DeEssDemo is the secretest of secret weapons, apparently. It’s found its way into some surprising places, even though it’s a generic Audio Unit plugin from 2007 (updated to 64 bit around 2011) with puzzling and obtuse controls. But the thing is, this plugin sonically outperforms anything when you really, really know what you’re doing, so I’ll […]
Air was a precursor to Energy, pioneering the techniques for that type of frequency-hyping. Anyone who owned Air got crossgraded to Energy for free, because it was just more of the same with more sophistication and controllability. Air has four controls: a 22K tap, a 15K tap, and an 11K tap, plus a ‘Filters Q’ […]
Slew is just the slew clipping section of what’s in Channel. It’s a very old, very simple form of processing, but bear in mind that sometimes this sort of DSP, which touches the audio very very lightly, has real strong points. You don’t always gain by making stuff more sophisticated. This is a freebie, so you […]
