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Add groundbreaking functionality to the reverb plugins you already own.
Design new reverb worlds with bespoke effects and your existing VSTs.
A fresh new take on an iconic category of sound, SILENCER is a first-of-its-kind plugin that supercharges the reverb plugins you already own.
It features Timegate, a Patent Pending process that completely resets the reverb signal on each note, silencing the undesirable reverb that sustains over multiple notes, accumulating frequencies that clutter the clarity + intelligibility of all instruments, vocals, and mixes as a whole.
It doesn’t stop there. We’ve developed several new FX that both enhance and clean up your reverb even more.
The world’s first meta-reverb, Silencer puts reverb where you want it. Not where you don’t.
You can also add your own VSTs to continue designing your personal reverb sounds, and then save the entire chain as a preset. With all of your best reverb sounds organized in one place, Silencer also acts as a Reverb Manager.
Silencer’s signature feature is the Timegate module, which hosts all of your favorite VST reverbs and re-triggers them using a unique CPU-efficient process — clearing the buffer and starting a brand new reverb — for each audio transient.
Now your sounds have 100% clarity, and the reverb following each transient sounds pristine since it starts over on the new note.
• Drums are way punchier. Make your drums sound more expensive by adding space around them without muddying up your transients. Silencer sounds epic on the drum bus.
• Your leads, chords, and vocals have enhanced clarity, and are no longer unclear from the reverb of previous pitches.
• Make your beats sound vintage/sampled: by adding loads of reverb that restarts on each note, it can sounds like you chopped your own beats/one-shots/etc that have reverb in the sample. All while keeping everything flexible.
• Bass reverb is now easier. Eliminate phase issues on bass/kick reverbs without cutting all the low end.
While this works with the reverb sounds you’d normally use, we also encourage you to use Silencer to design the most dirty, cinematic or otherworldly reverbs, and use re-triggering to turn it into a polished but surreal mix. The amount of control you have is unparalleled.
In the end, it’s all about clarity, whether you’re using a small plate, or an epic 10-second shimmer verb.
You can also trigger reverbs via MIDI notes, the audio transients of a sidechain signal, or manually perform/automate it via the TRIGGER button. You can even automate triggers while using another mode.
You have to hear Timegate to believe it, but re-triggering your reverb is optional — there’s plenty more to do.
Our 3 proprietary modules often use the incoming dry signal to control various effects on the wet reverb signal. Then add other effect VSTs (e.g. Retro Color, Saturn, etc.) to add a limitless amount of character to your reverbs — essentially creating your own.
• Add massive Weight and beautiful Air using a legendary BBE Sonic Maximizer algorithm that makes your reverbs sound epic. You’ll have a hard time believing your before/after comparisons.
• Use Gate to quickly add groove to your reverb. Since reverbs are sustained by nature, Silencer’s Gate uses the dry signal for detection, giving your reverb a punchier sound. This sounds especially good on drums. (If you want a normal Gate, you can also load up any gate plugin you own in Silencer.)
• Spread pans the dry and wet signal in opposite directions, creating a magical 3D effect used on radio hits to carve out room in the center of your mix while still adding dimension.
Focus EQ allows you to enhance the important frequencies of your instrument, by cutting the reverb and optionally boosting the dry signal at the same critical frequency.
Wide EQ curves make for a transparent, vibey sound.
We couldn’t leave out the sidechain compressor.
Sidechain will compress the reverb based on the dry signal (Silencer does the routing for you). The Release knob does several things to give you different tones, in fact we almost labelled it Groove.
On the right, a filter helps you fine-tune the detection circuit by telling Silencer which frequencies to listen to from the dry signal.
Add your favorite VST Effects to the Plugin Manager for quick access. These effects will only affect the wet reverb signal.
The plugins shown in the image above are third-party plugins, not included with Silencer.
Silencer makes for a great Reverb Manager as well. Save all your favorite reverb setups in one place, regardless of plugins used, and quickly audition them.
For easy sound design experimentation, you can enable Reverb Lock so that your Reverb plugin doesn’t change as you audition presets — only the FX Modules swap in.
We are excited to say that delays are unofficially supported 🙂
They don’t all work and we haven’t tested many — getting reverbs to work has been our priority — but some of the biggest ones do, including Echoboy, Timeless 3, Other Desert Cities and many other favorites. You can achieve some mind-bending sound design by re-triggering delays, especially with high Feedback.
Yes. The reverb-resetting aspect is only one of several modules in Silencer, and when you load up a reverb, the triggering can easily be bypassed by clicking the MIDI button.
Create custom reverb setups, save them for later, and you may later choose to use a setup with triggering on another project.
We adore reverb, it’s our favorite effect. However from Day 1 we were clear about one thing: we didn’t want to push another reverb algorithm into the market. Reverb takes a long time to get right, evidenced by the fact that the finest reverb makers specialize in doing only that.
We’re music producers first, and if we could continue using all our favorite reverbs, we’d rather do that. Silencer is future-proof and will work with your current and future reverb plugins. It’s the best of all reverb worlds.
We like to joke that the last reverb you’ll ever need, isn’t a reverb at all….
Silencer is easy on the CPU. As a plugin host, its performance depends almost entirely on the plugins being hosted.
While triggering reverbs does use CPU, we discovered an exciting method that drastically reduces CPU load, and we’re very happy with the result. This is also part of our Patent Pending technology.
The most historic sweetening effect in record production might be reverb, but the way we use reverbs hasn’t changed since the dawn of the plug-in. Silencer is still a plug-in, but it’s a new way of using all your favorite reverbs.
Let’s talk about masking. The biggest thing people don’t realize at first about Timegate is how well it solves masking issues created by reverbs.
With Timegate, the reverb doesn’t play over the initial transient, and the reverb that follows only contains what has happened since the transient, so it’s clean and clashes less with the dry signal. You can really crank up your reverbs and they still sound great.
Look at these spectrums of a sung vocal. Notice how much of the melodic and harmonic material is preserved when using Timegate, compared to the same reverb without Timegate.
Before Silencer, reverb could easily turn things into a cluttered mess, so we were taught to turn it up to a fun amount, then back off and “use it wisely”. With Silencer, Reverb can finally be used to its fullest creative expression, to the extent of your imagination without worrying about any negative side effects.
Enjoy these audio examples of Silencer.
no reverb, no vibe, dry as the desert.
even the largest reverbs are no match for Timegate — all melodic and harmonic information stays intact.
the same reverb without Timegate, the original signal is nearly lost.
Hear how the same reverb can gains maximum clarity and vibe with Silencer and Timegate.
• About 90% of reverbs work with Silencer’s triggering mechanism.
• 100% of plugins can be hosted in Silencer and used without retriggering
90% is still excessive for most people’s needs, and you will be amazed at the new sounds you can create that you were never able to before Silencer.
That said, we’re working with the last reverb-designers to increase compatibility, and many manufacturers have been supportive since the beginning of Silencer’s development. If you make reverbs, reach out to us!
If you want to test your reverbs before purchasing, we offer a time-unlimited demo (limitations: occasional gentle white noise, no recall/presets).
For stability and usability, Silencer loads plugins of one format: VST3. This means that you must have the VST3 version of a plugin installed in order for Silencer to load it.
That said, Silencer can run VST3s in any DAW, including Logic and Pro Tools.
If you’re someone who only installs AU or AAX versions of their plugins, all we can offer is that you take this as an opportunity to update a few plugins and, in the process, install the VST3 version. Silencer is still extremely useful even if you only run a handful of your favorite plugins in it. That said, we apologize for any inconvenience.
Optimized for Apple Silicon.
VST3, AU, AAX
Loads VST3 plugins only.
Works on Stereo tracks, not Mono tracks, because reverbs are stereo.
Supports macOS 10.13 High Sierra, Windows 7 and up.
Silencer uses very little CPU and RAM itself; as a plugin host, the usage is up to you.
Current version: 1.0.5
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