An amazing reverb! RoomverbM2

[Scoot]

Roomverb M2

http://www.spinaudio.com/

Incredible!

choose from the different windows and check out the control you have:

presets - over 200 factory and room for user
easy - for the novice to play
room - dimensions, decorrelation, source recording points, wall absorb, surface bounce
reverb - early & late reflections and modulation
environment - air and materials
output eq - early and late
masters - attack, release and thres

$145US.

Do you need more?

[fastlanephil]

They state that all you need is a G3 500mhz Mac. I thought for quality reverb modeling the G4 altivec was needed. In fact it seems like all plug-ins require a G4. The PC side is also a basic 500 mhz machine.

[Scoot]

They state that all you need is a G3 500mhz Mac. I thought for quality reverb modeling the G4 altivec was needed.

Is there statement correct, or do you not have a G3 500?

[fastlanephil]

I have a 933 G4 iBook now so I can't test it on a G3 but i'm just curious about how they are able to do a quality reverb plug-in without altivec. I remember reading about developers creating quality reverb effect modeling a few years ago and they were dependant on altivec to accomplish it.

[Scoot]

Maybe its like a movie on a slow machine that drops frames.
Features could disappear or doing too much could just choke the CPU like mine does with large soundfonts.........and you get a popup saying "Buy a G5 mate!"

Or to get the full effect on a slow G3, you do the processing offline.

[fastlanephil]

I DL the RoomVerb M2 demo and the PDF states Minimal Configuration: G4 800 Mhz, 128 Mb RAM, 800x600 High Color (16bit) video mode. Recommended Configuration: Dual 1.8 GHz G5, 1GB of DDR 400 RAM, 1280x1024 true color video mode, Mac OS X 10.3.3

At the top it reads G3/G4/G5 Processors

Maybe the G3 is the minimum requirement for reading the PDF.

[fastlanephil]

Ezsounds sells it for $119.

http://www.esoundz.com/

[fastlanephil]

I'm still using Apple's AUMatrixReverb. It sounds pretty good to me. I'm just wondering if RoomVerb2 has a better sound to it or if it just has more features. I'd rather spend money on instruments if Apple's plug-ins are good enough for demos.

[Scoot]

My reverb of choice along with the matrix reverb is silver spike's roommachine 844.

Its free and gives you other options to the matrix....and a nice stereo spread.
It always pays to remember to use dry along with wet so it's not sounding like you're sitting in an echo chamber.

The commerical offerings seem a little CPU hungry for my Mac, but 844 is great.


http://www.silverspike.com/?Download

[fastlanephil]

Scoot,
I got roommachine 844 and tried it out with a solo trumpet. It's a different reverb than matrix and I like the sound when used together. Roommachine 844 is more of a room emulator and pulls back the instrument a bit. Matrix seems to be more of a distant reverb that dosen't affect the initial placement of the instrument. At least that's what I can tell after a few minutes of turning the dials. Thanks for the information. I'll probably put the savings toward a hammond organ module. Iv'e had the Charlie demo forever and it always says "will expire in 0 days" but keeps on working for me as a jamming toy.

[Scoot]

For organs there's the B4 and 'da organ' but I don't know if either of them is what you're after.

I had a friend who could relate to the B4 demo cause he had a real organ with all the foot pedals and knew what he was doing...but it was over my head.

I'm sure if he invested in a computer and some midi keyboards and found a long length'ed pedal set, he would convert to a more portable setup.

When he's playing his 'beast' he looks like phantom of the opera!

[fastlanephil]

The Charlie hammond has a real big sound though it lacks the leslie switch that the B4 has but the B4 isn't much fun to just play. NI has the B4 ll out now and has dropped the price to $199 without the drawbar set which I never used anyway. I thought i'd wait until NI comes out with a demo of the B4 ll or Maybe ST2 will have better hammond patches with the DVD release. I liked the dirty hammond patch on my old Proteus 2000 but I sold it to pay for software instruments.

I used my old hammond to do a single act with a wurlitzer piano angled on the top of the hammond and a seperate foot base for playing with keyboards and my Fender tele and Martin D-35 along with my harmonica and finger base( honer then micro moog) and drum box. I was making good money but it got pretty boring playing mostly CW & cross over for a bunch of drunks and it was hard work competing with three and four piece bands.