XenoVerb

What it does

A reverb built around a list of algorithms that swap the controls as you change them. Rooms, halls, plates and spring cover familiar ground; glass, flow, shimmer, bode and formant are the sound design end, bode putting a frequency shifter in the feedback loop and formant a vowel filter in front of the tank. Shared controls are pre-delay, diffusion, tone, time up to infinite, modulation and mix, plus freeze, a soft limiter on the wet signal, and 250-odd presets grouped by algorithm.

In the demo

Jade works through the algorithms on a randomized piano part, then on a synth, a reversed guitar, a live vocal and drums. She sets a host LFO on the bode frequency, locks a parameter so it survives preset changes, and tries the per-dial MIDI learn without getting it to take.

Worth knowing

The limiter is gentle and only tames the wet path, so a loud source still needs its own control. The experimental algorithms are the character here rather than neutral space.