HybridReverb2(1)

💅 HybridReverb2 — OMG bestie, let's talk reverb 💅

Okay so this is HybridReverb2, and it lives in your General Commands Manual section, which is giving very much "I'm a real program, I promise" energy. It's a reverb effect that uses something called hybrid impulse convolution, and honestly? Iconic.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

HybridReverb2

There are no command line options. None. Zero. Zilch. Not me opening the manpage expecting a whole buffet of flags and getting... nothing 😭. But that's literally the vibe — it's a plugin, bestie, not a command line queen.

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So the HybridReverb2 is a reverb effect using hybrid impulse convolution. It's convolution-based, which is already highkey fancy, but here's the slay: it combines the superior sound quality of a convolution reverb with the tuning capability of a feedback delay network. The way that it gives you both quality and control? We love to see it. 🫶

Now, plot twist — the sound quality of a convolution reverb depends on the quality of the used room impulse responses. Yeah. It's only as good as its impulses, no cap. Garbage in, garbage out, as the elders say.

HybridReverb2 comes with a set of room impulse responses which were synthesized with tinyAVE, an auralization software which was developed at the Institute of Communication Acoustics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Borß and Martin, 2009; Borß, 2009a). The academic citation energy is real and we respect it. 📚✨

These room impulse responses are designed for a speaker setup with two front and two rear speakers (Borß, 2009b). So like, quad vibes. 🌈

⚠️ For a full surround sound effect, you will need two plugins, one plugin which uses a "front" preset for the front channels and a second plugin which uses the corresponding "rear" preset for the rear channels.

Not me needing to load the same plugin twice to feel like I'm inside the music. But okay, that's literally the design, periodt. 💀

🐛 BUGS 🐛

Please report bugs via <https://github.com/jpcima/HybridReverb2/issues> — don't suffer in silence, bestie, the maintainers are literally right there. 🥺

👑 AUTHOR 👑

HybridReverb2 has been originaly written by Christian Borß <christian.borss@rub.de> and is now maintained by Jean-Pierre Cimalando <jp-dev@inbox.ru>. (Yes, the spelling "originaly" is doing its own thing — we're keeping it exactly as written, character for character. Respect the original text. 🫡)

🌸 HOME PAGE 🌸

HybridReverb2 can be found at: <https://github.com/jpcima/hybridreverb2/> — go say hi, star the repo, be a supportive internet citizen. ⭐

💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright (C) 2018 Jean-Pierre Cimalando <jp-dev@inbox.ru> and 2009 Christian Borß <christian.borss@rub.de>

Licensed under the GNU Public License V2 +.

This manual page was written by Olivier Humbert <trebmuh@tuxfamily.org>, for the LibraZiK project (but may be used by others).

And that's the whole thing, bestie — every detail preserved, every flag (there are none, lmao), every URL, every credit. Run it, load it twice if you want surround, and remember: it's not a bug, it's a feature. 💅

Written up on June 25, 2018 — this page is from General Commands Manual, version HybridReverb2(1). Go stream some convoluted reverb, you icon. 🔥🦋