Quiet Music has released a new audio plugin which combines a sympathetic string resonator modeled with Karplus-Strong synthesis and an audio-reactive sampler with trigger and flow modes.
Driven by incoming audio, Reverie is capable of everything from pure string voicings and melody-tracking harps to deep ambient beds built on series routing.
Instead of playing them from a keyboard, you excite them with sound. Send in a drum loop and the strings ring out in sympathy with every hit. Send in a pad, a vocal, a field recording, or pure noise, and Reverie reconstructs it as a shimmering, harmonic version of itself, locked to your key. It is the acoustic phenomenon behind a sitar’s drone strings or an open piano with the sustain pedal down, turned into a tool you can point at any track.
But Reverie is more than a resonator. It carries a second engine: an audio-reactive sampler called Texture. Load any sample, foley, percussion, atmospheres, a single struck bell, and it fires or loops in response to your input’s dynamics, following its brightness and even its pitch. On its own, Texture is a reactive layering machine. Combined with the strings, it becomes something new.
The plugin comes in VST3 and AU formats for Windows and macOS, available to download from KVR Audio as part of the Developer Challenge 2026.
