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From Our Research Team:

As Good As Reality!

Tascam GigaPulse generates an incredible, lifelike reverberation by using actual recordings made in acoustic spaces, including the tools to sample your own rooms. This breakthrough technology from Tascam adds microphone modeling, selectable room position and tail extension processing to the GigaPulse convolution engine for detailed control over the reverb sound. But the real revolution is the reverb quality - so realistic that samples, instruments and vocals come to life.

Convolution Engine
Most reverb generators are just a series of digital delays looping together. Convolution, as found in GigaPulse offers a new way to produce reverb - it uses an actual recording of a room, much like sampling synthesizers use the recording of a guitar or a drum set to create realistic instrument sounds.

Mic Modeling
Big-budget Hollywood films have their scores recorded in the best rooms around the world, using vintage tube microphones to capture every detail. Tascam built mic modeling into the GigaPulse plug-in. Mic Modeling allows you to select any microphone from an all-star mic locker as the transducer for your virtual recording stage. Perhaps you're looking for a model based on a vintage Neumann for a big orchestral sound, or maybe there's an RCA ribbon mic that would add a smoky jazz feel to the recording - with Tascam GigaPulse you have it!

Move Sound Around the "Room"
GigaPulse libraries have been carefully recorded with impulses taken in various locations in a room. Most have recordings with the source at the front of the room, near the back, on either side of the room, halfway up on the left, etc. These multiple recordings - up to eighteen locations - give you the flexibility to place an instrument anywhere in a room or hall. You can arrange an orchestra the way they would naturally sit in concert, or try moving a piano around the room without breaking your back. You can select a different room location for the left and right mics individually for wide stereo tracks.


Play with GigaPulse's exclusive sound location feature that gives you unprecedented control over a critical parameter that no standard reverb can effectively change. Imagine all of the unique impulses you can sample and apply to your work. There's nothing quite like GigaPulse, except maybe reality itself.


Tascam GigaPulse Features:

• Acoustic space modeling through convolution
  
• Microphone modeling to controls the character of the effect, or can be used by itself to emulate other microphones
  
• Tail extension technology reduces the processing load when you need more instances of the plug-in
  
• Cascade function combines two or more impulses to create a new reverb impulse
  
• User-controlled placement in a virtual room allows the "source" to be moved around relative to the mic position
  
• "Move" the mic using the Perspective slider to control the reverb amount while maintaining phase and imaging
  
• Users can import their own impulse recordings to create new room or processor models

Specification Detail Manufacturer Part Number TAS-86692-05

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