AirwindowsClap.zip(1.1M) (also on my Mediafire)

On January 24th, 2022, in a KVR forum, I stated the following: “By 2023, every Airwindows plugin will be available as CLAP natively in Linux, Windows and Mac Intel and native M1.”

I want to apologize for the last year. I got distracted by something that could have been a dream and ended up turning into a nightmare. I don’t want any I told you so’s: you don’t have all the facts and never will, and I’m a very stubborn person in some ways. I’d been leaning hard on a personal friend: it helped, but my friend died of heart complications some weeks ago (he did get to be alive and awake for an emergency helicopter ride to Dartmouth Hitchcock and I’m told he had a huge smile on his face that whole time: it had been a bucket-list thing, to ride in a helicopter). Without my friend, I could not cope with the demands of that dream I mentioned, and it turned really dark in that way you can’t come back from, and I don’t want to reveal the secrets or whys and wherefores and hope I never need to. There are some hells that should be private.

The Kalevala (in my grandmother’s translation) says, “Only I am left to sing these tales learned from riddles, snatched from the wayside, broken from the heather, torn from bushes, drawn from the waters, rubbed from blades of grass” and it may literally be true, now or tomorrow or in this next year. And I may sing the tales, and they’ll be riddles and they’ll be lies and they’ll be true, especially the ones that are lies. I’ve already begun and I will share this singing, that being all that is left of me now, as soon as I can stand to do so.

And here’s a lie: I did not keep my word above. I don’t have Linux, or Windows, and am not sure if I have both Intel and M1 Mac.

But much like in Finnish folklore, in my travels I met someone, going by ‘BaconPaul’, and it so happened that I could gift him something in the way of open source plugin code. And he and his friends used it in their Surge Synthesizer project.

And then, just casually, Paul sorta whipped up a port of my stuff to a new plugin format. For fun. Because he was ‘the-man-who-writes-new-synthesizers-and-things’, and what was impossible for me was light work for him (like in Finnish folklore). And so he weaved a Terminal spell of cmake and compile, and his magic spit out a 3.4 meg file (1.1M, zipped), and it was plugins… in CLAP format.

Which plugin? ALL OF THEM.

This is for you, those of you who can use it, for now. I think I can make it include new plugins as they come out. I don’t know if I can run it on Windows and Linux as my machines for doing those builds are air-gapped and don’t get internet access, but I might end up able to cover those bases as well. Or, I can direct you to the project and someone out there can attempt to make and share their own Windows and Linux builds for now. If it doesn’t work for you, I can get back to Paul and I’m sure it can be fixed. I don’t know how he did what he did but I can share it… and he’s also playing with doing the same thing for VCV Rack, and if that pans out I’ll get it to you as quickly as I can, and probably share some explorations with VCV Rack myself while I’m at it, as I’m no neophyte to Eurorack music-making. I can show you the ropes of that… in time.

Give me some time in my cave to heal, and I may let you in when I feel up to it, and I hope I don’t have to apologize for this upcoming year. I can do better than I have been doing. Let me know how Airwindows.clap is treating you, and we can make it grow into something worth having.