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Blackhole audio review Patch#

Once this is done, the patch will toggle between its original and modified settings whenever you press the switch - and these don't have to be the same settings as those available to the ribbon controller. Programming the Hotswitch, meanwhile, entails holding it down until it flashes, then making the necessary changes to the patch. It doesn't seem possible to load up two different presets and then morph between them (although you could set the controls to the same settings manually) but many factory presets come with morphing parameters already set up, and user patches save the morph settings, so all you need to do is automate the ribbon controller to create a sense of change and movement. I couldn't hear any obvious zipper noise when morphing, and had no problems automating parameters in Logic Pro. Blue circle segments appear around any controls that change during the morph and denote the start and end values.

Now sliding from one side to the other will change the setting in a progressive way, creating the morphing effect. Next, move the slider to the other end, make sure the button at that end is now pressed and active, and set different control positions.

To use the ribbon controller, all you need do is move the ribbon to one end, press the adjacent button so that it lights up in blue, then set the controls to taste. The former refers to a virtual ribbon controller which can be used to gradually morph between settings, while Hotswitch flips instantaneously. Ribbon and Hotswitch provide two different ways of moving between two sets of parameters you've set up. Then there's Feedback, which just loops the whole shooting match, to further magnify the sense of enormity! Blue Ribbons A Kill button mutes the the dry input to the reverb section, so you can audition the way the reverb tail decays, while Freeze mutes the input and causes the current state of the reverb tail to be perpetuated until the next power cut. There's also Resonance, which peaks up the resonance of the high and low filters, so even the EQ is not as conventional as it might first appear. Used gently, this can emulate the modulation found in more 'normal' studio reverbs, but there's enough range to produce more obvious churning effects.

Blackhole audio review mod#

The weirdness factor comes largely from the reverse reverbs and the modulation section, where Mod Depth and Mod Rate parameters affect the reverb tail in a more-or-less chorus-like manner. Of course, there's more to the Blackhole than big reverbs with tempo-sync'ed pre-delay.

Blackhole audio review manual#

In Tempo Manual mode, the tempo is set by entering your own numerical value, up to a maximum of 300bpm, the Pre-delay control again being used to set the beat division. In Tempo Sync mode, the pre-delay tempo is locked to that of the host DAW, and the Pre-delay value is measured in musical beats. When this is switched off, the pre-delay time is shown in milliseconds, up to a maximum of two seconds. There's also an innocent-looking Tempo button. At the smallest size setting, the reverb sounds like the inside of a coffee tin! At no time does the reverb time ever get short enough to be termed modest! Size, predictably enough, adjusts the subjective size of the synthesized environment, spacing out the reflections at higher settings and bunching them up at smaller settings. It turns out to be the Blackhole's equivalent of decay time, but it also switches the algorithm from a conventional reverb in one half of its travel to a reverse-envelope type in the other. The Mix, Size, High and Low EQ and Pre-delay parameters all do what you expect, but the Gravity knob is not quite so commonplace. The reverb controls on offer mix the familiar with the weird. If you're after a subtle plate to add to vocals or 'a bit of wet' for the drums, this is most definitely not the reverb to choose! Spaces & Times Whereas most reverb effects are designed to emulate real spaces or plates, Blackhole is intended to create more abstract spatial effects for use in sound design or experimental music. An iLok dongle is required, and a time-limited demo version is available so that you can try before you buy.

Blackhole audio review mac os#

It runs on both Mac OS and Windows machines, with AU, AAX and VST plug-in formats supported. There are hundreds of reverb plug-ins to choose from, but none quite like Eventide's Blackhole.īased on their hardware stomp-box of the same name, Eventide's Blackhole native plug-in is described as a 'massive reverberator', and draws its inspiration from an algorithm first developed for their DSP4000 processor (the same algorithm was later included in the H8000).