In the current version 2.0.3 of the IQ-Reverb we've added your requested feature to control all reverb times with just one knob - feel free to try it out :-)
Thank you for your review and feedback! Currently, there is no feature to control all reverb times with one knob. But we like this idea and are planning to implement this in a future version along with other improvements :)
What a great plugin !! It's great to see you take into account his suggestion because I think it is a good idea too! I'll watch for a discount in the coming month ;)
If any reverb is able to simulate thunder in about 3-5KM distance, then its gets amazing like never before. Thunder in real nature is the most complex diffuse and frequency based modulated sound can be. It's about 1000% wide and fully mono compatible!
@@DavidDiMuzio I love it... Try it out, they offer a demo trial and also it is a Convulated Reverb which sounds more naturally, but yes different flavors in reverbs which sounds pleasant in different tracks and aspects. In fact Cinematic Room for sound design is the most adequate but for everything else between Reverberate and Seventh Heaven you are pretty much well covered.
“I don’t care and you shouldn’t either” 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂. Great video. I definitely appreciated that u mentioned CPU. Usage Extremely important part of a plug-in.
I believe we are going to be seeing much more software based around IRs in the future! Amazing technology and the fact that processing power can keep up now really opens up possibilities. A plug-in like this could be used for MUCH more than just reverb if you feel like getting creative!!
Damn it sounds great. I love it - it's the thing you can nerd yourself into and experiment a lot with and once have it in, you're set for every situation and mix. So yeah - pricey, but a keeper for every situation. To bad I'm broke af
Seeing a lot of bad buzz here, considering the UI and what I see on the video, despite being a workhorse, it seems well implemented, straightforward and inviting user to connect with simplicity on details i'm usually lazy to dive in (not mixing ingeneer but producer). I'll definitly give it a try
The 3d visualisation of the waveform looks really cool. The 3d positioning sounded quite interesting, even on headphones it sounded like surround sound.
Thanks for doing this I own this and it’s brilliant just need more English speaking reviews spoke to the team at Hofa really nice guys! Please support them.
Obviously a deep dive would show the amazing depth of possibilities here but i really think the visual feedback and showing what its doing to the sound is very cool ...
this is a super massive plugin. the workflow looks extremely nice and the modularity of the effects makes it very playful, but i noticed that there were discontinuities in the signal when you used certain parameters like the dry/wet mix or even when just dragging the positioner. i can understand that it might be very hard to smoothly interpolate from one setting to another with so many impulse responses doing their thing and all, but when you add a binaural panner to a plugin you just have to make it automatable. people sometimes want things to move around the room.
Before watching, you won't talk smack about this :P it's freaking beautiful and so overwhelming!!! Hahaha I will watch, but yes, it sounds freaking beautiful.
The IR cut feature can come in very handy when making lo-fi. it sounds low fi at first but when you listen closely it's quite well textured and clear. I like it!
I have bought many reverbs. They are all good. But when I’m mixing I click on one set of reverbs - Valhalla. I may buy this because I like reverbs. But in the end some how it will not replace Valhalla.
The visualization looked a bit like a bed with one of those fancy comforters your grandma knits. You know the one, it has like 40 colors, each section has about 300 feet of yarn in it. perhaps I need to sleep, even I think my comment is whack. :)
None of the sounds here wowed me. But I've been looking for a decent surround capable reverb so I might give this a spin! Otherwise I'm really happy with my UAD reverbs.
Wow. This looks incredible. Today is the first time I have discovered Hofa. I see why their prices are top shelf, their gear is top shelf. This would be perfect to use for film production when you want to create foley that needs accurate positional information. I'm grabbing the free bundle for now.
R4 exponential audio is excellent same with reverberate 2. Perfect Plate (Denise) is another nice one. In the end you need to be a pro at using what ever you use hardware of plugin. Its the user.
Please review and compare Cinematic Rooms algorithmic reverb. It is KINDA similar and they claim to recreate real spaces/halls and do 7.1 Dolby Atmos stuff.
Oh yeah, best reverb I own. I really love the flexibility and that you can tune so many parameters. I use it for 5.1 and the fold down to 2.0 just feel same, really amaizing! I've started to use it on 2.0 because of this.
I'm doing a test demo on FL20 and when I try to turn the gate on IR1 section my whole DAW project just shuts down. It's as though I hit a command to exit without saving automatically, basically the instant I try to put the "Gate."
Usually you do not like gui's imitating analog gear, whereas you prefer Fabfilter plugins. Well, that shows how one prefers listening to music, some do it more with their eyes, some more with ears. Fabfilter's gui will make you use more your eyes, wheras analog gear guis with knobs and sliders only will make you listen more to the music. Interesting
I do like Native Instruments RC24 for Mixing Room and Space, RC48 for shorter Room, Lexicon LXP as other Flavor to RC24, and Valhalla for space and special FX. All other stuff i have and tested is gone becourse they work realy well. Sometimes i use the Ozone 5 Mastering Reverb just for ultra short Room and Camel Space becourse of the FX usability. That hofa Reverb sounds Great - but i dont think it will be very praktical in Mixing Sessions. It can be great in a mix but when i need to adjust on more then 2 or 3 knobs it kills the workflow - i know my Reverbs and i do realy know what they do to the sound and my mix. So i think the Hofa Reverb is a Plugin that screems to get good named presets. I am not that kind of person who likes plugins that makes me crazy by geting stuck in the "perfect" sound. When other Plugins can get the job done too.. so it will be a realy nice to have, thats for sure when it comes to sounddesign but for Mixing there is a user friendly Design missing. Perhaps there is a button for "config" that opens up the engine - think that would be fine.
Have you already tested the old, classic and unmatched Anechoic Room Simulator? It's classy. Not sure if 64bit available. From an era when Smartelektronix were hot. I lived back then 😁
Hey Wytze, You should do a ‘which one is the best verb’ - video like you did with the tape emulators. Use this one, the cla, seventh heaven, reverberate, nimbus etc
I know you have done acustica stuff, but no one has said how they run on the m1 mac. I think lots of there fans would be curious how many channel strips you can run at a time on your m1 mini. Maybe not what you do on your channel but I would love to know!
What you think about new Steinberg interface Axr4 that can ad/da 32bit 384 khz?is it the first that can actualy sample at real 32bit, not Daw floating points?
This is a pretty advanced reverb! I like that, but the GUI is confusing as it is with all HOFA plugins! I find all HOFA plugs to be hard to use! They are not very idk the word right now, user informative.... But the point is it would take me a year to figure this plugin out thouroghly! And that is a no for me. I don't care how good it sounds, that's too much work, and I don't have time for that! However, I really like the options to it, and I think reverbs need some tlc in the plugin world! I like where this is going especially blending a multitude of other reverb IR's to make one unique sounding reverb! The really need to team up with Fabfilter to make their GUI more user friendly or something!
I still use my now ancient WizooVerb W2 which was also available in a W5 version for 4.1 surround sound, Why it wasn't picked up and updated still baffles me but then again Wizoo were one of many perfectly fine, smaller developers that Digidesign bought up, swallowed and then Avid essentially just spat most of those acquisitions out, having done really nothing with the quality stuff that was already right there by said bunch of developers, They kept Trillium Lane Labs Space convolution reverb but didn't do a damned thing with Wizoo Systems, Inc.'s WizooVerb W2 & W2 reverbs...absolute madness! HOFA's IQ plugins and the more all-in-one style SYSTEM plugins I quite like, I do have a license for their IQ Reverb which is a quality reverb but I don't have a license for this newer one, so I shall have to check it out. I love convolution reverbs for adding mostly slight amounts of ambience via mostly the early reflections of a quality impulse response, that is one reason I love and cling to my old WizooVerb. Then for more reverb, reverb I use a number of options both convolution and algorithmic depending on the results wanted and the source material, I've been a longtime ValhallaDSP reverb and nowadays a lot more, Sean Costello is a wizard when it comes to reverb algorithms and he is also one of the developers that offer top-notch quality for an extremely reasonable price, Tokyo Dawn Records TDR Gentlemen's Editions plus Limiter 6 plug-ins are top-notch yet at great prices, Klangelm I'd also add to that group off the top of my head. Cheers for the demos and always keeping it honest man, all the very best! Dean
Pontificating that you have to be able to figure out a very specialised piece of software within 10 minutes is starting to become a bit annoying. Waaaa I don’t understand it, waaa it’s their fault. Stop it man.
Who would judge such complex reverb just by using it for 10 minutes?? I mean this is not saturation knob with just 1 thing to click..this guy could actually use his brain and "study" the plugin before going on to review it..I watched this video and I didn't learn anything about this plugin or about reverbs in general. This channel has some interesting videos, but literally every plugin review sucks :/
@@LoseYourself001 The problem is you want these videos to be something they are not. The whole point of this series is to see how good of a first impression they give, not to give you a proper in depth review of the plugin.
@@KnzoVortex Yes I do agree with you on that, but very often he goes a step further by saying the plugin is actually bad because he cannot figure it out in the ten minutes he spends with it. He is actually making a big thing out of it. It’s very easy to avoid by just saying I don’t know how this works, but then he adds: they should have made more easy. No, you should spend some more time with it,.
In the current version 2.0.3 of the IQ-Reverb we've added your requested feature to control all reverb times with just one knob - feel free to try it out :-)
I'm grateful for this addition. Thanks, Wytse, and HOFA, its kinda badass that you are listening to the feedback! Good on you!
Thank you for your review and feedback! Currently, there is no feature to control all reverb times with one knob. But we like this idea and are planning to implement this in a future version along with other improvements :)
Multiple inputs to position different instruments/voices would be killer feature, unfortunately I don’t have this version, at the moment that is...
I've used HOFA products for years, and I'm so glad you guys are getting more attention. Good stuff!
What a great plugin !! It's great to see you take into account his suggestion because I think it is a good idea too! I'll watch for a discount in the coming month ;)
HOFA, I am always impressed with your products. Very, very nice sounding reverb.
I'm shouting "click on Master and see if that's the "global" setting you want!" while watching this.
lol, me too XD
He can't help it. Only has 2 brain cells. One got lost and the other is out looking for it. 😆 Looks like a good verb though. I love this channel.
HAHAHAHA
This does pain me so much
Me too 😂😂😂
I love the HOFA plugins. They seem to be overlooked by many but the eq, comp and limiter are my main plugins and this reverb is top notch.
If any reverb is able to simulate thunder in about 3-5KM distance, then its gets amazing like never before. Thunder in real nature is the most complex diffuse and frequency based modulated sound can be. It's about 1000% wide and fully mono compatible!
Yes this is true! When you are in flatten landscape with some small hills then it sounds amazing...
perhaps they have any outside thunder ir
Seems cool although I'm more than happy with Liquidsonics reverbs
Seventh Heaven is just amazing
I love my Liquidsonics SH7, Reververate 3 and Flux Audio Ircamverb 3
I own Cinematic Rooms, Seventh Heaven & Reverberate... money very well invested
@@rumar4u I own Cinematic Rooms and Seventh Heaven. Do you think it's worth owning Reverberate 3 as well or Illussions?
@@DavidDiMuzio I love it... Try it out, they offer a demo trial and also it is a Convulated Reverb which sounds more naturally, but yes different flavors in reverbs which sounds pleasant in different tracks and aspects. In fact Cinematic Room for sound design is the most adequate but for everything else between Reverberate and Seventh Heaven you are pretty much well covered.
“I don’t care and you shouldn’t either” 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂. Great video. I definitely appreciated that u mentioned CPU. Usage Extremely important part of a plug-in.
Can't believe you didn't stressed the room positioning tool enough! THIS is a unique selling point! At least for me...
I really loved the reverb visualization
You should come out with a plug in called snake oil
Like the covid supposed vaccines.
@@thegroove2000 came on, there are really people that don’t believe in vaccines also? This era of people are fuck up
IT should just use 5% CPU and do absolutely nothing to the signal except add latency (randomly selected each time it opens & non-adjustable).
@@juap I never made that contention.
Lol
Wow this reverb sounded good
I believe we are going to be seeing much more software based around IRs in the future! Amazing technology and the fact that processing power can keep up now really opens up possibilities. A plug-in like this could be used for MUCH more than just reverb if you feel like getting creative!!
Damn it sounds great.
I love it - it's the thing you can nerd yourself into and experiment a lot with and once have it in, you're set for every situation and mix. So yeah - pricey, but a keeper for every situation.
To bad I'm broke af
Seeing a lot of bad buzz here, considering the UI and what I see on the video, despite being a workhorse, it seems well implemented, straightforward and inviting user to connect with simplicity on details i'm usually lazy to dive in (not mixing ingeneer but producer). I'll definitly give it a try
The 3d visualisation of the waveform looks really cool. The 3d positioning sounded quite interesting, even on headphones it sounded like surround sound.
I laughed so hard when you emphasized "THE" 😂😭
Thanks for doing this I own this and it’s brilliant just need more English speaking reviews spoke to the team at Hofa really nice guys! Please support them.
Obviously a deep dive would show the amazing depth of possibilities here but i really think the visual feedback and showing what its doing to the sound is very cool ...
this is a super massive plugin. the workflow looks extremely nice and the modularity of the effects makes it very playful, but i noticed that there were discontinuities in the signal when you used certain parameters like the dry/wet mix or even when just dragging the positioner. i can understand that it might be very hard to smoothly interpolate from one setting to another with so many impulse responses doing their thing and all, but when you add a binaural panner to a plugin you just have to make it automatable. people sometimes want things to move around the room.
Love this Reverb
Sounds gorgeous.
cutest ducker animation evarr 🦆
Considering the price of Altiverb these days, this looks like it might be a contender.
control all reverb times with one knob: Master > Global Time Scale is the > 1 st Big Knob Upper Left Corner
Before watching, you won't talk smack about this :P it's freaking beautiful and so overwhelming!!! Hahaha I will watch, but yes, it sounds freaking beautiful.
The IR cut feature can come in very handy when making lo-fi. it sounds low fi at first but when you listen closely it's quite well textured and clear. I like it!
Last time I heard a reverb sounding this good it had Bricasti Design M7 written on the front.
You should take a look at Reverberate 3. Really a great sounding convolution reverb.
Loved this version of ‘Sandstorm’!
I love Hofa Eq.
This is exactly what I was looking for, it's almost perfect
Great video.
The older version has the global percentage knob, i think.Great plugin.
Looks like altiverb with extra knobs, might give it a try!
Nice. There's already another good reverb. As far as I know. Rumors.
Let's be honest, for nice visualisations we could still watch pr0n.
I have bought many reverbs. They are all good. But when I’m mixing I click on one set of reverbs - Valhalla. I may buy this because I like reverbs. But in the end some how it will not replace Valhalla.
The visualization looked a bit like a bed with one of those fancy comforters your grandma knits. You know the one, it has like 40 colors, each section has about 300 feet of yarn in it. perhaps I need to sleep, even I think my comment is whack. :)
Yea I had one similar. It was called a quilt for the winter and I believe I need one right now but it is what it is..
@@jmarvelous9470 LOL, Yes snowing here, Grandma knew what she was doing, :)
Overloud did this long time ago with Rematrix. I love it.
sounds pretty good
I think Abbey Road plate reverb is one of the best reverbs out there
Awesome vid as always
None of the sounds here wowed me. But I've been looking for a decent surround capable reverb so I might give this a spin! Otherwise I'm really happy with my UAD reverbs.
If only it wasn't so expensive... looks VERY DOPE
Wow. This looks incredible. Today is the first time I have discovered Hofa. I see why their prices are top shelf, their gear is top shelf. This would be perfect to use for film production when you want to create foley that needs accurate positional information. I'm grabbing the free bundle for now.
What's wrong with T-Racks Wytse? Do you have plans to review it? Just curious why you haven't done a review of it...
At half the price of Altiverb I'd consider it for post work. Assuming it has the same amount/quality of IRs.
Perfect Song for this Review!
R4 exponential audio is excellent same with reverberate 2. Perfect Plate (Denise) is another nice one. In the end you need to be a pro at using what ever you use hardware of plugin. Its the user.
Thanks for the review ! The interface reminds of iZotope Insight btw :)
Please review and compare Cinematic Rooms algorithmic reverb. It is KINDA similar and they claim to recreate real spaces/halls and do 7.1 Dolby Atmos stuff.
I’ve got it with all the packs……..and easy when you’ve RTFMS and got to know your way about,
12:00 was luscious :-)
Review Cinematic Rooms by LiquidSonics!!
Own and love
Oh yeah, best reverb I own. I really love the flexibility and that you can tune so many parameters. I use it for 5.1 and the fold down to 2.0 just feel same, really amaizing! I've started to use it on 2.0 because of this.
I keep reading that is the best reverb ever I just can’t find enough reviews that are just honest all I find are people praising it
@@KMuse if you have an iLok, you can just load the demo. Full functionality for 14 days whe I remember correctly.
Should review the Bofa plugins as well !
I want a glowball. Don't know what it is, but it sounds cool. ;)
I'm doing a test demo on FL20 and when I try to turn the gate on IR1 section my whole DAW project just shuts down. It's as though I hit a command to exit without saving automatically, basically the instant I try to put the "Gate."
"kinda, kinda,...kinda" lol
Looks like an upstart competitor to Altiverb
I would love to see you checking out UVI Sparkverb and there plate reverb. really enjoy the vids!!
this looks like a reverb for post not music
Nice track from Darude
@@SleepMeditationandAffirmations - www.dictionary.com/e/memes/darude-sandstorm/
if you're going crazy over this than you have never tried liquidsonics reverbs.
Well I have and bought the HOFA. But each to his own.
Usually you do not like gui's imitating analog gear, whereas you prefer Fabfilter plugins. Well, that shows how one prefers listening to music, some do it more with their eyes, some more with ears. Fabfilter's gui will make you use more your eyes, wheras analog gear guis with knobs and sliders only will make you listen more to the music. Interesting
I do like Native Instruments RC24 for Mixing Room and Space, RC48 for shorter Room, Lexicon LXP as other Flavor to RC24, and Valhalla for space and special FX. All other stuff i have and tested is gone becourse they work realy well. Sometimes i use the Ozone 5 Mastering Reverb just for ultra short Room and Camel Space becourse of the FX usability. That hofa Reverb sounds Great - but i dont think it will be very praktical in Mixing Sessions. It can be great in a mix but when i need to adjust on more then 2 or 3 knobs it kills the workflow - i know my Reverbs and i do realy know what they do to the sound and my mix. So i think the Hofa Reverb is a Plugin that screems to get good named presets. I am not that kind of person who likes plugins that makes me crazy by geting stuck in the "perfect" sound. When other Plugins can get the job done too.. so it will be a realy nice to have, thats for sure when it comes to sounddesign but for Mixing there is a user friendly Design missing. Perhaps there is a button for "config" that opens up the engine - think that would be fine.
Did you look in the master tab? Could maybe be some global controls in there.
He had it open at 8:40 to 8:41. it's only level sliders, panning and on/off for each of the individual reverbs - no global settings.
A good alternative to Altiverb
Have you already tested the old, classic and unmatched Anechoic Room Simulator?
It's classy. Not sure if 64bit available.
From an era when Smartelektronix were hot. I lived back then 😁
I wanted to scream at you to try the Master impulse out that is next to impulse 6.
Hey Wytze,
You should do a ‘which one is the best verb’ - video like you did with the tape emulators.
Use this one, the cla, seventh heaven, reverberate, nimbus etc
Jo man, vraagje. Heb je ook een opleiding gedaan voor geluidstechniek of studiotechniek? Zo ja, welke dan?
Are you still using the Mac Mini with the M1 Chip? btw great stuff
There's clicking etc when moving parameters, this would be an issue when automating
I know you have done acustica stuff, but no one has said how they run on the m1 mac. I think lots of there fans would be curious how many channel strips you can run at a time on your m1 mini. Maybe not what you do on your channel but I would love to know!
WHAT?!! YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T RECEIVE AN EMAIL THIS TIME?!!!!
What you think about new Steinberg interface Axr4 that can ad/da 32bit 384 khz?is it the first that can actualy sample at real 32bit, not Daw floating points?
I am still getting benefits from (and getting to know) Fabfilter Pro-R. Is it worth investing time in this one too?
Great video. Where can I get "Sandstorm"?
for an easy to use reverb, try polyverse comet
This is a pretty advanced reverb! I like that, but the GUI is confusing as it is with all HOFA plugins! I find all HOFA plugs to be hard to use! They are not very idk the word right now, user informative.... But the point is it would take me a year to figure this plugin out thouroghly! And that is a no for me. I don't care how good it sounds, that's too much work, and I don't have time for that! However, I really like the options to it, and I think reverbs need some tlc in the plugin world! I like where this is going especially blending a multitude of other reverb IR's to make one unique sounding reverb! The really need to team up with Fabfilter to make their GUI more user friendly or something!
I think you should do blindfolded videos. Compare plugins without watching. And tell which one sound best...
Good Oil of Hofa.
I really love darude sandstorm.. great chords and perc sounds. He should've used it on his song!
In the end, it sounds like hundreds of other reverbs.
The “sound” is completely dependent on the Impulse Responses that it comes with which looks like hundreds.
Fellow plate appreciators.
"Thee" as in THE Ohio state University... American English.
Not necessarily.
We Dutch say D:)
Hey bro we heard you like reverb so we made a reverb where you can add a reverb to a reverb to a reverb to a reverb.
I still use my now ancient WizooVerb W2 which was also available in a W5 version for 4.1 surround sound, Why it wasn't picked up and updated still baffles me but then again Wizoo were one of many perfectly fine, smaller developers that Digidesign bought up, swallowed and then Avid essentially just spat most of those acquisitions out, having done really nothing with the quality stuff that was already right there by said bunch of developers, They kept Trillium Lane Labs Space convolution reverb but didn't do a damned thing with Wizoo Systems, Inc.'s WizooVerb W2 & W2 reverbs...absolute madness!
HOFA's IQ plugins and the more all-in-one style SYSTEM plugins I quite like, I do have a license for their IQ Reverb which is a quality reverb but I don't have a license for this newer one, so I shall have to check it out.
I love convolution reverbs for adding mostly slight amounts of ambience via mostly the early reflections of a quality impulse response, that is one reason I love and cling to my old WizooVerb. Then for more reverb, reverb I use a number of options both convolution and algorithmic depending on the results wanted and the source material, I've been a longtime ValhallaDSP reverb and nowadays a lot more, Sean Costello is a wizard when it comes to reverb algorithms and he is also one of the developers that offer top-notch quality for an extremely reasonable price, Tokyo Dawn Records TDR Gentlemen's Editions plus Limiter 6 plug-ins are top-notch yet at great prices, Klangelm I'd also add to that group off the top of my head.
Cheers for the demos and always keeping it honest man, all the very best!
Dean
I dare you to find the "save preset button" , and after you save try to find your patch (its a hidden feature, really)
100% wet is a good sign.
Klk klik klikkkk krak kraak krrrrrrrrrk, the sound of a dying cpu :-)
At the end of the day we use reverbs minutely 😊
haha this makes me wanna eat the whole pint of ice cream despit my whole cpu being eaten already
Plögin ❤
Pontificating that you have to be able to figure out a very specialised piece of software within 10 minutes is starting to become a bit annoying. Waaaa I don’t understand it, waaa it’s their fault. Stop it man.
11:09 - 11:27, please.
Who would judge such complex reverb just by using it for 10 minutes?? I mean this is not saturation knob with just 1 thing to click..this guy could actually use his brain and "study" the plugin before going on to review it..I watched this video and I didn't learn anything about this plugin or about reverbs in general. This channel has some interesting videos, but literally every plugin review sucks :/
@@LoseYourself001 The problem is you want these videos to be something they are not. The whole point of this series is to see how good of a first impression they give, not to give you a proper in depth review of the plugin.
But who does not want their daily dosis snake oil?
@@KnzoVortex Yes I do agree with you on that, but very often he goes a step further by saying the plugin is actually bad because he cannot figure it out in the ten minutes he spends with it. He is actually making a big thing out of it. It’s very easy to avoid by just saying I don’t know how this works, but then he adds: they should have made more easy. No, you should spend some more time with it,.
Anybody try this out?? I'm very intrigued.
Is it good? Is it worth it?
Try Altiverb next?
Ov coursh! :P
Use yer fader or bus knob
11:40 Melda's MSpectralDynamics is sad. And you said it's amazing and went all Whoaa Whoaa... :C
That's not what he sayd.
@@jellewierda3828 Yeah he did. th-cam.com/video/guyNnNIjicI/w-d-xo.html
Its paid advertise....dont get blind on it....he also likes only light, easy to use plugins....but then comes up with this....
1k👍
Hey..check London Acoustics Verona...will blown you away