IronOxide3Demo added tape flutter to Iron Oxide, and tuned the antialiasing. This is much like ToTape: the basic concept of the plugin doesn’t change that much, though 3 added flutter and 4 added an inv/dry/wet mix control. These are the tape effects, not there to be radically reinvented each year. If you like this one best, […]
IronOxide2Demo is the version of Iron Oxide that introduced separate controls for the top and bottom cutoffs of the plugin. It’s got input and output gains, and also was the first Iron Oxide to introduce antialiasing, which it does in an interesting way: it’s applying randomness to the ‘blur’ between adjacent samples, which is a trick […]
IronOxideDemo was the start of a whole lot! This plugin helped launch Airwindows. It’s an old school tape sim, by which I mean it’s ‘bandpassy’ and distorted. Back in the day, people considered that to be the sound of a ‘tape plugin’. Iron Oxide was largely created as a sort of crusade. I had friends who […]
Chrome Oxide was an alternate technique to go for ‘tape grunge’, originally sold as a separate plugin. It worked like this: it threw in a random noise, but instead of just overlaying the noise onto the sound, it used the noise to interpolate between the current and previous sample. What that did was noise up the […]
