Airwindows

Chris

Hi! I've got a new plugin you can have! These plugins come in Mac AU, and Mac, Windows and Linux VST. They are state of the art sound, have no DRM, and have totally minimal generic interface so you focus on your sounds.

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Antialiasing Plugins

You’ll see a heck of a lot of updates around this time: it’s because I’d hit on a thread on Gearslutz about aliasing in plugins, and it caused much consternation in Airwindows-land.

I dropped everything and started devising ways for my plugins to alias less, or differently, in hopes of stepping farther away from ‘ITB sound’.

So, the fall of 2010 saw many plugins getting upgraded to ‘antialiased’ versions. Some of these legitimately existed earlier than this, but the version I’ve got is often from this period. Since I went through later and made ’em all 64-bit, what’s on the site is what we’ve got. I don’t want to dig up even older builds if they’re not going to be 64-bit, considering that everything currently available including the old versions and the freebies are all 64 bit without exception.

Date September 23, 2010
Author Chris
Comments 4 Comments

BassKit

BassKitDemo is a precursor to DubSub, with some obscure features all its own. It’s set up more like a full-mix sub-octave synthesizer, and doesn’t have the bass-amp type features DubSub has.

Dry/Wet is at the top because it’s not overall: it runs as part of the balance but the sub-octave and ‘floor’ stuff goes after it.

Root Note is the intensity of the ‘boosted bass’ component, and SubOctave is the intensity of the octave-down (working like a stompbox and not like a spectral-analysis plugin, it sounds beefier and rawer but can glitch out too).

Cutoff Freq works as a tone control on the bass components, and Floor Freq works like a special highpass, filling in psychoacoustic bass to make up for the highpassing.

If you’d like BassKit, buy DubSub and ask me for BassKit in email. I’ll send it.

Date September 21, 2010
Author Chris
Comments 1 Comment

Character

Character was a bundle of earlier modeling plugins including APIcolypse, Calibre, Cider, Luxor, Neverland and Precious. These are the hardware models that later became BussColors, in their earliest forms.

If you’d like these, buy BussColors and ask me for Character in email. I’ll send it.

Date September 21, 2010
Author Chris
Comments 3 Comments

DitherTo

DitherTo exists because dither’s not exactly a huge market segment, yet it’s important to getting digital tone with depth and spatiality. For that reason, I’ve picked two dithers out of what’s shipped with Ditherbox, and you can have top-quality boutique dither for free. You just can’t select whichever one you like, or switch to monitoring modes like Silhouette or SubsOnly, as you can with Ditherbox. But the actual dither is the same quality as the professional grade plugin.

DitherTo16 uses Vinyl dither. It stores up error energy and releases it in tiny sputters, like vinyl surface noise. This dither/noise shaping gets a nice rich sound out of CD-quality audio.

DitherTo24 uses Contingent dither, which gets a detailed, finely textured sound. It’s at such a low level that you’re certainly not going to be able to hear it consistently, but all the same dithering is the correct thing to do when exporting to a fixed point format. So, there’s a 24 bit option, because that’s correct. You may feel that you can pick up on subtle improvements exporting through this, even monitoring at 24 bit through this: depends on how sensitive you are to things way below the threshold of consistent observation.

Both are free, so if you’d like to try monitoring through boutique dither at 24 bit nothing’s stopping you :)

Date June 19, 2010
Author Chris
Comments 1 Comment

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