Airwindows Cheatsheet

Cheatsheet for the 436 Airwindows plugins. This project aims to build an automated frontend for the airwindowpedia documentation file.
ClearCoat
ClearCoat is an array of bright ambience reverbs.
Ambience
TapeDelay2
TapeDelay2 is a new implementation of a flexible tape echo.
Ambience
Doublelay
Doublelay is StereoDoubler with independent delays and feedback.
Ambience
PitchDelay
PitchDelay is TapeDelay2 but with pitch shift instead of flutter.
Ambience
SampleDelay
SampleDelay is three delays combined: millisecond, sample and subsample.
Ambience
BrightAmbience3
BrightAmbience3 adds undersampling for high sample rates, and better feedback.
Ambience
TripleSpread
TripleSpread is a stereo tripler with extra wideness and GlitchShifter processing.
Ambience
Melt
Melt is a wobbly chorusy weird diffuse effect.
Ambience
MV2
MV2 is a dual-mono reverb based on BitShiftGain and the old Midiverbs, adapted to high sample rates.
Ambience
MV
MV is a dual-mono reverb based on BitShiftGain and the old Midiverbs.
Ambience
ADT
ADT is a double short delay tap with saturation.
Ambience
kChamberAR
kChamberAR is a take on tape echo into chamber echo.
Ambience
StereoChorus
StereoChorus is a nice basic stereo chorus.
Ambience
PurestEcho
PurestEcho is optimized Airwindows echo with exactly four evenly spaced taps on tap.
Ambience
TapeDelay
TapeDelay is an old school tape echo with pitch swerve effects.
Ambience
StarChild2
StarChild2 is a weird digital ambience/echo plugin adapted to high sample rates.
Ambience
StarChild
StarChild is a weird digital ambience/echo plugin.
Ambience
Hombre
Hombre is atmosphere and texture (through very short delays).
Ambience
BrightAmbience2
BrightAmbience2 is more BrightAmbience with better tone and more slapbacky effects.
Ambience
BrightAmbience
BrightAmbience is a plugin for very bright gated reverbs.
Ambience
StereoEnsemble
StereoEnsemble is a sort of hyperchorus blast from the past.
Ambience
StereoDoubler
StereoDoubler is like GlitchShifter optimized for pitch shift doubling and tripling.
Ambience
Chorus
Chorus is a mono chorus, also works as a vibrato.
Ambience
ChorusEnsemble
ChorusEnsemble is a more complex, multi-tap mono chorus.
Ambience
Ensemble
Ensemble is a weird flangey little modulation effect.
Ambience
GrindAmp
GrindAmp is a heavier amp sim for many purposes.
Amp Sims
FireAmp
FireAmp is a bright, loud, tubey amp sim for leads and dirt guitar.
Amp Sims
LeadAmp
LeadAmp is an amp sim with a clear, penetrating, vocal tone.
Amp Sims
CrickBass
CrickBass is a flexible but aggressive bass tone for dual pickups.
Amp Sims
Wolfbot
Wolfbot is an aggressive Kalman bandpass with evil in its heart.
Amp Sims
LilAmp
LilAmp is a tiny amp sim, like a little bitty practice amp without that much gain.
Amp Sims
MidAmp
MidAmp is a clean amp sim meant to work like a loud Twin or something of that nature.
Amp Sims
BigAmp
BigAmp is a very flexible amplike thing with a taste for the bizarre.
Amp Sims
Cabs
Cabs is an Airwindows guitar speaker cabinet simulator.
Amp Sims
BassDrive
BassDrive is an old secret weapon, like a kind of bass amp.
Amp Sims
BassAmp
BassAmp is an old plugin with new tweaks, that gives some bass guitar tones.
Amp Sims
DubSub2
DubSub2 is the essence of the Airwindows head bump.
Bass
OrbitKick
OrbitKick is a bass generator and kick drum reinforcer.
Bass
Elliptical
Elliptical highpasses the side channel.
Bass
Hermepass
Hermepass is a mastering highpass to set by ear only.
Bass
BassKit
BassKit is centered bass reinforcement with subs fill. Clean and controllable.
Bass
DubCenter
DubCenter is a version of DubSub where the bass reinforcement is purely mono.
Bass
DubSub
DubSub is a fully featured bass doctor.
Bass
Floor
Floor is fake bottom octave for fun and profit!
Bass
Infrasonic
Infrasonic is a very steep subsonic filter, built like Ultrasonic.
Bass
FathomFive
FathomFive is a way of supplementing extreme bass that’s not just EQ.
Bass
BiquadStack
BiquadStack is a way of making a parametric EQ out of stacked biquad filters.
Biquads
BiquadNonLin
BiquadNonLin is Capacitor2, but for biquad filtering.
Biquads
BiquadHiLo
BiquadHiLo is the highpass and lowpass filter in ConsoleX.
Biquads
BiquadPlus
BiquadPlus is Biquad plus zipper noise suppression! For twiddling the controls.
Biquads
Biquad
Biquad is the Airwindows implementation of a biquad filter.
Biquads
BiquadDouble
BiquadDouble is a handy Airwindows cascaded biquad filter: steeper roll-off before resonance.
Biquads
BiquadOneHalf
BiquadOneHalf is an interleaved biquad filter like Biquad.
Biquads
BiquadTriple
BiquadTriple is a handy Airwindows cascaded biquad filter: steeper roll-off before resonance.
Biquads
Biquad2
Biquad2 is the Airwindows biquad filter that's more sweepable and synthy.
Biquads
Air4
Air4 extends Air3 with controllable high frequency limiting.
Brightness
Air3
Air3 creates a new form of air-band EQ based on Kalman filtering.
Brightness
PlatinumSlew
PlatinumSlew is the best easy-to-use slew clipper.
Brightness
DeBess
DeBess is an improved DeEss, with perfect rejection of non-ess audio.
Brightness
GoldenSlew
GoldenSlew is a multistage slew clipper based on the Golden Ratio.
Brightness
Sinew
Sinew combines sines and slew clipping for a tape bias effect!
Brightness
SlewSonic
SlewSonic combines SlewOnly with ultrasonic filtering to solo brightness.
Brightness
Acceleration2
Acceleration2 is Acceleration, better! Updated for high sample rate and more extreme effect.
Brightness
DeEss
DeEss is the best de-essing solution there is. A go-to utility plugin.
Brightness
Smooth
Smooth can tame pointy sounds or make drums explode.
Brightness
EverySlew
EverySlew is a wide variety of unique sound processing tools.
Brightness
Slew3
Slew3 is a new approach to slew clipping meant for a more analog-like darkening effect.
Brightness
Slew2
Slew2 works like a de-esser or acceleration limiter: controls extreme highs.
Brightness
Slew
Slew is a slew clipper, which darkens treble in an unusual way.
Brightness
Air2
Air2 is a different bright EQ with silk tone and high sample rate support.
Brightness
Air
Air is a different bright EQ from any other. Requires 44.1K.
Brightness
PurestAir
PurestAir is a brightness experiment.
Brightness
Acceleration
Acceleration is an acceleration limiter that tames edge, leaves brightness.
Brightness
DeHiss
DeHiss tries to suppress background hiss, like a hiss gate.
Brightness
Hypersonic
Hypersonic is Ultrasonic, but steeper and higher cutoff.
Brightness
HypersonX
HypersonX is like UltrasonX but with seven stages instead of five.
Brightness
Ultrasonic
Ultrasonic is a very clean, plain, high quality supersonic filter, for using inside digital mixes.
Brightness
UltrasonicLite
UltrasonicLite is just one stage of supersonic filter, for using inside digital mixes.
Brightness
UltrasonicMed
UltrasonicMed is two stages of supersonic filter, for using inside digital mixes.
Brightness
UltrasonX
UltrasonX is a method for rolling your own Console-type systems with total control over your ultrasonic filtering.
Brightness
ClipOnly2
ClipOnly2 suppresses the brightness of digital clipping without affecting unclipped samples, at any sample rate.
Clipping
ADClip8
ADClip8 is the ultimate Airwindows loudenator/biggenator.
Clipping
ClipSoftly
ClipSoftly is ClipOnly2 but as a softclipper: a very handy building block.
Clipping
OneCornerClip
OneCornerClip is an ultimate full-bandwidth clipper.
Clipping
ADClip7
ADClip7 is the ultimate Airwindows loudness maximizer/ peak control.
Clipping
AQuickVoiceClip
AQuickVoiceClip softens headset mic recordings that have been super hard clipped on capture.
Clipping
ClipOnly
ClipOnly is a clipper plugin that suppresses the brightness of digital clipping without affecting unclipped samples.
Clipping
FinalClip
FinalClip is one stage of ADClip8 set up to clip +6dB for Final Cut Pro.
Clipping
Console9Buss
Console9Buss is just the summing from ConsoleX.
Consoles
Console9Channel
Console9Channel is just the summing from ConsoleX.
Consoles
ConsoleLABuss
ConsoleLABuss is the Airwindows take on the Quad Eight console.
Consoles
ConsoleLAChannel
ConsoleLAChannel is the Airwindows take on the Quad Eight console.
Consoles
ConsoleMCBuss
ConsoleMCBuss is the initial, bright take on the MCI console.
Consoles
ConsoleMCChannel
ConsoleMCChannel is the initial, bright take on the MCI console.
Consoles
ConsoleMDBuss
ConsoleMDBuss goes for the tone shaping of the classic MCI console!
Consoles
ConsoleMDChannel
ConsoleMDChannel goes for the tone shaping of the classic MCI console!
Consoles
Console8LiteChannel
Console8LiteChannel is simplified Console8, working with just a single mix buss.
Consoles
Console8LiteBuss
Console8LiteBuss is simplified Console8, working with just a single mix buss.
Consoles
Console8BussHype
Console8BussHype swaps out for Console8BussIn, for a brighter sparklier circuit.
Consoles
Console8BussIn
Console8BussIn moves to a channel/submix/buss topology and adds analog simulation.
Consoles
Console8BussOut
Console8BussOut moves to a channel/submix/buss topology and adds analog simulation.
Consoles
Console8ChannelHype
Console8ChannelHype swaps out for Console8ChannelIn, for a brighter sparklier circuit.
Consoles
Console8ChannelIn
Console8ChannelIn moves to a channel/submix/buss topology and adds analog simulation.
Consoles
Console8ChannelOut
Console8ChannelOut moves to a channel/submix/buss topology and adds analog simulation.
Consoles
Console8SubHype
Console8SubHype swaps out for Console8SubIn, for a brighter sparklier circuit.
Consoles
Console8SubIn
Console8SubIn moves to a channel/submix/buss topology and adds analog simulation.
Consoles
Console8SubOut
Console8SubOut moves to a channel/submix/buss topology and adds analog simulation.
Consoles
Console0Channel
Console0Channel is a radical, minimalist Console system.
Consoles
Console0Buss
Console0Buss is a radical, minimalist Console system.
Consoles
PurestConsole3Buss
PurestConsole3Buss is an alternate algorithm for minimalist Console.
Consoles
PurestConsole3Channel
PurestConsole3Channel is an alternate algorithm for minimalist Console.
Consoles
PurestConsole2Buss
PurestConsole2Buss is the distributed filter version of PurestConsole.
Consoles
PurestConsole2Channel
PurestConsole2Channel is the distributed filter version of PurestConsole.
Consoles
Console7Buss
Console7Buss adds anti-alias filtering and special saturation curves tied to the slider position.
Consoles
Console7Channel
Console7Channel adds anti-alias filtering and special saturation curves tied to the slider position.
Consoles
Console7Cascade
Console7Cascade is a drop-in replacement for Console7Channel that allows for MUCH higher gain.
Consoles
Console7Crunch
Console7Crunch shows you Cascade but with its EQ weighted for more edge and grit.
Consoles
PurestConsoleBuss
PurestConsoleBuss is the most free from coloration Console system.
Consoles
PurestConsoleChannel
PurestConsoleChannel is the most free from coloration Console system.
Consoles
Console6Buss
Console6Buss is a new more intense Console that peaks at lower dB.
Consoles
Console6Channel
Console6Channel is a new more intense Console that peaks at lower dB.
Consoles
PDBuss
PDBuss is Console5 and PurestDrive, sittin’ in a tree… (i.e. both at once, on channels and buss)
Consoles
PDChannel
PDChannel is Console5 and PurestDrive, sittin’ in a tree… (i.e. both at once, on channels and buss)
Consoles
Console5Buss
Console5Buss is a richer, warmer Console system.
Consoles
Console5Channel
Console5Channel is a richer, warmer Console system.
Consoles
Console5DarkCh
Console5DarkCh is a richer, warmer Console system.
Consoles
C5RawBuss
C5RawBuss is the original Console5 algorithm, with optional very gentle DC suppression.
Consoles
AtmosphereBuss
AtmosphereBuss is Console5 processing with powerful new acoustic distance effects.
Consoles
AtmosphereChannel
AtmosphereChannel is Console5 processing with powerful new acoustic distance effects.
Consoles
Console4Buss
Console4Buss is the original Airwindows ITB mixing system.
Consoles
Console4Channel
Console4Channel is the original Airwindows ITB mixing system.
Consoles
EveryConsole
EveryConsole is mix-and-match Airwindows Console.
Consoles
Distortion
Distortion is a slightly dark analog-style distortion with several presets, like Focus.
Distortion
Edge
Edge is a seven-stage distortion with Hypersonic filtering and tone shaping controls.
Distortion
Dirt
Dirt is a soft-clip distortion in the spirit of Edge.
Distortion
Mackity
Mackity is an emulation of the input stage of a vintage Mackie 1202!
Distortion
ZOutputStage
ZOutputStage is the output clipping from the Emu e6400 style Z filters.
Distortion
Density2
Density2 is a different color for Density, some old code I had that people wanted.
Distortion
Zoom
Zoom is a bank of Density-like waveshapers for subtly modulating peak energy.
Distortion
Density
Density is a Swiss Army Knife of saturation/antisaturation.
Distortion
Drive
Drive is the angry distortion!
Distortion
Loud
Loud is distortion and demolition of air molecules, modeled.
Distortion
HighImpact
HighImpact is distorted grit and punch without fatness. This is also another little window into Airwindows history, as this is the point where I began putting out the for-pay plugins for free through Patreon. The post is presented in its entirety as a picture of where I was at on April 9, 2017. By now I have put out more than 300 plugins and I'm still going, but this was when I'd done 47 and all the most sought-after ones were still being held back as goals… here is the original post.
Distortion
MultiBandDistortion
MultiBandDistortion is an old weird gnarly sound wrecker :)
Distortion
Dark
Dark is a wordlength reducer that gives your music a blacker backdrop.
Dithers
PaulWide
PaulWide is a highpassed TPDF wide dither. (quieter, airier AND wider)
Dithers
PaulDither
PaulDither is a highpassed TPDF dither. (quieter, airier)
Dithers
TPDFWide
TPDFWide is still TPDF dither but better and wider. With 16/24 bit output and a DeRez control.
Dithers
TPDFDither
TPDFDither is TPDF dither. With 16/24 bit output and a DeRez control.
Dithers
NotJustAnotherDither
NotJustAnotherDither is a next-gen wordlength reducer at 24 bit, with DeRez.
Dithers
NotJustAnotherCD
NotJustAnotherCD is a next-gen wordlength reducer at 16 bit, with DeRez.
Dithers
Beam
Beam is a wordlength reducer that tries to heighten sonority.
Dithers
TapeDither
TapeDither is TPDF dither with noise like reel-to-reel tape.
Dithers
SpatializeDither
SpatializeDither is a high-performance clarity and accuracy dither.
Dithers
VinylDither
VinylDither is a high-performance dither that converts digital noise to ‘groove noise’.
Dithers
DoublePaul
DoublePaul is like PaulDither but more so.
Dithers
Ditherbox
Ditherbox is a switchable selection of dithers in 16 and 24 bit, plus monitoring tools.
Dithers
BuildATPDF
BuildATPDF is a dither-making toolkit.
Dithers
NodeDither
NodeDither is adjusta-TPDF-dither, like a dither flanger. Can do Paul and Tape settings.
Dithers
StudioTan
StudioTan is all the 'non-dither' dithers, up to date and convenient.
Dithers
DitherMeTimbers
DitherMeTimbers is dark deep 'dither' in 24 bit version.
Dithers
DitherMeDiskers
DitherMeDiskers is dark deep 'dither' in 16 bit version.
Dithers
RawTimbers
RawTimbers is just the quantization from Dither Me Timbers… and the opposite, as a brightener.
Dithers
RawGlitters
RawGlitters is just the quantization from Dither Me Timbers… and the opposite, as a brightener.
Dithers
NaturalizeDither
NaturalizeDither is deterministic dither that uses Benford Realness calculations for each sample.
Dithers
HighGlossDither
HighGlossDither is a hybrid between shiny dither and truncation! Unnatural science experiment.
Dithers
DitherFloat
DitherFloat is a demo of floating point truncation: can also dither to 32 bit float output.
Dithers
Pop3
Pop3 is the dynamics from ConsoleX.
Dynamics
Pop2
Pop2 adds control and punch to Pop.
Dynamics
Pressure5
Pressure5 expands Pressure4 with after-boost and built-in ClipOnly2.
Dynamics
StoneFireComp
StoneFireComp is some of the dynamics for ConsoleX.
Dynamics
Dynamics
Dynamics is a combination compressor gate.
Dynamics
Pop
Pop is a crazy overcompressor with a very exaggerated sound.
Dynamics
DigitalBlack
DigitalBlack is a quick, staccato gate.
Dynamics
Logical4
Logical4 is a classic 2-buss compressor.
Dynamics
VariMu
VariMu is a more organic variation on Pressure (a compressor)
Dynamics
ButterComp2
ButterComp2 is improved ButterComp with an output control and sound upgrades.
Dynamics
curve
curve is the simplest, purest form of Recurve with no extra boosts.
Dynamics
Overheads
Overheads is for compressing only part of the sound, strangely!
Dynamics
Recurve
Recurve is a special buss compressor with no threshold point.
Dynamics
Pyewacket
Pyewacket is an old school compressor for high definition transients. Adds no fatness, just energy.
Dynamics
BlockParty
BlockParty is like a moderately saturated analog limiter.
Dynamics
SoftGate
SoftGate is a gate that can mute hiss and smooth sample tails.
Dynamics
Thunder
Thunder is a compressor that retains or exaggerates subsonic bass when you push it.
Dynamics
Compresaturator
Compresaturator fades between compressing and soft clipping.
Dynamics
DrumSlam
DrumSlam is a heavy-processing tape modeler. This entry contains personal details about what was happening in 2018 for me, and is included in full because there are things that have a place in AirwindowsPedia, as a sort of 'historical section'.
Dynamics
ButterComp
ButterComp is my softest, smoothest compressor.
Dynamics
BrassRider
BrassRider is One Weird Trick for drum overheads in metal!
Dynamics
Point
Point is an explosive transient designer.
Dynamics
Gatelope
Gatelope is a special gate that applies filters.
Dynamics
PodcastDeluxe
PodcastDeluxe is a pile of compressors (curve style) and phase rotators.
Dynamics
Podcast
Podcast is a simpler pile of curve-style compressors with hard clipping.
Dynamics
Swell
Swell is Dial-an-attack, like sidechaining.
Dynamics
PurestSquish
PurestSquish is an open-sounding compressor with bass bloom.
Dynamics
Pressure4
Pressure4 is a compressor adjustable between vari-mu and ‘new york’ peak-retaining behaviors.
Dynamics
Surge
Surge is a compressor for accentuating beats and pulses.
Dynamics
SurgeTide
SurgeTide is a surge and flow dynamics plugin.
Dynamics
RingModulator
RingModulator repitches sounds mathematically, not harmonically.
Effects
Dubly3
Dubly3 refines and transforms the Dubly sound.
Effects
Dubly2
Dubly2 is a key part of seventies sonics!
Effects
GalacticVibe
GalacticVibe is the stereo vibrato from the original Galactic reverb.
Effects
CloudCoat
CloudCoat is an array of blur effects with a taste for evil.
Effects
Fracture2
Fracture2 is a wavefolder that allows more extreme disruption.
Effects
Dubly
Dubly is a retro vibe and atmosphere maker.
Effects
Pafnuty2
Pafnuty2 is a Chebyshev filter, that adds harmonics, and fits in the VCV Rack port.
Effects
PitchNasty
PitchNasty is a primitive pitch shifter that also has primitive time-stretch artifacts.
Effects
Trianglizer
Trianglizer is a special waveshaper that can transform sines into triangles.
Effects
ShortBuss
ShortBuss chases second harmonic, to add or remove it.
Effects
GuitarConditioner
GuitarConditioner is like a Tube Screamer voicing without the squishiness and indistinctness.
Effects
Aura
Aura is a new kind of resonant lowpass EQ.
Effects
TremoSquare
TremoSquare is a squarewave tremolo effect that only switches on zero crossings.
Effects
Tremolo
Tremolo is fluctuating saturation curves for a tubey tremolo.
Effects
GlitchShifter
GlitchShifter is a really gnarly, raw-sounding pitch shifter with a dose of insanity!
Effects
Gringer
Gringer is a full-wave rectifier plugin, like a Green Ringer guitar effect.
Effects
Exciter
Exciter is an Aural Exciter plugin that can be both subtle and extreme.
Effects
Energy2
Energy2 is electrifying fixed-frequency treble boosts for high sample rate.
Effects
Energy
Energy is electrifying fixed-frequency treble boosts.
Effects
Facet
Facet is a new kind of hard clip that adds two sharp corners into the wave.
Effects
Fracture
Fracture is a frequency multiplier/waveshaper with a soft disruption to the sound.
Effects
PowerSag2
PowerSag2 is my improved circuit-starve plugin, now with inverse effect!
Effects
PowerSag
PowerSag is for emulating power supply limitations in analog modeling.
Effects
Preponderant
Preponderant is Airwindows Anti-Soothe, a strange tone intensifier and balancer.
Effects
Nikola
Nikola is an Audio Tesla Coil plugin! Note: audio tesla coils don't sound nice.
Effects
Parametric
Parametric is three bands of ConsoleX EQ in advance.
Filter
Stonefire
Stonefire is the non-EQ EQ designed for ConsoleX.
Filter
Isolator3
Isolator3 is Isolator2, but on one slider, with a band-narrower control.
Filter
BezEQ
BezEQ is a strange, alien three-band shelving EQ.
Filter
Baxandall2
Baxandall2 is Baxandall, extended and made more powerful.
Filter
Pear2
Pear2 is my Pear filter plus nonlinearity.
Filter
Capacitor2
Capacitor2 is Capacitor with extra analog modeling and mojo.
Filter
Distance3
Distance3 combines the best parts of Distance and Discontinuity.
Filter
Pear
Pear is the testbed for a new filter, implemented as a highpass/lowpass shelf.
Filter
ResEQ2
ResEQ2 is a single, sharp, sonorous mid peak.
Filter
SubTight
SubTight uses a variation on the Creature algorithm to tighten sub-lows.
Filter
CStrip2
CStrip2 refines and optimizes CStrip, by request!
Filter
Weight
Weight is a very accurate sub-bass boost based on Holt.
Filter
Isolator2
Isolator2 is Isolator, but with control smoothing and a new resonance booster.
Filter
Kalman
Kalman is not a real filter!
Filter
Holt2
Holt2 is a bass-cab-like resonant lowpass filter.
Filter
Holt
Holt is a synth-like resonant lowpass filter focussed on bass frequencies.
Filter
ToneSlant
ToneSlant is a super-transparent ‘tilt EQ’ with very low Q.
Filter
AverMatrix
AverMatrix turns averaging into a full-featured EQ.
Filter
Average
Average is a distinctive sort of lowpass filter.
Filter
MackEQ
MackEQ is the Mackie distortion but with treble and bass controls added.
Filter
Hull2
Hull2 is a very clear three-band EQ.
Filter
Baxandall
Baxandall is a killer general-purpose EQ.
Filter
Hull
Hull is an alternate form of highpass/lowpass filter.
Filter
EQ
EQ is just the EQ parts of CStrip.
Filter
Capacitor
Capacitor is a lowpass/highpass filter of a new type.
Filter
Isolator
Isolator is a steep highpass or lowpass filter, like you might find in a speaker crossover.
Filter
TapeFat
TapeFat is the tone control from TapeDelay.
Filter
ResEQ
ResEQ is a bank of mostly midrange resonances.
Filter
Lowpass2
Lowpass2 is an unusual-sounding variable-slope lowpass filter.
Filter
Highpass2
Highpass2 is an unusual-sounding variable-slope highpass filter.
Filter
Distance
Distance is a sound design or reverb far-away-izer.
Filter
Distance2
Distance2 is a versatile space shaper for creating depth.
Filter
Lowpass
Lowpass deepens the tone, leaves a gloss and textural modifications.
Filter
Highpass
Highpass is a time warp, for retro midrangey sounds.
Filter
Flutter2
Flutter2 is the flutter from ToTape7, standalone.
Lo-Fi
DeRez3
DeRez3 reinvents retro digital tones.
Lo-Fi
Pockey2
Pockey2 is more efficient, more intense lo-fi hiphop in a plugin.
Lo-Fi
CrunchyGrooveWear
CrunchyGrooveWear is a version of GrooveWear for more edge and distortion.
Lo-Fi
GrooveWear
GrooveWear is for scrubbing highs off mechanically like a stylus would.
Lo-Fi
Pockey
Pockey is 12 bit (and under) lo-fi hiphop in a plugin.
Lo-Fi
Flutter
Flutter is the flutter from ToTape6, standalone.
Lo-Fi
DeRez2
DeRez2 brings more authentic retro-digital hardware tones.
Lo-Fi
BitGlitter
BitGlitter is an old-sampler style digital lo-fi plugin.
Lo-Fi
DeRez
DeRez is an analog-style bit and sample rate crusher with continuous adjustments. This entry includes the Patreon blurb from mid-2018, because the things it says about the build systems, what they target and why I'm doing it, are still relevant today. That makes that stuff its own sort of Airwindowspedia entry as part of the DeRez entry.
Lo-Fi
TapeBias
TapeBias is a new piece of ToTape allowing you to underbias or overbias.
Lo-Fi
ChromeOxide
ChromeOxide is an alternate path to vibey old tape sonics.
Lo-Fi
Cojones
Cojones is a new kind of distorty.
Lo-Fi
Vibrato
Vibrato lets you vibrato, chorus, flange, and make odd FM noises.
Lo-Fi
Bite
Bite is an unusual edge-maker.
Lo-Fi
Deckwrecka
Deckwrecka fattens and dirties up beats.
Lo-Fi
DustBunny
DustBunny is unpredictable distorty noise, like dust wedged under your turntable needle.
Lo-Fi
Noise
Noise is the Airwindows deep noise oscillator, as a sound reinforcer.
Noise
Texturize
Texturize is a hidden-noise plugin for adding sonic texture to things.
Noise
TexturizeMS
TexturizeMS is a hidden-noise plugin for adding mid-side sonic texture to things.
Noise
VoiceOfTheStarship
VoiceOfTheStarship is a deep noise tone source.
Noise
DarkNoise
DarkNoise is an alternative method for producing bassier noise directly. Sound design stuff.
Noise
ElectroHat
ElectroHat is a hi-hat tone generator that uses the original sound as a control voltage.
Noise
Silhouette
Silhouette replaces the sound with raw noise sculpted to match its dynamics.
Noise
TapeDust
TapeDust is just a special treble-erode noise, a ‘slew noise’ plugin.
Noise
Galactic3
Galactic3 is exactly Galactic again, but with better undersampling.
Reverb
kCathedral3
kCathedral3 is a giant cathedral-like space using Bezier undersampling.
Reverb
kPlate140
kPlate140 is a next-generation Airwindows plate reverb.
Reverb
kPlate240
kPlate240 is for the texture of smaller, gold foil reverb.
Reverb
CreamCoat
CreamCoat is a swiss army knife reverb with soft undersampling.
Reverb
kGuitarHall
kGuitarHall accentuates loud midrange skronk!
Reverb
kPlateD
kPlateD is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road.
Reverb
kPlateB
kPlateB is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road.
Reverb
kPlateA
kPlateA is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road.
Reverb
kPlateC
kPlateC is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road.
Reverb
CrunchCoat
CrunchCoat is a cursed retro digital reverb!
Reverb
kCathedral2
kCathedral2 is a giant reverby space modeled after the Bricasti Cathedral.
Reverb
Verbity2
Verbity2 adds stereo crossmodulation and expands Verbity's feedforward reverb topology.
Reverb
Galactic
Galactic is a super-reverb designed specially for pads and space ambient.
Reverb
Galactic2
Galactic2 is a super-reverb REdesigned specially for pads and space ambient.
Reverb
Verbity
Verbity is a dual-mono reverb, which uses feedforward reverb topology.
Reverb
Chamber2
Chamber2 is a feedforward reverb, a blur delay, and a glitch topping!
Reverb
Chamber
Chamber is a feedforward reverb based on the golden ratio.
Reverb
Infinity2
Infinity2 expands Infinity with more tone shaping and a much-requested kill-switch!
Reverb
NonlinearSpace
NonlinearSpace is a flexible reverb plugin.
Reverb
kCathedral
kCathedral is a giant reverby space.
Reverb
Infinity
Infinity is a MatrixVerb specifically designed to sustain and layer sounds forever.
Reverb
MatrixVerb
MatrixVerb is a wildly adjustable, strangely colorful reverb for deep and flexible spaces.
Reverb
PocketVerbs
PocketVerbs is my popular old special effects reverbs plugin!
Reverb
Reverb
Reverb is simplified and tuned MatrixVerb, adjusting everything for each optimum verb size.
Reverb
SquareRoot
SquareRoot has new discoveries in soft saturation!
Saturation
Hypersoft
Hypersoft is a more extreme form of soft-clipper.
Saturation
Creature
Creature is a soft slew saturator, a new class of noisechanger.
Saturation
Huge
Huge is a dirty, dirty loudenator.
Saturation
NCSeventeen
NCSeventeen is Dirty Loud!
Saturation
Tube2
Tube2 extends Tube, with more sophisticated processing and input trim.
Saturation
Tube
Tube is a tube style SoundBetterIzer using a new algorithm for analog modeling!
Saturation
Spiral2
Spiral2 is Spiral with controls including Presence. Also, a historical post presented in full as it is just after my Dad's death. Post follows:
Saturation
PurestDrive
PurestDrive is the magic saturation plugin of subtlety and French House tone.
Saturation
Focus
Focus brings out clarity by distorting. Aggressive, subtle, flexible.
Saturation
Mojo
Mojo is a biggenator that also works as a loudenator.
Saturation
Dyno
Dyno is a lot like Mojo, but for intensity instead of loudness.
Saturation
Spiral
Spiral is the new best smoothest distortion algorithm.
Saturation
UnBox
UnBox is a distortion where only the harmonics that don't alias are allowed to distort.
Saturation
Desk4
Desk4 is distinctive analog coloration (a tuneable version of the control-less Desk plugins)
Saturation
Righteous4
Righteous4 is a final output stage for targeting dynamic range.
Saturation
Srsly3
Srsly3 is Srsly2, with a Nonlin control to analogify the filters.
Stereo
Srsly2
Srsly2 is a revisit of Srsly, to make the stereo widening more extreme.
Stereo
Srsly
Srsly is a psychoacoustic stereo processor.
Stereo
Wider
Wider is Airwindows stereo space shaping.
Stereo
StereoFX
StereoFX is an aggressive stereo widener. Historical note: this post included in full as it's right after my Dad died, and includes my thanks to Airwindows folks for supporting me through that:
Stereo
ToVinyl4
ToVinyl4 is a vinyl-mastering simulator bringing several vinyl-type colors.
Stereo
AutoPan
AutoPan is for getting some organic stereo movement into your mix.
Stereo
LRFlipTimer
LRFlipTimer is a utility that swaps Left with Right every few (1-10) minutes.
Stereo
MSFlipTimer
MSFlipTimer is a utility that swaps stereo with mono every few (1-10) minutes.
Stereo
Sidepass
Sidepass is a simple utility plugin, a highpass on the side channel. Mono-maker.
Stereo
SideDull
SideDull is like Sidepass, but a lowpass on the side channel. Treble-centerer.
Stereo
Mastering
Mastering is Airwindows style, and can do things nothing else can!
Subtlety
Discontinuity
Discontinuity models air under intense loudness.
Subtlety
Hype
Hype is a treble softening experiment gone strangely awry :)
Subtlety
Shape
Shape is an asymmetrical waveshaper for peak manipulating.
Subtlety
Inflamer
Inflamer is an Airwindowsized take on the waveshapers in Oxford Inflator.
Subtlety
Sweeten
Sweeten is where you can find super-clean second harmonic.
Subtlety
PurestWarm2
PurestWarm2 adds dual dry/wet controls for each side of the waveform.
Subtlety
PurestWarm
PurestWarm is a subtle tone shaper and warmth adder.
Subtlety
Coils2
Coils2 is a transformer overdrive emulator.
Subtlety
Interstage
Interstage is a subtle and sophisticated analogifier.
Subtlety
PhaseNudge
PhaseNudge is a phase rotator/allpass filter.
Subtlety
Remap
Remap puts the guts back into overloudenated audio!
Subtlety
SingleEndedTriode
SingleEndedTriode is unusual analog modeling effects.
Subtlety
Coils
Coils models the types of distortion you'll find in transformers.
Subtlety
Desk
Desk is classic Airwindows subtle analog modeling.
Subtlety
TransDesk
TransDesk is more of a transistory, rock desk analog modeling.
Subtlety
TubeDesk
TubeDesk is a tube recording console type tone coloring.
Subtlety
ToTape8
ToTape8 is Airwindows tape emulation with gain staging, bias and optimized Dubly!
Tape
ToTape7
ToTape7 is Airwindows tape emulation with Bias and Dubly.
Tape
ToTape6
ToTape6 is Airwindows tape emulation for 2020!
Tape
FromTape
FromTape is a minimalist, cleaner analog tape emulation.
Tape
Tape
Tape is simplified, all-purpose tape mojo: my personal jam.
Tape
IronOxideClassic2
IronOxideClassic2 is my bandpassy tape sim, updated for high sample rate and aliasing control.
Tape
IronOxide5
IronOxide5 is the old school, heavily colored Airwindows tape emulation.
Tape
ToTape5
ToTape5 is Airwindows analog tape emulation.
Tape
IronOxideClassic
IronOxideClassic is the purer, simpler, early form of Iron Oxide before all the features.
Tape
BussColors4
BussColors4 is the Airwindows console emulations, now working up to 192K correctly.
Tone Color
Channel9
Channel9 is Channel8 with ultrasonic filtering, and new Teac and Mackie 'low end' settings.
Tone Color
Apicolypse
Apicolypse is a re-release of my old API-style color adder, exacly as it was.
Tone Color
Neverland
Neverland is a re-release of my old Neve-style color adder, exacly as it was.
Tone Color
Elation
Elation is a re-release of another old Character plugin.
Tone Color
Calibre
Calibre is a re-release of another old Character plugin.
Tone Color
Cider
Cider is a re-release of another old Character plugin.
Tone Color
Crystal
Crystal is a tone shaper and buss soft-clipper.
Tone Color
Precious
Precious is a re-release of another old Character plugin.
Tone Color
Luxor
Luxor is a re-release of another old Character plugin.
Tone Color
Channel8
Channel8 is Channel7 with updates from Capacitor2 and Slew3. More and better of what Channel is.
Tone Color
Channel7
Channel7 improves slew clipping and lets you blend Channel 6 and 5.
Tone Color
Channel6
Channel6 uses the Spiral algorithm.
Tone Color
Channel5
Channel5 is Channel for 2018, with new subtleties.
Tone Color
Channel4
Channel4 is a tone coloring plugin that gives more of an analog feel.
Tone Color
C5RawConsole
C5RawConsole is the original Console5 algorithm, with optional very gentle DC suppression.
Uncategorized
ConsoleXBuss
ConsoleXBuss is the fully featured, biggest Airwindows console.
Uncategorized
ConsoleXChannel
ConsoleXChannel is the fully featured, biggest Airwindows console.
Uncategorized
ConsoleXPre
ConsoleXPre is just the tone shaping from ConsoleX.
Uncategorized
CStrip
CStrip is an Airwindows channel strip.
Uncategorized
HardVacuum
HardVacuum is tube style saturation effects.
Uncategorized
Pafnuty
Pafnuty is a Chebyshev filter, that adds harmonics.
Uncategorized
SampleUndelay
SampleUndelay is AU-only SampleDelay featuring negative delay.
Uncategorized
CansAW
CansAW is Chris's Airwindows room, in a plugin, for headphone mixers.
Utility
Cans
Cans is a room simulator for headphone mixers.
Utility
Monitoring3
Monitoring3 is Monitoring, but with Ten Nines into Dark as the wordlength reducer.
Utility
Monitoring2
Monitoring2 is Monitoring, but with Dark as the wordlength reducer.
Utility
Monitoring
Monitoring is your one-stop shop for final 2-buss work!
Utility
BitShiftPan
BitShiftPan gives you a gain and a pan control that are ONLY done using bit shifts.
Utility
BitShiftGain
BitShiftGain is the ‘One Weird Trick’ perfect boost/pad, but in 6db increments ONLY.
Utility
PurestGain
PurestGain is a high-res noise shaped gain, with smoothed fader.
Utility
PurestFade
PurestFade is just like PurestGain, but for LONG fades.
Utility
EveryTrim
EveryTrim is Left/Right, Mid/Side, and Master in one plugin.
Utility
HermeTrim
HermeTrim is Very Fine Adjustments, otherwise just like EveryTrim.
Utility
SlewOnly
SlewOnly is a mix check plugin that shows you only the extreme highs.
Utility
SubsOnly
SubsOnly is a mix check plugin that shows you only the extreme lows.
Utility
PeaksOnly
PeaksOnly is a transformative mix check tool.
Utility
Golem
Golem lets you blend a stereo track of two mics on an amp.
Utility
DCVoltage
DCVoltage is literally a DC control voltage, in a plugin.
Utility
LRConvolve2
LRConvolve2 multiplies each channel by the other, plus Soar!
Utility
LRConvolve
LRConvolve multiplies each channel by the other!
Utility
EdIsDim
EdIsDim is mid/side conversion utility plugins.
Utility
MidSide
MidSide is mid/side conversion utility plugins.
Utility
uLawEncode
uLawEncode is a Console-like encode/decode pair, but much more extreme.
Utility
uLawDecode
uLawDecode is a Console-like encode/decode pair, but much more extreme.
Utility
RightoMono
RightoMono copies one channel to both, losslessly.
Utility
LeftoMono
LeftoMono copies one channel to both, losslessly.
Utility
Balanced
Balanced lets you run an XLR input into a stereo input, sum it to mono, and use it.
Utility
Flipity
Flipity is a channel phase flipper/swapper utility.
Utility
MoNoam
MoNoam gives you variations on mono, mid, and side in different channels.
Utility
VoiceTrick
VoiceTrick lets you record vocals while monitoring over speakers.
Utility
ContentHideD
ContentHideD mutes audio except for brief glimpses.
Utility
ZBandpass2
ZBandpass2 acts more like the Emu e6400 Ultra bandpass in motion, with coefficient interpolation.
XYZ Filters
ZHighpass2
ZHighpass2 acts more like the Emu e6400 Ultra highpass in motion, with coefficient interpolation.
XYZ Filters
ZLowpass2
ZLowpass2 acts more like the Emu e6400 Ultra lowpass in motion, with coefficient interpolation.
XYZ Filters
ZNotch2
ZNotch2 acts more like the Emu e6400 Ultra phaser in motion, with coefficient interpolation.
XYZ Filters
ZRegion2
ZRegion2 is an Emu e6400 style Airwindows Region filter, with coefficient smoothing.
XYZ Filters
ZBandpass
ZBandpass is a bandpass made to sound and act like the Emu e6400 Ultra bandpass.
XYZ Filters
ZHighpass
ZHighpass is a highpass made to sound and act like the Emu e6400 Ultra highpass.
XYZ Filters
ZLowpass
ZLowpass is a lowpass made to sound and act like the Emu e6400 Ultra lowpass.
XYZ Filters
ZNotch
ZNotch is a notch filter made to sound and act like the Emu e6400 Phaser.
XYZ Filters
ZRegion
ZRegion is an Emu e6400 style Airwindows Region filter.
XYZ Filters
YBandpass
YBandpass is soft and smooth to nasty, edgy texture-varying filtering.
XYZ Filters
YNotBandpass
YNotBandpass is soft and smooth to nasty, edgy texture-varying filtering, no control smoothing.
XYZ Filters
YHighpass
YHighpass is soft and smooth to nasty, edgy texture-varying filtering.
XYZ Filters
YNotHighpass
YNotHighpass is soft and smooth to nasty, edgy texture-varying filtering, no control smoothing.
XYZ Filters
YLowpass
YLowpass is soft and smooth to nasty, edgy texture-varying filtering.
XYZ Filters
YNotLowpass
YNotLowpass is soft and smooth to nasty, edgy texture-varying filtering, no control smoothing.
XYZ Filters
YNotch
YNotch is soft and smooth to nasty, edgy texture-varying filtering.
XYZ Filters
YNotNotch
YNotNotch is soft and smooth to nasty, edgy texture-varying filtering, no control smoothing.
XYZ Filters
XBandpass
XBandpass is a distorted digital EQ, inspired by retro sampler DSP.
XYZ Filters
XHighpass
XHighpass is a distorted digital EQ, inspired by retro sampler DSP.
XYZ Filters
XLowpass
XLowpass is a distorted digital EQ, inspired by retro sampler DSP.
XYZ Filters
XNotch
XNotch is a distorted digital EQ, not as glitchy as the others.
XYZ Filters
XRegion
XRegion is distorted staggered bandpasses, for extreme soundmangling.
XYZ Filters