Iron Oxide Classic
TL;DW: Old school tape emulation, extra pure and free of grunge.
As promised, here is the 2017-ized version of the pure, sweet, original Iron Oxide. No more grit or tape flutter or noise!
It’s funny how this works. If you’re a commercial developer, and you release a plugin that’s real popular, one thing that happens is people begin asking for more. More features, more variations, this and that and the other. The flutter in Iron Oxide 5 came about that way: it migrated over from ToTape (which is also coming to free VST).
Every new thing added is something lost. But since I’m no longer doing strictly commercial development (it’s steadily all becoming free, backed by my Patreon which allows all this to happen) I can do things like confuse the ‘market’ and release both the feature-full Iron Oxide 5, and the stripped-down Iron Oxide Classic. This one is just like the original: input trim, ips control, and output trim. Better yet, it has the pure unsullied tone of the very first Iron Oxide, only brought up to date so it noise shapes to the 32 bit buss etc.
Even if you liked the grunge factor of the very adjustable Iron Oxide 5 (more controls may be added but bear in mind I have a commitment to release plugins like BussColors, not just keep revising Iron Oxide!) you might want to check this out. And if later versions of Iron Oxide wandered away from what works for you, for instance if you’re making electronic music and needed much cleaner handling of synthetic tones… this is your lucky day!
Hope you like Iron Oxide Classic. It is, truly, one of the Airwindows classics, now for free VST and brought up to date. :)
OK Chris I am going to expose you until you make them…the Character plugins that you did a few years back are sooo awesome…I still use them today but if you made newer versions with your technique today they will kill…I know you put them in Busscolors but they are just not the same…here’s they’re names: APIcolypse, Calibre, Cider, Luxor, Neverland and Precious, and don’t forget Rouge…I can’t wait…I call these Airwindows Prime Console Emulations…
…and don’t forget Crystal…
I’m releasing BussColors 4 today ;) if you REALLY think it’s not better than the first series, I’ll come up with a way to put out those originals as-is. I can, you know: because of the Patreon, I’m on the look-out for bonus versions of stuff, and other good things to release. You’re doing the right thing by bugging me about it, keep that up and I will bring you the Character plugins individually in AU/VST form.
I don’t agree that those first ones were best. I think I have a better behavior, because if I remember it properly, for the very first ones I had an algorithm that was supposed to go between low level and high level impulses and took it so literally that it was the same as using a single impulse that linearly interpolated between the two (in other words, nothing but a convolution impulse: it was supposed to be more, current BussColors versions do more).
But I don’t have to agree to bring you your alternate versions :)
I am only going by what I hear…sometimes the new and improved don’t have the Character of the originals…(pardon the pun)
Thank you, CMO. Check the following thread and add to it, please! I pasted your request.
https://www.reddit.com/r/airwindows/comments/9a5sik/random_requests/
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