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ADPTR Utopia: what makes this spectral reverb one of the best effects of 2025
Move over, recycled ideas and emulations: it’s been a year of reimagining entire effects categories. And ADPTR Audio’s Utopia stands out in a 2025 class of reverbs that are more than just reverbs. Here’s a look at why it’s an effect I can’t put down, why it’s so much fun to tweak, and how the developers thought about it.
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Airwindows VerbThic, VerbTiny let you go even more rabid for reverb, for free
Chris Johnson, aka Airwindows, continues to share his love for DSP with free tools, open source code, and elaborate discussions of the joy of crafting reverbs. So just in case you don’t feel blessed enough with free effects after SuperMassive’s new Sirius reverb/delay, here’s the tiny and the thick in all-new Airwindows editions. And they’ll even run in VCV Rack or on a Raspberry Pi.
Peter Kirn - December 3, 2025
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Super Massive 5 adds Sirius echo/reverb to the best free plugin in the galaxy
Valhalla isn’t done with reverb/echo blockbusters to reverberate through the end of 2025. The free plug-in — so good we really would pay for it — is back, and now it’s gotten Sirius. Welcome Super Massive 5.0.0.
Peter Kirn - November 28, 2025
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Sinevibes Cache has turned into a buffer-mangling, playable breaks machine
Peter Kirn - November 25, 2025
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Motherly, sequencer percussion synth, is pure rhythmic happiness
Peter Kirn - November 21, 2025
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Physical modeling, modular explorations with Adam Pietruszko and AAS’ CV-3
Peter Kirn - November 18, 2025
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Generative analog: Cyma Forma’s Alt soundscape synth takes shape
Peter Kirn - November 17, 2025
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West Coast dreaming: improvising with GForce MAP
Peter Kirn - October 31, 2025
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