Simply because the computer has had time to do all the calculations. For example, I have noticed that a lot of times, my sound changes after an offline bounce. No matter how good a Reverb plug in is - if you dont give it enough juice, it wont be able to render good results.
They have dedicated processors only for doing the Reverb calculations.Ī computer has to deal with a lot of other things going on at the same time. This is probably the primary reason why hardware Reverbs are still better. Since, each unit only gives one instance. They are very expensive so its not going to be easy. Or I am planning to slowly invest in the classic Hardware Reverbs. I am now very seriously considering having a machine just to run reverbs and Mastering plug ins.
I do think that CPU's are not always allowed to render reverbs and other plug ins corretly because they have to deal with so many other processes.įor example in Cubase, an offline bounce sounds many times superior to real-time play back even when my ASIO meter is at 50%. I think its best to get both of them and I am sure you wont be looking for another VST reverb for quite sometime!
