Can anyone recomend a reverb VST as lush and warm sounding as the generic Logic reverb for Cubase?

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#1
Basicly what the tittle says.

I used to use Logic until my Mac broke down after an unfortunate beer spilling incident.

I only had the money to spare for a PC and as a consequence I had to stop using Logic and was forced to use Cubase.

What I miss most about Logic is probably the generic reverb that comes with Logic.
It is just so warm and lush, easy and thankful to use, like it just makes everything you run through it sound good.

I have tried several reverb VST's for Cubase, but non of them came close.

So please suggest an alternative, preferably free.
 
#2
When you say "generic" Logic reverb, which one of Logic's reverb plugins are you describing? There's Space Designer, which is based on impulse responses, and then a series of legacy algorithmic reverbs.

I'm an active Logic user and have dropped its reverb entirely in favor of Valhalla Room. It's algorithmic, so if you've been using Space Designer it will behave a little differently, but it blows away all of Logic's stock reverbs as far as I'm concerned. It's not free, but it's very reasonably priced.
 
#3
Hmm, well, I am not sure what the name was or how it was programmed or processed the sound.

But it was probably Space Designer as I remember you, beside the usual controls, were able to shape the room it was supposed to emulate in almost any possible shape with an actual graphic representation of the room size and shape to go along.

Since taste is widely subjective it could be I just like the way impulse response affects the sound.

Could someone maybe recommend a reverb that uses impulse control then?

I might try look into the Valhalla one anyway though, thanks for the suggestion.
 
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#4
All you need is a convolution plugin to load an IR. There are tons, many of which are free. You then have to find IRs that you like. That's where the costs usually occur as any adequately sampled IR in a good room with a good mic with good placement into a good preamp and good conversion is going to come at a cost. A bad IR will always sound like a bad IR.
 
#8
The Valhalla reverbs are good...I use Valhalla Plate and Shimmer (the latter is especially nice for huge ambient stuff). I've noticed Valhalla Room can have a tendency towards buildup in the low mids, so you'll often need to use fairly aggressive low-cut filtering on the reverb send (which is something often done with mixing reverbs in general, but some other reverb plugins like Relab LX480 and Exponential Audio Phoenixverb tend to sound more transparent by default and don't require as much bandlimiting).

On the IR-based reverbs subject, LiquidSonics Reverberate 2 is often spoken highly of on gearslutz. It comes with some freely-downloadable IR's, including a new Bricasti M7 set.
 
#10
I've been experimenting with pretty drastic reverb bandlimiting lately (low cut around 600Hz, high cut as low as 4 or 5K). The so-called Abbey Road reverb trick ramped up a notch. Definitely don't want to do that in every situation, but it's rather effective for a more up-front, tight vocal that sounds less "effected" but still has some sense of space. I saw Dave Pensado doing that in a vid and it looked like a crazy-extreme thing to do to a reverb send, but I'll be damned if it doesn't actually work.
 
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