Blur time with beautifully atmospheric reverbs

Butterfly Effect reacts to what you are playing, slowly & continually evolving, like a foggy memory, adding a trail of familiarity to the whole track, blurring time.

Add mood to sparse piano arrangements, drive overtones and cinematic sweeps from synth pads or strings, add crystal shimmer soundscapes to keyboards and clean guitars, or reimagine your tracks underwater.

Instant ambience

Filling space and injecting atmosphere into emotive, sparse arrangements. Butterfly Effect is designed to be felt more than heard.

It works beautifully on all instruments, and has become beloved by award winning composers & producers, not to mention becoming ambient guitarists & pianists’ secret sauce for their most evocative sounds.

Reverb, and far beyond

The Space module functions much like a traditional reverb with controls for stereo width, early and late reverb reflections. But things get interesting when introducing the Particles, Filter, Blur and Motion engines. Create slow, pattern-based granular build-ups with Blur, or generate pitch-shifted, crystal-like overtones with the Particles controls. Motion houses a dedicated chorus and can create beautifully subtle tape flutter effects.

The Dynamics section provides flexible compression to perfectly finesse your sounds for clarity and busy mix positioning, with full ducking and sidechain capabilities ensuring things never become muddy or unwieldy.

Industry acclaim

“I just thought I’d let you know how wonderful your plug in is. I’ve been using it on loads of songs. It’s really a thing of beauty. Well done.”
– Rik Simpson, Producer (Coldplay, Jon Hopkins, Portishead)

“I get lost inside of it. I don’t know any other plugin that does this sort of thing.”
– Barret Jones (Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Pearl Jam)

“Instant Harold Budd / Eno feel” / “This isn’t “just another reverb”, it’s more like a new instrument” / “I’ve been shooting for this sound since 1988. F#$ing Gorgeous.”
– Gearspace reviews

“Far from being a usual reverb plugin with some extra features, Butterfly Effect offers three “reverb” engines (named Shimmer, Blur and Space) with very distinct sounds and uses, ranging from the creation of sparkles and crystals, to ever-moving patterns of notes immersed into a deep halo, to wide and open reverberations that can take us where no man has gone before.”
– Production Expert

Specifications

DAWs: All major DAWs that support 64-bit VST3, AAX, or AU.

You do not need a physical iLok key to use Butterfly Effect. You do however need a (free) iLok account, and the (free) iLok License Manager app on your computer to use the Butterfly Effect or the Demo.

macOS: 10.13 or newer.
Usually works on 10.12 but not officially supported. Native support for Apple Silicon chips.
Windows: 8.1 or newer.
Usually works on Windows 7 but not officially supported.