Tunary Instruments has released Thalm, an audio effect that takes music you already have and places it in a real space: the next room, down the hall, out on the street, inside a passing car: “Not a reverb preset. A place.”
You don’t set filters. You set a place, and the walls, floors, distance and doorway between you and the sound do the rest.
There are two ways to work:
- Stay Put pins the music in one spot on a building cutaway and lets you drag your listening position around it, so moving through a wall sounds like moving through a wall.
- Move Through draws a route over time and the sound travels with your host’s playhead, so the journey lands exactly with an edit or an arrangement.
For anyone cutting picture, that second mode is the point. Thalm is an Audio Unit and a VST3, so it loads straight into Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve as well as every DAW, and the placement follows the timeline rather than being drawn in by hand. Arm Rec Move, press play, drag the music through the building while the scene runs, and the performance is baked into an editable route instead of a lane of keyframes.
You can build your own spaces: rename rooms, set each room’s character, draw your own map, and drop a real recorded space, an impulse response in WAV or AIFF, onto any room so the music sits in that exact place. Set the rooms up once and every clip you add Thalm to already has them. On Move Through the journey crossfades from one real room into the next as the listener travels.
Pricing & Availability
Thalm is $89 until 31 August 2026, then $129. There is a free browser demo that runs the real engine, with no download or signup. It’s available in AU and VST3 plugin formats for macOS 11 Big Sur or later, Universal for Apple Silicon and Intel, signed and Apple-notarized; Windows 10 or later, 64-bit.
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