Reverb

Space: from a small room to an endless hall

Open in the synth with a demo patch Open Modular

What it does

Reverb adds reflections like those of a real room: the sound does not stop, it dissolves into space. Size is how long the tail rings, from a half-second room to a 12-second cathedral; Damping absorbs the highs in the tail, making it softer and further away. Predelay is a pause before the first reflection that keeps the attack of a note clear, and Mix decides how much dry signal remains.

Try this

Send a dry String pluck into Reverb to hear it in an imagined space.

Ports

in: Audio in
out: Audio out

Parameters

Size · Damping · Predelay · Mix

Try this

Size 8–12 s and Mix 0.6 turn any sparse notes into a cloud; this is the most “ambient” module of all.
Put Reverb after Delay, not before, so the echoes go into the space as well.
Damping near 1 makes the tail dull and distant; near 0 it is glassy and bright.

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