Category: Learn

Featured , Updates , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay updated to version 3.0.0. Two new delay modes: Chrome Tape and Analog!

11.23.24

Learn , News , Updates , Valhalla Supermassive

ValhallaSupermassive 4.0.0 Update. New Pleiades mode! FREE!

11.21.24

Featured , Learn , macOS , News , Sequoia , Updates

Valhalla Plugins. Ready for Sequoia.

11.19.24

Featured , Learn , Products , Updates , Valhalla Vintage Verb

ValhallaVintageVerb 4.0.0 Update. New Reverb Modes: Chamber1979 and Hall1984.

12.13.23

Featured , Learn , Merchandise , News , Products

We have t-shirts!

12.13.23

Featured , Learn , Products , Updates , Valhalla Supermassive

Valhalla Supermassive Updated To Version 3.0.0. Two New Modes: Leo and Virgo!

11.21.23

Featured , Learn , Products , Updates , Updates , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom Updated to 2.0.0. New Space & Lo Cut Controls!

11.20.23

Featured , Learn , News , Sonoma , Updates

Valhalla: We’re Ready For Sonoma!

09.25.23

Documentation , Featured , Learn , Products , Valhalla Vintage Verb

Valhalla VintageVerb: The MODES

02.10.23

Featured , Products , Updates , Valhalla Vintage Verb

ValhallaVintageVerb Updated to 3.0.0. New Reverb Mode: Palace!

01.25.23

Featured , Learn , Products , Updates , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay Updated to 2.5.0. New Mode: RichPitch!

11.22.22

Featured , Learn , Products , Updates , Valhalla Supermassive

ValhallaSupermassive 2.5.0 Update. Two new Modes: Scorpio and Libra!

11.21.22

Featured , Learn , Updates , Updates , Valhalla Delay , Valhalla Plate , Valhalla Room , Valhalla Shimmer , Valhalla Uber Mod , Valhalla Vintage Verb , Ventura

Valhalla Plugins Updated for Ventura (& More!)

11.02.22

Featured , Learn , Plugin Design , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Delay , Valhalla Room , Valhalla Supermassive , Valhalla Vintage Verb

The More You Know: Valhalla Modes = Algorithms!

10.21.22

Documentation , Featured , Learn , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Delay , Valhalla Plate , Valhalla Room , Valhalla Shimmer , Valhalla Supermassive , Valhalla Uber Mod , Valhalla Vintage Verb

The Best Reverb Plugins For …

09.29.22

Documentation , Featured , Learn , News , Tips & Tricks , Updates , Valhalla Supermassive

Two New Valhalla Supermassive Reverb Modes For 2022!

06.01.22

Featured , Plugin Design , Updates , Valhalla Vintage Verb

Valhalla VintageVerb Updated to 2.2.0: Cathedral Mode!

11.23.21

Updates , Valhalla Supermassive

ValhallaSupermassive 1.5.0 Update. Two New Reverb Modes!

11.22.21

Plugin Design

Getting Started With Reverb Design, Part 4: The Best Books

09.28.21

Plugin Design

Getting Started With Reverb Design, Part 3: Online Resources

09.23.21

Plugin Design

Getting Started With Reverb Design, Part 2: The Best Papers

09.22.21

Plugin Design

Getting Started With Reverb Design, Part 1: Dev Environments

09.20.21

Philosophy , Plugin Design , Valhalla Delay , Valhalla Supermassive

Plugin Design: Rescue Your Darlings

08.16.21

Philosophy , Plugin Design

Plugin Design: Going Outside

08.09.21

Philosophy , Plugin Design

Plugin Design: Shinrin-yoku and Psithurism

07.27.21

Philosophy , Plugin Design

Plugin Design: Frog Vision and Tom’s Diner

07.05.21

Philosophy , Plugin Design

Plugin Design: The Cabin In The Woods

06.14.21

Plugin Design

Studio Time with Jason McGerr of Death Cab for Cutie

06.07.21

Updates , Valhalla Supermassive

ValhallaSupermassive Updated To Version 1.3.0

06.02.21

Updates , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay updated to version 2.1.0

06.02.21

Updates

All Valhalla Plugins Are M1 Mac Compatible

05.31.21

Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Supermassive

Tips and Tricks: Infinite Supermassive

05.19.21

Philosophy , Plugin Design , Valhalla Supermassive

Plugin Design: Reuse and Rework

05.10.21

Updates , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay: Quartz Mode

04.29.21

Plugin Design , Valhalla Delay

The Inspiration for PhaserDDL

04.26.21

Updates , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay Updated to 2.1.0. Two new modes: Quartz and PhaserDDL!

04.26.21

Plugin Design

Creativity Through Generation Loss

04.19.21

Plugin Design

Your Current Inspirations

04.12.21

Plugin Design

Your First Inspirations

04.05.21

Plugin Design

Technique during times of low inspiration

03.29.21

Plugin Design , Tips & Tricks

Gain Staging: Why It’s Important

03.22.21

Plugin Design , Tips & Tricks

Best Practices

03.15.21

Plugin Design , Tips & Tricks

Beginner’s Mind

03.08.21

Plugin Design , Tips & Tricks

A Clean, Well-Lighted Space…

02.22.21

Updates

ARM/Intel Betas for Macs now available

01.22.21

Plugin Design , Presets , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay: LoFi In Action

11.30.20

Updates , Valhalla Supermassive

Valhalla Supermassive 1.2.0 Update: Cirrus Major and Cirrus Minor Modes

11.23.20

Updates , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay 1.8.2 Update: Pitch Duck Mode

11.23.20

Updates , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay 1.8.2 Update: LoFi Mode

11.23.20

Updates

Valhalla Updates: VST3, Big Sur, 64-bits

10.13.20

Updates , Valhalla Supermassive

Valhalla Supermassive Updated to 1.1.1

09.29.20

Plugin Design

Spanning Time with Valhalla Design

06.23.20

Documentation , Valhalla Supermassive

Valhalla Supermassive: The Modes

05.07.20

Documentation , Valhalla Supermassive

Valhalla Supermassive: The Controls

05.06.20

Plugin Design , Valhalla Supermassive

The Philosophy of ValhallaSupermassive

05.06.20

Documentation , News , Valhalla Supermassive

Introducing Valhalla Supermassive

05.06.20

News , Plugin Design

Every day is Black Friday here in Valhalla.

11.26.19

Updates , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay Update: Three New Modes and Ducking

11.26.19

Tips & Tricks , Updates , Valhalla Vintage Verb

ValhallaVintageVerb 2.0.2: Chaotic Neutral

08.14.19

Plugin Design , Updates , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay Updated to 1.1.2. Improved Noise Floor!

08.01.19

Plugin Design , Presets , Valhalla Delay

Anatomy of a Preset: ValhallaDelay’s “Maggot Brain”

06.13.19

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay: The Diffusion Section

06.13.19

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay: The MODE Control

04.16.19

Documentation , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay: The Controls

04.16.19

News , Plugin Design , Updates , Valhalla Delay

Introducing ValhallaDelay

04.16.19

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Delay

ValhallaDelay: The STYLE Control

04.16.19

Plugin Design

Reverb 101: Size

07.09.18

Plugin Design , Valhalla Delay

Effect-O-Pedia: Delay

06.05.18

Plugin Design , Valhalla Space Mod , Valhalla Uber Mod

Effect-O-Pedia: Modulation

05.17.18

Plugin Design

Effect-O-Pedia: Reverb Types

05.14.18

Plugin Design

Effect-O-Pedia: Reverb Chambers

12.18.17

Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Plate

ValhallaPlate: Plate Reverb Tips and Tricks

06.15.17

Plugin Design

Modularity in plugin design

06.05.17

Plugin Design

Minimalism in algorithm design

06.01.17

Plugin Design

Minimalism In Plugin GUIs

05.25.17

Plugin Design , Valhalla Plate

Chambers and Plates (and bears, oh my!)

05.23.17

Updates , Valhalla Vintage Verb

ValhallaVintageVerb 1.7.1 update released. Chaos. Reigns.

05.06.17

Updates , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom 1.5.1 Released for OSX and Windows. Electric Blue GUI.

05.06.17

Updates , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer 1.0.4 Beta

05.06.17

Plugin Design

Sending my heart…(or my snare to a reverb)

04.21.17

Plugin Design

Chaos in Audio: Self-Similarity

02.20.17

Updates , Z-DSP

Z-DSP Shimmer Cartridge

02.08.16

Documentation , Plugin Design , Valhalla Plate

ValhallaPlate: On Diffusion

11.18.15

Documentation , Valhalla Plate

ValhallaPlate: The Reverb Modes

11.08.15

Documentation , Valhalla Plate

ValhallaPlate: The Controls

11.08.15

Plugin Design , Valhalla Plate

The Physics and Psychophysics of Plates

11.08.15

Plugin Design

The characteristics of reverb chambers versus plates

11.07.15

News , Valhalla Plate

Introducing Valhalla Plate

11.07.15

Plugin Design

Slides from my AES Reverb presentation

06.19.15

Plugin Design

Naming reverb algorithms

01.18.14

News , Z-DSP

A new reverb cartridge for the Z-DSP: Halls of Valhalla

01.18.14

Updates

AAX Progress

12.20.13

News , Valhalla Vintage Verb

Valhalla Vintage Verb is here

06.18.13

Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Uber Mod

Building complex reverbs using ValhallaÜberMod

08.21.12

Updates , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom Updated to Version 1.1.0

04.23.12

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Uber Mod

ValhallaUberMod: The Preset Menu

03.12.12

Documentation , Plugin Design , Valhalla Uber Mod

What is ValhallaUberMod?

03.09.12

Documentation , Plugin Design , Valhalla Uber Mod

ValhallaUberMod: The History

03.09.12

Documentation , Valhalla Uber Mod

ValhallaUberMod: The WARP Parameters

03.08.12

Documentation , Valhalla Uber Mod

ValhallaUberMod: The DRIVE Parameters

03.08.12

Updates , Valhalla Uber Mod

ValhallaÜberMod Updated to Version 1.0.1

03.08.12

Documentation , Valhalla Uber Mod

ValhallaUberMod: The EQ Parameters

03.07.12

Documentation , Valhalla Uber Mod

ValhallaUberMod: The DIFF Parameters

01.27.12

Documentation , Valhalla Uber Mod

ValhallaUberMod: The TAPS Parameters

01.26.12

Tips & Tricks , Updates , Valhalla Room

Using High Resolution Automation in Reaper w/ValhallaRoom

01.11.12

Documentation , Valhalla Uber Mod

ValhallaUberMod: The MOD Parameters

01.07.12

Documentation , Valhalla Uber Mod

ValhallaUberMod: The Modes

01.06.12

Documentation , Valhalla Uber Mod

ValhallaUberMod: The High Level Controls

01.03.12

News , Updates , Valhalla Uber Mod

ValhallaÜberMod released for OSX and Windows

12.16.11

Updates , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom Updated to Version 1.0.9. New Reverb Mode: Sulaco

11.17.11

Plugin Design , Valhalla Freq Echo , Valhalla Uber Mod

More weirdness from the upcoming plugin

09.21.11

Plugin Design

New Valhalla DSP Logo

09.19.11

Updates , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom Updated to 1.0.8. Resizable GUI, new reverb modes

09.19.11

Plugin Design , Valhalla Uber Mod

A cool sounding bug from the next plugin

08.04.11

Plugin Design , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom: Dark Chamber / Dark Space Sound examples

07.18.11

Updates , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom Updated to Version 1.0.7. New reverb modes: Dark Chamber and Dark Space

07.18.11

Plugin Design

Algorithmic Reverbs, Distortion, and Noise

07.07.11

Documentation , Updates , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom V1.0.6: Introducing Dark Room

06.21.11

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom Tips and Tricks: Cathedrals

06.09.11

Plugin Design

DSP Hero: Miller Puckette

06.01.11

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom Tips and Tricks: Unnatural Hall Reverbs

05.27.11

Presets , Valhalla Room

Death Cab for Cutie’s ValhallaRoom presets

05.26.11

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom Tips and Tricks: Realistic Concert Halls

05.25.11

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom Tips and Tricks: Short Drum Rooms

05.23.11

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom Tips and Tricks: Gated Reverbs

05.23.11

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom: The Late controls

05.18.11

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom: The Early Controls

05.18.11

Plugin Design

Cave Paintings, Wabi-Sabi, and Plugins

05.16.11

Updates , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom updated to version 1.0.4

05.13.11

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom: Early Reflections versus Early Energy

05.04.11

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom: The Reverb Modes

05.03.11

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom: The High Level Sliders

05.02.11

Plugin Design

An interview with Valhalla DSP (that’s me)

04.26.11

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom: An Overview

04.26.11

Updates , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom Released for Windows (32/64-bit VST)

04.18.11

Updates , Valhalla Room

ValhallaRoom Released for OSX

03.23.11

News , Valhalla Room

Upcoming Plugin: ValhallaRoom

02.25.11

Plugin Design

Minimalist Friday

02.04.11

Documentation , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer: The Manual!

01.24.11

Plugin Design

Reverbs: Diffusion, allpass delays, and metallic artifacts

01.21.11

Plugin Design , Valhalla Shimmer

Happy New Year

12.31.10

Plugin Design

The Reverb Beard

12.21.10

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer Tips and Tricks: Chorus

12.03.10

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer Tips and Tricks: Using Diffusion instead of predelay

12.03.10

Plugin Design

Devo on Fridays

12.03.10

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer Tips and Tricks: Shimmering

12.02.10

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer Tips and Tricks: Bloom

12.02.10

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer Tips and Tricks: Adjusting the reverb envelope

12.01.10

Documentation , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer Tips and Tricks: Diffusion

11.30.10

Documentation , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer: The Controls

11.27.10

Documentation , Plugin Design , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer: a bit of history

11.23.10

Updates , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer released for Windows RTAS

11.22.10

Updates , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer updated to version 1.0.2. 64 bit AU, 64 bit Win VST available.

11.20.10

Updates , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer now available for Windows VST

10.21.10

News , Updates , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer released for OSX AU, VST, RTAS. $50. Demo versions online.

10.07.10

Plugin Design , Updates , Valhalla Shimmer

ValhallaShimmer progress report

09.27.10

Updates , Valhalla Shimmer

More sounds from ValhallaShimmer

08.27.10

News , Plugin Design

RIP Keith Barr

08.25.10

Updates , Valhalla Freq Echo

A quick clip from my upcoming plugin

07.25.10

Plugin Design , Valhalla Freq Echo

i-Dosing with ValhallaFreqEcho

07.16.10

Plugin Design

Diffusion, vocals, and real rooms

06.07.10

Plugin Design

Why reverberation is killing the planet

06.02.10

Plugin Design , Valhalla Freq Echo

ValhallaFreqEcho, Binaural Beats, and “The Strange Mechanism”

05.28.10

Plugin Design

All Hail Harmonia!!!

05.27.10

Plugin Design

Early tape loop experiments with Eno, Fripp, Terry Riley, and Pauline Oliveros

05.26.10

Plugin Design

Ambient reverb, no electronics required: The Dan Harpole Cistern at Fort Worden

05.25.10

Plugin Design

Archaeology meets DSP: CCRMA at Chavín de Huántar

05.24.10

Plugin Design

Conch trumpets, hallucinogenic cacti, and ancient reverb: Chavín de Huántar

05.21.10

Plugin Design

Busy day today, so here’s a bunch of David Bowie and Iggy Pop videos

05.19.10

Plugin Design

Caves, megaliths, and reverbs in the prehistoric world

05.19.10

Plugin Design

Reverberation decay of concrete structures, as applied to hair metal

05.17.10

Plugin Design

Stability through Time Variation: Ursa Major Space Station

05.14.10

Plugin Design , Valhalla Freq Echo

Feedback, anti-feedback, and complexity in time-varying systems

05.13.10

Plugin Design , Tips & Tricks , Valhalla Shimmer

Shimmer: Modulation, auto-correlation, and decorrelation

05.12.10

Plugin Design , Valhalla Shimmer

Eno/Lanois Shimmer Sound: How it is made

05.11.10

Plugin Design , Valhalla Shimmer

Eno/Lanois Shimmer effect: Early examples

05.10.10

Plugin Design

Pitch Shifting: The H949, and “de-glitching”

05.07.10

Plugin Design , Valhalla Shimmer

Early pitch shifting: The Eventide H910 Harmonizer

05.07.10

Plugin Design , Valhalla Shimmer

The first digital pitch shifter: Lexicon Varispeech

05.06.10

Plugin Design , Valhalla Shimmer

Digital Pitch Shifting: Early work

05.06.10

Plugin Design , Valhalla Shimmer

Pitch Shifters, pre-digital

05.04.10

Plugin Design , Valhalla Shimmer

Eno/Lanois, U2, and the “shimmer” effect

05.04.10

Plugin Design

Flashback Caruso

04.30.10

Documentation , Valhalla Freq Echo

New video tutorial of ValhallaFreqEcho

04.29.10

Plugin Design , Valhalla Freq Echo

Video demo of ValhallaFreqEcho MkI in action

03.19.10

Plugin Design , Valhalla Freq Echo

ValhallaFreqEcho and the 360 Systems Frequency Shifter

03.19.10

Updates , Valhalla Freq Echo

ValhallaFreqEcho MkI Released: GUI. Tempo Delay. VST/AU/RTAS. Mac/Windows. Free.

03.19.10

Plugin Design

We all now have to use the phrase “the award winning plugin, Eos”

01.16.10

Tips & Tricks

Eos tips and tricks: Recreating the PCM70 Tiled Room

12.22.09

Plugin Design

DSP Hero: Robert Bristow-Johnson

11.05.09

Plugin Design

A reverb paper of mine just got published online

10.11.09

Updates , Valhalla Freq Echo

ValhallaFreqEcho AU updated. Less crashy!

09.24.09

Tips & Tricks

More general reverb tips

08.02.09

Plugin Design

Early examples of modulated reverbs

08.01.09

Plugin Design

Modulation in reverbs: reality and unreality

07.30.09

Plugin Design , Tips & Tricks

Eos tips and tricks

07.29.09

News , Plugin Design

Eos is released

06.05.09

Plugin Design

Schroeder Reverbs: the forgotten algorithm

05.30.09

Plugin Design

Auto-Tune, autocorrelation, and seismic analysis

05.21.09

Plugin Design

Electronic Music Tech Hero: David Cockerell

05.20.09

Plugin Design , Valhalla Freq Echo

The frequency shifter and Dr. Who

05.19.09

Plugin Design , Valhalla Freq Echo

Frequency Shifting, 10 years later

05.18.09

Plugin Design

An introduction

12.27.08