Price: $50 each (£35)
Valhalla is a small plugin manufacturer that specialises in reverbs, delays and modulation effects. These are the effects that you use to make audio sound interesting by adding movement and ambience. I have had Shimmer for a while but this week I acquired Delay and decided that it was worth looking at both of them together in the context of teaching music.
Let's start with Shimmer because that was where I began. I first encountered this plugin when it was required for some third-party sounds that I was downloading for Apple's MainStage, which is a music application that is focussed on live performance rather than studio music-making. I had all of the requisite instruments but all of the sounds required Shimmer, which necessitated a trip to Valhalla's website to further investigate this unknown quantity. The first thing I was struck by was the price – $50 is quite reasonable for a plugin and once it's been bought, you can put it on all of your personal machines.
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