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 […]
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 […]
SpacedOut is the ‘aliased MySpace monitoring’ section of the plugin SpaceOdyssey. This was a 2008 plugin designed to help people monitor what the MySpace audio player was going to do to their sound. At the time, MySpace was a big deal for bands and musicians, but if you uploaded music to it, your music would be […]
Tremolo is from way back. It works in a rather special way. Rather than simply modulate loudness, Tremolo modulates spatial depth. That’s done through exploiting the qualities the ‘Density’ algorithm has for pushing stuff back in space (and making it thin and wiry) or bringing it forward (and making it fat and distorted). Tremolo puts that […]
