Old 02-16-2017, 04:20 PM   #1
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Hey all...semi-noob here enjoying Reaper so far and all the videos by Ken Gioia. My basic question is how to import recently downloaded Big Gee's Lexicon 480 reverbs ala Ken Gioia's suggestion in one of his vids. I tried click and drag into the FX browser and into a new folder but no go. Thanks in advance. Windows 7 btw....
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Old 02-16-2017, 04:37 PM   #2
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Those aren't effects, they're "impulse responses".

Basically, you play back a short, sharp noise in a big space - a cathedral, say - and record it with all of the room's echoes. By comparing the original sound to the recording, certain plugins can produce impulse responses, which are like a copy of the reverb produced in that room. The same process works with anything that produces reverb, like a Lexicon 480 for instance.

Any plugin described as "convolution reverb" can load an impulse response, play your audio, and apply that reverb to it. Reaper includes a convolution plugin, called ReaVerb.

- Add ReaVerb to a track
- Open the FX window for it
- Click the "Add" button and choose File
- Browse to one of your impulse response .wavs
- You should be able to play your track and hear the reverb now
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Thanks Lokasenna. I guess on an individual instance that will work well. I guess what I was asking is how to get all the files containing the impulse responses from the download into the Reaper effects location.
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You mean, like, visible in Reaper's FX browser? You can't, because they aren't effects by themselves. They're .wav files, just like the samples you would load into a sampler.

You could save them as presets in ReaVerb though - the little [+] button at the top of the window.
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Old 02-16-2017, 08:30 PM   #5
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Ahhh! Thanks Lokasenna. The fog begins to part...
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