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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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.

Date September 21, 2010
Author Chris
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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.

Date September 21, 2010
Author Chris
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DitherTo

DitherTo exists because dither’s not exactly a huge market segment, yet it’s important to getting digital tone with depth and spatiality. For that reason, I’ve picked two dithers out of what’s shipped with Ditherbox, and you can have top-quality boutique dither for free. You just can’t select whichever one you like, or switch to monitoring modes like Silhouette or SubsOnly, as you can with Ditherbox. But the actual dither is the same quality as the professional grade plugin.

DitherTo16 uses Vinyl dither. It stores up error energy and releases it in tiny sputters, like vinyl surface noise. This dither/noise shaping gets a nice rich sound out of CD-quality audio.

DitherTo24 uses Contingent dither, which gets a detailed, finely textured sound. It’s at such a low level that you’re certainly not going to be able to hear it consistently, but all the same dithering is the correct thing to do when exporting to a fixed point format. So, there’s a 24 bit option, because that’s correct. You may feel that you can pick up on subtle improvements exporting through this, even monitoring at 24 bit through this: depends on how sensitive you are to things way below the threshold of consistent observation.

Both are free, so if you’d like to try monitoring through boutique dither at 24 bit nothing’s stopping you :)

Date June 19, 2010
Author Chris
Comments 1 Comment

DigitalBlack

DigitalBlack is something special from Airwindows: a variable-attack gate. It’s free. Here’s how it works.

When signal is going through above the threshold, a special sensor’s being triggered. It’s keeping track of the longest wavelengths of signal, and that determines the ‘crest factor’ over the gate. When signal drops, the gate waits for that crest factor to run out, then begins to fade out the signal in the same way the original Airwindows Gate did: making it seem to fall back, not just go quieter.

The result is a simple one-knob gate that responds to the speed of waveforms going through it. If you’re hitting it with a lot of treble, it can close more crisply. If there’s bass, the gate will be more cautious about cutting off the lows, and it’ll close more gently.

It defaults to a value that will silence a 16 bit noisefloor, in case you’re trying to make CDs that go to literally digital black. However, it ought to work as well for things like heavy guitar gating. Hope you like it!

Date May 12, 2010
Author Chris
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