LIQUIDSONICS SEVENTH HEAVEN PRO

The masters of convolution have turned their Fusion-IR technology on the Bricasti M7 to create this emulation of the top- end studio reverb

Seventh Heaven sees LiquidSonics taking their Bricasti Model 7 reverb obsession (first realised with Reverberate 2 – 9/10, 227) to its logical conclusion, being a convolution plugin powered entirely by state-of-the-art impulse responses of said legendary and uber-pricey hardware. It comes in two versions – Professional and ‘standard’ – and we’re reviewing Professional here, with the far cheaper Seventh Heaven covered in Amateur hour.

Hot Fusion

Built on LiquidSonics’ proprietary Fusion-IR technology – multisampled and interpolatable impulse responses, essentially – Seventh Heaven Professional’s 10GB install comprises 218 sampled presets from the Bricasti M7 v1 and 2. The development goal was to not only perfectly encapsulate the sound of the M7, but also its ease of use and smooth operation, the latter being a particularly pertinent consideration given the comparatively clunky, laggy nature of most convolution reverbs.

The main GUI houses bank and preset menus, and the five most salient controls: Decay Time, Mix, Gain, Very Low Frequency Reverb level (governing the gain of the reverb below 200Hz) and an Early/Late reflections balance slider. While one of Seventh Heaven’s big selling points is the quality of its interpolation between Fusion-IRs as the Decay Time knob is adjusted, each preset presents a menu of certain (usually nine or ten) specific times between 0.2 and 30s (most clustered at the shorter end of the range to optimise for small edits around the original preset time) at which it’s been sampled. Thus, it’s easy to achieve totally accurate recreation at those settings with no interpolation, when required.

Using just the main controls, you can get where you want to be with a well-chosen preset

DECAY TIME Interpolate between ten or so multisampled times per preset REFLECTIONS All 32 of the M7’s Reflection Patterns have been multisampled PRE-DELAY Apply up to 500ms of unsynced predelay or sync to host MIX Balance the wet and dry signals DELAY...