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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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Elation

Elation is a curious thing: a compressor that doesn’t actually compress! Well, not much.

The intention was to use LA-2A impulses, like I used to make many Character plugs, to produce a LA-2A emulation. What happened? Dunno. Maybe I’m just not familiar enough with the thing to recognize whether it worked? Elation does do a good job of softening textures. The personality slider can be pushed very far in the ‘color’ direction. The drive slider will give you your ‘compression’ or push right past it into distortedness. If you balance these things out, you can get a compress-y output: I just don’t have the confidence in this that I do in, say, Logical.

So, it’s free. Enjoy the striking new texture, and if it’s better than I knew as a LA-2A emulation, let me know because I won’t take it back once it’s a freebie. Hope it serves some purposes. It does sound nice and round, maybe that’s enough :)

Date June 21, 2007
Author Chris
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Logical

LogicalDemo was one of the plugins from the Character collection, but it was never included with them because (like Elation) it had special behavior, namely compression. From the word go, Logical was setting out to be a 2-buss compressor.

Controls were similar to the Character plugs, including a Personality control which handled the application of a convolution impulse. Like the other Character plugins, this wasn’t just an impulse (from SSL gear) but a dynamic extrapolation from two impulses at very different gain levels.

You should be using the most current Logical, it’s much better as a compressor. But, if you want a copy of the first Logical, buy the current one and then ask me in email. I’ll send you one.

Date June 20, 2007
Author Chris
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Flutter

Flutter includes mono and stereo versions. It’s a great-sounding tape flutter effect that can be fairly intense, but there’s a problem: because of the design of the algorithm, I never got this version to have correct delay compensation. It does declare tons of latency, but it can’t lock on to the correct delay. It declares a whopping 32760 samples of latency and still doesn’t line up correctly with other tracks!

As a result, this will throw off the timing of any track it’s on, and it’s tough to dial in using delays and things. Therefore, I’ve put out these plugins for free, as is. Might be useful in sound design, or on tracks where the timing doesn’t matter. Don’t track with it engaged, because of the latency it declares!

Date June 4, 2007
Author Chris
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Gatelope

GatelopeDemo triggers a gate which sweeps two very transparent and natural filters across each other to cut off the sound. Can cut mostly treble for toms, or tighten bass on kicks and snares. Startlingly useful!

This plugin was inspired by Ola Sonmark, who continues to enjoy it many years later. It’s like an audiophile version of an envelope follower, the original purpose being to gate toms in such a way that their roundness could hang on even while cymbal bleed is being filtered away from them. I also found that you could tighten up things like kick drums by using Gatelope and cutting down the bass sustain. Or, of course, you can do both at once.

Gatelope runs 255 samples of latency, in order to use the lookahead control (notable because virtually no Airwindows plugins run latency). In all these years it’s never needed to change because it already does exactly what it sets out to do. It’s still for sale today, now compiled to be 64 bit.

Gatelope is $50.

Date May 22, 2007
Author Chris
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