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
