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The latest face-lift, shown with a dark-grey color scheme. The image also shows the new brushed-metal texture that will be all over the next Podium 1.60 release.

I’ve replaced the diffusion module with a new algorithm. The sound quality is hugely improved, at the cost of a slight increase in CPU usage. You’ll notice that there are 16 new parameters for the diffusion delay lines. I spent days trying to tune a golden set of delay times, but this is one of the trickiest secrets to good reverb design. So I decided to let the preset designers be responsible for setting the delay times 😛

But seriously, a lot of different sound scapes can be modeled by juggling the delay times. There is not a single set of tunings that will fit all purposes. I’ve added a ‘tuning pad’ XY click-pad which allows both randomizing and automatic correction of the delay times so ringing tones can be elliminated.