HighImpact answers the question: can you be distorted/slammed and thin at the same time? This plugin combines two kinds of saturation curve, one that’s a distortion and another that’s the opposite. As you increase the slider, the top of the dynamic curve gets more distorted and punchy, but the quiet parts of the sound don’t come […]
Gate is a simple little utility plugin from early Airwindows. It’s the first Airwindows gate to use a technique from Density, where the gate transitions to silence through a ‘negative saturation’ stage. This causes sounds hit by the gate to sound like they’re pulling back spatially as well as going silent, something that is still unique […]
Compressor is a weird little beast! If you’re looking for a great sounding, well-behaved, sane compressor, go buy the most recent Logical. This is not that. What it IS, is Airwindows strangeness in an exceedingly pure form. You get compression, attack speed, release speed, color, makeup gain, and dry/wet. Compression includes some makeup gain adjusting. Don’t […]
Point is the Airwindows transient designer! It’s tricky to use, but powerful. For starters, try putting it on some drum like a kick or snare, set Point to -1.0 (all the way to the left) and then set reaction speed to 0.160 or so. You’ve got an instant squashed mega-compressed drumkit! Hair metal for days. Now […]
