Airwindows

PurestWarm2

TL;DW: PurestWarm2 adds dual dry/wet controls for each side of the waveform.

Hi! Sorry for the slight delay: I just flew over 2000 miles and everything’s been a bit up in the air, not just me being up in the air. But I’m here! And I have a plugin, by request.

The plugin’s actually the most normal thing here. It’s PurestWarm, but better. I was asked for a version of PurestWarm with a dry/wet (which would make it even more subtle and gentle) and then I thought, why not TWO dry/wets, one for either side of the waveform? That way you could massage both the positive and negative sides of the wave (seen briefly in the video: I wiggle the cursor around to show which side’s being reined in by which slider) to taste, or both at once.

And so that’s what PurestWarm2 is (plus, ultrasonic filtering added for use at high sample rates). It’s also using a performance tweak I hit on, defining the filter coefficients when the plugin’s instantiated, rather than once every sample buffer. Not a complicated thing, but for anyone who made use of PurestWarm, this should count as a nice upgrade. And it’s a direct request: since I was asked for PurestWarm but with a dry/wet, how could I not?

The video I’ve made will look SUPER different. This is me in British Columbia, way the heck up in Canada away from everything. Even getting decent internet’s been tricky. But it’s also me trying out new things, and learning to make proper videos and not just grab the output of OBS and call it a day. There’ll be more… one of the things I did before putting all my home stuff in storage, was capture a bunch of great vinyl records with an eye to making Evergreens again. If all goes well I can make and upload some of those while I’m still up in Canada… plus, I’ve got a batch of plugins ready to go, including the amp sims people have been asking for.

If you’re wondering… the little montage at the end is a glimpse of my life here in Canada. The kitty’s one of several who live here, and my lap is totally covered in cat hair (it’s been years since I lost my last pet cat to old age, so there’s something I’d been missing). The town’s a little oil town in Canada and we’re not going to be staying, but here we are for now: and the baked goods and eggs are Ukrainian Easter tradition, all by my lady love, who’s of Ukrainian and Indigenous heritage. And yes, it tastes as good as it looks :)

Enjoy the plugin, and be patient as I teach myself Final Cut Pro and learn to make videos properly. And I hope you like what I’ll have in weeks to come :)

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.

The original version, which didn’t apply the ultrasonic filtering on VSTs, is at PurestWarm2original.zip(613k)

Date April 18, 2022
Author Chris
Comments 3 Comments

StereoEnsemble

TL;DW: StereoEnsemble is a sort of hyperchorus blast from the past.

StereoEnsemble.zip(622k)

Please forgive my bad video making: I’m trying to keep on having plugins to post, though my life is bad right now. StereoEnsemble is a blast from the past, updated with modern dithering to floating point and undersampling: bottom line is, this is a plugin that can take either a mono or a stereo input and give you a bunch of additional ensemble-y goodness, with particular attention to simulating stereo imaging through staggered delay pairs (making stuff be panned interestingly through adding echoes that have time offsets between left and right channels).

I’ll be bringing out other classic stereo FX too, and quite a lot else. (I’ll also be trying to get a handle on my video making again: more to be revealed about what’s going on right now, but for now please bear with me). I’ve got the guitar amp plugins people were wanting (as usual, some people will really like them and others will freak out and hate them, so… yay? Anyway they’re not like anything else you’ve got)

Next time you see me you might be a bit surprised at where I ended up…

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.

Date April 10, 2022
Author Chris
Comments 4 Comments

Airwindows Starter Kit 2022

StarterKit.zip(6.4M)

A year ago, I put together a collection of the plugins most likely to be useful for people starting out. Now it’s 2022, and half the plugins in that collection have had new versions, and I’ve ported everything to Raspberry Pi, and I’ve ported everything to signed Mac AU and VST for the Apple Silicon Processors, NONE of which was the case at this time in 2021.

So it was time to update Starter Kit, and that I have done. You’ll find the following plugins: Baxandall, Capacitor2, Channel9, ClipOnly2, Console7Buss, Console7Cascade, Console7Channel, DeBess, Focus, Galactic, Hypersonic, Interstage, Monitoring, Pressure5, PurestGain, Srsly2, and Verbity.

All these of course are in the big plugin collections, but when I put out Texturize new people showed up who didn’t know Airwindows and asked ‘oh hey, nice, does he have anything else I should know about?’

HOO BOY :D

So, Airwindows Starter Kit 2022 is the answer to that question. There’s a readme file in the zip that outlines what’s there, and I’ve made an hourlong video in Reaper (the DAW that’s on ALL the platforms I port to) which ‘does a mix using the plugins’ which really means, demonstrates every one and where it should go, without following up and doing an actual MIX mix because I just plain ran out of time, it would have been several hours if I’d done that. Still, it tells you what goes where (and is also a first tentative step into something I’ve been planning, putting stuff together in Final Cut and not just doing it all live in OBS)

So if you’re new, I know the full nearly-300 deep pile of plugins is too much. I’ll keep Starter Kit up to date, and this is ‘the core’ as it currently stands. I realized when I looked back at it, that if I updated it and added Srsly2 (possibly Chamber in the place of Verbity, you can try that as well) I would have what I personally used for mixing. And that seemed a good enough reason to revisit the Starter Kit. Ya gotta start somewhere! :)

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.

Date April 4, 2022
Author Chris
Comments 3 Comments

Isolator2

TL;DW: Isolator2 is Isolator, but with control smoothing and a new resonance booster.

Isolator2.zip(653k)

WARNING: in the video, my Reaper audio is hosed, but it’s OBS/SWB Audio Capture doing it, not the plugin! Sounded fine to me and if you try it it should be fine!

Welcome to my nightmare! So much is changing that I can’t even track it, but one thing that doesn’t change is I’ve got a plugin for you, and more in store. If you’ve got bug reports and things, hang onto them and I’ll find a way to catch up. For now: I am scrambling to get ready for an important trip, and everything is in flux. I have four old computers going back to Apple as trade-ins, and a big Eurorack case going to a local music store to be sold with its collection of modules and all their support things (not the one still in the video, but my first one). This is also why my video’s sketchy: everything has migrated onto my current laptop, which is great but not at all ready to have all this working, so it’s a week-long struggle to get it all up and running again in the complicated audiovisual setup I’ve become accustomed to.

So please bear with me: by next week I’ll have ironed out the plugin video making thing. It’ll be worth it: I’m on track towards a pretty amazing portable music-and-video-and-art making rig and if I can perfect it I’ll tell you how to do it. And I don’t mean the Raspberry Pi, though you’ll notice that now Isolator2 ships for Raspberry Pi too (granted, for use in 64-bit Reaper: I’m not sure I can also supply 32-bit Pi binaries off the same machine, if Pi experts have advice here I’m all ears)

Isolator2 is Isolator, my very steep lowpass or highpass or shelf filter, but now it’s got smoothed coefficients so you can automate it and make it move better. Also, it’s even steeper. Also, it now has the power to give you added resonance! So you can put an edge on your filter/isolator sweeps, for a really narrow high-resonance sound that’s very striking as a ‘synth filter’ tone. You should play with it as the video is broken and doesn’t show it properly :) again, I will fix, by next week. I have always used a program called LineIn to get audio into OBS from the DAW, but on the new laptop it can’t be run even in Rosetta, and the thing I tried did not work so I’ll have a different thing by next week.

Might have a stream on Wednesday, might not. We’ll see.

As said in the video, here are the things I’m working on now that I’ve got the big library-update and the port to Raspberry Pi 400 done: I have a Console update in store that will not be a Mackie 8-buss but instead a re-imagining of the tricky Console5 that’ll be super vintage sounding, I have more ‘amp sim’ options from earlier days for you to play with, and I am on the track of a major tape-plugin experiment that could give me late 70s tones with a huge amount of configurability, and sounds that had been lost to time. It will be called Doubly, and will be less an ’emulation of hardware’ than a synthesis of concepts that underlie what made those magic late-70s records sound so unusual. Back then things weren’t as standardized and studios sometimes set up their seemingly technical noise-reduction systems by ear, and got to unique places through manipulating that equipment slightly outside the true technical parameters… and I think I can get that into a plugin :)

Sorry again about the video glitches. I’ll have it fixed by next week, I promise :)

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.

Date March 27, 2022
Author Chris
Comments 3 Comments

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