This is true-ish. I went down the "make your own reverb in the Grid" rabbit hole for awhile, and got some great results. The thing is, of course the 3rd party dev's who specialize in algo's have smoother sounding and tailored algos. It's a given. But give it a try and don't discount the happy accidents you inevitably will stumble upon haha.As interesting as this is, there's just no way that I'm going to be able to create my best reverb compared to devs that focus their entire life's work on building reverb plugins. At mostt, I and many users will probably make something "not bad". But if anyone has a cool Grid reverb patch to share, I'm interested.With Bitwig's Grid you can create your own best reverb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwSl8vDmcts
I will say that the experience in making my own verbs unlocked a part of my brain that helped me appreciate and tweak 3rd party verbs that much better as well. It helped me develop a better understanding when deciding what algo to reach for from what vendor, and what to tweak on them. I had a pretty damn good understanding of it before being a 20+ year engineering vet, but the experience of making my own gave me "augmented reverb rabbit ears" so to speak haha.
Don't forget tho that in Bitwig your 3rd party reverbs are already exponentially more powerful, simply because you're using them in Bitwig.
Add an ADSR, envelope follower, LFO, MSEG, sequencer, keytracker, or whatever to your favorite reverb's parameters. The amount of movement and features you can unlock and inject into your existing 3rd party reverbs via Bitwig is pretty insane. They become whole new plug-ins.
I have many, many synth patches I've designed where a 3rd party reverb is literally a part of the instrument because the reverb plays/reacts live to my playing. For example, I have a bass synth patch where modulating Blackhole Immersive's gravity parameter with an ADSR and Keytracker is adding a quick and subtle pitch shift to each note's attack phase in a very musical way.
And of course, you can more easily route your reverbs in clever/musical ways in Bitwig. Like several reverbs set up in parallel in an FX layer with cascading and ascending pre-delay times. Or have several reverbs round robin in an FX selector. Or parallel process what is fed into your reverb, or after. The rabbit hole just goes down forever.
You just can't do this stuff outside of Bitwig unless you spent countless hours meticulously drawing in automation note per note across dozens of parameters and dozens of tracks/sends/returns post performance.
There are some 3rd party plug-ins that have some better modulation options in the verbs, but this stuff is one algo, usually costs 100+ bucks, and doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what Bitwig has already unlocked for you with the best pre-existing 3rd party reverb algo's out there that you already own.
Cheers
Statistics: Posted by Funk Dracula — Thu Aug 08, 2024 7:45 pm