Ascent Reverb

What it does

Two reverbs in one interface: an expansive hall with three room sizes and a long decay, and a particle engine that pitch shifts the tail by a set number of semitones. Bloom feeds the input and output back into the main reverb, regen recirculates the pitched particles so trails climb or fall, and darkness sweeps a set of internal low-pass filters. Ducking holds the tail back while the input note sounds.

In the demo

Jade starts from a zeroed patch on piano and adds one control at a time, showing how bloom and regen alone produce large sounds even on the smallest expanse. She then runs the factory presets on guitar, where the pitched trails read as scraping metal rather than shimmer.

Worth knowing

These are wide, frequency-heavy spaces that Jade calls messy without the ducking engaged, so it is not a quick room reverb for a busy mix. The desktop version is a separate purchase from audiodamage.com.