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Alesis Midiverb 2 (1987)

from Sound of discontinued and obsolete reverb units by An Moku

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Midiverb 2 (1987)

This devil in 19-inch clothing comes from the people who brought you the MIDIVERB and Microverb, two outstanding products in a market where the words 'cheap' and 'quality' are rarely mentioned in the same sentence, let alone about the same product. It's the sign of a smart company when, instead of building a reputation on a couple of products and then sitting back for a round of applause, they proceed to make something better and cheaper than ever before.

Lurking on the PCB inside the MIDIVERB II is a 16-bit linear PCM convertor, running in a RISC environment with a custom-built VLSI chip (clocked at a snappy 8MHz) which, unless you've got ears like a bat, is as clean as you're likely to need, buddy. Seriously though, although anything you can't hear won't hurt you, having as little as 0.1% distortion isn't bad, and it gives you that ultra-clean, digital sound that people love so well. Some other interesting spec is: this unit used to be used by Boards of Canada and Apex Twin.

There are 99 preset effects supplied (plus defeat), featuring 29 very natural sounding reverbs, 10 gated reverbs, 10 reverse reverbs, 20 echoes, 10 flanges, 10 choruses and 10 miscellaneous effects. That's a lot of stuff, and it's all as easy to use as the remote control on your video. Okay, so you can't alter any of the programs, stepping the reverb up and down in infinitessimal graduations... but there are more different room sizes than you'll ever really use here, so who needs to, hmm?

The dynamic range, a statistic so frequently bandied about by audio salespersons, is a whopping 85dB. Right, so much for the physics of the situation, how does it sound?

This is the Midiverb 2 sounding. On the foto it is the 2nd in the row. You are hearing the Digitone by Elektron playing a few notes constantly and generatevely feeded into the MV2. I have used the preset number 29 at ca. 45-50% wet, XLarge Warm (15sec.). Midiverb2 into the Oto Machines Boum into H5 (line in). The only thing I did to this recording was adding a bit of EQ by Kush. Not too much. You need to hear the unit. I think the MV2 sounds beautiful. It offers a lovely, lovely lofi and mojo. I love it.

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from Sound of discontinued and obsolete reverb units, released March 31, 2022

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An Moku Zurich, Switzerland

An Moku (Dominik Grenzler) is a sound artist, conceptual producer and former bass guitar player based in Zürich, Switzerland. He has released music on Puremagnetik, Karlrecords, Dio Drone, Slowcraft Records, Bullflat3.8, Audiobulb and his own label Endtitles. ... more

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