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 […]
LogicalDemo was one of the plugins from the Character collection, but it was never included with them because (like Elation) it had special behavior, namely compression. From the word go, Logical was setting out to be a 2-buss compressor. Controls were similar to the Character plugs, including a Personality control which handled the application of a […]
GatelopeDemo triggers a gate which sweeps two very transparent and natural filters across each other to cut off the sound. Can cut mostly treble for toms, or tighten bass on kicks and snares. Startlingly useful! This plugin was inspired by Ola Sonmark, who continues to enjoy it many years later. It’s like an audiophile version of […]
Gate is a simple little utility plugin from early Airwindows. It’s the first Airwindows gate to use a technique from Density, where the gate transitions to silence through a ‘negative saturation’ stage. This causes sounds hit by the gate to sound like they’re pulling back spatially as well as going silent, something that is still unique […]
