shep@datacube.UUCP (11/04/85)
I've decided I -must- buy a digital reverb. Range of effects and midi programmability are the two main factors. It must be not cost over 1.2k. This brings me down to the choice between Yamaha's REV-7 and Lexicon's PCM-70. Both sound great. Both cost about 1k. Both have some degree of midi programmability - but I want more than just patch switching; I want to tweak ! Has anyone had experience with either of these two units? Shep Siegel UUCP: ihnp4!datacube!shep Datacube Inc.; 4 Dearborn Rd.; Peabody, Ma. 01960; 617-535-6644
rnj@brl (Robert Jesse) (11/10/85)
About the Yamaha REV-7 vs. Lexicon PCM-70 -- I happened across both units at AES a few weeks ago. The following is based on my possibly erroneous recollections -- I have info on paper only for the REV-7 and no reliable pricing info on either. The REV-7 lists for about 1.2k and is a mono-in stereo-out reverb unit. Various echo/reverb parameters can be edited, resulting in new reverb "patches" you can store in memories provided in addition to the factory set ones. The nomenclature surrounding the device will not be foreign to anyone familiar with standard reverb processors. The PCM-70 is billed by its mfg. as an effects processor, not a reverb unit. In fact, so the fellow said, they didn't even intend for it to be a reverb box, but simply happened to notice that it would serve nicely, so they tossed in a few plate/foil/room/etc patches. The numerous editable parameters, most of which are replicated for each of six voice-like entities, are thus not quite so familiar as those of the REV-7. I think the price is around 2.2 or 2.3K. What is needed is critical fiddling with the units side-by-side in a setting that permits acute listening. My feeling is that if the reverb functions of the PCM-70 match those of the REV-7 in quality, then it's worth a kilobuck for the nifty extra features. [in answer to the original question, it's true that both permit patch selection via MIDI; i don't know if either allows actual editing via MIDI]