Review Overview Since 2013, has released a large number of sample and packs in various styles. The UK brand specialised in creating rich and evocative ambient samples, and the team has used this knowledge to create its first – a hybrid convolution and delay . With a broad collection of curated impulse responses and presets, Airspace transforms even your simplest audio sources into mesmerising, deep and enveloping pads and textures.
The plugin is made up of a stereo delay and two convolution modules that load impulse responses. Although these two modules are named ‘Colour’ and ‘Space’, they are in fact identical, and you can load any of the over-450 included responses (IRs) into each. These IRs are the core elements that give Airspace its unique sound.
They include authentic recordings taken from a cathedral, a nuclear reactor, a submarine, and a chocolate factory (didn’t expect that one, did you?). There’s also reverb hardware, found , analogue drum machines, an upright , experimental sound effects and textural loops. Everything is neatly organised into folders, and the longer responses are listed with reverb times to help with browsing.
Although the IRs can be accessed from either convolution module, the general idea is that you use the Colour module for shorter impulses such as sims or found sounds, and the Space module for longer reverbs. You can dramatically change the timbre and character of the sound with some of the shorter IRs, introducing extra movement.
