From 15a080c1cdfa1655a1c3802fc398818193641a44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Johnson Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:08:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] kPlateC --- Airwindopedia.txt | 13 ++++++++++++- what.txt | 1 + 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Airwindopedia.txt b/Airwindopedia.txt index 2189a7dfc..ec7c11f32 100644 --- a/Airwindopedia.txt +++ b/Airwindopedia.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Lo-Fi: Pockey2, Flutter, CrunchyGrooveWear, GrooveWear, Pockey, DeRez2, BitGlitt Noise: Noise, Texturize, TexturizeMS, VoiceOfTheStarship, DarkNoise, ElectroHat, Silhouette, TapeDust -Reverb: kPlateB, kPlateA, Verbity2, Galactic, Verbity, Chamber2, Chamber, Infinity2, NonlinearSpace, Infinity, MatrixVerb, PocketVerbs, Reverb +Reverb: kPlateB, kPlateA, kPlateC, Verbity2, Galactic, Verbity, Chamber2, Chamber, Infinity2, NonlinearSpace, Infinity, MatrixVerb, PocketVerbs, Reverb Saturation: NCSeventeen, Tube2, Tube, Spiral2, PurestDrive, Focus, Mojo, Dyno, Spiral, UnBox, Desk4, Righteous4 @@ -2087,6 +2087,17 @@ It really freaked me out in the nicest way, how good this one sounds. Audio put I'm doing this as fast as I can, and I think it's coming along quite well. Sky's the limit, really. Hope you enjoy the sound of your new reverb plate as much as I enjoy it, having made it :) +############ kPlateC is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road. + +Onward with the plate reverbs! kPlateC is an interesting contrast to kPlateB, and an example of how Airwindows k-series reverbs work. Since there's no GUI you can't be fooled by different visual depiction of the two plates, so they're exposed as just sound. These are meant to resemble real things, and the real Plate C is said to be even shorter and brighter than the real Plate B. This is on top of them all having an array of controls (I've been asked to flip Damping over so higher numbers equal more damping, but that would apparently be contrary to how the real ones are laid out, not that you're likely to go to London and see… nor I, for that matter, though it would be fun) + +Since kPlateB came out very nicely, how is kPlateC different? + +Obviously it's voiced a bit differently to match the real one, but unlike other plugin approaches, the Airwindows plates each run completely different reverb matrix algorithms. I'm not talking about things like saturations etc (though kPlateD, being a tube reverb, has to have completely different software for that than A, B and C which are hybrid circuitry). What I mean is, all the little delays inside are different (normally so tricky that you come up with one great algo and then adapt that to each flavor of plate). + +And so, kPlateC is like kPlateB and yet completely different. The room, the space it makes is shallower, wider, a different shape. There will be things where it works way better than kPlateB, and vice versa, because they're just plain different flavors. If a note resonates on one plate, its brother is going to act completely different and won't highlight that note at all. + +This will be the case for the whole k-series of reverbs as they expand. Hope you like it. Back to work :) ############ LeadAmp is an amp sim with a clear, penetrating, vocal tone. diff --git a/what.txt b/what.txt index e733b726f..8ccabb6f8 100644 --- a/what.txt +++ b/what.txt @@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ Isolator is a steep highpass or lowpass filter, like you might find in a speaker Isolator2 is Isolator, but with control smoothing and a new resonance booster. kPlateA is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road. kPlateB is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road. +kPlateC is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road. LeadAmp is an amp sim with a clear, penetrating, vocal tone. LeftoMono copies one channel to both, losslessly. LilAmp is a tiny amp sim, like a little bitty practice amp without that much gain.