Pro audio effects creator Soundtoys today announced the release of SpaceBlender, an experimental reverb that they say lets you create unreal and imaginary spaces, with shapes, textures, and tones that would be impossible in the real world.
Inspired by the pioneers of ambient music and their use of layered tape loops and delays, SpaceBlender is designed to create massive waves of lush, organic, and evolving spatial effects.
Whether enhancing a track’s sense of space or creating dynamic, evolving effects, SpaceBlender is a fun and intuitive tool for sound designers, musicians, and producers looking for creative yet easy-to-use spatial processing.
“We’ve been exploring new ways to build an algorithmic reverb – something with the creative flexibility of convolution and the richness, depth, and soul of classic hardware devices,” said Ken Bogdanowicz, CEO and founder of Soundtoys. “SpaceBlender is the first product of this research, and we’ve tried to make it easy to play with ‘space’ in a fun and musical way. We’re excited to hear what people create with it.”
Features:
- Interactive control – move between gate, reverse, decay, and bloom reverb shapes and everything in-between, in real time.
- Visualizer – see your sound move through the reverb shape as you adjust its sonic envelope.
- Simple control of spectral evolution; reverbs can get darker or brighter over time.
- Deeply embedded modulation creates rich, constantly moving ambient effects.
- Smoothly change the reverb texture from dense and lush to sparse and grainy.
- Extreme range from super short 100-millisecond nonlinear effects to absurdly long 60-second meditations.
Pricing and Availability:
Soundtoys’ SpaceBlender is available now for free – a $99 value – through May 22 at this link. SpaceBlender will be available for purchase from authorized resellers worldwide for $99 US beginning May 23.
Learn about Soundtoys’ system requirements and host compatibility here.
So is this a 22 day free trial version ?
Might be a way to attract a lot of unpaid gamma testers and acquire a lot of personal information which is actually more valuable than money these days. TANSTAAFL
no, you get a permanent license
Sounds like it’s ilok though.
Nope, no iLok needed, and this reverb is awesome ?
The offer to claim a free license only lasts 22 days.
Soundtoys sometimes release a lite version of a plug-in before the full version comes out. On the occasions they do the lite versions for free, it’s a good thing.
Requires you to install the spyware iLok system
It’s gonna phone home like a mofo
iLok is not required (at least on mac), you just don’t check that checkbox, and it will store the license on your computer.
And it’s fascinating how you can tweak the reverb envelope. Not an ADSR though.
A lot of people are going to miss an amazing free reverb though unfounded paranoid beliefs. Strange how all the professional studios I have ever been in use iLok without a second thought but bedroom producers think its evil!
maybe the current political and cultural climate has people quick to assume unethical behavior from business and the internet
I downloaded it and wasn’t very impressed. Everything you put through it ends up sounding the same. It colours the sound far too much. For free obvs it’s fine but the trouble it took to sign up, get a code, install, add to ilok took considerably more effort than just downloading Valhalla supermassive. Which is an immeasurably superior plug-in.
Agreed. I didn’t dl but the demo sounded uninspiring
This sounds great!
A great plugin! The way it lets you directly “touch” and shape the reverb tail instead of entering values with knobs is fun and intuitive. And it sounds good too.
It looks okay but really do we need it to make music? It will no doubt be more useful to some people than others, the others being those trying to make music.
What a absurd and arrogant comment to make…