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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.

Channel2

Channel2 is the classic freebie analogifying plugin, Channel, brought up to date. The selector switch bug is fixed, so you can play with the Neve and API settings! There’s anti-aliasing for a slicker, less digital sound! It’s better than ever and still totally free.

Channel2 works in three ways. First, there’s a very faint touch of highpassing, reining in the extremes of digital bass to more of what’s practical in analog circuits. This was worked out by measuring impulses from real hardware, but the application is very simple. Then, there’s a slew clipper that restricts the slew rate of the plugin. Lastly, there’s the same type of saturation present in Density, but applied in the simplest way, and then blended with the input signal as dry/wet—which means the curve becomes gentler and gentler as you saturate less. It’s this super-gentle saturation curve that people loved in Channel.

Channel2 runs one sample of latency.

Antialiasing Plugins

You’ll see a heck of a lot of updates around this time: it’s because I’d hit on a thread on Gearslutz about aliasing in plugins, and it caused much consternation in Airwindows-land.

I dropped everything and started devising ways for my plugins to alias less, or differently, in hopes of stepping farther away from ‘ITB sound’.

So, the fall of 2010 saw many plugins getting upgraded to ‘antialiased’ versions. Some of these legitimately existed earlier than this, but the version I’ve got is often from this period. Since I went through later and made ’em all 64-bit, what’s on the site is what we’ve got. I don’t want to dig up even older builds if they’re not going to be 64-bit, considering that everything currently available including the old versions and the freebies are all 64 bit without exception.

BassKit

BassKitDemo is a precursor to DubSub, with some obscure features all its own. It’s set up more like a full-mix sub-octave synthesizer, and doesn’t have the bass-amp type features DubSub has.

Dry/Wet is at the top because it’s not overall: it runs as part of the balance but the sub-octave and ‘floor’ stuff goes after it.

Root Note is the intensity of the ‘boosted bass’ component, and SubOctave is the intensity of the octave-down (working like a stompbox and not like a spectral-analysis plugin, it sounds beefier and rawer but can glitch out too).

Cutoff Freq works as a tone control on the bass components, and Floor Freq works like a special highpass, filling in psychoacoustic bass to make up for the highpassing.

If you’d like BassKit, buy DubSub and ask me for BassKit in email. I’ll send it.

Character

Character was a bundle of earlier modeling plugins including APIcolypse, Calibre, Cider, Luxor, Neverland and Precious. These are the hardware models that later became BussColors, in their earliest forms.

If you’d like these, buy BussColors and ask me for Character in email. I’ll send it.

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