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Best IOS reverb ?

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  • edited March 2022

    Tough call since there are so many out there, and there are a few different types of reverbs.

    Out of the ones I have, The ones I use the most in no specific order are :

    TB Reverb, FAC Alteza, Velvet Machine, Bleass Reverb, & Rymdigare which is part reverb.

    Don’t have but I know they are great - Stratosphere Cloud Reverb by Mani Consulting Limited aka Blue Mangoo, was on beta but it expired. Eventide has several good options but Blackhole seems to be the most popular.

  • There are so many good reverbs on iOS but my favorites are FAC Alteza, Nembrini Shimmer Delay, Stratosphere by Blue Mangoo, MagicVerb, and Thafknar.

    Also the weirder ones like Rymdigare and Velvet Machine.

  • @tahiche said: ... I like unique sounds mainly because I suck at reverbs, ashamed to say I can’t really tell the difference between a room in one and a room in another… when I read “great sounding reverb” I think “Aren’t they all?”. FabFilter Reverb is supposed to be excellent but you can’t choose the algorithm (room, hall, plate…) and that makes me nervous 😬, probably because I don’t know what’s going on. Would someone care to explain?.

    You have some point there with this „aren‘t they all?“ ... because what a reverb produces in the end, depends on both source and your idea of the virtual space.
    There are in fact many approaches on the math side of things.
    Room, Ambience, Hall, Plate, Non Linear, etc are just labels to illustrate the sound intended.

    The degree of „greatness“ (in particular with natural spaces) is equivalent to how convincing the virtual room seems to the listener and to a low degree of artifacts.
    Small rooms are extremely challenging in this context, cathedrals are less demanding.

    The Apple plain vanilla reverb AU (as part of the SDK) is really great if supplied with proper parameters, as can be heard in SamplR... if you want a crystal clear reverb response.
    But it cannot fake a „real room“, f.e to support a classical violin or acoustic guitar.
    It will also fail on trash environments like a factory hall with concrete walls. Etc.
    That‘s why there are so many reverbs, as mentioned it depends on source and target.

    You can check a reverb‘s processing details by feeding it a short pulse (click sound) and listen to the 100% wet response at various settings.
    A (so called) great reverb will keep a lot of the pulse in it‘s output with few (if any at all) ringing artifacts, while an average reverb will completely blur the pulse and ring like an oscillator.
    But... sometimes the latter is exactly what you‘re after. :o o:)

  • @Telefunky nice ☝️

    There are in fact many approaches on the math side of things.
    Room, Ambience, Hall, Plate, Non Linear, etc are just labels to illustrate the sound intended.

    Different algorithms, right?.
    In my understanding these different algorithms would alter how the sound behaves, reflections, diffusion, tone…
    Do you own Pro-R by Fabfilter?. It seems to pick the algorithm based on the time (space). I don’t get it. To me a plate and a room are not chosen only dependent on time but on the way it generates that space. Pro-R has presets for plate so it must have that algorithm.

  • edited March 2022

    No, I don‘t have Pro-R, but the picture suggests that a lot is hidden (behind those knobs) to ease operation, a common approach today.
    You may check this for the details of a „plate algorithm“, which itself is divided into numerous sub-algorithms.
    https://valhalladsp.com/2015/11/08/valhallaplate-the-reverb-modes/
    If you‘re interested in reverb, the blog on the Valhalla site is a good mixture of tech and story.

    Don‘t mind if you cannot hear some sound details those reverb blokes talk about. They have very specially trained ears, I often fail on that, too. o:)

    My probably most used IOS reverb is the AD480 to provide a space for Bias/JamUp amps.
    It‘s far from a Lexicon 480, but just delivers for the above case. Tweaking is a must because the sound varies significantly with certain size/decay settings (it has sweet spots).
    I also like Amazing Noises FDN-Reverb for artificial stuff and sometimes Klevgard‘s R0Verb, which seems to follow the same strategy with a funky interface.

    But most stuff ends on desktop here, which means Valhalla or an old Scope reverb on Windoze and Lexiverb and UAD (Kind of Loud) Realverb in Pro Tools.
    Sometimes the Intellifex, SPX90 (to trash things), or an old Roland gets engaged.
    The latter has become quite a favorite recently, probably get an SRV-2000 or DEP5.

    This is from the plain reverb from the Boss ME5 pedal (1985 or so...)

    It‘s clearly lofi (and may produce artifacts on hard attacks), but I just love this sound.
    (the later Rolands feature a similar direction, top of the line is the R880, too expensive for me atm)

  • The Audiokit Rack Reverb uses one of Sean Costello’s algorithms.
    It’s quite nice and free too…
    https://audiokitpro.com/reverb/

  • @Samu said:
    The Audiokit Rack Reverb uses one of Sean Costello’s algorithms.
    It’s quite nice and free too…
    https://audiokitpro.com/reverb/

    I had missed this. Thanks.

  • I have almost all of them, and my winner is
    Virsyn’s Audio Reverb. Lots of different sounding presets and lots of controls to tweak it if needed.

  • @NoiseHorse said:
    I have almost all of them, and my winner is
    Virsyn’s Audio Reverb. Lots of different sounding presets and lots of controls to tweak it if needed.

    That’s one of the few I don’t have yet. It’s a convolution verb right?

  • @NoiseHorse said:
    I have almost all of them, and my winner is
    Virsyn’s Audio Reverb. Lots of different sounding presets and lots of controls to tweak it if needed.

    Same here. I have almost all of them, but Audio Reverb is my reliable workhorse ( no horse slur intended)

  • @HotStrange said:

    @NoiseHorse said:
    I have almost all of them, and my winner is
    Virsyn’s Audio Reverb. Lots of different sounding presets and lots of controls to tweak it if needed.

    That’s one of the few I don’t have yet. It’s a convolution verb right?

    It’s algorithmic but uses convolution for early reflections from what I have read. I like it a lot.

  • wimwim
    edited March 2022

    For me it’s FAC Alteza, Audio Reverb, AU3FX:Space …
    and probably my favorite, which no one else is likely to mention …

    … oh and the unique, but all too often forgotten: Zero Reverb

  • MagicVerb is probably my favorite right now, I’ve been using it a lot lately. I really like it with hardware, I’ve been using it with some 606 modules I have and it gives so much life to the sound

  • @Telefunky It‘s clearly lofi (and may produce artifacts on hard attacks), but I just love this sound.

    That reverb sounds great!. Fits my point where it seems like I can only properly hear and appreciate “crappy” reverbs.
    Which brings me to Ratshack Reverb!. Love it, it’s terribly good.

  • Ratshack reverb rules!

    • 1 Mi Rack and plateau ;) but at the end i keep only the wet signal.
    • Eos 2
    • Adverb
    • Blackhole
  • @espiegel123 said:

    @HotStrange said:

    @NoiseHorse said:
    I have almost all of them, and my winner is
    Virsyn’s Audio Reverb. Lots of different sounding presets and lots of controls to tweak it if needed.

    That’s one of the few I don’t have yet. It’s a convolution verb right?

    It’s algorithmic but uses convolution for early reflections from what I have read. I like it a lot.

    Oh cool, thats unique to all my other reverbs. Might spring for this in the coming days or at least keep an eye out for a sale.

  • @wim said:
    For me it’s FAC Alteza, Audio Reverb, AU3FX:Space …
    and probably my favorite, which no one else is likely to mention …

    … oh and the unique, but all too often forgotten: Zero Reverb

    I still use Zero Reverb a lot. All Blamsoft apps are fantastic.

  • edited March 2022

    @ChoopCGen said:

    • 1 Mi Rack and plateau ;) but at the end i keep only the wet signal.
    • Eos 2
    • Adverb
    • Blackhole

    I really need to start using MiRack as an fx processor more. I own (and love) it, but never use it for that for some reason. I do love EOS and Adverb though.

  • No sure that ADVerb is the “best” per se, but I get results I like really easily so it’s my initial go-to.

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  • Blackhole might just be my favorite reverb overall. It's just so good.

  • I don't know if its my favorite, but Spaces from Kymatica is pretty good.

  • I wanted an ambient reverb, for my synths, both iPad, and hardware (using an audio interface).
    So I read the suggestions here, and purchased FAC Alteza.
    I could not be more pleased, with the sounds I am getting with it.
    Currently running AniMOOG through it, and am in heaven.
    As someone else suggested, when trying the presets, it is helpful, to adjust the dry/verb ratio to taste.
    How amazing is it to be able to get that kind of reverb effect, for under $10.
    Happy reverb trails.......

  • Altispace 2 with the Spring Reverb IRs FTW!

  • My number one reverb - Klevgrnd Kleverb - lightweight, sounds awesome, and, clean & nice UI…

  • @PeteSasqwax said:
    Altispace 2 with the Spring Reverb IRs FTW!

    This one is on my to buy list.

  • @MadGav said:
    No sure that ADVerb is the “best” per se, but I get results I like really easily so it’s my initial go-to.

    One of my go-tos as well. So good.

  • Stratosphere Cloud Reverb. Set the tail and mix to max and feed it audio; it spits back out pretty enjoyable ambient noise. It does subtly well if you dial it in, but I love that muddy sound for creating sleepy songs.

  • edited May 2022

    I have almost all the reverbs. I am not a sound designer, so they live and die for me by how tweakable their presets are. Virtually everything I make is fully drenched in multiples of them, as any fule kno. As far as I am concerned, you can never have too many. I am a stranger to moderation in this regard… And I’ll frequently have two or three in a chain on a single instrument… Because basically, Dark Ambient is listening to reverb tails, for hours on end… :)

    And, like @Gavinski, the reverb tail du jour, every jour for me is Alteza init, innit? It is literally on everything I ever make, with wet & dry tweaked to taste. I almost never use it for Shimmer though because, even for me, it lays that on a bit thick. If I want Shimmer, unsurprisingly, I’ll go for Shimmerverb, More often than not the heavenly Touched by an H9 preset.

    But before you get to Alteza at the end of my fx chains, you’ll find others… Eos 2 was a great early investment, still a solid unflashy all rounder. I thought BlackHole was going to justify it’s relatively high price, but I find I don’t use it nearly as much as I thought I would, just didn’t warm to it. Sometimes, yeah, just not as much as I thought.

    Rymdigare is great for grit, Lo-Fi and movement, more instrument than effect, totally it’s own thing.

    Can I call Spacefields a reverb? It’s definitely doing a lot of reverb-y things for me at the moment…

    Stratosphere for annihilating the source instrument in washes and phaser-esque sweeps,

    Velvet Machine for odd and easily modifiable texture.

    Mangleverb for crunch and easily controllable distortion you can dial in.

    TB Reverb for the distance effect presets like The Neighbours, Station, and Far Away.

    And Zero reverb, cranked to full, no delay or damping, is a perfect partner for Fractal Beats triggered by Rozeta Particles for semi random, synced, doom crashes and bangs in the middle distance.

    My name is Svetlovska. And I am a reverb addict.

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