KORNEFF MDR 1.0, User Manual

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Micro Digital Reverberator - User Manual
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MICRO DIGITAL REVERBERATOR
The Korne ff Audio Micro Digital Reverberator gives you access to the funky reverb sounds
that in fl uenced a generation of producers and engineers who got their start in home
studios in the 1980s and '90s.
In the early '80s, plate reverbs, digital reverbs, and good-sounding spring reverbs cost a lot,
and were found only in big, commercial studios. Kids with four-track cassette recorders,
making punk and hip-hop tracks, were lucky to have a boingy-ass, cheap spring reverb to
throw on a vocal. But everything changed in 1986, when digital reverb became a
ff ordable.
Actually, it became cheap.
These game-changing devices were small black boxes with minimal controls and only pre-
programmed sounds—there was no adjusting of decay time, damping, early re
fl ections, or
any of that fancy stu ff . It was pick a program and go. There were a few room simulations
ranging from crawlspace to concert hall, some plates, a few gated reverb sounds (it was the
'80s, so of course there were gated reverbs) and some weird but strangely musical
backwards e
ff ects. And considering the price, these things sounded AMAZING.
And soon they were EVERYWHERE—home studios, live sound set-ups, on guitar rigs.
Commercial studios also adopted them, and why not: for $1000 you could get three digital
reverb units. The sounds of these cheap little boxes are all over many of your favorite
records from that time.
Our Micro Digital Reverberator has two di ff erent, iconic vintage digital reverberators,
replicating the one-of-a-kind sounds and simple interface that made these things fast and
fun to work with. Slap our MDR across an insert, click through the various reverb and e
ff ect
programs, pick one, and go!
Feel free to ignore the manual! I sure did, back then! But if you do read on, we’ll give you
some ideas and hints on how to think about this particular plugin, and get some great
sounds on your recordings.
Minimum System Requirements Supported Plugin Formats
Quad Core i5 Processor Intel Mac 64bit: VST3, AU, AAX
4GB of RAM Windows 64bit: VST3, AAX
Mac OS X 10.14 or Later
Windows 7 & Above
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