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

Hi Mark,

--- Mark Constable <markc@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> 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 haven't kept up with what has been stated in this
thread. I am an experienced audio engineer who knows
what he wants and I think Mark has a legitimate
argument. It's useful to provide some presets that
help people experience something decent.

Mark, have you tried the TAP reverb? I very quickly
reviewed it and concluded that I could mix with it. I
believe there are a number of presets. Give it a shot
if you haven't already. I think Tom provides some real
good introductory documentation to all his tools.

I don't use alot of LADSPA plugins because I mix with
an external consol. If I needed to use LADSPA I would
get decent results. Well, I didn't really provide you
with any useful information but what the heck.

Ron

> > 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
>

                
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Received on Thu Jan 27 08:15:07 2005