Operation Manual

Chapter 11: Sound effects and music 227
is greater for a large room than a small one. The rate at
which the echoes die away depends on both the room
size and the reflectivity of the walls.
The presets for Reverb are named for the type of room
they simulate – from the passenger cabin of a car all the
way up to a huge underground cavern.
Initial Delay: This slider sets the amount of delay from
the start of the sound until the reverb kicks in. For
naturalistic results, a smaller value would be used when
modeling a smaller room.
Room Size: This slider sets the size of the modeled
room. A larger room sounds more spacious because of
the longer interval between reflections of the sound
waves.
Damping: This slider controls a damping factor that
reduces higher-frequency reflections as the sound
waves bounce off surfaces in the virtual room. More
damping generally produces a warmer sound, less
damping a brighter sound.
Duration: This slider controls the length of time it
takes from the onset of a particular sound until the
reverberations die away. It corresponds to the
efficiency with which sound is reflected from the walls
and other contents of the virtual room.
Mix: This slider controls the amount of the original
sound that is mixed into the output from the effect.
When the slider is all the way to the left, only the
original sound is heard.