Reverberate 2 is an incredibly powerful and flexible reverb, but it still presents something of a learning curve to anyone who’s familiar only with traditional algorithmic units. By contrast, Seventh Heaven Professional is designed to operate much more like a hardware reverberator, right down to the reassuringly retro red LED display. Thankfully, however, LiquidSonics haven’t been too slavish about reproducing the M7’s 1U rackmounting front panel in GUI form; there’s no faux brushed metal or 3D rendered knobs on the Seventh Heaven interface, and it’s been sensibly formatted in a less long and thin package than the original. They’ve also taken the opportunity to add useful level meters for the inputs, early reflections, late reflections and ‘VLF’ (the sub-200Hz component of the output).

I imagine quite a few users won’t ever need to do more than click on the two red text displays in the centre of the window. These are used to select presets from within 10 banks labelled Ambience1, Chambers1 and Plates, Halls, Rooms and Spaces 1 and 2, the numeral indicating which version of the original M7 preset bank was the source. As you’d expect, these presets load up sounding great just as they are, and many of them fit right into a mix with no editing whatsoever. Quick and effective adjustments can be made using the global Decay Time dial, a slider that controls the level of everything below 200Hz, and a control that balances the respective levels of the early and late reflections.

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