Learn View All Learn by Topics Learn by Products DocumentationNewsPhilosophyPlugin DesignPresetsTips & TricksUpdates MerchandiseValhalla DelayValhalla Freq EchoValhalla PlateValhalla RoomValhalla ShimmerValhalla Space ModValhalla SupermassiveValhalla Uber ModValhalla Vintage Verb 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 Philosophy , Plugin Design , Valhalla Supermassive Why is Valhalla Supermassive Free? 05.27.20 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 Load More
