My friend says that white noise, the kind that a TV shows when it’s turned on but not getting any reception from the analog antenna, is actually kind of hard to mock-up in Photoshop. If you look at effects in movies, I can believe it, they always look a little too neat, like they lack the randomness and ugliness of the real thing.
I find the same thing is true of introducing static and other audio effects that mimic radio static and electrical feedback in music. Sometimes the release is too smooth or it lacks that randomness. Your ears almost never try to pick out anything from obviously generated noise, like you know it’s hopeless to find anything like a chord or a human voice struggling to break through like you do with electrical interference or radio static.
Airspace is a new reverb & delay plug-in that cleans that up, by which I mean makes it dirty. In seconds you can imagine a clear use of this for short intros and interludes. There are all kinds of sounds bouncing around in Airspace. Give it a little bit of input and it can make the cleanest, most vanilla note or chord sound like an celestial chorus.
That’s the obvious use. Less obvious but more powerful is the idea of using it to add texture to your tracks, either to generate distinctive reverb sounds or to make quiet parts a little less empty and a lot more interesting. Apply this to just one note and it’s like a blade of grass blooms into a mushroom garden.
This is ModeAudio’s first VST after making a lot of sample packs, and from the results you can get I think most producers would find this an interesting and useful addition to their workspace even if they already have a go-to reverb & delay plug-in like it. It’s £60 (about $79 or €72) from ModeAudio.
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