Eventide Temperance Lite - "world's first musical reverb" PRO version now released

[Guy Rowland]

Of Temperance Lite, Eventide say: "Imagine a room filled with thousands of tuning forks, each tuned to a different frequency. What if you could control the loudness and decay of each one?

Temperance models reverberant spaces as thousands of independent resonances (modes), all adjustable in real time. While convolution reverbs capture a space in a single snapshot, Temperance builds it piece by piece, letting you shape how each mode decays or resonates".

In practice you get control over the 12 notes in the chromatic scale and the octaves. You can either boost or cut to accentuate notes or chords.



It's interesting, unique even. Fun to play with - you can do stuff like create rhythmic drones easily. But my main thought is - all very well, but won't you want to change the notes on every chord change?

But hey, it's free. Presumably a full fat paid version will come along in due course.

EDIT - clearly what this needs is midi input to change the selected notes. That would be a whole new ballgame, potentially very interesting.

[RobS]

The 12 notes in the pentatonic scale?

[Guy Rowland]

The 12 notes in the pentatonic scale?

Lord. A senior moment.

[RobS]

The 12 notes in the pentatonic scale?

Lord. A senior moment.

[Guy Rowland]

EDIT - clearly what this needs is midi input to change the selected notes. That would be a whole new ballgame, potentially very interesting.

...and here it is. Temperance Pro is out now with a lot more features, crucially including midi input. Here's a few examples:



I'm a little underwhelmed by the end result actually. For all it's cleverness it just sounds like there's a keyboard playing quietly in the background.

$78 crossgrade for Lite owners.

https://www.eventideaudio.com/plug-ins/temperance-pro/

[Mike Marino]

The 12 notes in the pentatonic scale?

5 out of 4 people are bad with math.

[Tanuj Tiku]

In theory, it sounds like a great idea but for some reason it doesn’t sound like it. I don’t get it. Not really hearing anything special and with things like adaptiverb out there, it’s even less convincing.

I should check adaptiverb again!

[Guy Rowland]

In theory, it sounds like a great idea but for some reason it doesn’t sound like it. I don’t get it. Not really hearing anything special and with things like adaptiverb out there, it’s even less convincing.

I should check adaptiverb again!

Yeah, I tend to agree - the results aren't nearly as interesting as they should be.

The problem with Adaptiverb for me has always been latency - it introduces massive amounts that cause problems. But there's a lot more esoteric reverb options now, the new Omnisphere FX rack is a fun playground.