Review

Tech Reviews: New products (July/August 2020)

Tim Hallas outlines this summer's new music tech.

Price: FREE!

Valhalla's previous plugins have been covered here before – and its Shimmer reverb is my go-to reverb plugin for sound design purposes with post-16 students. Its latest (and free) time-based product is, as the name suggests, designed to create other-worldly textures. It uses a combination of reverbs and delays that interact with each other to create lush textures and soundscapes.

The delay time can be stretched to a massive two seconds, and the sound can be ‘warped’ to add some modulation and movement within the sound. The sounds it creates are almost complex enough to be instruments in their own right. The simple interface hides a lot of power. Oh… and did I mention that it's free?

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