Galactic
TL;DW: Galactic is a super-reverb designed specially for pads and space ambient.
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 :)
(original version before denormalization fix at GalacticFirst.zip(372k))
Hey Chris! Just jumping back into trying one of your plugins for the first time in awhile and am having problems getting the VST of this to work on macOS in both Bitwig 3 and Nuendo 11. They both say it’s 32-bit and won’t let me use it. Am I missing something simple here?
Thanks!
Hi Chris, I’m a first time user, in a similar boat to Mark M. Your starter pack shows up in Reaper (and seems to work fine, although I haven’t had a chance to really explore them yet), but not Galactic or Verbity. I’ve exhausted all the Reaper troubleshooting. I even tried Pro Tools but Patchwork won’t load any of your plugins. I’m running Mac Mojave 10.14 on mid 2014 Mac Book Pro. If I can get them working in either one of these DAWs, I will become a $10/mo patron. Thanks!
Hi Shane, if you’ve just installed the Starter Pack than it’s clear why they don’t show up! They aren’t in there :/
But if I misunterstood you there, i’m sorry xD
And hi Chris, great Plug-In with great potential for ambient soundscapes!
I’m a reverb fanatic. I *love* this thing, Chris! I find myself wondering if adding a shimmer to it would be worthwhile. Perhaps that should be another plugin, given how modular the Airwindows world is. Galactic gets a better sound than the chain of effects that I’ve used to get someplace like here.
just a little bit insight for suggestion Chris.. I think it’s better for you to insert plugin screenshot in every your post of new (or updated) plugins.. You may give some pointers and text explaining the controls.. I’m pretty sure audiences still watch your videos for better understanding, thanks and keep up your great works!
You really outdid yourself on this one, Chris. Absolutely amazing!
Sounds Excellent and works wonders!
Nice ;)
I listen to a lot a reverb VSTs. With the right source material this is just… beautiful. Stunning.
Amazing, love it. Just the default setting is incredible. Very quick to dial in something that sounds great and the sound easily compares to many expensive reverbs.