TL;DW: Exciter is an Aural Exciter plugin that can be both subtle and extreme. Exciter.zip(614k) This plugin isn’t my usual jam, but I’ve been listening to this type of effect all my life. The Steely Dan album ‘The Royal Scam’ wouldn’t be the same without the Exciter effect. And now it’s a free Airwindows plugin! […]
TL;DW: ZRegion2 is an Emu e6400 style Airwindows Region filter, with coefficient smoothing. ZRegion2.zip(667k) ZRegion.zip(657k) Here’s one I might be needing in future, so I’m putting it out for everybody to have! The Airwindows Z series filters are kinds of digital filtering, with sampler hardware emulation put on ’em for added color and vividness, plus […]
TL;DW: PitchNasty is a primitive pitch shifter that also has primitive time-stretch artifacts. PitchNasty.zip(615k) So this is a bit unusual. Though this is a sound mangler, there’s no bit crushing here, and in fact most of the time it’s delivering a very high-res immediate and punchy pitch shift, super clean and tight. It’s just that […]
TL;DW: Pockey2 is more efficient, more intense lo-fi hiphop in a plugin. Pockey2.zip(620k) So this is pretty rapid iteration. I’d been struggling with getting Pockey to willingly do 12 bit: the algorithm didn’t seem to like it, even crashed when I tried to go for 16 bit. Turns out it was counting bit by bit […]
