Interface Overview
Window
From top to bottom the window holds the header, a visualisation band shared by every tab, the tab area with the master strip on its right, the footer, and a row for preset sharing. The window can be resized at a fixed aspect ratio from 0.75 to 1.6 times its base size. The header carries the ANTIVERB title, the preset menu, the DRY / WET slider, the MINIMAL / EXPERT button and CODEX.Tabs
The six tabs are SOURCE, DENSIFICATION, REFLECTIONS, SPACE, TONE and SPATIAL. The first five hold the six processing stages (REFLECTIONS holds both early reflections and diffusion) in the order the signal meets them. SPATIAL holds the speaker rig and the placement of each part of the sound. See Signal Chain.Stage Headers
Each processing stage has a header that reads the stage name followed by MIX (for example DENSIFICATION MIX), with these controls and per-channel peak meters:
The REFLECTIONS tab stacks two headers, REFLECTIONS MIX and DIFFUSION MIX, each with its own MIX and BYPASS. Their SOLO buttons are one control, soloing early reflections and diffusion together.
MIX and BYPASS changes are smoothed over 30 ms, so moving them while audio plays does not click.
The SPATIAL tab has a SPATIAL ROUTING header with a single BYPASS. See Spatial Objects.
Master Strip
The rail on the right of the tab area holds IN and OUT (input and output trim, -24 to +6 dB, default 0 dB) and the input and output meters. The meters run from -60 to +6 dB with a peak hold and turn warm above 0 dB. On a multichannel bus the output meters are grouped under BED, SUR and TOP; hovering a meter names its output. DRY / WET in the header (0 to 100 %, default 100 %) blends the processed result with the dry input. An always-on soft saturator leaves the signal untouched up to 0 dBFS and rounds anything above it toward a ceiling of +2.92 dBFS. On a multichannel output with a Small and a Sub output, the Sub outputs have a ceiling of their own at -0.92 dBFS (see Speaker Layout). Double-clicking a knob, a MIX slider, DRY / WET, IN or OUT returns it to its default. Double-clicking a knob’s value readout opens it for typing a value.MINIMAL and EXPERT
The button in the header shows the current view and switches every tab between a few macro knobs (MINIMAL) and the full control set (EXPERT). A new instance opens in MINIMAL. The view is saved with the session and with presets. See Macros.Cards
Controls are grouped into cards. In EXPERT view a card can carry expandable sections drawn as [+] NAME when closed and [-] NAME when open (for example [+] ONSET & SHAPE on DENSIFICATION). Expandable sections start closed and are hidden in MINIMAL.Visualisation
The band above the tabs draws every stage at once. The active tab’s layer is drawn solid, the others faint, and bypassed stages fainter still, over a faint spectrum of the output.- DENSIFICATION: each tap as a vertical stick on a logarithmic time axis, with jitter shown as a blur around each tap, and faint overlays for the envelope, the densifier’s tone curve, the stereo spacing and the smoother’s trend and threshold. Warm bands on the spectrum mark where the smoother is cutting.
- REFLECTIONS: the three reflection groups as sticks over 0 to 400 ms.
- SPACE: the delay lines as a ring of nodes, with chords that bend with the modulation depth and moving beads for energy passing between lines.
- SOURCE: a distance marker and the tone curve.
- TONE: the tilt line.