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SONIBLE Smart:Reverb £120

The grip of AI on modern plug-in design shows no signs of abating, with Austrian company Sonible now turning its attention towards reverb. Following on from its successful Smart:EQ 2 and Smart:Comp plug-ins, Sonible’s Smart:Reverb is a source-adaptive effect that listens to your audio and creates for it a custom-tailored preset that can be edited in great detail. But is this approach really as intelligent as the marketing suggests or is “artificial” the more operative word here?

START FROM SCRATCH

One of the first things you’ll notice about Smart:Reverb is its lack of presets. For those used to firing up new plug-ins and flicking through patches to get a broad idea of what they’re capable of, this might seem unsettling. Fear not.

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