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I noticed you have all 16 delays numbered, except for the one I can see as “Delay 1”. Instead, you call it “Delay time”. Will this be the internal pre-delay for the entire reverb?

Not exactly. The delay 1 time defines both the length of the first delay line and also is an offset for the remaining delay lines. Furthermore the room size parameter will also scale the delay times for delay 2-16.

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.

but i had a crash after few minutes telling me that it may have corrupted my project file

Are you using the updated plugin dll file? What ASIO buffer size are you using?

As i was working on some project i did not go further

The risk that a plugin may actually have corrupted the project is very little. Next time it happens, save your project to a new file, keep the old project file as backup, restart Podium and check that the project is intact and plays like previously.

Thanks for testing it acousmod.

An option for two distinct microphones instead of a XY couple will be also usefull.

The focus with zReverb was to create a flexible reverb with as few parameters as possible. There are many internal parameters that could be exposed in the UI, so perhaps later on I will create an advanced reverb plugin with more options. Speaking for myself I am often discouraged from making my own presets in synths and effects if I’m presented with a huge number of options and parameters. With a small set of parameters like in zReverb, perhaps people will be more inclined to design their own rooms.