Walrus Audio Sloër Onyx

Walrus Audio Sloër Onyx is a stereo ambient reverb with 2 new reverbs, stereo width control, two additional modulation wave shapes, and the ability to control the sample rate. Now you can create immersive, lush, modulated, sleepy, and ambient soundscapes with more width and depth than ever before.

Save your favorite dreamscapes with three onboard presets. The five-way rotary dial allows five different reverb modes – the three you know and love from the Slö: Dark (Lower Octave), Rise (Ambient Swell), and Dream (Latching Pad); and the addition of two new modes: Rain (Delay Tap Diffusion) and Light (High Octave Shimmer).

Secondary functions on the dial change between five different wave shapes for modulation on the reverb trail.
SINE – Smooth and even pitch up and down modulation.
WARP – Asymmetric pitch up modulation similar to a warped record.
SINK – Asymmetric pitch down modulation for sinking detune similar to a Bigsby.
SQUARE – Symmetric pitch up and down modulation for stepped modulation.
RANDOM – Uses sample and hold that picks new random values.

The pedal has a separate Sustain knob. When pressed, the decay switch ramps up the reverb trail to maximum creating a long dreamy reverb trail, and then ramps back down to the decay knob setting when released. In the “Dream” algorithm, the sustain switch is latching. Press it once to capture and sustain the current reverb decay for extremely long pad-like sounds. Press it again to let the reverb trail taper off, based on the position of the decay knob.

The Slöer can run in trails or no trails mode. In trails mode, when you turn the pedal off, the reverb decay dies off naturally. In no trails mode, the decay is abruptly cut off when you turn the pedal off. When scrolling through presets, there is only preset spillover if the next preset is the same algorithm as the one preceding it. For example, if your red and green presets are both in Dream mode, switching from red to green will not cut your reverb trails.

The pedal comes in blue and black and runs on a standard 9 volts power supply (sold separately)

This is a limited edition for Black Friday 2023.

Walrus Audio Sloër Onyx demo video