Valhalla DSP has returned from an eight-year deep dive into reverb design with its newest creation: FutureVerb, a plugin that claims to deliver the brand’s cleanest, most natural-sounding reverbs to date – and a flexible echo mode for when things need a little extra flavour.

For producers who swear by Valhalla’s VintageVerb or Supermassive, this new addition might just be the next essential on the mix bus. The company describes FutureVerb as a product of “eight years of research and development,” built around new algorithmic reverb topologies that aim for spatial realism across all decay settings.

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To start, FutureVerb comes with eight reverb modes, covering everything from familiar spaces like Room, Plate, Hall, to more experimental environments like Space, Frozen and Nonlin.

According to developers, all of the FutureVerb algorithms have been designed to sound good even without any modulation being used, though you can easily crank up the depth for that lush, epic ambience Valhalla is known for.

FutureVerb also features an Echo section with 12 modes, including Modern, Tape, Digital, Analog, Detune, Reverse, ReverseOctUp, ReverseOctDown, ReverseOctUpDown, Sparkle, Swarm, and LoFi. Sparkle, for instance, is a new pitch shifting granular echo that offers spread control so you can fade between two and eight detuned granular delays.

The plugin also offers various routing options. Users can use the Echo Modes as predelays, switch the Echo -> Reverb routing to use the echos as post processing of the reverb, or create sparse and characterful reverbs solely from the Echo Modes by turning up the Spread and Feedback parameters.

Visually, FutureVerb follows Valhalla’s “less is more” mantra: a minimal, colour-coded interface with just the right amount of control. Mix, Width, Mod Rate, and EQ are all right where you expect them, and the Colour control not only changes the tonal character (Bright, Neutral, Dark, or Studio) but also shifts the GUI hue to match the mood.

The plugin is priced at $50 and is now available from Valhalla.

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