What's your favorite reverb in Csound

I’ve been using csound7 lately. While using the csound7 API, I got the message
“warning: opcode reverbsc is deprecated”
when I tried to use reverbsc(This message does not appear in csound7 cli).
I was surprised. Reverbsc is always the first reverb I use in Csound.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that can’t be used right away…
but I suddenly wondered. What are your favorite reverbs in Csound?

Strange that you see this in the API and not in the CLI, yeah, it’s probably my favourite reverb too.

I ported the zita-rev1 reverb to csound some months ago, it sounds really good and more natural than reverbsc

https://csound-plugins.github.io/csound-plugins/opcodes/zitarev.html

Thanks for sharing, it’s hard to keep up to date with all of your opcodes. I’m not sure I’d describe reverbsc as natural sound, but it has a certain something that makes it nice for sound design. I’ll check your zita opcode when i get a chance.

I also like Steven Yi’s Shimmer Reverb(Shimmer Reverb – Steven Yi) :slight_smile:

Hi!

zita reverb in Csound is is very, very welcome, thank you!

I had some difficulties getting it installed, if it is useful for others:

  1. I tried via risset
    I updated my risset with ‘risset update’ to version 3.2.2 but when I tried to install the faust-ported opcodes

‘risset install poodle’
(I guess this is where the zitarev opcode lives) I get:
Error while getting plugin dll (plugin: poodle): The downloaded file /tmp/plugins-csound6-linux.zip is not a zip file. The url (‘https://git
hub.com/csound-plugins/csound-plugins/releases/download/v2.2.8/plugins-csound6-linux.zip’) pointed to an invalid file

Stupid me, I answer myself to ‘What about Csound 7’ –
there is download option for plugins-csound7-… by the assets, just a bit below…

Works like a charm with Csound 7 as well!

I will be updating my reverb in several projects…

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Kontakt Tarmo Johannes (<trmjhnns@gmail.com>) kirjutas kuupäeval T, 11. november 2025 kell 11:32:

It should work with risset, I just forgot to update the github release tag