MNTRA Instruments: Living Sky GPU-powered spatial reverb

REVIEWED BY Matt Anderson

I’m hesitant to even start out by calling this a “reverb,” as it’s almost a whole system in and of itself. MNTRA Instruments has teamed up with Outer Echo and GPU Audio to bring Living Sky, a spatial reverb powered by your computer's GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) as opposed to your CPU. The spaces they include in Living Sky each comprise hundreds of impulse responses that interact together in a given acoustic field. It's an absolutely insane premise, and after using it for over a month on a bunch of Dolby Atmos projects, I have to say it absolutely delivers everything it says and more. There’s a bit of a learning curve and a lot going on, but I promise it’s worth the effort in the end.