David Hughes tries out three new low-cost companions to the Alesis Microverb - the Micro Enhancer, Micro Gate, and Micro Limiter. Are they the Accessit range of the Eighties?

Take the successful MIDIverb, remove the MIDI bit, reduce the number of programs to 16, and you've got the cheapest digital reverb in the world. Paul White lends it an ear.

Reverb Unit

Now in its third revision, the popular Microverb has attained full rackmount status and boasts an incredible 256 effects programs. Nigel Lord is drowning in reverb.

Multiple Effects Unit

Studio Test

The MIDIverb set new standards for low-price, high quality digital reverb. Can the MIDIfex do the same for even more digital effects? Curtis Schwartz reports.

Several months after the MIDIVERB turned the world of stereo digital reverb on its head, Alesis look set for a repeat performance with their latest unit - a combination of digital delay, reverb and stereo enhancer. Paul Gilby seems lost for words.

digital reverb

An unbelievable digital reverb at an even more unbelievable price.

Studio Test

Jim Betteridge opines on a resounding success

Better than cheap frills, cheap reverb with no frills

Two effects units evaluated

When it comes to the MIDIVERB II, Phil South discovers that sequels can sometimes be better than the originals!

Digital Reverb

In the beginning was the Midiverb; the Midiverb begat the Midiverb II and the Midiverb II. Nigel Lord checks the latest incarnation of Alesis' standard-setting reverb.

This latest release from the purveyors of low-cost signal processing is more a reverb unit with supplementary effects than a full-function multi-effects processor. Paul Ireson journeys into deep space to check it out.

The long-awaited new box from Alesis gives the user access to up to four simultaneous high quality effects.

Digital Multi-effects Processor

Following the success of their Midiverbs and Microverbs, Alesis have developed a unit capable of providing no less than four audio treatments simultaneously. Ian Waugh practices his four-play.

Multi-fx Processor

Possibly the most popular budget multi-fx processor currently available, the Quadraverb has just been upgraded and promoted to the rank of 'Plus'. Nigel Lord investigates.

Sheer XTC

A truly classy digital reverb at a sensible price.

For even less than the price of a semi in Rotherham, you too can experience high quality digital reverb in the privacy of your own home.

Alesis Midiverb 4

The reverb that never dies

Alesis Quadraverb Plus and Datadisk SQ

Upgrading your equipment doesn't always mean selling the old stuff and replacing it entirely: new facilities and features may be only a chip away. Tony Hastings looks at updated versions of two Alesis units.

Alesis Midifex

Now it can be told. This deceptively simple box of delay and reverb effects heralds a new era in push-button production treatments.

Alesis Quadraverb 2

New version of multi-effects classic

Do four things at once with this multi effects processor from Alesis - John Renwick reports

Alesis MIDIverb

Digital reverb comes of age, in the shape of a new American unit that abandons user-programmability in favour of great-sounding presets, and does it at an incredibly low price. Paul White enthuses.