Introducing Glacier: Freeze, Shimmer & Delay

Glacier is here: a delay and reverb built around one idea. Hold a sound in place and let it drift.

A tempo-synced stereo or ping-pong delay feeds a dense reverb, in either order, and four controls shape both at once. You can turn a single chord, vocal phrase or drum hit into a pad, a tail or a wash that keeps moving.

Freeze

Freeze holds the current delay and reverb sound indefinitely and stops new input entering them, while your dry signal keeps passing through. It fades in and out over roughly 120 to 150 milliseconds, so there are no clicks. Chill, Dispersion, Duck and Mix still shape the frozen sound, which means a held moment can keep changing.

Four controls that shape everything

• Chill brightens the wet signal for glassier, more crystalline repeats and tails, without changing decay time.
• Dispersion smears the repeats, widens them and adds chorus, and sweeps the reverb from narrow to extra wide.
• Duck pulls the wet signal down while you play, so it blooms back in the gaps.
• Freeze holds the sound where it is.

Delay and reverb

The delay runs from 0 to 2000 ms or locks to your host tempo, from whole notes to thirty-second notes including dotted and triplet values. A pitch shifter of ±12 semitones sits on its output and stays on time, so every repeat can come back an octave up or down.

The reverb has two types. Hall is a dense, natural space. Shimmer regenerates an octave up, and the amount rises with the Depth control. Decay runs from 20 milliseconds to 10 seconds. Put the delay before or after the reverb to change how the space behaves.

Made for the moments that give a track its atmosphere

• Pads: freeze a chord and let it hang under the arrangement.
• Vocal throws: send a single word into the delay and let it bloom and decay.
• Drums: dissolve a snare into a cinematic tail.
• Transitions: use Freeze as a riser or a held breakdown, then release it.

Details

• Zero latency added to the dry signal.
• VST3 and AAX on macOS and Windows, AU on macOS.
• Stereo output, with mono or stereo input.
• Presets with INIT, folders and a User folder for your own sounds.

Glacier pairs naturally with Liminal. Liminal shapes the hit, and Glacier holds the air around it.

Availability

Glacier is available now from flickswitchaudio.com for $19 until 1 November, as part of the Halloween Freeze sale. {{update the price line to the current phase}}