Compressor is a weird little beast! If you’re looking for a great sounding, well-behaved, sane compressor, go buy the most recent Logical. This is not that. What it IS, is Airwindows strangeness in an exceedingly pure form. You get compression, attack speed, release speed, color, makeup gain, and dry/wet. Compression includes some makeup gain adjusting. Don’t […]
Point is the Airwindows transient designer! It’s tricky to use, but powerful. For starters, try putting it on some drum like a kick or snare, set Point to -1.0 (all the way to the left) and then set reaction speed to 0.160 or so. You’ve got an instant squashed mega-compressed drumkit! Hair metal for days. Now […]
Peak Limiter is the first Airwindows loudness plugin, and has a number of unique features. While these days I encourage people to not limit or distort, and to use ADClip for the cleanest possible handling of overs, and to get NC-17 if you’re looking to just do silly loudness… there have been other approaches from […]
Pressure is a special little plugin that helped Airwindows get launched. It’s a vari-mu compressor algorithm, meaning that it kicks in harder if the input is hotter. The thing about Pressure is this: though I spent years making it more sophisticated, I’ve also spent years learning the power of very simple algorithms. Pressure’s a very simple […]
