ConsoleMC
TL;DW: ConsoleMC, and/or ConsoleMD, goes for the tone shaping of the classic MCI console!
or for a flatter version without the SubTight algorithms (more simplified and DAWlike)
This has been a real journey, to get to this point.
ConsoleMD is replacing my fully analog mixing system, which I’m now looking to sell off. Technically, just the mixer, as I can re-use the Lavry for tracking, where I used to have it dedicated to re-capturing the mixdown from the Heritage Audio mixer. This is what it took, to retire that glorious beast.
It’s a channel strip that functions like a normal Console Channel, except it’s got treble, a sweepable mid that only boosts (like the classic MCI mid boost), bass, a fader that runs before the EQ section like the classic MCI, and a special pan switching network that’s like an evil cousin of LCR panning. And it’s a summing buss that brings the summing character of the big MCI desks with a gnarly analog dirtiness that’s not simply ‘add a distortion box’ but is actually a modification of other recent and unique work I’ve put out.
ConsoleMD draws on the following recent plugins: Creature. NOT SubTight. Sinew. ResEQ2. Pear. BitShiftPan. There is not a single normal DSP algorithm in this thing unless you count sin() and asin() functions. It is ALL built out of current, 2023 Airwindows plugins that have all been pretty well received, sometimes with a fair bit of excitement. I told you all this was working up to something. This is it.
Specifically, this is the first ‘it’ to come together: I’ve got at least five other big console concepts that deserve this treatment, but ConsoleMD is right here for you to jump into, right now. There’s a couple reverbs in the demo, including kCathedral which is a call-out to the corresponding Bricasti patch. Those are for later.
ConsoleMD is designed around running at 96k (or possibly 192k if you’re so inclined) but ought to work at 44.1k. If you’re at low sample rate and seek to oversample it 2x or 4x it shouldn’t do it any harm but try running it at 1x to see if you get more immediacy, as it learns from Console Zero and can put across a very clean signal path.
All of the EQ options are designed to be pristine when flat (mids, being boost only, are flat at 0.0 boost, not 0.5) and bring in multiple stages as you crank them harder and harder, whether it’s the highs and mids getting increasingly saturated or the mids getting increasingly high-Q, allowing for everything from clarity to tonal extremeness thoroughly beyond what any real MCI console would do. This is not a clone, it’s a tone in its own right, that tries to do the same job as some of the greatest big analog consoles ever to exist, but does it by the unforgiving and touchy rules of digital.
I hope it brings you joy, and helps you get your sound as it helps me get mine.
(here is the original super-bright release of ConsoleMC, as it came out that first day, in case it’s any use to you)
ConsoleMCoriginal.zip(1M)
download 64 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Signed M1/Intel Mac AUs.dmg
download Signed M1/Intel Mac VSTs.dmg
download LinuxVSTs.zip
download LinuxARMVSTs.zip for the Pi
download Retro 32 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac AUs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac VSTs.zip
Mediafire Backup of all downloads
All this is free and open source under the MIT license, brought to you by my Patreon.
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congrats for this!
Yippee! Another great virtual mixing desk – and one I’ve never had the pleasure to know.
Thanks for all the hard work Chris!
Looking forward to the other models as they come, too.
And… and… the stuff you had on the text scroller at the top was what I experienced with the now historical Rush To Perfection. We got a bit close with A/D advances to a sort of clinical ideal, and saw (and are still seeing) it sounded like boring, dead shit without the grit and grime the gear was adding in (whatever the source), pre mid-late 90’s.
Not to say you can’t do exciting, alive and sometimes gritty things that work musically totally ITB without even these great new channel plugins… but this new example of yours makes it alot easier – and it sounds like it will be exciting to mix through.
Hi Chris, absolutely amazing work. Since i discovered Airwindows couple weeks ago i used no third party VSTs (except metering) and just gradually replace them in my songs with yours.
I have a question about ConsoleMC – if i have more than 3 layers of groupings (rarely) – can i build ConsoleMC with layers:
final layer as normal the case (track-mixgroup-master)
and another track-group-master which will integrate into higher level as track. So that master will be the first plugin in track?
thank you
Chris,
Why aren’t you married and have kids?
it’s cool you make Audio Software but
the whole Gay LGBT Faggot Shit is Evil
and stop the Furry Shit too.
just because The Internet Exists and social media exists doesn’t mean everyones B.S. Immoral Athiest Ideoligy
should be heard. that means STFU about
Faggots and Mentally Ill , just make Software..
To the above commenter, Sam Price, I wish them as much misery as they are sending out to the world. To you, Chris, I only have love and gratitude for the work you put into making these wonderful sonic marvels. Thank you so much. I’m looking forward to playing around on my virtual MCI and the evil ConsoleMC which you’ve suggested does a reasonable job at aping those EMI REDD desks that I keep dreaming about. Much good health and happiness to you, Chris. Thank you so much.
@Ron Mishra You are a Pathetic Weak Human.
The Cultust Religion of Homosexuality needs to be Stopped, ASAP
And, Chris having Gay Sex with his Bandmate and being Proud of The Degeneracy that is Faggotry, is part of what is Destroying the World and Kids minds.
Settle down. Sheesh. I had gay sex with furries, and for me it was not good enough to keep doing, though they were great people in their own right. Never with a band mate, not even the trans dude when I was a literal teenager and when he had to go around with boobs and all that entails. My degenerate friends have been way better as people and I am proud of their faggotry. I would say so more often except that it’s none of my business as I am simply not gay enough to join them in it. I suggest that you mind your own business or it will only make me louder: I might not f**k my friends, but you best not f**k with my friends :)
OK, that’s enough: I’m deleting everything after this, whether it’s Sam or people defending my opposition to Sam. Sam, you’ll get a ban if you continue, go to YouTube and they can worry about banning you, and your nonsense will at least count as engagement. I don’t have to have comments here at all, so use ’em wisely. Others: observe that this line of discussion stopped with a number of comment deletions, across the board. Don’t get into it, is my advice.
Does the “Signed M1/Intel Mac VSTs.dmg” on this page https://www.airwindows.com/consolemc/ contain the updated version ? The MD version ?
is there a sense to mixdown tracks in 96 khz instead of 48 khz to use them in mixing with ConsleMD 8n 96 khz?
Hey there. Is Console MD a standalone unit where you just put the channel plugin at the end of every channel, and the bus plugin at the end of every bus? Or is it an add on to the other console plugins that have an ‘”in” and an “out” for every channel? If so, how do you set it all up ideally?
Really great work! from a really kind gentleman. Thank you!
Wow Chris I swear, You are just a gift to DSP and music creators everywhere. I am so, so grateful, and blown away by what you do. Sincerely, Thank you.
Hi Chris, thank you so much for dedicating your time and talent to developing these magnificent audio tools. Since I found your plugins I incorporated them into my DAW. The change was fundamental for a more balanced and thick sound. From Barranquilla, Colombia I send you my respects and best wishes for continued success.