TL;DW: Galactic is a super-reverb designed specially for pads and space ambient.
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Been working on this for a while on Monday coding-streams! Galactic is an extension of my Verbity reverb, designed for ultimate deep space ambient music. It's a combination feedback and feedforward reverb designed to make wide stereo verb-spaces out of anything, even mono test tones if you like.
It takes in audio (dry/wet control available) and uses the Replace control to determine how much of the new sound coming in should replace the space that's currently there. Detune shifts the pitch for both channels (in a quadrature pitch shift arrangement that means maximum widening for each sound) and Brightness controls both the brightness going into, and coming out of, the reverb. Replace, Brightness and Detune are designed to be playable on the fly to make your ambient spaces or evolve them. Bigness is the reverb buffers, so you can still alter that but it will make crashing noises when you do (that will then become more infinite spaces).
I think this one is really fun! As you can see it fits with my experimental-music aesthetic (didn't even have to add Srsly2 on the end of it to make it superwide… though of course I could, and so can you). If you're not quite that abstract, you can still use it on pads for more normal things. Just set Replace to a lot higher, set the Brightness and Bigness appropriately, and use Detune to chorus out your new huge enormous synth pad, or whatever else needs to have an unreasonably huge and wide stereo field. I'm pretty sure this can become your go-to for epic fields of reverb, no matter what's meant to be causing them.
These explorations are made possible by Patreon: this is one of those ones where I feel pretty comfortable saying, if you would have bought this at $50 perpetual license for all your machines, please kick another $50 per year in on the ol' Patreon. You should also grab Verbity because it's a good complement: unlike Galactic, Verbity is strictly dual mono with no stereo spread, so you can use it for more contained ambiences and it will stick the ambience right where the sound source is, in the stereo field. That can clear up space for being able to hear the epic vistas of Galactic. I hope you like them and have fun using them
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