Mela Lab Module: Reverb
in progress
Nikolozi
Mela 5.6:
- Introducing a high-quality algorithmic reverb module.
- Features standard controls such as room size, decay amount, and mix.
- Offers independent controls for early reflections and diffusion levels.
- Includes a high shelf filter in the feedback path for controlling high-frequency damping.
- The module's feature set will evolve while it's in the lab.
- Early feedback is encouraged to help shape its future development.
- Reverb is a Mela Lab module and part of Collection 3.
November 29, 2023:
> Would be good to have at least a simple module to be used as part of synth effects.
Samuel Lindeman
Just took the new reverb module for a spin and thought of a few (at least in theory) easy additions.
Being able to 'tempo sync' the pre-delay and decay times to beat divisions could be very handy?
As the Reverb module is still at the labs-stage it kinda makes me wonder what kind of weird stuff could be made if the Room Size could be even smaller? (ie. less than 10ms?).
Granted I instantly fell for 10ms when I started tweaking...
Trying to modulate some reverb parameters like decay stops the output but I guess this is by design?
Cheers!
Nikolozi
Samuel Lindeman sweet, cheers for trying it out so quickly.
> Being able to 'tempo sync' the pre-delay and decay times to beat divisions could be very handy?
Yep, I want to do this at some point, though I considered it a lower priority compared to other things.
> As the Reverb module is still at the labs-stage it kinda makes me wonder what kind of weird stuff could be made if the Room Size could be even smaller? (ie. less than 10ms?).
Interesting idea, I could decrease the min to see what we can get. I'm thinking I might switch to percentage for room size at some point, I think seconds feel somewhat confusing. And a lot of reverb units have size defined in percentages.
> Trying to modulate some reverb parameters like decay stops the output but I guess this is by design?
This is temporary. I will ensure all parameters are modulatable and smooth. I wanted to get a version out ASAP and then tweak it.
Nikolozi
Following up,
The
build 298
smoothes the Reverb module's Room Size and Decay parameters. The rest of the parameters will be smoothed in later builds.I tried the Room Size parameter with smaller values than 10ms, and it sounds just like the Comb Filter module with the Feedback parameter set something closer to 100%.
Nikolozi
in progress
Available for testing in
Build 296
. Expect what parameters it offers, UI, parameter ranges and even how it sounds to change from build to build.P
Paul Collins
Yes having a reverb module would be great as it can bring sound alive and I don’t always won’t to work with Mela inside another host but in standalone
Samuel Lindeman
Give it a ‘Mela Touch’ with optionally tempo synced pre-delay, time/decay, gate and a ducker.
Sam Izrael
Good addition