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Rayverb by Prosoniq, an inverse retraycing reverb

Actually, all Raytracing is done inversively to massively conserve CPU power. So there is no need to call it "inversive" other than for marketing purposes.

In detail: raytraced images could be theoretically created by simulating all light rays starting from all the light sources and sometimes ending up at the camera. But to speed things up, the process is done inversively by simulating only the rays that end up at the camera by calculating from here back to the light sources.

So with sound, this would mean that you place your mics in a room and the program traces back all the ways in which sound ending up at a mic could start at a certain virtual loudspeaker.

Btw: does anybody know if Rayverb allows the creation of binaural recordings, too? Because this would really rock!

This post has been edited by anonymous: Wed 14 Jan 2004, 15:13