TL;DW: YHighpass is soft and smooth to nasty, edgy texture-varying filtering.

YHighpass.zip(612k)

See YLowpass, except it’s a highpass :) but there are several ‘one more things’, most notably an upgrade to what I’ve been using for denormalization. I ran into issues with YLowpass munching too much CPU. The fixes I came up with, worked so well, that I’ve applied them to Console7, Console7Cascade, Chamber, Galactic, and several plugins that haven’t come out yet :) As a result, my previous video using YLowpass crept up to 70% CPU at times, and this video using the exact same setup and plugins idles around 35%. I call that a good day (OK, week) of work.

I’m also showing off (in the video) the Beyer mic I got: not because I’ll be switching to that for plugin videos, but because I’m showing you how to record two mics in stereo (one of them a very clean and accurate lavalier mic) and then develop plugins to make the cleaner, more accurate mic act more like the far more expensive and flattering mic. It’s not unlike making Mackity, or something. I’ll be doing this on a Monday livestream once I make the reference files: this is how you’d make those, and where you’d put the mics.

Hope you like YHighpass: once I’m finished with these, I revisit the Z plugins (meant to sound like Emu Z-plane filters from a hardware sampler) bringing these refinements to ’em. Also spotted in the ‘coming soon’ category, Pressure5 and Monitoring2 (with Dark as the base wordlength reducer), and a whole bunch of drum samples I’ve reconfigured for use in Bespoke.

To get the new versions of Console7Channel, Console7Buss, Console7Cascade, Chamber, Galactic, and YLowpass that have the denormalization upgrade, re-install them from the download links below. If for some reason you need to put back the original ones, they can be downloaded from the plugins’ individual webpages: there’s a link for each at the bottom of the post, saying ‘download the original version before the fix here: pluginFirst.zip’. You shouldn’t need to do that but just in case I like to leave the exact original files still there to be downloaded, in case anyone actually needed to :)

download 64 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Signed M1/Intel Mac AUs.dmg
download Signed M1/Intel Mac VSTs.dmg
download LinuxVSTs.zip
download Retro 32 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac AUs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac VSTs.zip
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TL;DW: YLowpass is soft and smooth to nasty, edgy texture-varying filtering.

YLowpass.zip(613k)

Introducing the Y filters! Where the X filters were eXperimental and the Z filters are emulations meant to sound like hardware, YLowpass is further researches before going back into the Z filters for refinements. I’m using these to perfect the designs, and YLowpass is an important step in doing that.

It’s got interpolated coefficients on everything, reducing zipper noise. And double ultrasonic filtering. But it’s got a lot more than that: YLowpass introduces a new way to internally distort filters, and a new control… Resonant Edge! The ‘normal’ position for this is around 0.1 on the control. If you make it less, you get a slightly asymmetrical distortion that lets you get really warm analog filter sounds, even when they’re resonant. I stacked a couple of these up in the video to get Alpha Juno saturated filter sounds, that being one of my favorite analog synths, and I demonstrate it directly against the real authentic Alpha Juno run into the computer using API pres for input gain, an unmistakably analog tone. YLowpass holds up pretty well under that scrutiny. And then, I bring in a drum breakbeat, and start showing off how crazy YLowpass can get. The Resonant Edge lets you go to very aggressive, glitchy sounds that are a lot more like circuit bending than bit-banging.

I’ll be doing further Y series, and as I go I’ll be trying to refine the set every step of the way. For instance, in Bespoke I was getting some CPU issues (eagle-eyed viewers can see the CPU meter) since the Y filters will be rather heavy on the CPU. I’ve got some ideas for addressing this through adding an analog noise floor factor that could become part of Airwindows plugins as a general thing: experimentation will tell me the answers. (note: I’ve now updated it to help that: original file is at YLowpassFirst.zip(612k)

download 64 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Signed M1/Intel Mac AUs.dmg
download Signed M1/Intel Mac VSTs.dmg
download LinuxVSTs.zip
download Retro 32 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac AUs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac VSTs.zip
Mediafire Backup of all downloads
All this is free and open source under the MIT license, brought to you by my Patreon.