


Because of the large number of calculations involved in creating a realistic sounding reverb, high quality reverb plug-ins tend to be pretty system intensive. The end result is that each reflection is no longer heard in isolation but as part of a general ambience.

On a basic level, reverb plugins work by generating a lot of closely spaced but random echoes to simulate reflected sound from a number of irregularly shaped objects. These are considered to have musically useful characteristics, and so are now emulated in plugin form. Reverb plugins are designed to reproduce the ambience of an imaginary room or space.Īlternatively, they can emulate older artificial technologies such as plate, spring and chamber reverbs. Unless they’ve been acoustically treated (as a vocal booth in a recording studio would be), most rooms have a natural reverb. The word ‘reverberation’ - or ‘reverb’ - conveys the idea of sound bouncing around in an enclosed space. I'm presently using ValhallaRoom and Reverence for reverb duties, but I listened to some YouTube demo's of the UAD Lexicon 224, and it. It functions as a VST Plugin, an Audio Units Plugin, an RTAS Plugin and an AAX Plugin. Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb by Universal Audio is a Virtual Effect Audio Plugin.
