Just to confirm, I used my cellphone number to make a facebook account solely to be able to talk to the Airwindows audiophiles group: my lady friend likes you folks :)
So if you wondered if that was me, consider this authoritative ;)
TL;DW: ClipSoftly is ClipOnly2 but as a softclipper: a very handy building block.
What more needs be said? ClipSoftly is ultimate softclipping, using the techniques used on ClipOnly2 for softening the edge of the hard clipping, but on the softest possible clipping. Where ClipOnly2 manipulates the onsets of the brightest transients to give you pure hard-clipping without digital grit, ClipSoftly is doing that without even hardclipping.
So what we have here, basically, is a control-less (like ClipOnly and ClipOnly2) safety clipper, but it’s a saturation effect. It’s also a building block I (or others) can use inside larger plugins or new versions of Console, much like the recent Pop2 uses ClipOnly2 on the output, to give you the ability for really aggressive attacks.
You’d use something like ClipOnly2 in mastering specifically because it won’t touch the values of any unclipped samples. ClipSoftly is different: it will touch the values of ALL samples, reshaping the whole sound to make it bigger, fatter, tubier.
I hope you like it, and the way it’ll affect my plugins going forward :)
download StarterKit.zip for just the basics
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
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TL;DW: Pop2 adds control and punch to Pop.
Back in the day, I said I would get an Allen and Heath compressor to do Pop2. That is not what happened here, and Pop2 is not a hardware emulation (even though I’m demonstrating it against a Heritage Audio Successor using a sidechain filter on the hardware comp that Pop2 doesn’t even have)
What happened is this: Pop was the best testbed for some experiments I needed to do. I needed to split out attack and decay speeds (as much as I could, on this crazy algorithm!) and I needed to build ClipOnly2 into the output stage.
This is because there’s a trick you can do if you know how. If you compress in such a way that a huge spikey attack pokes out, and then you clip that attack, you can get and control a sort of distorted ‘splat’ on the attack that highlights it usefully. (I didn’t make this up: Paul Frindle talked about it publicly as a useful thing to do)
The result of these experiments is Pop2, a software compressor so intense that you have to shoot it out with a rackmount compressor which will set you back $1700… and even then, it’s not a given which wins. The hardware will give you more midrange sonority (that Successor is fully transformer balanced and a really nice piece of kit) and hangs on to decays in a characteristic way… but Pop2 stands up for itself damn well, plus you can run one on all 16 inserts of your hybrid analog/digital recording setup, plus there’s a bit of a price difference.
On a personal note I apologize for the delay and lack of plugin last week: I was at a hospital but not over myself or my lady, in this case it’s my best friend out here in Vermont. Suffice to say I am studio building like a madman because it is my way of coping with grief and loss, and I’ll rest at times too, but he would appreciate me turning to my lifework at such a time, as he’s been an inspiration to me in turn: and that’s enough of that for now. Just know: maybe sometimes go for your dreams and don’t wait, because you never know when your life or those near you will be just taken away.
I am proud to still be here helping you go for YOUR dreams, and hope that Pop2 helps you do that. Please help support my Patreon and I’ll continue to charge forth doing everything I can, and it also helps me be there for my friends and loved ones when I need to drop everything and drive or fly to somebody’s side (which we will hope does not become a constant refrain!)
Love you folks, talk to you later :)
download StarterKit.zip for just the basics
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.
TL;DW: TexturizeMS is a hidden-noise plugin for adding mid-side sonic texture to things.
This is further development on my earlier plugin, Texturize. It existed to blend sculpted noise with the direct signal in a way that can enhance the qualities of your audio… depending on what that was, and whether you liked the results. It ‘does something’, that’s for sure, but what? My code for doing it already existed, but there was a lot of buzz over another plugin which did a variation of this effect with a great deal of mystery and hype. I thought it was useful to do an open source version where you could clearly hear what the thing did, and that’s Texturize.
But what if a simple stereo effect isn’t enough?
TexturizeMS breaks the effect into mid/side processing, and then lets you set them independently. That means you can add a bit of extra zip in the highs to just the side, while keeping the center cleaner. If you have synthetic elements that show obvious noise using Texturize, and they’re centered, you can tune just the middle. I think it’s a major upgrade in terms of actually using the effect usefully.
It’s still Texturize. It’s still a sort of funky snake oil (or maybe truffle oil?) It’s a flavor and is absolutely doing a thing, but you don’t have to consider it useful. But if you liked the flavor and atmosphere of this one, I think it’s your lucky day. Hope you like it!
download StarterKit.zip for just the basics
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.
