I've been playing around with this wonderful FFT bag-of-tricks plugin called
DtBlkFX (free VST). While ReaFIR can do many of the other tricks that DtBlkFX can do, there is one function I'd like:
Smear, ie randomize the phases of the spectrum.
This is a nice, useful effect for making sounds more spacious, for example if you have a reverberant audio clip that is in mono, you could use a spectral Smear edit to make the reverb tail stereo decorrelated and spacious sounding. It can also be used to 'blur' the detail in a sound to make all kinds of creepy weird ambient soundscapes.
Side note: The Cockos Spectral Hold does this phase randomization but it also freezes the sound to a single loop.
So why don't I just use DTBlkFX? I do, but due to the latency it introduces it would often be easier to target the function with a Spectral Edit window.
Thanks!