ConsoleX3 Is Out!
OK, so for the ConsoleX3 shown in the video, go here:
https://github.com/airwindows/ConsoleX3/releases
and click on the version number at the top. As of posting it’s 0.0.7 (cue theme music!) and for this repository, I’ve not been able to get Github to set it as a ‘latest release’, but that’s the one.
If you would like the standalone, no-GUI versions such as for Raspberry Pi, I have those too!
ConsoleX3NoGUI.zip (882k) standalone(AU, VST2)
If you mean to use the GUI version, don’t install the Audio Unit from this, the installer for the GUI version doesn’t want to install if there’s already a plugin of that name present.
If you want to use a surround-capable version of ConsoleX3, you HAVE to use the Audio Unit ‘ConsoleX3Mono’ plugin, because that’s the one that will run any number of channels (it doesn’t do surround panning, though, you’ll have to do that separately).
If you want to use AirwindowsGlobals and have the nice grey watercolor texture I favor, or to customize the look of it any way you want, use this:
AirwindowsGlobals.zip (158k) (text file, folder structure and jpeg)
There’s an extra folder in there telling you to put the ‘Airwindows’ folder into your Documents folder. If JUCE looks for documents files in a different place on your system then put it there instead, but on the Mac it knows to look in the Documents folder, so it goes Documents/Airwindows/AirwindowsGlobals.txt and the GreyWatercolor.jpg goes beside that file. I encourage making the Airwindows GUI plugins your own in this way. AirwindowsGlobals now has a bunch of comments telling you how to do stuff, making it easier to use.
The standalone plugins are in all the existing standalone plugin collections, but ConsoleX3 has too many controls to go into Consolidated so it doesn’t go in Consolidated. For a GUI version, go to Github and use the one I made, for the Chris vision of how wild GUI plugins can go.
Hope you like ConsoleX3! I will be bringing out the new plugins (such as Rockstar2, BezEQ4, Weave) which are either in the demo, or built into ConsoleX3 but don’t exist as standalone yet. For instance, the overdrive control ‘More’ is the ‘Weave’ algorithm and this is the first you’re seeing it, or a Console algorithm that uses the ‘derivative BIP’ thing I came up with after not successfully reinventing Signalsmith’s ‘elliptic BLEP’ antialiasing :)
All this is free and open source under the MIT license, brought to you by my Patreon.
I just need something thats gonna make my sounds loud like the video games
yay!
Thanks again, Chris! Always a delight to stop by Sunday night!
Ok now I’m just a little confused – and didn’t gather from the video – is there any “channel” or “buss” component expected?
ope – found the answer – about 3:30-3:40 or so – channel / buss slider with Pre in the center (standalone)
I get a very loud pop when these turn on (in buss mode)
Looks, and sounds, like Christmas has come early this year!
Chris, thank you so much for your great work. I would like to ask you to take just one day of your valuable time to study basic user interface concepts, simple things like usability, visibility of elements, etc. Maybe read one or two design guides from major companies.
Maybe an overall better way would be if you created your plugins in a way that it will be very easy for designers to come up with a custom GUI, maybe readable from some UI spec tool. It is very obvious, that you are an ace re DSP algos, but the UI leaves a lot of room for optimization.
As a quick fix it would look much better and make more sense to just make the control elements vertical faders. Probably the faders could also display some values in a graphical way.
Also, while I am at it and somebody has to do it: with great respect for your work, I would like to mention that following *two* trains of thoughts / stories in *one* video is actually quite annoying, especially if you want to read subtitles to better understand the spoken text. I am writing about the text on top of the videos. When you have two stories to tell, do two videos.
This comment is meant to make your videos better, not to make you feel bad.
Thanks for this Chris! I will always be grateful for what you do.
PS I gave Airwindows a shout in the credits of a release I put out last March. Couldn’t have done it without you/them/it :)
Great, but the UI doesn’t look right here on Kubuntu / Wayland (Reaper and Renoise) :
https://postimg.cc/SXHb6CGZ
Extracting the AirwindowsGlobals.zip to Documents fixed it!