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.
These are the effects I always have somewhere in my mix. The pay effects have SOOOOOOO much depth, not in the number of parameters to tweak but the engines. You get greaty value in the $50. If you dont have any, try this one and imagine what a more fully featured one will do.
Nice addition. I not only get great use from Supermassive, I bought their delay when they offered the reverb for free. The sound quality is high and the GUIs are easy to adjust on the fly. They’re easy on the CPU, so they work well as channel inserts, too.
Thanks for this plugin Dave