Strymon NightSky Time-Warped Reverberator

Ever the ground-breaking innovators, Strymon seems to continually push the limit with each new release. Their most recent, the NightSky Time-Warped Reverberator, might deem itself a reverb pedal, but it’s more like a total musical anomaly. Featuring mind-bending pitch and harmonic manipulation to your reverb tails, with synth-like filter sweeps, you enter a world of new sounds that blow away the boundaries of what is possible with reverb. This is one for all you adventurers and experimenters out there…

With NightSky, deep and powerful sound manipulation with instant response knob-tweaking and no menu diving set a new standard in experimental reverb sound design. It achieves some of its most mind bending sounds by using a Variable Process Rate for its reverb core, allowing you to simultaneously change the size of the reverb as well as the pitch. This pitch change can be completely smooth, or quantized to a variety of musical scales. And it can be sequenced.

Use Shimmer to shift the harmonic structure by selectable musical intervals. Add Glimmer to dynamically enhance the harmonic spectrum. Turn up Drive to generate saturated overdriven harmonics. Then sculpt the resulting signal with NightSky’s synth-like variable-resonance low pass filter. There’s also instant front panel access to 16 presets. Of course, if 16 is not enough, 300 preset locations are available via MIDI.

More features include:

– Three selectable reverb types offer a wide variety of ambient textures
– MOD section with various waveforms to modulate the reverb or tone filters
– TONE section to sculpt the high and low EQ of the reverb
– VOICE section to enhance the aural spectrum of the reverb
– Adjustable SHIMMER for adding pitch shifting of up to +/- 1 octave to the reverb
– GLIMMER dynamically enhances high or low frequency harmonics for synth-like textures
– Pre or Post DRIVE to add saturated overdriven harmonics to the reverb
– Adjustable reverb core size to increase or decrease the space for reflections
– Independent REVERB and DRY level controls
– Step sequencer for programming rhythmic pitch variations of the reverb
– Access to 16 presets from the front panel and 300 presets via MIDI

We take a deep dive on this one is our demo below (please grab your headphones for this one), and it’s a lengthy endeavor, as there’s a lot to chat about here. The NightSky further propels Strymon into their own sonic realm, creating yet another marvelous machine to be used by ambient creators the world over. Thanks for sending us the NightSky to check out, guys, we’re still learning from it on a daily basis. Go check out more info on their website, and have a great weekend!

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