Well, I think the integration of the reverb in v8 is pretty good. I know I said that I wasn't in a hurry to try an external reverb, but... what the heck, I went ahead and tried it anyway! Early results are promising. With a bit of work, I think I'll be able to achieve some satisfying 'piano in a hall' sounds. I really struggled with reverb in v7, but v8 seems to work much better.
I will have to experiment more myself.
Apart from deliberately going for an effects reverb to deliver an intentionally artificial (if pleasing) result I would suggest the main reason people use third party reverb/s is global reverb/s on auxiliary send channel/s to apply across multiple tracks in a project.
I think the reverb in version 8 is a bit too harsh but that might be only my opinion
Well, I think the integration of the reverb in v8 is pretty good. I know I said that I wasn't in a hurry to try an external reverb, but... what the heck, I went ahead and tried it anyway! Early results are promising. With a bit of work, I think I'll be able to achieve some satisfying 'piano in a hall' sounds. I really struggled with reverb in v7, but v8 seems to work much better.
one of the nice thing with physical modelling synthesis, or synthesis in general, is that you can have a totally dry signal and give it the reverb/room that you want.
and not have to deal with the room ambience that might be 'baked' into a sample.