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 […]
EnergyDemo is unusual. Special algorithms exploit secret interactions with the sample rate to produce hot, vivid colorations loaded with crackling energy. Not your DAW’s EQ by a long, long shot. Doesn’t exist anywhere else in any form… This has become my ultimate ‘hyping’ EQ tool, and it comes complete with descriptive names for each band. Note: […]
Desk was the precursor of algorithmic Airwindows console modeling. The techniques used in these plugins are still present in the current Desk, but back in the day there were three, not one. Desk was the subtlest: slew limiting and saturation calibrated to be very, very subtle. TransDesk had that plus a trace of TubeSag set […]
BussColors was out in 2010. It’s based on console modeling plugins that were sold as the ‘Character bundle’ in 2007 (APIcolypse, Calibre, Cider, Elation, Logical, Luxor, Neverland, Precious). Airwindows has been developing virtual console modeling for quite a while, though it’s really the plugin-set Console itself that was the real breakthrough. However, the ‘coloration’ side […]
