Reverie

Reverie is an audio effect built around a simple idea: everything can resonate.

At its heart is a bank of sympathetic strings, modelled with Karplus-Strong synthesis and tuned to a musical scale of your choosing. Instead of playing them from a keyboard, you excite them with sound. Send in a drum loop and the strings ring out in sympathy with every hit. Send in a pad, a vocal, a field recording, or pure noise, and Reverie reconstructs it as a shimmering, harmonic version of itself, locked to your key. It is the acoustic phenomenon behind a sitar's drone strings or an open piano with the sustain pedal down, turned into a tool you can point at any track.

But Reverie is more than a resonator. It carries a second engine: an audio-reactive sampler called Texture. Load any sample, foley, percussion, atmospheres, a single struck bell, and it fires or loops in response to your input's dynamics, following its brightness and even its pitch. On its own, Texture is a reactive layering machine. Combined with the strings, it becomes something new.

The two engines are what make Reverie a single instrument rather than two effects in a chain. Three controls tie them together:

• EXCITE routing lets the Texture engine become the excitation for the strings. Load a granular foley sample, give it a rhythm, and the strings resonate with the timbre of that sample and the harmony of your scale. This is the plugin's signature: a resonator you can feed with textures.
• TRACK listens to the pitch of your input and plucks the nearest string of the scale, so the sample and the strings sing the same note. It is an arpeggio that follows your melody.
• MORPH is a single macro that crossfades the whole face from pure strings, through both engines together, to pure texture, ideal for automation and for shaping a sound in one gesture.

Around the engines sits everything you need to sculpt the result: twenty-one tuning scales including a custom scale builder, seven string materials, control over decay, damping, dispersion, warmth and stereo width, an excitation filter and bloom stage, a lush reverb with freeze, a feedback delay, and a fully drawable modulator that you can route to seventeen destinations across both engines.

Reverie ships with 48 factory presets, from pure string voicings and melody-tracking harps to deep ambient beds built on the series routing, and its full sample library installs automatically, so it is ready to play out of the box.

Reverie is not a synth. It has no keyboard, no MIDI, no notes to program. Its instrument is whatever you send it. Put it on a send, print it, resample it, or leave it live on a bus: whatever goes in comes back transformed, tuned, and alive.

Feed it anything. Reverie will find the music in it.

Features:

• Sympathetic string resonator (Karplus-Strong), driven by incoming audio, no MIDI needed.
• Audio-reactive sampler (Texture) with Trigger and Flow modes, load any WAV/AIFF/FLAC.
• Signature series routing: the sampler can excite the strings (a resonator you feed with textures).
• Note tracking: input pitch plucks the matching string of the scale.
• Morph macro: one knob from all-strings to all-texture.
• 21 tuning scales including microtonal sets (Quarter Tones, Just, Pythagorean, Slendro, Pelog) and a 16-slot custom scale builder.
• 7 string materials (Plain, Nylon, Gut, Steel, Bronze, Crystal, Felt).
• 1 to 24 sympathetic strings, tunable spread, detune and glide.
• Excitation shaping: high-pass / low-pass filter, tilt, transient emphasis, drive, bloom.
• Shared space: reverb with freeze plus a feedback delay.
• Drawable modulator with 17 destinations across both engines, free or tempo-synced, forward / reverse / ping-pong.
• Independent Dry/Wet for each engine plus a master output.
• Sample loop editor with Forward / Reverse / Ping-Pong playback and live loop markers.
• 48 factory presets with their full sample library, installed automatically.
• Formats: VST3 and AU (macOS); the macOS build is a notarized universal binary (Intel and Apple Silicon).

Technical specs:

• Type: audio effect (sympathetic string resonator + audio-reactive sampler). No MIDI, no keyboard.
• Formats: VST3, AU (macOS only).
• MacOS 11.0 or later, Intel and Apple Silicon (universal binary, notarized).
• Windows 10 or later, 64-bit.
• String bank: 1 to 24 sympathetic strings.
• Texture sampler: up to 8 simultaneous voices (Trigger mode).
• Tuning: 21 tuning scales, including a 16-slot custom scale builder.
• String materials: 7.
• Modulation: 1 drawable lane, 17 destinations, free or tempo-synced.
• Sample rates: 44.1 kHz to 192 kHz.
• Factory presets: 48.
• Factory samples: 23 (installed on first use).
• Sample import: WAV, AIFF, FLAC.