Strymon NightSky – Time-Warped Reverberator
Time-Warped Reverberation
With the Strymon NightSky, create vast soundscapes with just a few notes from any instrument. Apply mind-bending pitch and harmonic manipulation to your reverb tails, with synth-like filter sweeps. With pioneers and sonic adventurers in mind, we created a reverb pedal that can go where none have gone before, further pushing the boundaries of creative exploration.
Reverberant Synthesis Machine
Furthermore, NightSky is a reverberant synthesis workstation, and a powerful, hands-on experimental sound design platform. NightSky gives you real-time continuous control of reverb pitch/processing rate/core size, harmonics, not to mention it’s synth-like resonant filter with multiple modulation waveshapes, and furthermore a step sequencer with variable glide. As a result, you haven’t heard a pedal like this before, garenteed.
New Sonic Territory
NightSky is a reverb pedal you will want to get your hands on. Deep and powerful sound manipulation with instant response knob-tweaking and no menu diving set a new standard in experimental reverb sound design.
Warp Core Reverb
The Strymon NightSky achieves some of its most mind bending sounds by using a Variable Process Rate for its reverb core, allowing you to simultaneously change the size of the reverb as well as the pitch. This pitch change can be completely smooth, or quantized to a variety of musical scales. And it can be sequenced.
Harmonic Sculpture Machine
Use Shimmer to shift the harmonic structure by selectable musical intervals. Similarly, add Glimmer to dynamically enhance the harmonic spectrum. Turn up Drive to generate saturated overdriven harmonics. Then sculpt the resulting signal with NightSky’s synth-like variable-resonance low pass filter.
Explosions in the NightSky
NightSky’s Drive feature generates saturated overdriven harmonics that can either react to the signal going into the reverb core, or dynamically distort the reverb’s output in a very interactive way. When Drive is applied at the input, digging in generates more distorted harmonics, so you can dynamically “play” the distortion.
Sonically Beautiful Reverb Repitching
Inspired by the classic shimmer effects pioneered in the ’80s, NightSky’s Shimmer voice is carefully created from the reverberated signal to generate radiance and beauty. As a result, call forth deep, ambient string sections with octave down, or spacey, ethereal textures with octave up. Similarly, in between the octaves are several musically interesting intervals available for shifting the harmonic structure of the reverb.
Strymon NightSky Key Features
- Three selectable reverb types offer a wide variety of ambient textures
- MOD section with various waveforms to modulate the reverb or tone filters
- TONE section to sculpt the high and low EQ of the reverb
- VOICE section to enhance the aural spectrum of the reverb
- Adjustable SHIMMER for adding pitch shifting of up to +/- 1 octave to the reverb