Specifications

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chapter 5
D-Verb
D-Verb is a studio-quality reverb provided in
TDM, RTAS, and AudioSuite formats.
About Reverb
Digital reverberation processing can simulate
the complex natural reflections and echoes that
occur after a sound has been produced, impart-
ing a sense of space and depth—the signature of
an acoustic environment. When you use a re-
verb plug-in such as D-Verb, you are artificially
creating a sound space with a specific acoustic
character.
This character can be melded with audio mate-
rial, with the end result being an adjustable mix
of the original dry source and the reverberant
wet signal. Reverberation can take relatively life-
less mono source material and create a stereo
acoustic environment that gives the source a
perceived weight and depth in a mix.
Creating Unique Sounds
In addition, digital signal processing can be used
creatively to produce reverberation characteris-
tics that do not exist in nature. Experimentation
can produce striking new sounds.
Acoustic Environments
When you hear live sound in an acoustic envi-
ronment, you generally hear much more than
just the direct sound from the source. In fact,
sound in an anechoic chamber, devoid of an
acoustic space’s character, can sound harsh and
unnatural.
Each real-world acoustical environment, from a
closet to a cathedral, has its own unique acous-
tical character or sonic signature. When the re-
flections and reverberation produced by a space
combine with the source sound, we say that the
space is excited by the source. Depending on the
acoustic environment, this could produce the
warm sonic characteristics we associate with re-
verberation, or it could produce echoes or other
unusual sonic characteristics.
Reverb Character
The character of reverberation depends on a
number of factors. These include proximity to
the sound source, the shape of the space, the ab-
sorptivity of the construction material, and the
position of the listener.
The TDM version of the D-Verb plug-in is
not supported at 192 kHz; use the RTAS
version instead.