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Really useful as it is now. Sounds great, and while I'm not always happy to give away all control to sliders and randomisation because the results can sound off, the creator has designed the parameters really well and I haven't had a bad result yet.
The future updates look really promising too. All round winner.
Reviewed By Tracing Arcs [all]
April 4th, 2026
Version reviewed: 1.0 on Windows
Great little product. I have always had a hit/miss relationship with PaulStretch. And stumbled through results I felt I had no control over (just extended slower versions). This has made it much easier. And with the proposed improvements of user definable sequence of effects this should get better. Great to put your own mark on sounds.
Really easy to use product, you put an audio as a reference track, try some presets and play with the (few) sliders provided and then hit generate to get an ambiant track, you can also randomize the effects if you need to.
My only complaint so far is that we don't have a deep control of the effects with sliders, but from what I see on their discord this is a planned update.
Looks to me to be yet another remake, perhaps even just a repackage, of free and open source Paulstretch VST paulstretchX, which has more control over your results. Only value added is the ez interface that replaces user control with random seeded generation.
Response from Parallel Minds from Parallel Minds on March 25th, 2026
Thanks for checking it out! Just to clarify, Reverie isn't a repackage of paulstretch. Paulstretch is one of several processing stages in the engine, alongside spectral blur, shimmer reverb, stereo widening, and others depending on the style you choose. Each generation runs a full chain of effects, not just time stretching.
You're right that the interface is simple by design though. The goal was to make ambient creation accessible to people who don't want to learn DSP or tweak dozens of parameters. For someone who already knows their way around paulstretchX and wants full manual control, that's probably the better tool. Reverie is aimed at a different audience.
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