TL;DW: SoftGate is a gate that can mute hiss and smooth sample tails. SoftGate.zip(470k) Hi! Today’s Airwindows tool is for sample makers (though you could use in in a mix if you really wanted to, or abuse it for special effects). It’s called SoftGate. The purpose of SoftGate is this: you can set it so […]
TL;DW: Interstage is a subtle and sophisticated analogifier. Interstage.zip(341k) Interstage is one half of an experiment. I pitted my ability to use my weird techniques (interleaved IIR, slew limiting, etc) against my new biquad filtering techniques, in the battle of the bandpasses. The biquads could give me total DC rejection and total rejection near Nyquist. […]
TL;DW: Biquad is the Airwindows implementation of a biquad filter. Biquad.zip(366k) This little puppy is really flexible! That’s true of any biquad filter, but I find most of them are really flexible and slightly plastic. Traditionally biquads require special handling, because you can’t push them too far before they break, and also they sound ‘DAW-y’ […]
TL;DW: DeHiss tries to suppress background hiss, like a hiss gate. DeHiss.zip(350k) Here’s a request: I was asked to put DeHiss out, so while I’m working on newer stuff you can have an up-to-date and VST-ified DeHiss plugin. This acts like a filtery gate. It tries to apply a lowpass filter to suppress quiet background […]
