kStation
TL;DW: kStation is a realistic small room modeled after David Bowie’s vocal reverb.
kStation in Airwindows Consolidated under ‘Reverb’ (CLAP, AU, VST3, LV2)
kStation.zip (608k) standalone(AU, VST2)
Turns out I’m getting asked for smaller reverbs for a reason.
Comparatively small spaces can merge with a sound in an interesting way. Rather than adding a sustain, the reverb can turn into part of the tone, thickening and glamorizing it to the point that, if you listened to just the dry signal, it’d be a bit shocking… especially if it was recorded in a dead place like a studio or under a tent of blankets or what have you.
This is kStation, another extension of Airwindows reverbs in the direction I’m going. It takes everything you had in kGuitarHall2, the unusual midrange depth that comes across even on a cellphone, the ability to position your source in the virtual room, and it brings it to a tiny space that acts like a room, but isn’t inspired by one.
Because it’s inspired by David Bowie’s vocal sound on Station To Station, and that’s probably one of the very first digital reverbs.
No effort is being made to emulate vintage digital reverb things. None. There’s a kind of darkness out of those old discrete converter circuits: that’s handled instead by Bezier undersampling and filtering. You can get funny overtones by setting kStation’s filter over 0.5 (like the undersampling, the Bezier filter goes two ways) but they aren’t vintage-digital overtones, they’re something else, something new. You get depth but it’s not from modeling an antique reverb, it’s from where Airwindows algorithm development is going.
It’s a unique algorithm, generated to do just this, and it’s there to merge with your vocal (or whatever else you wish) and sound like a hit record. Specifically, it wants to give you the richness and sumptuousness of Bowie circa Station To Station. You’ll have to sing or it won’t work, but this and perhaps some Silken (also a nice trick for that stuff) and you can get a giant head start.
There’ll be more, but this one is gonna come in real handy. I hope you like it :)
Airwindows Consolidated Download
Most recent VCV Rack Module
download 64 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Signed M1/Intel Mac AUs.dmg
download Signed M1/Intel Mac VSTs.dmg
download LinuxVSTs.zip
download LinuxARMVSTs.zip for the Pi
download Retro 32 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac AUs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac VSTs.zip
Mediafire Backup of all downloads
All this is free and open source under the MIT license, brought to you by my Patreon.
Wow I thought I had that sound nailed with BrightAmbience2 in mono (Wild is the Wind). I’m just going to have to try this. You’re the best!
Actually going back to creamcoat because this one highlights siblance like crazy. Cold as ice. Almost as bad as starchild, which I love but needs hefty lowpassing as well. Just my two cents. Keep it up!
would you mind making the plugins available for arm64 linux? (especially the consolidated plugin and console for arm64 Linux)? i tried building it but I probably did something wrong. pretty amped up to use these plugins!!!!! they sound great on your channel
btw i did try the Pi linuxvst but they did not work on my arm64 linux machine. I did manage to use a very old version of your consolidated plugin on arm 64 linux in ardour and it works so I know its likely the Pi version is giving me problems.