I couldn’t find in the manual about how reverb is sent to the Main fader, but I’m assuming since there’s no send on the ‘Reverb’ channel that it’s implied that it’s sent to the Mains? At least I know it’s working because I hear the reverb.
By-the-way, Inspired Acoustics (I don’t work for them nor get any benefits from mentioning them) is having a major sale right now on their Inspirata line of plugins (convolution reverb) and I bought the Pro version which is pretty awesome! There’s a free trial if anyone want to check it out. I’ll be honest… their download links are getting plummeted right now, so prepare for long waits! Out of 50 ‘Room Packs’ I have only successfully downloaded three of them, but in all fairness, one was 6.2 GB, one was 2.1 GB and the third was 860 MB.
I’m currently listening to a piano piece I wrote, with the ‘Baradla Cave Concert Hall, Aggtelek’ room pack selected and I’m using PianoTeq’s New York Steinway Grand Piano plugin. You can move the source or the listener around in real-time with NO impact or glitches (but I’m working with 128 GB Ram, and an i9 3.2GHz CPU with 10 cores), and all of my drives are m.2 NVME drives.
It works great with one instrument with the plugin… I’m a little nervous to try on all instruments in my Theme and Variations (you would use an insert if you want to be able to move the source around independently of the other instruments, or at least that’s the way I’ve heard it explained).
Also, I love the stage templates and space templates! They make it so easy to work with reverb!
There are other excellent reverbs on sale currently, although not as cheap as the Inspirata. Berlin Studio is about 25% off (for 129 euro) and Flux SPAT is 50% off for $199 USD. I actually just got both, but not the Inspirata. Both Berlin Studio and SPAT are quite well regarded, and I’ve used Spat before in Max but that doesn’t work in a DAW or notation which is why I bought the Flux version to use in Cubase and Dorico
I looked at Inspirata, but looking back at the reviews of it, a lot of people who really know this stuff don’t seem to like it very much. There might be a reason they dropped the price so much. The reviews of people I trust make me not that interested in it.
The reason it’s not very popular mainly is because they are mostly known for their organ software
Roger
Liquid Sonic Cinematics is the hottest reverb with some very well know composers, Hans Zimmer, who needs no introduction and Alan Meyerson who worked on The Lion King… among others, including Guy Michelmore who has done a lot of Marvel stuff. They said it’s the most musical reverb they’ve used.
It’s $399, but I’ll probably get it with my next pay check.
Roger
I wouldn’t put too much stock in the few decent reviews out there. They are mostly less experienced composers or “studio” owners.
Plus there’s a free trial, so why not at least try it out? You’ve got nothing to lose.
Roger
Who that you trust did you find with reviews of Inspirata?
Roger
People on the vi-control forum who tried it a long time ago
I know almost nothing about surround and how to set it up in a DAW, other than what the three numbers mean (main speakers, sub-woofers, height speakers). Just a few questions for those more in the know (which is 99% of people reading this):
- What are the best books for learning about how surround works in a DAW and how to set it up?
- In my very limited experience (and I’m probably wrong), it sounds like from what I’ve read so far, that I’ll need at least the number of channels in my audio interface represented by the number, so for 5.1, the minimum setup, I would need at least a 6 channel audio interface?