MidAmp
TL;DW: MidAmp is a clean amp sim meant to work like a loud Twin or something of that nature.
Hi! There’s been a whole lot going on, among which: I’m going to be back in Canada pretty soon doing family things. However, this time I have all my coding stuff with me (retro machine, Raspberry Pi, the works) so I will be actively updating and making new plugins the whole time. I may even be able to livestream some of that coding work (I tend to assume this doesn’t really matter, but do people miss me doing that? I’ve gone to the trouble of setting up a mic I can bring along for that purpose and could do it again)
But today, slowed down by my web hosting falling over all morning, here is MidAmp!
It’s another amp sim, this one going for a high-powered clean combo sound. You know, a Twin kind of sound. It’s got a wide range of EQ and can be rolled off real far, and it can be extra bright and spiky if you want that. I demonstrate it in the video on a Tele part, then unexpectedly to dirty up a thumping bass (which it does really well) and lastly on some very aggressive drums to make them even crazier.
MidAmp is yours now, but all the things I’m demonstrating are part of a secret Airwindows skunkworks project that only began with Production Drums. It became my big pre-Canada-trip crunch: if all goes well I can start pumping this stuff out as rapidly as I normally do plugins, AND still do the plugins. (in these dark times I figure if I want my livelihood to compete with people needing gas money, firstly take care of yourself please but secondly I have to find a new gear that is sustainable or it’s a moot point)
That Airwindows skunkworks project is what’s been feeding the new tracks like Skronk, and the amp sims etc: I’ve also had some wild successes with EQs like XRegion. It is the Airwindows Free Studio Sample Library, and it’s gonna be entirely Creative Commons, fully licensed, and like the MIT licensed plugins in that you can use them, you can play with them, you can even make your OWN sample libraries from them so long as you credit me. It doesn’t get more generous than that.
And the ALBUMS I make will be on Bandcamp, for sale, and not ‘stock music’ but regular music like from a regular musician.
And there will be one coming, and more to follow: I cracked the code with CliffDiver and Skronk and am off and running. Keep an ear out on plugin videos in case you hear a track that’s not out yet! Odds are if it’s a Skronk-like Airwindows ITB creation, the tools I used to make it (including samples and loops etc) either are Creative Commons or soon will be. If it’s like the modular synth jams I’ve spent years refining, it’s probably totally analog and captured as raw stereo from an analog mixing board (this is my target for what I get the ITB stuff to do) but oddly enough if there is software, such as for my Chord Organ eurorack DIY modules, I will let you have that software too. And of course all the stuff I do developing chord structures, systems of tempos etc. are also free for you to have. It just seems like people are more interested when I show them WHAT can be done with these things, so there will be more of that, and I’ll direct you to whatever tools you need :)
Enjoy MidAmp. Once I’ve got my butt to Canada I’ll start putting all this in motion. I tend not to tell what’s in the works, but you would be amazed at how much work has been going on in recent months that I haven’t been able to mention… until now :)
download StarterKit.zip for just the basics
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.
Sounds very nice! Thanks you!
Chris, what you are doing for the audio community is not just amazingly generous to musicians and producers but the knowledge you are providing to prospective plugin developers is invaluable.
Thank you!