Airwindows

Chris

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.

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Flutter

Flutter includes mono and stereo versions. It’s a great-sounding tape flutter effect that can be fairly intense, but there’s a problem: because of the design of the algorithm, I never got this version to have correct delay compensation. It does declare tons of latency, but it can’t lock on to the correct delay. It declares a whopping 32760 samples of latency and still doesn’t line up correctly with other tracks!

As a result, this will throw off the timing of any track it’s on, and it’s tough to dial in using delays and things. Therefore, I’ve put out these plugins for free, as is. Might be useful in sound design, or on tracks where the timing doesn’t matter. Don’t track with it engaged, because of the latency it declares!

Date June 4, 2007
Author Chris
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Gatelope

GatelopeDemo triggers a gate which sweeps two very transparent and natural filters across each other to cut off the sound. Can cut mostly treble for toms, or tighten bass on kicks and snares. Startlingly useful!

This plugin was inspired by Ola Sonmark, who continues to enjoy it many years later. It’s like an audiophile version of an envelope follower, the original purpose being to gate toms in such a way that their roundness could hang on even while cymbal bleed is being filtered away from them. I also found that you could tighten up things like kick drums by using Gatelope and cutting down the bass sustain. Or, of course, you can do both at once.

Gatelope runs 255 samples of latency, in order to use the lookahead control (notable because virtually no Airwindows plugins run latency). In all these years it’s never needed to change because it already does exactly what it sets out to do. It’s still for sale today, now compiled to be 64 bit.

Gatelope is $50.

Date May 22, 2007
Author Chris
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StereoFX

StereoFXDemo was my take on a stereo widener in 2007. It has several tricks worth noting.

The Stereo Wide control doesn’t simply amplify the side channel, it distorts it. It applies a transform designed to bring sound energy forward in space, so boosting it will produce a hyped, wideness effect. The current-plugin equivalent is Wider, which does this in a much smoother, more hi-fi way. StereoFX does it more aggressively than that.

Mono Bass highpasses the side channel. That’s a similar behavior to today’s ToVinyl. Using it, you can tighten up stereo bass.

Center Squish is something not quite provided by any current plugin, unless you count doing things with EdIsDim. What it does is this: applies a saturation to just the mid channel, in a way that does NOT boost it, just makes it run out of juice and begin to distort. The sonic result is that you get an overdrive effect that widens. Using Wider in the same way, what you get is a center boost that tightens imaging or a center cut exaggerating wideness and depth, but using StereoFX Center Squish, the center drops back to become more driving and distorted. A one-trick pony but unlike any other plugin, so if it sounds like you’d like it, check out the demo.

If you want this plugin, buy Wider or ToVinyl (both plugs which carry on the lineage of StereoFX) and ask me for StereoFX in email. I’ll send it to you.

Date May 21, 2007
Author Chris
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Stereo Chorus

StereoChorus is the stereo version of Chorus. It modulates both channels, so they’ll tonally match! Another early freebie.

Date May 21, 2007
Author Chris
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