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Hi! I've got a new plugin you can have! These plugins come in Mac AU, and Mac, Windows and Linux VST. They are state of the art sound, have no DRM, and have totally minimal generic interface so you focus on your sounds.

AllSpace

AllSpaceDemo is like a precursor to PocketVerbs, only not :)

Specifically, this is the reverb designed to run dual-mono and give the ultimate, hugest, lushest depth. It’s also the reverb that put the hurt on processors back in the day, and broke Digital Performer while it was at it. Still don’t know what went wrong there, unless it’s just the scope of the plugin.

Dual-mono means it won’t make a single reverb field, it’ll place reverb trails behind elements in a stereo mix. You can also put it on mono tracks and it’ll load up only one channel of processing.

AllSpace is a mid-period Airwindows reverb, trying to do everything through the actual delay tanks themselves. It’s got the separate room size and liveness controls, treble and bass controls that are inside the reverb rather than after it, and a control called Smoke. What this does is, fuzz up higher frequencies passing through the reverb, diffracting them into noise. The technique is still at work in Airwindows reverbs like Space, but originated here (plus, I think you can exaggerate it with Allspace).

If you’d like Allspace, test out the demo first to see if it breaks your machine. Then, if it works, buy the most recent Space reverb and ask me for FarSpace3 in email. I’ll send that to you, and it includes a copy of AllSpace. Then you’ll have three Airwindows reverbs for the price of one, and that should cover most anything you’d want to do with reverb.

64 Bit Audio Units

By December 19th (in time for Christmas!) of 2011, I’d rebuilt all of my plugins for 64 Bit.

Technically, what that means is I’d revised my compiling techniques, updated XCode very cautiously (I don’t trust updates not to break legacy stuff that MUST remain working), tested everything out and set up a new build structure that made plugins not just dual binary, but triple binary.

Everything from Airwindows gets compiled as 64 Bit Intel, and 32 Bit Intel, and also 32 Bit PPC.

Everything I could recompile, I did recompile, including all the legacy stuff like the plugins downloadable from here dated 2007. If it’s there, it’s 64 Bit and futureproof, while also being past-friendly in the form of PPC. (no 68k, sorry!)

PowerPC Macs are very capable, and deserve industry support. If we aren’t prepared to put tools in peoples’ hands then what good are we? I’m not in the business of selling the latest Powerbooks (in fact I’d like to upgrade myself, but not if it means squeezing my own customers). Recording tools can and should be widely available at all price points. Using Airwindows plugins, you can take very old copies of Logic on old PowerPC Macs (or Reaper, for that matter, or various other programs) and still get totally up-to-date sounds out of it.

Everybody who’d ever ordered anything from Airwindows got an update for free in email, no matter how old their plugin was.

Please support Airwindows by buying new stuff. :)

Desk2

Desk2Demo is the earliest incarnation of Desk I’ve got available. It has the same controls as Desk3, namely Overdrive, Hi Choke, Power Sag, Frequency for the power sag, and Output Trim.

I would think you’d want some other version but if this is the one you want, buy Desk and ask me for this in email, and I’ll send it.

ADClip2

ADClip2Demo was an experiment, to see how ADClip would be if it had loads of parameters you could alter.

Input Gain was a boost, as you’d expect.

Edge Smooth is part of the basic ADClip code. It’s letting you scale back the edge softening on clipping: less means harsher edges.

Highs Restore is from 3DClip, and the technique’s still in use in ADClip4. It’s saving treble energy that’s being clipped, and sneaking it back into the signal again where it’ll fit. This is a dangerous technique, but does get you more loudness from the treble. I discovered it when studying Slate FG-X and noticing that the Slate plugin totally shatters above certain gain levels, in an unpredictable way. I made mine so that it wouldn’t shatter, using a different implementation of the same basic technique of energy redistribution.

Lows Restore is the same thing, only for subs.

Output Threshold lets you play more safe, or less, depending on how you roll.

If you’d like ADClip2, buy ADClip4 and email me to ask for the earlier version. I’ll send it, though I think you should be using ADClip4, which is just better even if it doesn’t have a zillion knobs all over it :)

ADClip2 runs one sample of latency.

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