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EMT 246 inspired digital reverb plugin. A free, open-source digital reverb with a vintage heart. REV-246 is inspired by the EMT 246, the rare mid 80s studio reverb prized for its dense, smooth tails and its distinctly period character: a little grit, a little weight, and a sound that sits in a mix instead of on top of it. It runs as AU, VST3 and standalone, on macOS, Windows and Linux.

Five programmes cover everything from a tight room to a twenty-second cathedral, including a non-linear programme for gated and reverse drum sounds and the older EMT 250 algorithm. The panel keeps the original’s six levers, glowing readouts and fader pack. Beneath it are modern conveniences that the original made hard or impossible: a ducker, a stereo-width control, true-stereo operation, presets, and switches for the 16-bit and transformer character that were fixed in the hardware (or, for the transformers, a factory option you had to order).

Highlights
– Five programmes, each with the full set of levers.
– Period character, switchable. 16-bit processing and an optional transformer stage add the grit and weight of the original; switch them off for a clean, modern tail.
– Six levers: low-pass, reflections delay and amplitude, and decay: low-frequency multiplier, reverberation time and high-frequency multiplier.
– Modern conveniences the original lacked: an input-keyed ducker, a WIDTH control that keeps the bass mono as it widens, a mono-sum or true-stereo input mode, and one-click switches for the 16-bit and transformer character.
– 65 factory presets from small rooms and chambers to halls and cathedrals, plus your own user presets.
– Light on the CPU: about 0.5 to 0.8 % of one Apple-silicon core at 44.1 / 48 kHz and about 1 % at 96 kHz, with about 1 ms of latency that your DAW compensates for.

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REV-246.1.0.0  ( 55 MB )