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- Ambience High Quality Reverb
-
- Author : Magnus Jonsson
- E-mail : magnus@smartelectronix.com
- Web : http://www.smartelectronix.com/~magnus/
-
- Ambience is donationware. This means that you are kindly
- asked to send some money to me if you like it or make any
- profit using it. Send as much as you think it is worth and
- you can afford. There is -lots- of work behind Ambience,
- and much of that work has not been fun at all, so this
- would really be very appreciated. Even a small donation
- would mean a lot.
-
- You can donate money on the home page via paypal. You can
- also contact me via email if you cannot use paypal for
- some reason.
-
- The demo version of Ambience will show a nag screen every
- time you open the editor, but is fully functional otherwise.
-
- After I have received your donation, I will send back a
- version that is without nag screen. And a big thank you of
- course :-)
-
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-
- INSTALLATION
-
- Move Ambience to your VST plugins folder.
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-
- MINI TUTORIAL
-
- First check out the presets! See QUALITY below if it
- takes too much CPU on your machine.
-
- The main knobs and sliders you need to know are:
-
- - DRY
- Gain of direct (unprocessed) sound. To use Ambience as
- a send effect, set this to -inf.
- - WET
- Gain of processed sound.
- - TIME
- The time it takes for the reverb echoes to die out.
- - SIZE
- The size of the room. Note that long reverb time
- and small room size don't mix well. For natural
- sounds, a small room size should be accompanied by
- a short reverb time, and vice verse.
- - PREDELAY
- Amount of delay between the direct sound and the onset
- of the first echoes.
- - WIDTH
- All the way from mono (0%) to wide stereo (100%).
- Probably you will want this one at 100% all the time.
- - QUALITY
- This knob allows you to trade off reverb quality for
- CPU usage. High quality <=> high cpu usage. You can
- make fun effects if you set it very low (try it!).
- - VARIATION
- This button creates a new variant of the same room.
- If there's some annoying echo/ringing in the reverb
- that bugs you, hit this button a few times until
- you find a variation that you like. If it still
- sounds bad to you, try raising the QUALITY too.
-
- More advanced controls:
-
- The best way to learn these is probably by trying them out
- and experimenting yourself, but i will give some hints.
-
- - The DAMPING section
- This affects how the reverb's character develops over
- time as it decays. Use it to control the decay time of
- bass and treble. In normal rooms, bass and especially
- treble decay quicker than the mid range.
- - The EQ section
- This is like putting a big equalizer on the reverb. And
- in fact it is :) It's mostly useful for cutting away bass
- that can otherwise make the reverb sound muddy.
- - The GATING section
- If you want natural reverb, abandon this section at once!
- Otherwise if you are in an experimental mood, you may use
- this one to make the reverb follow the dynamics of the
- audio input. Can be useful if you want to preserve rhythm
- while still having a very wet reverb.
- - HOLD
- When you press this, the reverb will freeze at it's current
- sound, holding it indefinitely until you press it again.
- Great if you want to create a lush pad from a plucked string
- or a hihat or whatever you can imagine. Try combining with
- the gater.
- - DIFFUSION
- This knob has a very subtle effect on the sound. It is
- especially noticable with small room sizes.
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-
- THANKS TO
-
- - these people for helping me make Ambience,
-
- Gfx dsgn: Sean Evans - http://www.littlekittenspacegirl.com/
- Gfx code: Bram de Jong - http://www.smartelectronix.com/~bram/
- Mac port: Marc Poirier - http://www.smartelectronix.com/~destroyfx/
-
- - all beta testers,
-
- - everyone who has sent presets and donations,
-
- - and my wonderful girlfriend :-)
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-
- I hope you will like Ambience!
-
- If you find a bug, please let me know, and I'll try to fix it
- asap.
-
- Best wishes
- - Magnus
-
-
- Legal:
- Ambience demo is free for inclusion in any packages that
- are not distributed for profit. In all other cases, for
- example if you want to include Ambience on a cover CD,
- contact me.