Introducing The BigSky Plugin From Strymon

[@ElephantTusks]

They should offer the plug-in at a discounted rate if you already own the hardware.

[@MurdaMetz]

😂 I would be happy to pay full price , I’ve been wanting this to happen for 6 years ! No more running the bigsky with the radial extc and having to compensate for latency lol .

[@brianbjur4796]

LOL the buyer’s remorse is palpable

[@romichjordan]

I think they should give it fo free if u have a hardware😅

[@d2vmusic]

@@romichjordan I'm all for that! 😊

[@MurdaMetz]

@@romichjordan eventide makes pedals and plug ins , and they don’t offer free anything . I actually just purchased the black hole plug in on sale for 29$ , but I’d still like to own the hardware lol , I’m a reverb junky haha .

[@ChrisCadenhead]

CONGRATS GUYS!! This will forever be a great moment in time. I suspect the other line of products may be coming in the future haha. Cheers to all

[@erikjohnson2976]

FINALLY! I hope that this is just the start of an entire suite of their pedals catalog. I'm ready to throw money at Strymon for the complete suite. Bring it on! Big Sky has been my favorite pedal, hands down, for about the past seven years. This elevates Big Sky to another level.

[@theaudioeng]

+1 there Erik, defo need their back catalogue of HW pedal FX to be ported to VSTI'S

[@ryanperrault8174]

I was always wondering if this would happen.

[@ericfreeman9728]

They can have my next paycheck if i can have those pedals digitally.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Congrats guys! The Cloud algorithm especially still makes it on every single one of my songs, this is a huge deal!!

[@raffaelesantabarbara1449]

I had many reverb hardware as well as plugins, the big sky plugin is by far my favorite! People complaining about the price have no idea how good this thing is!

[@CassieBrandi]

So fun to record this video! Congrats on the release!

[@douginsaltlake]

Hi Cassi, what was the song you were sining in this video? It was fantastic!

[@CassieBrandi]

@@douginsaltlake Sean wrote it for this demo specifically! I love it too!

[@LarsLentz]

This plugin creates beautiful sounds and I love it!

[@LunarWolf]

I got the pedal and I will get the plugin for sure. Awesome move. Thank you.

[@MarkKirbyMusic]

Excited for this! Edit- I just watched the whole video and wow, it’s impressive. Love the interface. Nice work, Pete!

[@HousePlant_Ambient]

About fucking time. I was just waiting for this to happen for years! Patience really is a virtue.

[@YsakStern]

Exelent Plugin good friends of Strymon. Embraces yours souls from here Argentina country

[@RockwellDulcimer]

Love this demo!! I will be on this one asap. Thanks!!!!

[@IlianaBeilis]

This is amazing! My favorite pedal now in a plug in I can use on everything!!!

[@termsofuniverse7251]

This is AWESOME! I'm very limited on space in my wee little studio and had to lean more on software.

[@robinbinns]

Seriously good business plan. You guys are guna make so much money off this. I WANT IT!! :)

[@InnerVisions68]

I’m so excited about this, and what is surely further, great things to come. Volante, Mobius, NightSky, Timeline, and more … 💙

[@MurdaMetz]

Thanks Strymon ! Way to go . Can’t wait to get this . I am super excited about this ! Made my year ! No joke .

[@kairophilos]

Finallyyyy!!! Congrats you guyss!! I'm definitely getting this!

[@VictorCaoCA]

I would get this if there were a discounted price for existing Strymon BigSky customers. The convenience is nice, but I can't justify the additional cost. I think there is a market for people who would want to have both.

[@hydrogxn]

Get all valhalla reverbs/delay for the same price

[@dgnine4852]

@@hydrogxn yup

[@voidmusic549]

@@hydrogxn totally agree. Love strymon but they dropped at 199 a product with almost zero engineering as the core (algorithm) have already been developed for a 499 digital pedal. I prefer the honesty and the pricing policy (and the blog) for Valhalla. 50 bucks at plug-in, no shit, no crazy pricing with 75% discount ok Black Friday. That’s a great gtm strategy

[@ernestbuckley8671]

Incredible! This is an easy decision. Thanks Strymon.

[@turunturun]

Am I the only one who also appreciates the Christmas Story leg lamp in the background? Also absolutely thrilled to be giving Strymon more of my money on this one,and I’d buy the Deco as a plug-in immediately as well.

[@joshtackett]

Apparently they have it now! Hah!

[@mikaeljohansson83]

Yay my favorite demoguy and truely awesome guitarist Sean Halley awesome :)

[@webnuts4u2]

Love my BigSky and I did figure out how to include in routing with my audio interface. Having a plugin is absolutely more convenient! When is a version of the Timeline coming?

[@jacobsmith1877]

I've been waiting for this for a decade. So stoked

[@jcrenders_]

Amazing!!! Im So Excited ❤

[@budwrite]

I have always wanted the hardware unit but in the last few years my composing setup has been minimized to just in the box. This will be awesome!! Congrats and Thanks

[@kevinbrennen6773]

This, this is how you demo something. The very fact that you took the time to add a part where you hit BYPASS so we can hear the difference was perfect!

[@JakeAlstad]

awesome! my big sky is my most cherished pedal

[@Puffadelic888]

The song Cassie is singing should be published. It is awesome and beautifully sung and played

[@afonsoserro6834]

wow, what a long tail, great job guys

[@sKarredtoon]

Love the Major Award there in the background.🎅🏻

[@kenny6105]

I hope more and more companies start taking this approach when modeling analog hardware for plugins and just making plugins in general, make something that is easy to use but expansive in options and adding on to the hardwares functionality in ways that make sense. this is a high value plugin

[@XanderEwald]

No analog hardware had to be modeled in this case, Big Sky is a digital effect processor in the first place.

[@zekebeckman]

Woooooooo!!!! So thrilled about this!!!

[@danaproducer]

Absolutely incredible! I love the BigSky plugin, and this is such a wonderful video intro!! Plus, that talented handsome devil, Sean Halley, is just the best. Congrats and THANKS for the awesome tools, Strymon fam! 💙🙌🌤

[@RikMaxSpeed]

I have the hardware Strymon BigSky and absolutely love putting analogue synths through it, it’s like having a 2nd synth - and excels for ambient music in particular!

[@chandeleerjet5637]

Would you say it’s the best reverb youve tried for synths? I was about to buy a Bricasti for my synths but I’m thinking about this now.

[@RikMaxSpeed]

@@chandeleerjet5637 Yes 👍 That’s the simple answer. The longer answer is that it’s like having a 2nd synth layer: it’s so good at creating a pad-like atmosphere, even vocal/choir sounds, that it’s a fantastic combination with an analogue synth, in my case the DSI Prophet 8 (rev 1, which has no FX and can have a very bright tone). It’s by far my favourite Reverb/FX pedal. And I have had many others.

[@InnerVisions68]

@@chandeleerjet5637 Love this, and the Specular Tempus. Strymon is definitely a gold standard.

[@matthiashubler3401]

Will there be a special offer for owners of the Hardware BigSky Pedal? How Eventide has done it for the H9 !

[@sadkebab]

This is really cool and I really wish there were other Strymon pedals made in plugin format like Deco

[@MrKablesp]

Sounds incredible! Just bought an El Cap and waiting for it in the mail. Gotta start somewhere, right? 🤷🏼‍♂️ Can’t wait!

[@carl_47]

So huge! I’m so excited about this gem. Great work guys , congrats.

[@oinkooink]

Get the mask off nitiwt

[@clayteasouth]

Congrats! An amazing pedal/plugin. I wish it was free or reduced for hardware owners.

[@AdamsBrew78]

Please bring this to iPad/iOS! I already have Eventide and Fabfilter’s gorgeous iOS reverbs, but would buy this in an instant. I think it would take top spot as the best on the platform.

[@jackmansfield9707]

I’m so hyped cuz I used to use my pedal for my keys setup live now it’s just on my mac!!!

[@Joel-Monterra]

I heard this thing 5 years ago - since then I produced music for roughly about the same amount of time. From this day on I knew this is the best reverb - period. Until now there is no equivalent.

[@alejandromagana1554]

I’d just lower the price, just to compete with the existing class reverb vsts out there as Valhalla, prob 100-150 bucks as max 🤷🏻‍♂️ this is an amazing plugin btw as I can tell

[@OlemirCandido]

Awesome.

[@jonatas.]

Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaah... I just sold my BigSky pedal, saving money guys... thank you!

[@mortensaaugaard5795]

How did I miss this? Just found out today. This is awesome!

[@muziksculp2r]

Sound Amazing ! I would love to see Strymon make the NighSky Plugin next 😎👍🏻 Purchased the BigSky Plugin, and I have the HW-Pedal as well.

[@brutallyremastered4255]

That Joe Carrell dude was brilliantly honest and humble.

[@strymon]

Joe is good people, that's all there is to it. And his mixes rock, seriously!

[@AKAtAGG]

I have the bigsky pedal for my guitar. Came to this thinking no way you can recreate that digitally. Yeah. They can and did. Buying the soft version for my digital work.

[@vicneve1169]

This is indeed something totally different then the standard reverbs. The BigSky sounds amazing on my synthesizers. 😊

[@JonathanKillstring]

They've finally done it!

[@ckhowes]

Outstanding! I can't wait to get my hands on this plug-in.

[@ZAYAZOfficial]

Bring on the Timeline Plug In!!

[@drewniakradoslaw]

Wowwwewww! I want Strymon Mobius too! ❤❤❤

[@MIxstarsOnline]

I was just going to buy the pedal a couple of days ago.. no need now about to go buy the plugin now

[@sean_wave]

Unbelievable!!!

[@guitarheart94]

Awesome!! Will we ever see a Brigadier v2?

[@midnightsocean2689]

omg FINALLY! lol. I love the big sky and EVERY time I use it, I wish it had a plugin.

[@DJKeiofficial]

i use this on my productions 10/10

[@lundsweden]

Wow, this is awesome! Not everyone wants the clutter of pedals, plus DAW integration just makes this a dream!

[@BrianBondAudio]

Yes!! Let’s get this Soundgrid compatible for us live guys!

[@oinkooink]

Ok give me a second or two

[@GuitarML]

Sounds amazing, great job!

[@jacobkoberstein9793]

Holy moly ive been dreamin about this moment

[@nj1255]

Finally! Been wondering when you were going to put your algorithms in a plug-in :D

[@asimnicholsmusic]

This is DOPE. Definitely a must have.

[@djscratchdog]

I bought tails be Unfiltered audio on salel for $14.99 and it does the same thing .. lol Just another reverb

[@LesVegasMusic]

Excellent! I need this sucker! Thank you!

[@MrRIROCH]

Monstrueux 💥

[@toddjbradshaw]

I'm an owner of the BigSky hardware unit ($500). I did not gripe about Strymon NOT giving existing customers a discount I should note. That would have been a nice gesture. So, I picked up the plug-in as well for further benefits. My only complaint and to me it's a major one is that Strymon is using iLok with cloud-only activation location(s) to where I cannot install the activation directly on the PC/MAC like the majority of vendors allow within that dated platform. Atleast this is the way it appears after going through the huge PITA to activate it. My PC is stationary, and I travel with my Mac so it's turn that on, turn that off hassles to get it playing nice with everything else. I respect the fact that these companies are trying to protect themselves against piracy but what good is your solution if the answer to that itself frustrates and possibly chases customers away. This will be the last one boys. Know that after what I went through today. There has to be a better way and honestly if I had known, I just would have rather just plugged the hardware in here and there because essentially that is what they are asking us to do by purchasing a USB Dongle from iLok to get around weak Wi-Fi connections and such. So plan on this plug-in costing about $250+ if you want some peace of mind. Oh the nightmares of the heavenly reverbs going off because the constant cloud connection broke. I'm a paying customer, and I do not deserve that. If I am wrong here, I stand to be corrected. Thanks.

[@RayyMusik]

Thanks for your warning. There are few music software companies with tolerable registration/authorization processes. Strymon apparently decided to torture the customer. Well, gonna stick to my real blue box or Valhalla.

[@frankymino8773]

Well I certainly turned away from purchasing the plugin primarily due to iLok. People who download plugins (illegally) never had the intention on purchasing it to begin with. So the developer would never have gained the culprit as a customer to begin with. In essence they don't lose anything. I understand developers protecting their work... though iLok just turns many legitimate customers away. The fact is they could gain much more sales by another means of activation. Especially for existing customers.

[@Trottelheimer]

Yay! The maestro, Pete Celi! :)

[@Truth1nNature]

Everyone saying it’s expensive for a plug in because Valhalla has them $50 each… or $80 more for the physical pedal… 1. Anyone who wants the effects of the BigSky ($479) can now have access at $200. 2. It’s incredibly convenient. I have it in my pedalboard for guitars. And I have a separate pedalboard for my synths. So for someone like me, to session record and being able to pull this up without swapping it out of the 2 different boards. So convenient. 3. IF they did reduce the price. It would be too low because all those algo’s could be bought at 1/4 or less than the physical unit. So have to be realistic about it. I’m not rich by any means, but I’d gladly pay $200 to have it available in my DAW as needed. And I will still keep the actual pedal. I don’t see an issue in having both for different use cases!

[@DamienTheCat]

Lol this is like stockholm syndrome. They need to lower the price because there are far better VSTs out there for 20 bucks, let alone 50. There are better FREE reverbs out there. This is not the field Strymon should get into if they want to charge these prices. The actual recording community and "at-home" engineers are not going to touch this.

[@DamienTheCat]

And no, there isn't a single thing about the BlueSky that can't be replicated elsewhere. It's 2022.

[@Truth1nNature]

@@DamienTheCat the *BigSky* not BlueSky. And I don’t think they created it to compete with other plugins. Just an offering for those that wanted the ability to have that reverb pedal available in their daw. It’s convenient to have.

[@Prince.Mykal.Vision]

@@DamienTheCat I'm curious, what plugins do you think compete for free, or in the $20-50 range?

[@daviddeperez358]

So amazing. Is there a cab sim switch like on the pedal?

[@maramé.r]

It would be wonderful if the Big Sky reverb plugin was made available for iOS as are the Eventide reverbs which I use a lot. The Night Sky would also be amazing to have as a plugin. Many do their music production on iOS using a DAW such as AUM etc rather than on Mac/Windows

[@ArtinRu]

🤝

[@DannyJamesGuitar]

Please make an El Capistan plugin too!!!

[@quickstrike209]

Yessssssss 👍🤚

[@achilleszaluar5825]

its huge! awesome...

[@bharumusic]

Amazing!! Will be using this plugin for a long time 🙏🏾

[@benzakonium]

This looks amazing. But the price is a sensitive issue. The R&D on the algorithms has surely been covered by the pedal sales. When you buy a pedal you have a physical object which you can sell or trade quickly and easily and never worry about it no longer being compatible with your pedal board. Plugins can go down at any second through OS or DAW updates. If you don’t update then you’re being held hostage by a plugin - as they are always late to the party with updates and compatibility. They’re very difficult to sell and you only ever really own them with a bunch of conditions attached. There are so many great reverb plugins out there at considerably more realistic prices.

[@ThisMichaelBrown]

Wow, fantastic....now I can leave my guitar pedal board alone ;) big fan of blue sky....bet I like this too.

[@AirArtStudiosOfficial]

Love my eurorack version. Such a creative verb/delay

[@jordanprysmiki5361]

Nice work Strymon.

[@strymon]

Thank you!

[@MrHoogoorock]

Wow so many of you guessed right. In the box is getting bigger and now forever better.😊

[@chrollo7102]

life changing

[@gabrielegelfofx]

Technical speaking the hw version works at fixed 96Khz. What about setting the daw sample rate at 44.1 or 192Khz? Are there any improvements using higher sample rates?

[@alpstonemusic]

Awesome plugin! Who made this promo soundtrack? Love it!

[@strymon]

That is our own Nick Casale and his band Polygoner who made the main theme, which is from their song entitled "Picture" (Polygoner.bandcamp.com). Sean Halley then crafted variations on that music for some parts of the video where the music is in the background behind talking.

[@alpstonemusic]

@@strymon I checked! Fantastic job guys! Thanks!

[@rjjen1696]

wow what a cool tool

[@mchapeyron]

❤need this!

Love this 😍

[@harrisbeatsfrankou6304]

Still need an Iridium with effects loop. Love my Riverside...Strymon Dirt is Great! Under rated. Damn I'm getting an El Capistan trading in my RE201... no headroom in the Loop... But this could be in my DAW.

[@rodrigocampossantos181]

It would be amazing for Strymon to develop something similar to H9 Eventide (App editing and etc). When will they have something similar in the form of a pedal by algorithmic control?

[@RufusRoss]

They already have that. Nixie. Check it out

[@rodrigocampossantos181]

@@RufusRoss not practical like h9. I mean in pedal format for use on the pedalboard

[@kingpen5856]

This is beautiful but I think night sky would be a better vst

[@kruser32]

Please make this available as an iPad app. Thank you

[@schniggedagges74]

Maybe five years ago this would have been a steal. But meanwhile there is RAUM by Native Instruments, all the Valhalla stuff and a lot of other great sounding reverb plugins for less than half the price. So even as an owner of a hardware BigSky unit an as a big fan of the sounds it produces I won't spend another 200$ for this plugin. It's just my humble opinion.

[@joechapman8208]

I agree. I'm demoing it and the sound just isn't there. Liquidsonics are head and shoulders above this, and the Big Sky plugin just sounds thin and flat in comparison. I was expecting something much better from the hype, but it just sounds like an old-gen reverb plugin to me. The brand name is likely to sell it though.

[@zariisofficial]

Liquidsonics you say? I'll check them out.. i think the price of this Bigsky vst is disgusting.

[@joechapman8208]

@@zariisofficial They're also expensive, so I would advise you to wait for Black Friday sales (they usually have one around then). The good thing about Liquidsonics' pricing is their loyalty deals -- every plugin you buy nets you a big % discount on the next purchase. Cinematic Rooms (I upgraded to Pro, which is even better) is my favourite, also Seventh Heaven (the latter is a perfect Bricasti M7), and Lustrous Plates is great if you love plate verbs as much as I do.

[@zariisofficial]

@@joechapman8208 good shout mate thanks! I did check out seventh heaven. Looked and sounded really good too!

[@diegoorozco9224]

helix native has a discount for helix users, I hope you will offer a discount for bigsky owners as well.

[@andrewhorton5101]

When can I subscribe to StrymonCloud™ to get access to this and all your other plugins?

[@marcusstrymon693]

Okay, I really really dig it and very very awesome. I would get it if I did not have an outboard FX loop, where I can even play VST istruments live through all my strymons (so also nightsky and bigsky). I am gonna recommend this to all of my friends tho. Finally! I did not understand that this didnt come as the immerse plugin from neunaber seemed like a nobrainer. But a BIGSKY WITH ALL THE SOUNDS AS PLUGIN???? WHAAAAAT???? AWESOME A bit sad tho, that the outlandish all around pitch unit with multiple pitch shifty delays, glide effects and stuff didnt come. But it may come in the future hopefully.

[@endonyxoneaudio8644]

They should have made these in pedal form where the pedal also is the DSP source and you connect it through USB. Just like the elektro harmonix Big muff hardware plugin. That would have been excellent.

[@jackflynn-oakley1937]

They’re digital though, the point of the Big Muff is that your getting analogue distortion through digital controls, the same as Wesaudio for example. The Bigsky is a digital effect, you’d just be using it as a glorified midi controller in that case

[@endonyxoneaudio8644]

@@jackflynn-oakley1937 it would be idea when the processing was done on the DSP of the pedal ;-)

[@jackflynn-oakley1937]

@@endonyxoneaudio8644 I really don’t see the point mate sorry, you might as well just use the actual pedal at that point

[@endonyxoneaudio8644]

@@jackflynn-oakley1937 yeah you have the choice wether to use the physical in- and outputs or do audio over USB. Besides that high quality reverb algoritmes are notorious cpu heavy so offloading that to the pedal dsp would be awesome.

[@secretreleases]

Can't believe this is finally reality!

[@leapingtortoise]

I have the pedal. Since then bloom is almost my default but I do still use cloud and hall a bit

[@XiyuYang]

About damn time!