Valhalla DSP has released ValhallaSupermassive 4.0.0, a major update to the free reverb plugin that adds the new Pleiades reverb/echo mode.

And developer Sean Costello says that Pleiades is “the best reverb in Supermassive.”

Here’s what he has to say about it:

“Pleiades is designed to make the smoothest, most natural reverbs yet found in Supermassive. Pleiades has a very fast attack, and a filtered exponential decay. The reverb structure is inherently dense without coloration, and the echo density can be increased by turning DENSITY up to 100% without sounding metallic.

The goal of Pleiades is to create transparent, open sounding reverbs, but it also excels at modulation effects and chorused delays.”

Features:

• Pleiades can be used to create realistic small room sounds with shorter delays and lower feedback values.
• Turn up the feedback, and you get a lush reverb with a natural high frequency decay (depending on the EQ settings).
• The modulation is rich and balanced, which makes Pleiades ideal for huge modulated reverbs, as well as chorus/flangers and chorused synced echoes.

Pleiades Audio Demo:

Here’s a demo of the Pleiades mode, used on guitar and bass. The rhythm guitar is running through a Pleiades reverb preset, the lead guitar is sent through the Pleiades Run Like Heck preset, and the bass is using the Pleiades 4 voice chorus preset:

Availability:

Valhalla Supermassive is a free plugin, available for both Windows and Intel/M1/M2/M3/M4 Macs.