U-he free Protoverb random room-simulator

[glowrak guy]

There's a linux version of the U-he room simulating reverb, with randomizer to make as many room presets as
there are button pushes. It installs by unarchiving the tarball, running a script as normal user,
and when prompted, answer in the affirmative. It will make a .u-he folder, for presets, data, and Protoverb.32/64.so files
and link the plugin to your .vst folder, for linux vst hosts to discover.

The archive is in the list here: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 1&t=424953

U-he dev about protoverb:
"Protoverb is an experimental reverb based on the idea of a "room simulator". Most algorithmic reverbs try to avoid resonances or model the reflections of sound from a rooms walls. Protoverb does the opposite. It builds up as many room resonances as possible, modeling the body of air in the room. It therefore does not need to modulate or colour the signal. The result is a very natural sounding reverbration with some interesting features: Long standing frequencies resonate louder, as if the air takes some time to get excited. Multiple instruments don't mash into a diffuse mud, they stay distinct. If you play a short melody, the room seems to repeat a ghost echo of that melody. Those properties are indeed found in churches and large halls, but they're rarely found in conventional algorithmic reverbs.

However...

To achieve this kind of stuff, Protoverb works with loads and loads of parallel, serial and networked delays. By all means, there is no mathematical formula that makes such a structure sound "just right". As with all delay based reverbs, it's down to trial and error, and maybe a lot of luck with random values. Therefore we designed Protoverb to present you with delay lines of random lengths and a random assembly of networking and feedback strategies. Which, if you're lucky and you come across a great setting, you can submit to our website, along with a few details

Push buttons to randomize!

To be precise, the small text box at the bottom contains two random entries. The first part depicts the network structure, strategies for a spatial layout and distribution of delay taps, strategies for finding useful delay lengths and so on. The second part is a seed for a pseudo-random number generator which is used to find various parameters, such as average delay length, which prime number to chose (if any) and so on. This text can either be edited by double click, or both parts can be independently randomized with the two random buttons below.

(my edit: this next link is for win/mac versions only) Get Protoverb - it's free! http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 1&t=424953

In other words: Protoverb is a data mining concept. Instead of spending a few months ourselves, we hope that our community will come up with great settings. As a reward, this plug-in is free, people are encouraged to share their settings and thoughts on the internet, and at some point we'll draw some prizes (details to be announced in January 2016) from the submissions (we'll always draw the first entry of equal submissions, so you can share without fear!)"

Forum discussions:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 836b47efd9

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/product ... lugin.html

[varpa]

Nice post but this is rather old news, see:
https://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopi ... 48&t=15069
https://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopi ... 48&t=14960

[jonetsu]

I've posted about Protoverb some time ago. I used it on several sketches, although I use it for specific instruments, not on each track. Varying reverbs is also nice. Zrev from u-he could be interesting also, although a different approach and, is a research tool.

Speaking of modeling, hopefully this year will see u-he's efforts at drum modeling make surface as a product.

[glowrak guy]

Nice post but this is rather old news, see:
https://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopi ... 48&t=15069
https://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopi ... 48&t=14960

I would hope that there are enough new people here, that posts relevant
to a current topic would be more fruitful than keeping quiet,
and assuming new people have sufficent backround to conduct an accurate forum search
for things they are ...unaware of...

Things are only news once, and after that, their mention becomes information,
and a friendly reminder. Stir the pot, and it's easier to snag the meat
Cheers

[jonetsu]

Would it be possible to set up a 'static' (for lack of better term) post that contains links to free and commercial plugins ? These links would be gathered from the pots here. It will not be a complete list, but would only represent, or try to, the links that were posted here. After all, it's not like there are hundreds of plugins that runs on Linux. That post would be updated from time to time as new links appear. Naturally through time some links would become invalid, but at least there would be one spot where all links to plugins are. And then eventually there could be one 'static' (or 'sticky' I think) post about DAWs, etc...

[glowrak guy]

briandc keeps a nice page listing audio software, perhaps the link to that could be
a sticky in several related subforums?
Cheers