M-Audio WizooVerb W2 [50/132] Density

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Ambience

Ambience lets you nudge the sound source deeper into the room. The effect

is comparable to bringing up the level of ambient or overhead micro-

phones during the mix.

This parameter is ideal for making voices or instruments sound “bigger.”

Density

Density inﬂuences the density of the tail’s reﬂection. The further you back

off Density, the more clearly you can hear individual reﬂections bouncing

off the room’s walls.

A Density value of 0% yields the reﬂection density of a canyon.

Color

Color adjusts the timbre or tonal quality of the tail from dark to bright.

At values of around 3,000 Hz the tail sounds dark; at about 6,000 Hz it

sounds very natural; at 8,000 Hz it starts to sound remarkably bright.

Envelope

The Envelope menu tab accesses—you guessed it—the Envelope panel. You

can do many fun things with it such as shorten the HDIR model and as-

sign an amplitude envelope to it, say, to smooth out the reverb curve or cre-

ate freaky non-linear reverb effects.

WizooVerb strives to sustain Render Tail’s real-time capability, so you can only access

Envelope if at least the tail is generated via an HDIR model or an impulse response. As

soon as you enable Render Tail, Envelope is hidden!

The envelope consists of two segments:

❖ Attack controls the amplitude envelope’s initial phase, that is, the start

of the reverb effect. It lets you do things like create a special FX reverb

that surges to impressive proportions.

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