How about incorporating the TreeVerb into your mix?
If you have the space that is 
TreeVerb™, a plate reverb that uses a single sheet of aged wood instead of a metal plate. First imagined by Bill Mareci of Audio Rents in L.A., TreeVerb was created not from experimentation and science, but from a “hey, wouldn’t it be cool if…”
A conventional plate reverb system uses an electromechanical transducer, similar to the driver in a loudspeaker, to create vibration in a large plate of sheet metal. A pickup placed somewhere else on the plate, picking up the vibrations as they bounce across the plate, and the result is output as an audio signal. The reverb time can be mechanically adjusted by a damping pad, usually made from framed acoustical tiles. The closer the damping pad, the shorter the reverb time.
After the sound passes through the wooden plate, it then needs to be further processed to reverse the frequency response loss that the wood imparts on the sound (which they call the “K-factor”). The audio then passes through their “Knot Equalizer™”, which corrects non-linear distortion from random knots in the wood. They claim that harder woods like oak or mahogany require less processing, while softer woods such as ash or pine may require much more.
TreeVerb, although still at the production prototype stage, will be available using a variety of exclusive eco-friendly tone woods. So far they have created plates out of sequoia and avocado wood. Other “sonic veneers” in development are the “Floater” model using only balsa wood for the lightest sound, and for heavier rock music, the mahogany ThunderRose model.
So what does this thing sound like?
Check it out for yourself:
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Granite and Iliadis – two new flashy VSTs
Sonic Arts has released Granite, a new granular synthesizer instrument for Windows.
Description:
Granite is a granular synthesizer particularly suited for generating evolving, organic textures and atmospheres. It is also capable at creating dark bass tones and loop processing.
Granite’s sound is highly dependent on the input material, but the grain engine parameters have been refined and scaled to allow complete transformation of material in a fast and musical way.
Most parameters can be modulated with internal movement recorders, in addition to being controllable by host automation and MIDI CCs.
Granite is available now for Windows PC (Standalone/VST) for US $60. A demo version is available.
Iliadis has announced the iVF Combo Organ, a virtual organ instrument plug-in for Windows.
The iVF Combo Organ is a Two Manual Transistor Organ Simulation for Windows Compatible VST Hosts, inspired afer famous Transistor Organ models, with special characteristics and the feeling of an incredible Retro Sound close to the sound of favourite models of the past.
Iliadis iVF Combo Organ
iVF Combo Organ will be soon be available as a VST instrument plug-in for Windows PC.
More information: Iliadis
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