Description

This is a reverberator consisting of 6 parallel comb-lowpass filters being fed into a series of 5 allpass filters. nreverb replaces reverb2 (version 3.48) and so both opcodes are identical.

Syntax

ares nreverb asig, ktime, khdif [, iskip] [,inumCombs] [, ifnCombs] \
      [, inumAlpas] [, ifnAlpas]

Initialization

iskip (optional, default=0) -- Skip initialization if present and non-zero.

inumCombs (optional) -- number of filter constants in comb filter. If omitted, the values default to the nreverb constants. New in Csound version 4.09.

ifnCombs - function table with inumCombs comb filter time values, followed the same number of gain values. The ftable should not be rescaled (use negative fgen number). Positive time values are in seconds. The time values are converted internally into number of samples, then set to the next greater prime number. If the time is negative, it is interpreted directly as time in sample frames, and no processing is done (except negation). New in Csound version 4.09.

inumAlpas, ifnAlpas (optional) -- same as inumCombs/ifnCombs, for allpass filter. New in Csound 4.09.

Performance

The input signal asig is reverberated for ktime seconds. The parameter khdif controls the high frequency diffusion amount. The values of khdif should be from 0 to 1. If khdif is set to 0 the all the frequencies decay with the same speed. If khdif is 1, high frequencies decay faster than lower ones. If ktime is inadvertently set to a non-positive number, ktime will be reset automatically to 0.01. (New in Csound version 4.07.)

As of Csound version 4.09, nreverb may read any number of comb and allpass filter from an ftable.

Examples

Here is a simple example of the nreverb opcode. It uses the file nreverb.csd.

<CsoundSynthesizer>
<CsOptions>
; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
; Audio out   Audio in
-odac             ;;;RT audio out
; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:
;-o nreverb.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>

sr = 44100
ksmps = 32
nchnls = 2
0dbfs  = 1

gaout init  0

instr 1
a1	oscili	.5, 440
outs	a1, a1
 
gaout = gaout+a1
endin

instr 99

a2	nreverb	gaout, 2, .3
outs	a2*.15, a2*.15		;volume of reverb		
	 
gaout = 0
endin

</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>

i 1 0 .5
i 1 1 .5
i 1 2 .5
i 1 3 .5
i 1 4 .5
i 99 0 9 
e
</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>

Here is an example of the nreverb opcode using an ftable for filter constants. It uses the file nreverb_ftable.csd, and beats.wav.

<CsoundSynthesizer>
<CsOptions>
; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
; Audio out   Audio in
-odac             ;;;RT audio out
; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:
;-o nreverb_ftable.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>

sr = 44100
ksmps = 32
nchnls = 2
0dbfs  = 1

instr 1

a1  soundin "beats.wav"
a2  nreverb a1, 1.5, .75, 0, 8, 71, 4, 72
outs a1 + a2 * .4, a1 + a2 * .4

endin

</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>
; freeverb time constants, as direct (negative) sample, with arbitrary gains
f71 0 16   -2  -1116 -1188 -1277 -1356 -1422 -1491 -1557 -1617  0.8  0.79  0.78  0.77  0.76  0.75  0.74  0.73
f72 0 16   -2  -556 -441 -341 -225  0.7  0.72  0.74  0.76

i1 0 5
e
</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>

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