KVR Audio

GreyLion · Post by **GreyLion** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 1:28 am

valhallasound wrote:
GreyLion wrote:Thanks, Sean! Just bought it. And I'm hoping that you're swamped with orders, so no big rush needed on the keyfile for me, since I won't get a chance to play with it until the weekend.
Well, I just sent a keyfile to Texas!

Yep, that was me!! Yay!!!

states · Post by **states** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:23 am

excellent! thank you ! i'll be making the purchase as soon as i get home from work !

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:25 pm

Just bought the Windows VST! It's going to be a real fun weekend!!!

valhallasound · Post by **valhallasound** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:14 pm

woolyloach wrote:Just bought the Windows VST! It's going to be a real fun weekend!!!

Keyfile just sent!

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:18 pm

valhallasound wrote:
woolyloach wrote:Just bought the Windows VST! It's going to be a real fun weekend!!!
Keyfile just sent!

Woo-hoo! Can't wait to get home and jam out!

Think I'll sneak out of work early!

chroma · Post by **chroma** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 4:49 pm

that thing sounds amazing!

btw, i like the 'down' mode just as much as the 'up' mode... two shimmers in parallel, one -12, one +12 sounds just amazing...

JeffSanders · Post by **JeffSanders** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:52 pm

Sounds beautiful. Congrats Sean. This is actually a perfect compliment to EOS.

It's already made its' way into a few of my songs...I can see it becoming part of my signature sound on this album.

valhallasound · Post by **valhallasound** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:00 pm

JeffSanders wrote:Sounds beautiful. Congrats Sean. This is actually a perfect compliment to EOS.

Just needs a better preset management (and maybe a dozen more presets). How about oversampling?

I have a different preset mechanism in place for the OSX plugins, but people were reporting some issues, so I removed it for the initial Win VST release. I'll revisit the code and see what the issues were once I get a Win 7 environment set up, so I can test it in more hosts (the preset management works in the hosts I have, but others were reporting issues with different DAWs).

All due respect to those plugin developers that use oversampling, but I don't feel that this is necessary for a reverb - at least the way I design them. The "bright" mode I use has a perfectly flat amplitude response up to Nyquist, so no oversampling needed. There is a bit of grunge due to the modulation, but that is intentional, as this was found in older hardware reverbs. I have done some "noise shaping" like the older reverbs, such that the noise is far less obtrusive than it would be if it were full bandwidth.

Honestly, my sonic tastes lean towards things that are a bit darker or grungier. If oversampling + a more computationally intensive interpolation method were used (and if I changed a few other things under the hood that are my "secret sauce"), the reverb could be much "cleaner," but it wouldn't be the sound I am looking for. I feel that a bit of noise, if properly placed in the frequency spectrum, can add some sonic ambiguity to the resulting sound that flatters most input signals. Again, these are my preferences - other developers have their own styles. At Valhalla DSP, We Celebrate Algorithmic Diversity! (TM)

Sean Costello

valhallasound · Post by **valhallasound** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:04 pm

chroma wrote:that thing sounds amazing!

btw, i like the 'down' mode just as much as the 'up' mode... two shimmers in parallel, one -12, one +12 sounds just amazing...

Thanks! I am proud of the dual shifting modes. It wasn't hard to shoehorn two pitch shifters in there (they are very CPU efficient), but the hard part was figuring out how they would fill the stereo spectrum without leaning to one side or the other, or without blowing up at high feedback levels. I am happy with the solution.

Sean Costello

JeffSanders · Post by **JeffSanders** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:10 pm

Thanks Sean. I guess in a way I'm influenced by this new (well, Voxengo's done it forever, but suddenly it's a trend) fad of oversampling. I think I'll try recording and mixing in 88.2 and solve the whole thing. It does sound better on compressors!

Listening to my tracks with a touch of Shimmer puts me in a dream state. It's killer.

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:30 pm

valhallasound wrote:At Valhalla DSP, We Celebrate Algorithmic Diversity! (TM)

LOL

Congrats on the Win Release!

quantize · Post by **quantize** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:39 pm

Aether & Shimmer = Verbvana™

t3toooo · Post by **t3toooo** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:52 am

THIS PLUGIN IS SHIT!

errm... i mean "it's the shit" !!!

Shy · Post by **Shy** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:02 am

I'm in reverb valhalla...

God/s...

Here's a beautiful setting that works great with anything. Might make you shed a tear when used on drums:

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reverb mode: mediumStereo
pitch mode: singleReverse
color mode: dark
mix (if used as insert): 23
shift: -0.05
feedback: 0.524
diffusion: 0.804
size: 0.17
low cut: 250
high cut: 8000
mod rate: 0.57
mod depth: 0.17

JediMind · Post by **JediMind** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:17 am

WOW, it's amazing what you can do with just sine waves and Shimmer

Eagerly waiting the 64bit version.

ValhallaShimmer