Fracture is the 2008 Airwindows Xmas present for lovers of ugly sound everywhere! It works by using a Density-style overdrive (based on a sine function) but letting you override the fully-saturated point. Since the function will roll back around to zero again, you can make it go to silence, not full crank, when ‘distorting’. That means […]
Smooth is a typically Airwindows invention: a plugin that strictly alters texture, without affecting frequency or amplitude. At least, that’s the intention, and the result’s pretty convincing. Used on a distorted guitar, it really brings a softer texture up to the point where it breaks up. Used on something like an over-zingy acoustic guitar, it’s really […]
DeRez is straight-up Airwindows bitcrushing and sample rate chopping! It differs from, say, BitGlitter in that it’s not making any attempt to simulate an ‘analog low-bit hardware unit’. No, what DeRez does is hash up the sound with sheer, nasty digital bitcrush ITB. There’s just a touch of edge-softening to the frequency de-rez. But what makes […]
Sable is like a really early, failed CStrip. It’s got a lowpass and highpass like CStrip, and two peaks. The thing is, these peaks are very narrow and only work in the midrange, and the lowpass and highpass don’t sound as good as CStrip’s. So, Sable isn’t really a very good general purpose EQ, much less […]
