Audio Damage Ascent is a new dual-engine reverb plugin for macOS, Linux, and Windows, combining hall with a granular reverb.
Update: It’s now available for iOS AUv3 on the Apple App Store as well, for an introductory price of $ 2.99 until December 2025.
You can never have too many hardware and software reverbs. Most use an engine that allows you to switch between different algorithms. Combining engines is rarer.
Audio Damage Ascent is a new reverb plugin that does precisely that. It pairs two engines into one reverb.
Audio Damage Ascent
Ascemt is a new, advanced CPU-friendly reverb plugin for macOS, Linux, and Windows. At the core of Audio Damage Ascent is a dual-engine that combines two new algorithms in a hands-on, one-page user interface.
The first engine is a lush, expansive hall reverb with control over the room size (small, medium, large) with carefully tuned delay networks for natural spatial imaging.
This can then be mixed with the second engine, a pitch-shifting particle reverb designed for evolving, granular shimmer effects. You can tweak it with the bloom (macro), pitch (-12 to +12 semitones), and regen parameters.
Audio Damage promises that it creates dual overlapping grains for artifact-free shimmer effects. Next to this is the darkness knob that lowers the frequency of several gentle, low-pass filters placed at strategic locations within Ascent’s signal paths.
There is also a reverb decay control. Ascent also features a built-in dynamic ducking compressor that prevents reverb tails from overwhelming your dry signal, thereby maintaining mix clarity. It’s a great way to create interesting swelling effects.
Neat is the cross-platform preset manager with XML-based presets, allowing you to save and open presets in all plugin formats.
Ascent is capable of layering spacious, long-decay reverbs with dynamic pitch-shifted textures to craft everything from subtle ambient spaces to dramatic, otherworldly atmospheres.
First Impression
At first glance, this appears to be an intriguing new reverb plugin. Unfortunately, there’s no sound demo yet. I’m pleased to see that an iOS version is also coming soon.
Audio Damage Ascent is available now for 23,95€ and runs as a VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP, and LV2 plugin on macOS (native Apple Silicon and Intel), Linux, and Windows.
The iOS version with AUv3 support is now available for an introductory price of $ 2.99 (30% off) until December 1, 2025.
More information here: Audio Damage App Store
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