UVI Plate - Custom-Shop Electro-Mechanical Reverb

Overview

Explore the deep and rich sound of plate reverb like never before with UVI Plate, an advanced physically-modeled reverb. Plate employs realtime physical-modeling with up to 20,000 modes to achieve new levels of depth and detail, going well beyond the limitation of physical units. Take complete control over your plate's material and dampening properties and explore a universe of reverb sounds from classics like the EMT140 and 240, and beyond.

Approach

Our goal was not to clone a specific hardware reverb, but we wanted to replicate the sound of many hardware reverbs and allow users to experiment with their physical characteristics, even designing their own.

To reach this goal we’ve built an entire plate reverb system as a fully-parametric physical model. We approached it from the perspectives of both clinical science and musicality. Forming the models core on extensive mathematical research and then calibrating the results against detailed measurements made of an EMT140 and EMT240.

With Plate we simulate every component of the sound: dimensions, material, input/output positioning, modulation and decay sculpting while staying within the general sonic territory allowed by physics. In doing so we’re able to create a near-endless array of authentic plate reverb sound.

IN-DEPTH

Classic Plate and beyond

Plate delivers a fully-parametric physical model of electro-mechanical reverb, capable of dialing in sounds of specific physical units with uncanny precision or creating wholly-new reverbs ripe with sound design potential.

Physical modeling

Extensive modeling of real-world components gives you the ability to completely control the sound of your reverb. Choose from multiple types of metal sheet, adjust the plate size, manually position inputs and outputs on the plate, introduce irregularities and tension to the metal, then shape your decay with simulations of the physical dampener, thermo-elastic loss and air radiation. Built on science, tuned by musicians, Plate gives you total control over the sound of your favorite hardware units and freedom to create your own.

Visual Decay and EQ Editor

A beautiful graphical editor lets you interactively sculpt Plate’s decay and EQ sections. Freely adjust each elements’ frequency and contribution with complete confidence and see the results in real-time thanks to the built-in spectral analyzer. Plate’s decay and EQ sections are equipped with 3 modeled decay sections (damper, friction and air), octave-band decay, octave-band EQ, and a lowcut EQ, allowing you to create lush decays while easily taming problem frequencies, adjusting signal balance, or bringing out subtle details.

Fully-Featured

With precise modeling of many discrete components, a preamp saturation stage, predelay, parameter locks, wet/dry mix and a high-quality preset library filled with useful sounds, Plate’s been designed to provide you with a powerful and featured tool capable of achieving the characteristic sounds of classic hardware and unique sounds of your own design.

Maximum Fidelity

Plate is packed with serious sound potential. A variable 'Quality' control allows you to adjust Plate's performance based on the patch design and your production needs by changing the amount of modes (think of these like voices on a synth). The default setting provides a beautiful result in most cases, while increasing the quality can simulate up to 20,000 modes for the ultimate result, but is best suited for offline rendering. To help you achieve the best quality possible Plate has been highly-optimized to make use of the latest SIMD instruction sets available (SSE, AVX, AVX2), and uses adaptive multi-threaded, multi-core rendering in order to finish the rendering in the shortest amount of time independently of the current CPU load.

Easy of Use

Even with all the features, we've made sure that using Plate is a breeze thanks to a customizable user interface. The default 'Compact' mode is perfect for quickly browsing the included presets and dialing them in to suit your input material. Toggling the 'Expanded' view reveals additional controls including the visual decay editor where you can take full control over the nuts and bolts to precisely shape your reverbs sound.

Under The Hood

To better understand how to practically utilize the features of Plate let’s take a look at the components:

Metal Plate

- I/0 POSITION: Both left and right inputs and outputs can be freely positioned on the metal plate. Greater distance between them results in dispersed transients akin to a spring reverb. Positioning near the edges results in a more thin, nasal sound. Positioning close to center results in a more full sound.
- MATERIAL: select Steel, Gold, Silver, Titanium or Aluminum, each type of metal has a dramatic effect on the decay, experiment with different types of source material
- AREA: from 0.3-6.0m (expressed in steel equivalent), larger values result in higher modal density
- ASPECT: from .05-20, a more square aspect creates an even sound, smaller and longer aspects result in metallic "chirped" transients similar to a spring reverb
- ANISOTROPY: from 0-1%, introduces small defects in the metal resulting in slight, variable detuning of the modes
- TENSION: simulate tension applied to the metal plate, higher values raise the frequency of lower modes

Decay

- DAMPER: from 200ms-infinity, the primary decay control simulates a rigid porous material pressed against the plate to reduce decay time
- FRICTION: multiplier, simulates thermo-elastic loss
- AIR: multiplier, simulates the decay effect of air radiation on the plate
Note: all dampening controls are fitted with sweepable cutoff frequencies allowing natural results

Additional Controls

- OCTAVE-BAND DECAY: adjust the RT60 decay time per octave-band
- OCTAVE-BAND EQ: sculpt your sound with an octave-band EQ
- LOWCUT EQ: a lowcut shelving filter, useful for taming boom and bass-heavy sounds
- PREDELAY: from 0ms-1s, delay the reverberated signal
- DRIVE: from 0-100%, applies a preamp saturation stage to the signal before hitting the plate
- MIX: from 0-100%, mix the wet/dry signal ratio
- QUALITY: allows you to adjust Plate's performance based on the patch design and your production needs by changing the amount of modes (think of these like voices on a synth). A setting of "Medium" provides a beautiful result in most cases, while a setting of "Insane" simulates 20,000 modes for the ultimate result, but is best suited for offline rendering.

Stunning Sound, Unmatched Control

Incredible on vocals, instruments and a powerful sound design tool, Plate delivers extraordinary versatility and a truly gorgeous sound.

SPECS

LICENSING

3 activations per license on any combination of machines or iLok dongles

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

200 MB of disk space (Mac Installer: 126 MB ; Windows Installer: 178 MB)
Processor: Intel i5 recommended
4 GB RAM
Supported Operating Systems:
- MacOS 10.14 Mojave to macOS 14 Sonoma (64-bit)
- Windows 10 to Windows 11 (64-bit)
iLok account (free, dongle not required)
Internet connection for the license activation

COMPATIBILITY

Supported Formats:	Audio Unit, AAX, VST, VST3
Tested and Certified in:	Digital Performer 8+, Pro Tools 2019+, Logic Pro X+, Cubase 7+, Nuendo 6+, Ableton Live 8+, Studio One 2+, Garage Band 6+, Maschine 1+, Tracktion 4+, Vienna Ensemble Pro 5+, Reaper 4+, Sonar X3+, MainStage 3, MuLab 5.5+, FL Studio, Bitwig 1+, Reason 9.5+

MANUAL

>> Download Plate Manual >> Download Effect Installation Guide

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Reviews

"Plate is not just another reverb plug-in, in the short time I’ve been using it, this wonderful machine has replaced quite a few of my other favourites. The accurate emulation of vintage hardware is just a smaller aspect of it, the creation of lush, pristine, deep, dark and otherworldly spaces with Plate is what thrills me the most."

Simon Stockhausen

Sound Designer & Composer

"UVI has done the impossible! They’ve made me want another reverb plugin! Plate doesn’t just sound good, it sounds musical!"

Dave Isaac

Grammy-winning Producer & Engineer
(Prince, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, Madonna, ...)

"This is the final plate reverb. The journey of plate reverb is over."

Ryuichiro Yamaki

Producer, Composer, Arranger, Remixer
(RyppHype, Amuro Namie, Koda Kumi, TVXQ, Nishino Kana…)

"Plate is so much more than a plate reverb and looks almost as good as it sounds. Masterful."

MusicTech

"This is one of the top reverbs I have ever used and I feel it really deserves everyone’s attention."

Soundbytes Magazine

"Plate is a beautiful reverb plugin, produces excellent sound, and has a numerous presets included. [...] I can highly recommend this."

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User Testimonials

"This goes FAR beyond just plate reverb. The sound is absolutely superb. Probably best of 2018 material for me."— Liero, KVR

"Holy crap that GUI is next level. HQ mode for rendering = nice."— MogwaiBoy, KVR

"I’m really impressed with this plugin, I bought it immediately!"— Jeroes S., Youtube

"It sounds so good, so fat, it's unbelievable..."— Ermac, KVR

"This will be my reverb to go to number one. Must have for sound designers."— Gerto H., Youtube

"Fantastic plug-in, very versatile, pristine sounding."— SampleConstruct, KVR

"Fantastic presets... I love the variety."— Mike J., Youtube

"Gorgeous sound, stunning tweakability, insane CPU use."— AndreLaFosse, KVR

"Sounds wonderfully lush."— Karl H., Facebook

"It also makes the sound of a plate of metal reverberating more realistic than any other reverbs I've tried."— Pluxuss, KVR

"Love all of the customization you can do and the interface is nice and clear. Well done UVI!"— Philip M., Facebook

"Sounds amazing. I love how clear and ergonomic the GUI is too, so quick to dial in some good settings. UVI always puts out quality."— Dublife, KVR

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