Stratosphere Cloud Reverb

This is my favorite sounding reverb. I love all the Mani consulting Blue Mangoo apps. Unfortunately they don’t stay within my daw n-track pro. I’ve reached out to both developers (the reverb needs to be reloaded from scratch each time I open the daw) and haven’t had progress in years. It’s too bad because I’d use this all the time if it functioned like other AUv3 effects.

Beautiful sounding reverb that lives up the the cloud reverb hype. Surprisingly versatile. The onset feature is really special. It really does sound better than pre-delay; I find myself using longer onset times than I ever would with a pre-delay. I guess that fade in idea works!

For pluck instruments or pluck-like sounds I often find myself choosing this reverb over Eventide’s Blackhole - the ‘onset time’ parameter is cool. I also like how long this reverb can get to and it still sounds great. I first came across this app through Jacob Haq and I’m glad I did, it’s great for ambient soundscapes. The developer created a really nice reverb with a minimal uncluttered interface.

This reverb is easy to use, the interface is clean, and the sound has a subtle but unique quality to it that sits well in a mix– even with long trails and a lot of wet signal. The early reflection “onset time” trick that this reverb does is alone worth adding it to your arsenal, as it creates a more consistent and musical decay. When used with this developers stereo delay plug in, you can conjure vast, organically shifting soundscapes with ease, just add some clean guitar or open sounding synth patches. I now watch for every AUv3 this developer makes, so far, most of them have been top notch, and each seems to have some bit of unique that truly makes them worthy purchases.