Sample Robot and Reverb...

[whyterabbyt]

A company called Lodigy made an impulse response reverb pedal that could load impulses.

Or for something that's still made, there's the Beebo.

[audiojunkie]

I've been told to add reverb afterward, because time-based effects are hard to sample

Well, they're not hard to sample, any more than any audio source is harder to sample than any other, but what you'd be getting is a specific 'baked in' instance of that effect that will always be fixed, and that's not necessarily what you want of a time-based effect.

Baked in reverb just doesn't act like a reverb plugin, due to each note stopping or decaying on the MIDI note-off message. So, while you're right that you can sample a patch with reverb, it just won't ever be remotely the same thing.

So, it's not "hard to," it's just "useless to" try to sample reverb.

The way to "sample" a reverb is to have JUST the reverb and feed it a pulse input, record the result, and use that as the kernel (a.k.a. "impulse file") with a convolution plugin. If you can't do that, then the best alternative is what you're trying to do here, which is hope someone recognizes it or knows what sort of reverb is used on the original. Good luck!

Well of course the other alternative is to try a lot of reverbs until you get close enough.

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