Liquid Sonics 'Reverberate' Plugin is very good! Mini review.

Just letting people know about a mini review going on here. Read about this convolution reverb plugin in Sound on Sound Issue April 2010. It is called 'Reverberate' by Liquidsonics. Their website is:

www.liquidsonics.com
You can download the plugin and use it for a month. The review was very favourable and here is why:

It only costs about $50 US

It features two complete stereo reverb engines as opposed to one. And two is better than one. Not only when they are doing similar IR's but also when they are not. Top end units like Lexicon had and used two engines.

IR's are more easily edited and can be modified more so than a lot of current Convolution reverbs.

The EQ after the summed reverbs can have multi parametric bands doing moveable sweeps (controlled by LFO's)  right through the impulse response time. This is not normal for an eq after a reverb effect. This is very interesting.

Chorus modules are provided after each reverb engine and after the combined sounds. All three can be programmed independently. Hearing these choruses on the reverbs is a very interesting sound and effect.  Some of the best hardware reverbs also featured modulated reverbs. It can sound seriously lush and expensive! Also out of this world too good for strangeness in ambient textures etc..

This reverb can not only do great stand alone reverbs and it comes with many IR's but it gets into some very interesting territory of complete movement and modulation taking place within the reverb itself.
Very economical on CPU usage even for two engines. Both running is less than average single IR engine.

This is not for everyone and all types of music , but it is good for those wanting to add interest to say a very interesting synth sound and now the reverb can get seriously involved in the liquid movement effect as well.
Perfect Space is also a great plugin and you can create some very nice spaces from that. Combined with something like ‘Reverberate’ and you have just boosted your reverb capabilities immensely.

BTW Reverberate makes Z3ta+ and Rapture just sound fantastic.

Jeff Evans

This is not for everyone and all types of music , but it is good for those wanting to add interest to say a very interesting synth sound and now the reverb can get seriously involved in the liquid movement effect as well.

Given your experience, if you say it's good, it's got to be worth checking out.  And at 50 bucks (US), it's almost a no brainer deal.  You forgot to mention that it's 32 and 64 bit, for those who care about such things.
 
Thanks for the heads up, Jeff.

Yeah, I picked it up a few months back.  It really seems to outclass a lot of the competitors and without really costing much in either CPU or cash.

Thanks Jeff,

I've noticed it appear quite regularly on the KVR newsletter, but never realised it cost so little so I kind of overlooked it.

On that info though I'll definitely check out the demo.

Just a bit of an update about this great plugin. Firstly in my original post I forgot to mention that as there are two complete stereo IR engines the output can be made to modulate or sweep between them under the control of an LFO. This is also very interesting because it allows for the reverbs to change smoothly and continuously which is hard to do with any hardware reverb.

Also they have just updated this plugin now to include a host of delay lines now on each IR and also the combined output. This is only just going to add much more versality to a great plugin.

I have been playing with this plugin a lot lately and it just sounds beautiful. There is no doubt about it. Once you get into subtle modulation and chorus effects on the reverbs you will never go back. It does explain why a lot of much more expensive reverbs have that sound. It is due to multiple engines and modulation of the reverbs.

I've been using it for a little while now, and it and IK's Classik are my "go-to" reverbs for general use.

Once you have it, you'll want some nice impulse responses for it. There are many good, free IRs available if you search for them.

http://irlibrary.org/ has a lot of IRs of varying quality and usefulness

http://www.samplicity.com/download/ Samplicity sells IRs, but you might like them better. Try these free ones first.

Middleman

 The dual engine rivals the low end TC Electronics and Lexicon MX hardware series.
 
 
 
 
except those units aren't especially great units...  good for small, live PA setups maybe, etc???

 
 
 
 

hhmm... I think even my Sonar Perfect Space smokes over all my cheapie reverbs...  and I've got a pile that might get me $100 ea on Ebay.

I actually like my Alesis wedge, which I have a couple.  To me they're the best of the cheapies.

maybe my ears are missing something.  All my other rack mount ..Alesis, ART, etc...  they all sound really fake.... nice (in a way) but fake.

I remember buying my first Alesis XTiC.  I was in hog heaven.

Hey Matt, thanks for dropping in. Great software.

Great demo Jeff, and thanks. I love it, best reverb on my system now.