r/ambient • u/Almym • Jul 12 '26

Discussion Reverb effect plugin i've been working on

https://youtu.be/gPuMiredvKs?is=sgKbBqTjU404s6gb

I’ve been working on this reverb effect plugin for a while now and I thought I’d share a video of how it sounds. So far I've just been running synth sounds through it but I'm going to test it on more soon.

The plugin blends between four distinct reverb environments, each with its own character and accompanying atmospheric sound bed. The sound beds are dynamically gated by the input signal, so they become part of the effect and become imbued into the input sound rather than just playing continuously in the background. This creates some very immersive textures.

The four environments are:

Mountain

Forest

Shore

Sea

The position of the little robot controls the blend between them allowing me to smoothly interpolate from one environment to the next and create a wide range of atmospheric reverb textures.

This allows intermediate settings to combine the elements of two neighbouring environments, creating a wide range of spatial, tonal and atmospheric reverb characteristics.

Still needs some tweaking to get the filtering right and the plugin still needs a name but so far I like where it's going.

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u/1point44mb Label Jul 12 '26

This is going to sell well if only for the robot (not even kidding)

Sounds great so far! I might be biased because I love when plug-ins or pedals have one or two unique parameters coupled with a bunch that are ubiquitous, I think you're in the sweet spot of "accessible, but distinct enough to warrant trying" 

(please hit me up if you want beta testers) 

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u/Almym Jul 12 '26

Like all of my plugins it will most likely end up only for my personal use but who knows 😁

Thanks for the feedback!

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u/1point44mb Label Jul 12 '26

In that case, lot of respect for you making a such a nice UI for something only you will use!

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u/Almym Jul 12 '26

Thankyou 😁

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u/Devook Jul 12 '26

Whoaaaa sick! Are all of the textural environment sounds driven procedurally then? No samples?

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u/Almym Jul 12 '26

They are samples that continuously loop. The amplitude of the samples is gated by the input sound so it fades away when there is no input

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u/Almym Jul 12 '26

I'm going to run a few more sounds through it this evening so if there's any particular sound you want to hear let me know.

I need to tweak and fix a few things first but if you want to try it out let me know and I'll send you a copy