Effects • Re: Which LiquidSonics Reverb?

Here's where I somewhat disagree.

I knew some further quibble with my words was coming, despite multiple edits trying to hopefully minimise this. I'm generalising, not stating outright like "you can't do a realistic sounding reverb with HD Cart" or something, so please don't interpret it that way. I'm sure you can understand my broad point, without me having to list and cover every possible use case in a forum post.

Tai Chi is designed to be possibly also very realistic and the chorussing is completely optional.

It was designed specifically to experiment with FDN's and a sophisticated chorusing engine, but it is just one part of a good sounding algorithm of course. It has a bunch of other sound designey-type features in it too.

And the HD Cartridge use the combined DSP ressources of both engines for added realism, plus the plugin goes even beyond that for increased realism.

Lexicon's were always designed with chorusing being integral to the algorithm - mostly as a workaround for avoiding unpleasant resonances in the algorithm. This sounded good, but isn't *realistic*, as nature doesn't add chorusing to reverb. Because of this, specifically avoiding this "unrealistic" chorusing effect was how the Quantecs were designed - they were trying to go for absolute realism, with no pitch movement in the tails. A similar thing with the Bricasti - the V1 algorithms are largely chorus free in the tails and were used a lot by people on applications where chorusing isn't suitable (classical, jazz type things, Al Schmitt was a fan of these, movie spaces etc), although the V2 algorithms added later added in a little or chorusing (like CRP later adding in a little bit of chorusing) for additional flavours - in both cases, this is way more subtle than a typical Lexicon though.

These are the kinds of things I'm referring to regarding "realism", not necessary how useful or attractive a particular reverb algorithm might be for a particular case.

It's just that CR/P can do even more realistic rooms

Yes, CRP is designed more around a more realistic effect, not like Tai Chi with loads of chorusing, shimmer algorithms, low bit rate rate stuff etc. You're getting my broader point now.

Statistics: Posted by beely — Sat Dec 07, 2024 1:11 pm

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