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foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Sat Feb 05, 2022 3:27 am

I found an unusual use for Velvet Machine tonight -- fixing some intermittent buzzy harshness I was getting in about the 1200-4000Hz range in a track due to driving something in my modular a little too hard. I isolated that band with zPlane Peel and stuck Velvet Machine in it, gave it a bit of a slow ramping attack and smooth release, moderate density and 100% wet. It blended the relatively sharp attack and release of those buzzes into a more smooth tone without losing much of the overall timbre.

It's not a perfect cleanup, but this is already a noisy track with some other noise and resonance helping to mask it, so the result is much more listenable IMHO.

dreamvoid · Post by **dreamvoid** » Sat Feb 05, 2022 4:03 am

I really wish the concept of Velvet Machine will be developed even further! Great plug in and I found several uses for it.

Havok · Post by **Havok** » Sun Nov 06, 2022 6:05 pm

Currently half price ($16)

https://phonolyth.com/products/velvet-machine

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Sun Nov 06, 2022 6:37 pm

Havok wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 6:05 pm Currently half price ($16)

https://phonolyth.com/products/velvet-machine

My humble recommendation for anything Atmospheric or Drone.

Download SOphist · Post by **Download SOphist** » Mon Nov 07, 2022 12:29 am

thanks for the heads up

Ploki · Post by **Ploki** » Mon Nov 07, 2022 11:51 am

El°HYM wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 6:37 pm
Havok wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 6:05 pm Currently half price ($16)

https://phonolyth.com/products/velvet-machine
My humble recommendation for anything Atmospheric or Drone.

How i usually use it:
- easy synced reverse shorts for snares/claps, i abuse it for this
- put it on a drum bus and just automate mix button of interesting short insta-transitions
- in conjuction with Timeless3 diffuse (timesynced) to gradually blur something out of existence

Jonathan Shepherd · Post by **Jonathan Shepherd** » Mon Nov 07, 2022 9:25 pm

Thanks for the heads up on the sale. This one slipped past me before. Super versatile and seems to always sound good.

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Mon Jun 29, 2026 6:36 am

just stumbled upon this, seems kinda unique or is there another reverb like this?

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Mon Jun 29, 2026 7:36 am

Try apulSoft apVerb. I personally find Velvet Machine way faster to get usable results.

Nug Wrangler · Post by **Nug Wrangler** » Mon Jun 29, 2026 7:45 am

This sounds absolutely lovely

as do Cascade

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Mon Jun 29, 2026 1:30 pm

Caine123 wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2026 6:36 am just stumbled upon this, seems kinda unique or is there another reverb like this?

Velvet Machine and apVerb both use a DSP concept called Velvet Reverb (consumer-level name) which is kind of a quick algorithmic way to create a kind IR (but it's not quite).

apVerb is much powerful than Velvet Machine, but VM is stunningly easy to setup. apVerb is trying to expoit the velvet reverb algorithm as much as they (at apulsoft) can.

Thankfully, there are so few videos about it just searching for velvet reverbs on the YT will bring up my video at the top of the list. I try to explain it and show how the implementation differs across a few different plugins.

There may have been a few more released since I did that, so I'll look at doing an updated version with the newer ones.

dieterlaser · Post by **dieterlaser** » Mon Jun 29, 2026 1:51 pm

Velvet Machine is great and there is a version 2 in the making

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Mon Jun 29, 2026 2:06 pm

dieterlaser wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2026 1:51 pm Velvet Machine is great and there is a version 2 in the making

Hooray! Definitely deserves enhancement.

Phonolyth (Yuri Turov) releases Velvet Machine