Re: [linux-audio-user] Decent reverb, and DSP in hardware?

From: Mark Constable <markc@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Jan 27 2005 - 05:38:55 EET

davidrclark@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> ...
> Several posters have suggested that a few good reverbs would be very
> helpful. The more I work with this, the more I think that this really is
> not true.

As one person who stated this please let me clarify that
point... what I really meant was that instead of a non-engineer
being utterly confused by a complex set of options and therefor
no hope of getting a "good" reverb out of some sophisticated
tool that it would be better in 90% of usage cases that a
simple set of reliable but convincing presets would be more
useful... in the case of a non-engineer using the interface.

> I believe that the current interface is useable by anyone
> who has ever solved an ODE or PDE.

Your statement above condemns me to never being able to use
your software because I have zero idea what the above means
and if I need to before I can use your software then there
is no hope for me. OTOH if your software interface had a dozen
presets for "best of" or "most obvious" reverb settings then
I could get a feel for what your software can do and overtime
get more deeply involved. But that's life, you don't owe me
any presets.

I only refer to "me" as an example of a non-engineer who would
rather spend his time making music than being endlessly
distracted by the associated technology. Sigh, if only I could
swallow my pride and run windows I would be a happy luser.

--markc
Received on Thu Jan 27 08:15:05 2005

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