If you want to hear an example of the sound, I suggest you watch this video (it’s not me/mine). If you find the shimmer too sharp (too much high frequencies), introduce a low-pass or mid-pass equalizer, and the sound will be warmer. Now you should hear the shimmer sound (or at least something that comes near).Įxperiment with the delay parameters for quicker/slower fade-in and fade-out. Once this works fine you can activate the reverb. Once again listen to this intermediate result, make a short sound on your guitar, and you should hear the pitch shift do it’s repeated work when the short sound travels through the loop over and over, every time shifted to one octave higher. If that happens reduce the gain-parameters in both unit one and two until the oscillations die out. Mind your ears and speakers (!!!), cause you may start with heavy oscillations. Only when this works fine, try closing the feedback loop (by connecting output of unit two into input of unit one). When starting up, try to use unit 2 first with output connected to MASTER, no reverb activated yet, only pitch shift, and listen to the result. I also tried to do achieve that result using a resonator-module, but that does not work fine. This produces a clean one-octave pitch-shift. I used the following settings: SPRAY: 0 ms, Frequency: 1 Hz Pitch 12 Rand Pitch: 0, feedback: 50%, DryWet: 50%, Time: 50 ms. The critical part is the setting of the grain-delay.ĪnybodyHuman put me on the right track here: “Try only using the sliders, not dragging multiple parameters with the graph display at first”. You may consider a third unit (connected to ouput of unit one, with another heavy reverb, but that is not absolutely necessary, and perhaps some chorus. first unit: delay / second unit: another delay, a pitch-shift (use the grain-delay module) by one octave, then a heavy reverb, output of unit two put is fed back into unit one. I want to thank you all for your advices, I found a solution that produces the desired shimmer sound.įor those of you who are trying to do the same - here's what I ended up with after a lot of try and error.Ĭonfiguration. Number TWO is easier to control, but the sound is not really what I'm after.
#Valhalla shimmer abletone plus
TWO: - three or four chained units, each containing delay plus pitch-shift and reverb, each sends output to MASTER.Ĭonfig ONE goes very easily into heavy oscillation (makes sense, because of the feedback loop), but the sound is closer to the desired result than TWO ONE - first unit: chorus and delay / second unit: another delay, a pitch-shift (used the resonator module) by one octave, output is fed back into unit one / third unit uses output of unit one, and contains a heavy reverb If so, which set-up did you use, and whcih settings did you appply ? Has perhaps anybody on this forum tried the same, and have you been succesful ? I came to a result that sounds a bit like the desired effect, but it's not really good. I am using Ableton Live Intro, and I suppose it should be possible with the right set-up and settings.
#Valhalla shimmer abletone Pc
My guitar is connected to the PC using an analog to USB-converter. The effect sounds like a synthesized orchestra of strings (Note: this is NOT the same as the Icy Shimmer that is described on ) I have been trying to create the so-called shimmer-effect that the Edge from U2 uses a lot.