On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 06:03:02 -0500, Jon Morin wrote:
Hi all,
This question is not really a problem with hardware or software per
se, but I would just like to know what people's favorite reverbs out
there are. I used to do all of my pro audio work on Mac and Windoze,
and I'm having great success getting things working with Linux, but
I've never really found any really decent reverbs, and this is
unfortunately keeping me from doing more final mixes with Linux. What
I'm looking for is something like a LADSPA or other plugin, or a
program that will process sound non-realtime (or even destructively,
like Audacity) with some decent sounding reverbs.
The TAP Reverberator plugin was okay, I guess, but really the only
other LADSPA reverb I've come across is Freeverb, which is not good,
at least using it for intimate vocal tracks and guitars. I mainly use
Ardour for tracking and mixing, Audacity for destructive editing and
cleaning up tracks, and Csound, which I've been known to use for DSP a
bit in the past.
There is also gverb. I prefer the sound to freeverb slightly myself.
I still use my lexicon and yamaha outboard reverbs.
You could try brutefir - if fed with decent imulses it should make a very
good reverb.
http://www.ludd.luth.se/~torger/brutefir.html
Maybe I just have not stumbled upon the right plugins
or programs.
Any suggestions of favorites?
One more related question: Does anyone know if any soundcards with
DSP in hardware work with Linux? I'm thinking of something along the
lines of the Creamware cards (the ones with the integrated DSP's), but
I'm assuming that most of these also need a software component to make
them work, and that is most definitely closed-source. I can dream,
though, right?
You can use the creative dsp chips, but thye dont have enough horsepower
to run a reverb. Someone was looking into support for the creamware cards,
but I dont know how far they got.
It would be nice to have support for some of the PCI DSP cards, even with
closed source plugins, but I dont know how complicateed they are, and I
suspect extracting the plugins from the mac/win drivers would be tricky.
- Steve