TL;DW: Weave is a fancy overdrive with a good texture. Weave.zip (515k) standalone(AU, VST2) Weave in Airwindows Consolidated under ‘Saturation’ (CLAP, AU, VST3, LV2) There’s been a lineage of Airwindows custom overdrives. The most basic overdrive is based on the sin() function, and that’ll get you the softest, fattest distortion where harmonics are added one […]
TL;DW: Longhand is an experiment in softclipping. Longhand.zip (505k) standalone(AU, VST2) Longhand in Airwindows Consolidated under ‘Saturation’ (CLAP, AU, VST3, LV2) A sine is a very interesting thing, in part because it’s so very simple. Think of a circle. A sine (and cosine) is what gives you that shape. It’s a simple arc in space. […]
TL;DW: PurestSaturation is an experiment in softclipping. PurestSaturation in Airwindows Consolidated under ‘Saturation’ (CLAP, AU, VST3, LV2) PurestSaturation.zip (491k) standalone(AU, VST2) Not so long ago, I pushed and pulled the parameters of a sin() function (thing called a Taylor series expansion) to produce TapeHack, which is a softclip that uses the wrong values for a […]
TL;DW: SquareRoot has new discoveries in soft saturation! SquareRoot in Airwindows Consolidated under ‘Saturation’ (CLAP, AU, VST3, LV2) SquareRoot.zip (493k) standalone(AU, VST2) What if saturation, but not flat-topping, because it was a kind that literally never reaches a ‘top’ but always keeps producing louder output the harder you drive it? Well, that would defeat the […]
