Lese Audio Technologies shared this preview for Hikari, described as ‘an ocean-themed random reverb’.
Central in Hikari’s interface is the “navigator”, which lets you move around in two dimensional space. The contours of the terrain beneath the navigator are sampled and used to subtly alter various settings in the reverb algorithms. The two dimensions of the current navigation position can be used to modulate various parameters, using the same workflow that is available in Glow.
The navigator can also enter “autopilot” mode, where the movement is automated & adjusted by various controls.
Here’s an overview of Hikari:
Pricing and Availability:
Hikari is available now, for Mac & Windows, priced at $55 USD. A 25% discount is available for a limited time using code SUMMER25.
So many Reverb and Delay plugins on the market these days and yet Valhalla free plugins still rule the world… 😉
Let’s make it really difficult to register. No lese I don’t know what your best free plug in is.
We’re swimming in reverb plugins these days. Some algorithmic ones that are purely hardware emulations, some convolution ones that hide their IR inside their software. Some hybrids. There have also been some of these reverb designer kinds of products that take sort of standard algorithms and throw some new ideas into it. This seems clever and interesting.
I don’t often go into this world of make a unique sounding swirly, washy, spinning space, but it is pretty cool. Arguably, one could combine a bunch of plugins & processors to create a comparable effect, but this seems to integrate things in a nice package.
The short demo sounds reminde me of Erbe-Verb!