Lost Reveries

Ambient-drone & soundscape synthesiser (VST/AU)

Designed unapologetically for one purpose, Lost Reveries provides you with customisable, playable, ambient-drone synthesis created by an expert of the genre, Hilyard.

It’s a sample-based VST/AU synthesiser plugin containing 32 ambient ‘oscillators’ that can be combined in up to 3 layers: with controls such as ADSR envelopes, filters, LFOs and more. Furthermore, it features a rack of effects including a rich reverb algorithm, delay and a phaser. Lost Reveries also comes with 80 production-ready presets that can be selected from an in-built preset browser.

Lost Reveries lives inside FrozenPlain’s sampler engine, called Mirage – which is included for free in the no-hassle installer.

Key features

• Create atmosphere, ambience and soundscapes with ease
• 32 ambient-tone oscillators
• Simple but powerful 3-layer synth interface
• 80 categorised presets
• VST2 and AU plugin for Window and Mac (not Pro Tools)
• Includes effects such as: reverb, convolution reverb, distortion, phaser
• ~60 MB file download
• No other requirements – everything is included in the installer

Designed by renowned ambient producer, Hilyard

For over 8 years, Hilyard has been transporting listeners to serene and beautiful worlds with his impactful ambient music. He combines a masterful use of drone-sound-design with subtle compositional elements to create emotion, depth, nostalgia and uplifting melancholy. He has an outstanding 25 releases (albums, singles and EPs) on Spotify. For Lost Reveries, Hilyard has drawn from his own sonic palette to create a set of sample-based instruments that allow you to create your own emotive ambient tones.

Hilyard’s work has been part of the Cryo Chamber record label who focus on dark ambient and drone music. The effect of this music has been surprisingly wide reaching as is evident of Cryo Chamber’s 340K YouTube subscribers. You might find inspiration on how to utilise Lost Reveries by listening to the work of Cryo Chamber’s artists.

Great for ambient music, soundtracks, drone and more

You might find Lost Reveries useful for creating music in some of these genres: ambient, drone, cinematic, meditation, music-for-sleep or soundtracks. But that isn’t its limit: we’ve also found that the smooth, semi-organic tones of Lost Reveries layer incredibly well with both real orchestration or as a backdrop for synthesisers.

32 ambient ‘oscillators’

With a typical subtractive synthesiser you might have oscillators like sawtooth, sine or square; in Lost Reveries the ‘oscillators’ are instead sample-based ambient tones. These ambient tones can be shaped using ADSR envelopes, filters and EQ, and layered with other ambient tones. Modulation can also be added using LFOs. Finally, the sound can be coloured using a rack of effects which includes reverb, distortion, chorus and phaser.

The samples are made by Hilyard, who used various tone-generation processes; including both real recordings and synthesisied elements. The end-goal was to create the core elements that you can use to design your own multi-layered ambient tones.

Smooth, pure, rich tones

The ambient-tone ‘oscillators’ are categorised into 4 sections: low, mid, air and vocal. The names of these categories suggest how you might use the tone; allowing you to more easily build multi-layered tracks. The vocal category contains ambient tones that resonate similarly to how the human voice makes various vowels sounds.

The timbral character of these tone are similar to what you will hear in Hilyard’s music. They are pure, smooth and rich: exploring both earthy, dark-forest ambiences and deep space-drifts. You’ll find a spectrum of light/dark, hopeful/hopeless and terrestrial/extraterrestrial.

80 production-ready presets

Lost Reveries comes with 80 presets made by Hilyard, and can be easily modified to suit your needs. They’re split into 4 categories: Pads, Plucked Rhythmic Movements and Textures. There’s a simple but effective set of controls for navigating these presets: next/previous buttons, arrow keys support, search, and functions for loading a random preset.