Daniel Nass wrote:

> I've been messing around with the reverb opcodes, and I would now like to
> start designing my own reverb units.  Can anyone offer me some advice on
> how to begin constructing my own reverberator designs?  Any feedback for
>
> this newbie would be much appreciated...
>

Daniel:
Try any good Computer Music textbook chapter on digital reverberation.....
C. Roads: The Computer Music Tutorial (MIT)
F. Richard Moore: Elements of Computer Music (Prentice Hall)
C. Dodge/T. Jerse: Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance
(Schirmer)
(and other fine books, whose authors will be annoyed I can't recall them
right now...)

If you want go go to a classic  article:
J.A. Moorer "About this Reverberation Business" from Computer Music Journal
3,2 (June 1979):13-28
reprinted in Foundations of Computer Music, MIT Press.

But there's a heck of a lot more to this than just reverb: the field of
sound placement is a complex and
exciting area of research: look into "HRTF", "Early echo" or "Initial
Impulse Response" in room simulation, and of course, John Chowning's early
use of doppler shift in simulating sound movement!
In other words,
biiiiggggg topic....


Good luck, and have fun,

Char lieB


Charles Baker -  baker@charlieb.com -  http://www.charlieb.com
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         that is mystical,  but *that* it exists.
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