difference -- not because of the sound but because of the soul you put into your music. Wolfgang