ADT was one of the first Airwindows plugins. It uses two adjustable delay taps, which you can mix either in-phase or out of phase, to sculpt the sound. The idea is, you can get a lusher sound through the very quick delay while also positioning the times so that they give you reinforcements and cancellations […]
Snares is a glorious trainwreck! It’s very difficult to make work. The idea is, you get the top and bottom of the drum sound. The top you can replace with white noise, and the bottom you can replace with brown noise. Sound good so far? Here’s the trouble. You can’t just overlay white noise onto a […]
Crystal was the colorless version of the Character plugs, Airwindows ‘Virtual Console Collection’ years before anyone else was doing it. The idea was, make a ‘colorless’ version with all the same functionality, so people could try it out. The Character plugins grew into BussColors, which let you switch between them and is still around and popular. […]
Elation is a curious thing: a compressor that doesn’t actually compress! Well, not much. The intention was to use LA-2A impulses, like I used to make many Character plugs, to produce a LA-2A emulation. What happened? Dunno. Maybe I’m just not familiar enough with the thing to recognize whether it worked? Elation does do a good […]
