I placed Midiverb Emulator.vst3 in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3, but Cubase 15 doesn’t see the plugin…

 

Then try the other plugin I linked

 

and there goes the first issue with emulating old digital hardware; you end up with fixed samplingrates (and with some luck, with samplingrates you can not use the in a DAW.)

no idea why anyone would like to recreate a midiverb, there are probably 100 free plug-ins which are better.

 

The original Midiverb in this shitty plastic box was one of the first low budget digital reverbs i've ever owned, and i think it's one of the worst sounding reverbs i've ever used. There have to be hundreds of software reverbs better than this, nothing to get excited about.

 

Why would anybody want to recreate anything old if there's always a better option nowadays? Because it has a distinct sound.

Alesis FXes like the MIDIverb were cheap and they were used in a lot of productions. Early 90s IDM is filled with that cheap reverb. Instant corner of a bedroom audiolab vibe. Same thing as with a 3630. It's not a great compressor but it gives an unique sound for better or worse.

As for BarrVerb, it works fine for me using the "u51 27c128 MVOBJ 2-6-86" ROM dump.

 

That's true of BarrVerb. midiverb_emulator (only the plugin) resamples if I'm reading the code correctly.

 

I´m not sure how i feel about plugin reverbs, i´m on my way of getting VSS3 via powercore, so whatever.

The thing is, i can hear midiverb in various tracks i really like so for me, it is a no brainer, this helped me to decide what i´m getting but other than that only web demo works for me, vst3 crashes FL, Reaper or VST HOST so idn.

 

I’ve always been amazed that there are so many strange (I won’t insult them) people who, in every discussion about emulators, start spouting nonsense like: “cluck-cluck-cluck, why do you even need this, there are much better things now!”

They clearly don’t understand that this isn’t a question of some abstract “quality.” Is the concept of authenticity completely unknown to you?

 

Many are just collectors.

 

I had a Miniverb and liked it's sound better than that of the Midiverb. I'm a fool for years ago giving it away along with my Yamaha SPX90IIb

Edit: typo.

 

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I had Microverb and it was never shitty.

 

The 2 Holy Grails for synth ROMs and manuals (as far as I know) are:
DBWBP.com
https://dbwbp.com/index.php > Synthesizer ROM archive

Series Circuits
https://seriescircuits.com
> Vintage Synthesizer ROM Archive
> Vintage Synthesizer Service Manuals and Schematics

 

why MAME? if we are going to have a faithful emulation I dont mind spending some time setting up any environment. And this is the case, I resampled latelyBass recently from a MAME emulation of TX81Z, 100/100.

Of course we would like a vst version of those emus and I guess we have a Midiverb emulation here UBERVERB.

 

or maybe they understood that the concept of authenticity can not include moving the firmware to a native software, which you can then open multiple times, which doesnt have the knobs, and which is available for you to use in more then one instance.

if you want the original, get the original and connect it to an analog mixer and a tape deck. if you do not, it will sound completely different. you will never use a plug-in like you would use the hardware, no matter how hard you try.

the only "interesting" point about the original midiverb I is that it of course processes the signals in 16 bit, which many modern software does not do.

but its architecture, an allpass-based FDN with a buffer-based diffusion stage (the latter beeing a great memory saver for a hardware chip), has been used widely by many others and is e.g. for max, csound or kyma available as public domain examples since 30 years.

 

https://github.com/thement/midiverb_emulator/releases

Release v0.4 Latest

• VST3: Add support for flangers/choruses from Midiverb 2
• VST3: Make the build static so it runs on computers other than mine

 

PRO TIP! --> If you happen to stumble upon content on the internet that doesn't resonate with you, you can just scroll by it.

 

This is the essence of scrumtrulescense. Thank you whoever did it.

I tried to demo Bloom which I've never heard before or used.