Navigation
Recherche
|
Best Reverb Plug-ins for Sound Designers
mercredi 22 septembre 2021, 14:00 , par Sweetwater inSync
Reverb is a
key component in constructing realistic atmospheres for music, movies, video games, and more. While many DAWs come loaded with one or more reverb plug-ins, many of these are unable to translate whatever is seen on-screen to your ears in a lifelike fashion. This list of the best reverb plug-ins for sound designers features 10 super-powered reverbs of all kinds — perfect for kicking up your composition quality more than a few notches. Here are some of our favorite top-shelf reverbs that are perfect for everything from area-accurate reflections to intergalactic effects and beyond. Eventide Blackhole Hailing from the darkest, murkiest depths of the galaxy is Eventide’s ultra-powerful Blackhole reverb plug-in. Rather than generate standard room reverbs and reflections, Blackhole sets out to craft a voice all its own, bending space and time to its will and pumping out incredible ambient effects in the process. A clear homage to Eventide’s popular Space effects pedal preset aptly named “Blackhole,” the plug-in version uses many of the same algorithms found in the pedal for a familiar yet unique sound. Not to mention, Blackhole is a knob tweaker’s dream with a bevy of modulation controls at your disposal along with a handy Freeze control for generating infinite reverberations and awesome presets to get you started. Jump in and get ready to blast off with the Eventide Blackhole! Audio Ease Altiverb 7 Audio Ease’s Altiverb 7 plug-in can be summarized in two words: convolution reverb. Convolution reverb can be described as jaw-droppingly lifelike samples of real spaces. Altiverb 7 makes great use of this method, conjuring many of the most sought-after room reverbs in music and sound design. Initially recorded with a click, a starter pistol, or even a sine wave, the sonic signature of the space is then extracted and saved as an impulse response, or IR. Altiverb 7 has a wealth of IRs built right in with a constantly updated News tab to download the latest IRs. Its visual browser makes it a cinch to find whatever space you’re envisioning with a Similar feature to bring up IRs in close reference for even more incredible-sounding options. If you’re looking to take your sound-design game to the professional level, then Audio Ease Altiverb 7 is a critical addition to your plug-in library. iZotope Neoverb Rather than throw a bunch of tools at your feet and send you on your merry way, the iZotope Neoverb reverb plug-in boasts cutting-edge, AI-assisted processing to deliver one of the most powerful and versatile reverb plug-ins on the market. With Neoverb, crafting lifelike spaces is a breeze, a job thoroughly handled by the Reverb Assistant. As you navigate Neoverb’s user-friendly interface to find that perfect sound, Reverb Assistant chooses and then blends different combinations of reverb types and settings in real time. Speaking of blending, this impressive plug-in’s Blend Pad mixes up to three different reverb algorithms at the same time — it’s easy to get lost in Neoverb’s incredible features and to spend hours dreaming up and crafting original sounds. Throw in an AI-powered EQ section to cut, smoothen, and mask your final product, and the possibilities are nearly endless with iZotope Neoverb. Zynaptiq Adaptiverb While many other reverb plug-ins rely on reflection-based room modeling to deliver the goods, Zynaptiq’s one-of-a-kind Adaptiverb reflectionless reverb plug-in cuts them out completely. Instead, Adaptiverb focuses on harmonic richness and depth, adding glue, size, and body to your signal while keeping your tone perfectly intact. Best of all, navigating its user-focused interface is a cinch with powerful synthesis, cross-filtering, and reverb pitch processing controls readily available to craft pads, drones, soundscapes, and so much more. Take it from Sweetwater’s veteran sound designers — Zynaptiq Adaptiverb is a veritable “secret weapon” for enriching your mixes with lush, organic reverb. EastWest Spaces II Much like the aforementioned Audio Ease Altiverb 7, EastWest’s Spaces II convolution reverb plug-in relies on convolution reverb to generate realistic acoustic spaces. Rather than add reverb to preexisting instrument tracks, Spaces II more or less “places” individual instruments directly in the area with over 1,000 reverbs — including over 370 instrument-specific reverbs — recorded in churches, concert halls, opera houses, recording studios, and more. EastWest’s newly developed Decay Time Control fine-tunes your sound in ways the previous Spaces plug-in was unable to with an easy-to-use slider to adjust decay time from 0% to 100% to find that perfect balance. There’s even a filter section for applying highpass and lowpass filters to your reverb, rounding out this formidable plug-in’s impressive feature set with even more versatility. Baby Audio Spaced Out Baby Audio’s Spaced Out reverb & delay plug-in combines two crucial modulation effects into one high-powered plug-in. Both effects are broken out into sections: Space for reverb and Echoes for delay. The Space section arms you with four different programs to choose from — Vacuum, Small Space, Medium Space, and Outer Space — with a fluid and fun X/Y joystick-style control to morph between reverb length and modulation behavior. The standard Pre-delay control adds anywhere from 0ms to 250ms of pre-delay, while Stardust instantly injects your sound with shimmery reverb tails. Other handy controls like Mellow, Clean-up, and Width take the Space section into uncharted territory — you can adjust a dual low- and high-frequency filter, feed a dry signal for more transparency, and even widen mono tracks respectively. Take a trip over to the Echoes section, and you’ll be met with a 16-step delay sequencer that can be synced directly to your DAW with Straight, 2X, Dotted, and Triplet modes. Dig deeper, and controls for Intensity, Dimension, Texture, Reverse, and Filter make your repeats stand out and make bold statements on soundtracks and scores. Acon Digital Verberate 2 Don’t let this plug-in’s sub-$100 price tag fool you — Acon Digital’s Verberate 2 plug-in truly epitomizes getting the full bang for your buck! Verberate 2 generates genuine acoustic spaces with stunning results, building on the success and formula of the original by adding several optimizations and new features including a stellar Vivid Hall algorithm. This new algorithm produces one of the purest effects possible with zero resonances, repeating patterns, or unwanted artifacts muddying up an otherwise exquisite reverb. Acon Digital also included top-notch plate simulation, reproducing that classic sound of mechanical plate reverbs with impeccable quality. Verberate 2 also comes stock with a wealth of presets to get you started on the right foot, which are easily tweakable via a handy set of controls. Speaking of controls, this plug-in’s clean and clear interface provides you with most of Verberate 2’s tweakable digital knobs and sliders right when you open it up. While you may get lost in your creativity constructing vivid soundscapes, Acon Digital’s Verberate 2 makes it easy to find all the sound-shaping tools you need. NUGEN Audio Paragon Although NUGEN Audio’s Paragon convolution reverb plug-in makes excellent use of convolution reverb, it focuses more on cutting-edge IR resynthesis in place of static IRs and time-stretching algorithms to give it a unique sound and style. By using IR resynthesis, Paragon provides an immense palette of tweakable parameters to generate a seemingly endless array of spaces. What truly makes Paragon stand out among the competition is that it was designed specifically for film and TV work — a sound designer’s dream! To meet the needs of everyone from bedroom producers to Hollywood scorers, Paragon is fully 3D compatible for seamless integration with any Dolby Atmos workflow. Configurable per-channel crosstalk lets you produce surround reverb for any source while defining how each channel’s reverb affects the others. Per-channel highpass and lowpass filters along with a switchable LFE channel only sweeten the pot, solidifying NUGEN Audio’s Paragon convolution reverb plug-in as one of today’s most exemplary reverbs. McDSP Revolver v6 McDSP’s Revolver v6 plug-in is big on luscious reverb while staying low on CPU usage, making this plug-in a phenomenal choice for laptop producers and anyone currently working with a minimal amount of free DSP. Hundreds of different sounds are loaded into this powerhouse plug-in — with a dedicated and routable EQ, two sync-able delay lines, and specialized stereo imaging giving you unprecedented control over your mix. And, since Revolver uses convolution reverb to generate its sounds, you’re always guaranteed reflections of the highest audio quality possible. Are you currently digging the natural reverb of your studio or a different space? In minutes, Revolver’s special tool set can model and analyze spaces and gear, letting you capture the essence of any area with perfect realism. Other features include delay lines with MIDI-clock-sync capabilities, positive and negative pre-delay controls, and a 3-band crossover to control reverb tails over time. Waves IR-L The Waves IR-L convolution reverb plug-in takes much of what makes the manufacturer’s IR-1 plug-in spectacular and streamlines it for efficiency. Many of the IR-1’s great sounds and samples come stock in IR-L with a simplified control set to get you where you’re going faster. This convolution reverb plug-in supports up to 24-bit/96kHz audio resolution for a thoroughly high-definition sound, and it’s made even better with a Convolution Start Control to trim unwanted pre-delay and a Dry Gain Mode to adjust wet and dry signals independently from one another. IR-L’s Reverb Time RT60 processing gives it its unique nature, utilizing one-of-a-kind IR manipulation techniques to allow shortening and lengthening of the reverb time while maintaining the organic nature of your signal. And, since it’s Waves, you know that every acoustic space was sampled directly at the source — from the Sydney Opera House to Wembley Stadium and Birdland Jazz Club, Waves’ IR-L convolution reverb plug-in houses all the juicy reverbs you could ask for. Your Next Reverb Plug-in Awaits at Sweetwater! From realistic room reflections to outer-space echoes and everything in between, this list of the best reverb plug-ins for sound designers is sure to get you started toward professional-sounding scores and soundscapes. Any of these plug-ins are guaranteed to add realistic reverb sounds to instruments and voices; however, in the world of audio production and sound design, variety in your tools is key to landing that next gig! Whenever you’re ready to add one or several of these plug-ins to your arsenal, give your Sweetwater Sales Engineer a call at (800) 222-4700 and let your creativity bloom! The post Best Reverb Plug-ins for Sound Designers appeared first on inSync.
https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/best-reverb-plug-ins-for-sound-designers/
|
126 sources (21 en français)
Date Actuelle
ven. 29 mars - 11:13 CET
|