Polaris updated to v1.9 - Early Digital Echo / Reverb with Shimmer and Swell - AAX,AU,CLAP,VST2,VST3

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Well, Shimmer is the only Valhalla plugin I don't own yet... but:

- I would say in some ways Polaris shares more similarity with Übermod than with V³

- Polaris certainly can do stuff that will be hard to do with only one of the Valhallas

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Played with the demo of this last night - Had lots of fun with the down-sampling reverbs settings (is there a reason why they're stepped to specific sample rates rather than a continuous range ?) and crazy feedback loops. The algorithm used for the delay taps etc. is definitely different enough from my Valhalla purchases to invest in this one too - Gonna pick this up after my next pay day !

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Hello! I demoed Polaris to try it out with some very digital synths:

Smoothing out resonant / additive / FM synths:

https://soundcloud.com/djwarmonger/pola ... onic-delay

Creating long evolving tails for FX, commonly used in Psytrance - but not only.

https://soundcloud.com/djwarmonger/pola ... ance-tails
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Really cool demos, Warmonger :) Thank you!

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Be useful if the next version came with a few more presets. With the excellent new features more is needed to show things off. Maybe you'd even consider a small competition, or some way to capture user presets?

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Already own a few boutique 'verbs: NI RC24/RC48 and Eventide Blackhole...

Valhalla Shimmer was next on my list but I am really digging Polaris - it sounds fantastic:

1-soundwise, how does it stack up with Shimmer - can it do the Taj Mahal style presets?
2-more for the dev, are there any plans to implement more pitchshifting stuff (eg octaves, etc?) in the future?

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Hi guys,

@Richard: Yes, I'll do more presets but right now I would like to get a better presets menu, in order to have more categories and not just one big dropdown list.

@frabato: if that's about Polaris, I don't plan (at least for now) more pitch shifting options.

Cheers,
Luca

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Just demoing Polaris... tried it on one of my current projects ("Shimmer Delay" on guitar track) and it sounds really really good. :tu: Gonna purchase it later this month. :)
Optimal number of audio plugins is one more than you currently have.

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Thanks! Looking forward to listen to more tracks by other users and see some more feedbacks :)

Cheers,
Luca

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Luca

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Polaris got 9/10, plus Value and Performance Awards on Computer Music Magazine issue 234 :)
Polaris is an impressive plugin. We’d recommend it to anyone working in creative sound design.
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Audiority wrote:Polaris got 9/10, plus Value and Performance Awards on Computer Music Magazine issue 234 :)
Congrats! Well deserved :).
I did get a life,once...but it was faulty, so I sent it back.

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Nice! Congrats! :-D

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vic_france wrote:
Audiority wrote:Polaris got 9/10, plus Value and Performance Awards on Computer Music Magazine issue 234 :)
Congrats! Well deserved :).
+1 :tu:
Optimal number of audio plugins is one more than you currently have.

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