SynKick is actually two plugins, SynKick and SkinKick. Here’s how they work. They’re synthetic kickdrums, either tuned to a set of related intervals (SynKick) or tuned to the harmonics of a drum head (SkinKick). Put them on a kick track or anything that can trigger them, and they will fire the sine-based bassbombs when triggered. Not […]
Wah is the definitive Airwindows style plugin. It’s a wah pedal. Really—try it! It’s a one-slider freebie that works and acts like a wah pedal. I used this plugin to test out some ideas for smoothing control input, so working the frequency will give a more fluid effect than typical plugins.
DrumSlam is an emulation, but not of hardware. It’s a riff on the sound of Massey’s TapeHead. Because why not? Well, the reason why not is mostly this: that’s not my favorite sound, so it’s not such a great idea. I heard a midrange drive, a sort of treble air that comes in, and low frequency […]
Silhouette is a specialized plugin that takes a track and replaces it entirely with noise shaped to the exact dynamic profile of the track- use it to tell if you have a beat or just an over-compressed mess. It’s not exactly a pure gate with regular noise underneath: it’s calibrated to give a sense of what […]
