Strymon Nightsky - Time-Warped Reverberator

Strymon NightSky — Time-Warped Reverberator

Create vast soundscapes with just a few notes from your instrument. Apply mind-bending pitch and harmonic manipulation to your reverb tails, with synth-like filter sweeps. Enter a world of new sounds that blow away the boundaries of what is possible with reverb. With pioneers and adventurous sonic explorers in mind, Strymon created a reverb pedal that can go where none have gone before.

NightSky is a reverberant synthesis workstation, and a powerful, hands-on experimental sound design platform. It gives you real-time continuous control of reverb pitch/processing rate/core size, harmonics, and even a synth-like resonant filter with multiple modulation waveshapes, plus a step sequencer with variable glide. You haven't heard a pedal like this before.

Warp Core Reverb

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. 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.

Three Reverb Textures

• Sparse — Reflections that are far enough apart to be audibly distinct. Legato notes create a lush, clean sound field; staccato notes reveal individual echoes, perfect for sound design.
• Dense — An immediate-response reverb with a smooth, plate-like sound field.
• Diffuse — A slow-building, atmospheric wash that excels at ambient, swell, and reverse-like textures, deconstructing and spreading transients over time.

Powerful Modulation

Add motion with triangle, square, ramp, saw, random, and envelope wave forms. Modulate the delay lines within the reverb core, the size/pitch (process rate), or the resonant low pass filter for very synth-like sounds.

Eight-Step Sequencer

NightSky features a powerful and easy-to-use eight-step sequencer. Each step changes the SIZE/PITCH setting and can be tuned in half-step increments, to notes in a musical scale of your choosing, or freely with no pitch quantization. The sequencer can advance on footswitch press or run automatically at a tapped tempo, with variable glide time for smooth pitch transitions.

Infinite Mode

NightSky's INFINITE footswitch freezes the audio at the input to the reverb core, and any new audio can still be processed by the reverb on top of the frozen audio. Combined with the sequencer, you can repitch frozen audio by predetermined intervals, creating on-demand chord changes to play over.

Morph

Seamlessly go from one set of knob positions to another at the press of a footswitch, at any Morph speed. Gradually vary modulation speed and depth, morph from a subtle short-decay reverb to a huge, mysterious long-decay sound, or sweep the filter's center frequency through audible harmonics.

Key Features

• Variable Process Rate reverb core with pitch shifting and quantization to musical scales
• Shimmer with selectable musical intervals (input or regenerative)
• Glimmer dynamic harmonic enhancement (high or low frequency)
• Drive with pre or post saturation
• 4-pole 24dB/octave resonant low pass filter
• Six modulation waveshapes with three modulation targets
• Eight-step sequencer with variable glide and scale quantization
• Infinite freeze mode
• Morph between two knob states at adjustable speed
• 16 onboard presets (300 via MIDI)
• Full MIDI I/O over 5-pin DIN, USB, and Expression jack
• Expression pedal control with simultaneous multi-parameter morphing
• Dedicated Instrument/Line input level switch
• Stereo inputs and outputs with ultra low-noise Class A JFET preamps