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GWR71
Inspiring
April 24, 2025
Question

How can I keyframe the gain of a reverb to make the audio ramp from dry to wet and back?

  • April 24, 2025
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I've got a reverb on the effects rack of track 1, and I want to be able to ramp the reverb gain using an envelope. I can't find any way to do this, other than duplicate the track so I have one with reverb and one without, and mix between the two. Surely there's a more elegant way?

I've experimented with all the Rack envelopes, and none do what I need. The one that comes closest is Rack Power, but that's basically a hard on/off control for rack effects, so it won't allow for gradually ramping the reverb gain up and down.

For absolute clarity, I need to be able to make the track ramp from dry to wet and back again at various point defined by keyframes on an envelope. Ideally I want the envelope to be *only* affecting the gain of the reverb, *not* the gain of the dry source track.

What's the best way to achieve what I want? On an analogue mixing desk (yes, I'm that old) I'd do it either by turning the reverb send level up and down, or using a pre-fader send to the reverb unit and bringing up the reverb return on its own fader.

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 24, 2025

You haven't said exactly which reverb it is you are trying to control... but if you use the studio Reverb, for instance, you would use the 'Wet Output Level' enveope to do this. If you don't touch the Dry control, then you should achieve your aim on a single track.