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I put reverb in quotes because it’s actually just doing a simple analog delay. It can switch between a duet mode (with a single tap delay) and the reverb mode, which is just a faster delay with feedback to give more density. In the reverb mode it doesn’t actually sound much like a lush, thick reverb, but it is still a nice sounding effect in it’s own way (due to the filtering of the delayed signal). Personally I find duet mode more useful than the fake reverb, and I’ve had people say they really like it (in the Nebula program) as a vocal doubler effect.
The hardware was actually made to be part of a home stereo system, for adding reverb to music you played over the radio or from recordings. That seems kind of insane, but I believe the trend started because in the older days many of the recordings were fairly dry, compared to the standards that developed later. So a few companies created various types of units for applying some form of reverb, with the first ones using a spring. With this unit Pioneer tried to simplify things with an analog bucket brigade delay.
With only the two settings, the unit isn’t very flexible. The effect has a nice tone because it is an analog BBD, but you just don’t have much control. So, I tried to provide a bit more options by sampling the thing in various other ways besides just getting the basic sound. This includes using a method I’ve developed which results in getting different timings for the delay(s), as well as shifting the tonal fingerprint (frequency response) of the unit up or down. I also combined other hardware with the unit while sampling to further alter the tone in various ways. Lastly, I found a trim-pot inside the unit that altered the tone when adjusted and sampled it at various settings.
With this library my main goal was to create a set of Nebula reverb style programs that actually had a sampled control you could adjust to change the tone of the reverb, and as far as I know these are the first of this type of program to offer that. The control is different in different programs, and the main duet programs even have two sampled controls! Typically Nebula reverbs are just like a snapshot of a reverb effect and you can’t adjust it, but that’s not the case here. Check the manual for more details.
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