“I really dig the 16 bit Naturalize. It has made me wonder in surprise if I like the reduced version better than the 24 bit original.” Andrew Levine, Blumlein Records DitherboxDemo is a universal binary AU plugin supplying a wide range of unbeatable dithers! You get the traditional flat/TPDF plus High Gloss, Vinyl, Spatialize and Naturalize, […]
Fracture is the 2008 Airwindows Xmas present for lovers of ugly sound everywhere! It works by using a Density-style overdrive (based on a sine function) but letting you override the fully-saturated point. Since the function will roll back around to zero again, you can make it go to silence, not full crank, when ‘distorting’. That means […]
Smooth is a typically Airwindows invention: a plugin that strictly alters texture, without affecting frequency or amplitude. At least, that’s the intention, and the result’s pretty convincing. Used on a distorted guitar, it really brings a softer texture up to the point where it breaks up. Used on something like an over-zingy acoustic guitar, it’s really […]
DeRez is straight-up Airwindows bitcrushing and sample rate chopping! It differs from, say, BitGlitter in that it’s not making any attempt to simulate an ‘analog low-bit hardware unit’. No, what DeRez does is hash up the sound with sheer, nasty digital bitcrush ITB. There’s just a touch of edge-softening to the frequency de-rez. But what makes […]
