Strymon StarLab – Experimental Reverb Eurorack Module
Expand the sound of your modular rack with incredibly lush, ethereal reverbs. Enhance signals with gorgeous chorus, flanging, and modulated delays. Create uniquely expressive synth voices with Karplus-Strong string synthesis. Turn simple mono audio signals into vast stereo soundscapes. Strymon StarLab is a single module that will completely transform your modular rack.
Singular Modular Reverb
In addition to perfectly voiced room ambience and vast, immersive, nearly infinite decays, StarLab offers the pinnacle of premium reverb sounds with unparalleled depth and spaciousness. Add musical intervals to the reverb signal with Shimmer. Additionally enhance the harmonic spectrum with Glimmer, while enjoying real-time control over the size/pitch of the reverb process.
Modulation And Delay Effects
Furthemore, Strymon StarLab has also vastly expanded what reverb pre-delay can do, allowing you to bus the pre-delay signal to the output while making the pre-delay time a modulation target. This results in the ability to create rich choruses, sweeping flanger effects, and beautiful modulated delays, while also processing signal through the reverb.
Karplus-Strong String Synthesis
Besides input signal processing, the Strymon StarLab is also a Karplus-Strong string synthesis voice module that allows freely alternating bowing and plucking as well as dynamic string damping. This results in an astoundingly expressive and lifelike instrument with a unique voice all its own, which can be enhanced and expanded by the full range of StarLab’s reverb capabilities.
Intuitive Creation Station
From patch creation to live performance, Strymon StarLab’s powerful features are also easily accessible at the turn of a knob. With no menus to wade through, StarLab’s interface is designed for intuitive hands-on sonic exploration. Likewise, every function and control on StarLab works together to respond musically and smoothly, allowing for intuitive and responsive performances.
Modular Modulation
Alternatively, StarLab provides a wide range of modulation effects to add fatness and movement to your sound, all available on their own or in addition to StarLab’s reverb.
The short-delay portion of the DELAY/TUNE knob is tapered to make it easy to dial in a variety of rich chorus and swirling flanger effects when modulated by StarLab’s internal LFO. Also, use the dedicated FEEDBACK knob to add resonance and musical harmonic sweeps to flanger effects. Make your oscillators sound huge with lush, shimmering organic chorus. Finally, set the DRY level to minimum for classic vibrato effects.
Harmonics In Motion
Glimmer creates an enhanced harmonic spectrum using an optimally tuned resonant network, resulting in mysterious, shifting and similarly harmonic textures.
Press the HIGH BAND button to accentuate higher frequency harmonics, creating a washy, dreamy, ambient top end.
Strymon StarLab’s Key Features
- LFO section with various waveforms to modulate delay time, reverb size, or tone filters
- FILTER section to sculpt the high and low EQ of the reverb and DELAY/KARPLUS section
- Three selectable reverb types for a wide variety of ambient textures
- Adjustable SHIMMER for adding pitch shifting of up to +/- 1 octave to the reverb