The original ADClip was invented to deal with an issue with clipping: you get a hard, fatiguing sound. Soft clipping reduces this problem, but makes things sound more trashy and grungey. What ADClip did to fix this was, keeping track of the surroundings of a clipped sample. If it’s in the middle of a batch […]
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 […]
Overheads is another eccentric Airwindows plugin that’s almost impossible to comprehend without decent instructions. SO, here we go! Overheads tries to smooth out a track or set of tracks, so that bumpy drums are removed and only the cymbals remain. That’s what the ‘node’ is for (the controls are Node Compress and Node Position). It’s designed […]
LogicalDemo was one of the plugins from the Character collection, but it was never included with them because (like Elation) it had special behavior, namely compression. From the word go, Logical was setting out to be a 2-buss compressor. Controls were similar to the Character plugs, including a Personality control which handled the application of a […]
