Strymon Nightsky plugin

[laxu]

https://www.strymon.net/product/nightsky-plugin/

Not sure if this belongs to D&M or Recording, but Strymon has released a plugin version of their Nightsky pedal.

I really liked the Nightsky pedal so this is worth exploring for all kinds of ambient reverb and delay-ish tones.

 

[BROCKSTAR]

Maybe we need a plugin category here?

Nightsky was nice, but can pretty much do that sort of thing with fractal these days or polyend mess, or any alternate sequencer with pedals.

 

[metropolis_4]

Maybe we need a plugin category here?

Nightsky was nice, but can pretty much do that sort of thing with fractal these days or polyend mess, or any alternate sequencer with pedals.

But also…

Nightsky is way easier to fit on a pedalboard than a Fractal

Nightsky is $180 less than the Polyend Mess

Nightsky is one pedal compared to the complication and size of alternate sequencers with pedals

 

[BROCKSTAR]

But also…

Nightsky is way easier to fit on a pedalboard than a Fractal

Nightsky is $180 less than the Polyend Mess

Nightsky is one pedal compared to the complication and size of alternate sequencers with pedals

VP4 isn't too much bigger? Yes maybe a bit more expensive, but you can do more with it obviously.

 

[mikah912]

VP4 isn't too much bigger? Yes maybe a bit more expensive, but you can do more with it obviously.

Isn't this thread about a $200 plugin rather than a $700 hardware unit?

 

[Mongillo19]

Isn't this thread about a $200 plugin rather than a $700 hardware unit?

All roads lead to Fractal™

 

[Jynx]

Isn't this thread about a $200 plugin rather than a $700 hardware unit?

200?

99 on Sweetwater.

 

[mikah912]

200?

99 on Sweetwater.

I stand corrected, but that's even more to my point.

 

[AlbertA]

I didn’t even realize Strymon did plugins

 

[BROCKSTAR]

Isn't this thread about a $200 plugin rather than a $700 hardware unit?

Well obviously, but I was talking about nightwish hardware....

 

[MirrorProfiles]

always stoked to see things like this ported to plugins. I didn’t really like Big Sky as much as I thought I would, but this could be more interesting….

 

[laxu]

VP4 isn't too much bigger? Yes maybe a bit more expensive, but you can do more with it obviously.

Quite a lot bigger. Fractal reverbs are IMO better, but you can't experiment with them in the way you can with the Nightsky. I found it pretty good at getting into unexpected, but inspiring places.

I only sold mine because I needed more "meat and potatoes" reverbs more often.

 

[BROCKSTAR]

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Quite a lot bigger. Fractal reverbs are IMO better, but you can't experiment with them in the way you can with the Nightsky. I found it pretty good at getting into unexpected, but inspiring places.

I only sold mine because I needed more "meat and potatoes" reverbs more often.

Been awhile since I had the nightsky even thought I did enjoy it but i thought it was a little bigger, oh well. As for experimenting. I think you get more out of VP4. You can add 4 different plex delays to make all sorts of cool things, or add 2 pitch blocks and 2 plex delays, or plex delays and reverb blocks and pitch block and a modulation block etc.. Add in all of the sequencer, lfo's, adsr etc. Add in series / parallel routing etc. I'd wager the VP4 would be more powerful and more experimental than nightksy hardware.

 

[metropolis_4]

VP4 isn't too much bigger? Yes maybe a bit more expensive, but you can do more with it obviously.

Your post essentially said “Nightsky is nice, but you could easily do the same thing with something bigger and more expensive”

Which begs the question: why choose bigger and more expensive instead of smaller and cheaper?

 

[laxu]

Been awhile since I had the nightsky even thought I did enjoy it but i thought it was a little bigger, oh well. As for experimenting. I think you get more out of VP4. You can add 4 different plex delays to make all sorts of cool things, or add 2 pitch blocks and 2 plex delays, or plex delays and reverb blocks and pitch block and a modulation block etc.. Add in all of the sequencer, lfo's, adsr etc. Add in series / parallel routing etc. I'd wager the VP4 would be more powerful and more experimental than nightksy hardware.

Yes the VP4 can do a million things more, but the point was that for experimentation it's not a pure "turn knobs" experience where almost everything you can do with the effect has its own knob or switch a button press away.

That's the beauty of a curated UI like the Nightsky, it's just very fast to try stuff to craft your own sounds rather than use something already made.

 

[Aleksi]

A) VP4 is absolutely frigging gigantic
B) It's not a plugin
C) You don't exactly just throw a pile of plex verbs into a preset and assign modulators to stuff to replicate a Nightsky

 

[LP59]

This might be a tough sell. It's a very different arena for Strymon to compete in. There are already many excellent ambient reverb plugins.

 

[[Nathan]]

I didn’t even realize Strymon did plugins

No one did