Hippie Elephant - Granular Reverb

Hippie Elephant is our dreamy, warbly granular reverb, a swirling cloud machine that freezes, shimmers, and melts your audio into psychedelic textures. Shape the grain size with TIME, bend the space with PITCH, darken or brighten with TONE, and ride a built-in TREMOLO for hypnotic movement. It’s instant vintage sci-fi ambience for guitars, vocals, synths, and beyond.

Sound In Motion

Hippie Elephant is built around a playable granular engine that turns reverb into a living texture. Tap FREEZE to capture a moment into an infinite pad, then morph its tone, pitch, and motion in real time, perfect for ambient swells, post-rock beds, dream-pop verbs, and cinematic transitions.

Fully Featured Control

Everything on the faceplate is designed for quick, musical results:

• TIME (Center) - Sets grain and reverb length and density from tight rooms to endless clouds.
• FREEZE (Button) - Grabs the current tail and holds it as an infinite texture. Play over it or reshape it live.
• TONE (Left) - Tilt-style filter to darken for vintage tape-verb vibes or brighten for airy sparkle.
• PITCH (Right) - Shifts the reverb grains for chorus-like detune, shimmer, or deep dive textures.
• TREMOLO Section - Built-in movement for the wet signal:
  • AMOUNT - Depth of the tremolo applied within the reverb tail.
  • SPEED - Rate from slow pulses to rapid flutter.
• IN / OUT Sliders - Fast gain staging on the sides for clean or driven ambience.
• Blend / Auto Gain - Mix dry and wet to taste with optional auto compensation when pushing levels.

Why We Love It

• Create instantly musical pads and beds with one click of FREEZE.
• Pitch-bend the space itself for shimmers, chorused verbs, and woozy tape dreams.
• Keep mixes tidy with onboard tone shaping and input and output control.
• Add movement inside the tail with no extra modulation plugins required.

Plugin Requirements

• MacOS: VST3, AU, AAX | Windows 64-bit: VST3, AAX
• Processor: 1 GHz Intel Dual Core or AMD equivalent
• RAM: 4GB minimum (8GB recommended)
• OS: macOS 10.15+ / Windows 8 & Above