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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WARNING: Gadget Alert!
Keywords: reverb, sound, amiga
Message-ID: <8806@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 8 Sep 89 01:02:32 GMT
References: <3278@wasatch.utah.edu>
Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <3278@wasatch.utah.edu> derhak%cs.utah.edu@wasatch.utah.edu (Max W. Derhak) writes:
>I just thought that I would let you all know that there is a new gadget out
>that does wonderful things for our favorite computer.  It's called a 
>Microreverb II, and is produced by a company called Alesis.  It is really
>only a digital reverb processor, but it makes everything pumped into it
>sound so totally terrific.

Reverb can very effectively hide a lot of defects (especially poor or noisy
sample looping, noisy signals, or lack of dynamics).  This is well known in 
sound recording and electronic music.  Standard advice for someone shopping 
for a sampler or synth with a built in reverb is to turn the reverb off 
before doing any critical evaluation of the sound quality--otherwise, the
reverb hides most of the defects.

Anyway, I have my Amiga running into a mixing board with a Korg DRV2000
programmable reverb on one of the effects loop, and it is great for livening
up those dead sound tracks.  Best fun was changing the "room size" when I
played Bard's Tale to match the location...now if one of these games just
sent midi patch change messages out the serial port whenever you changed
location, it could all be automatic.  But I don't suppose there's a big
constituency for this particular feature :-).

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell U.