diff --git a/Airwindopedia.txt b/Airwindopedia.txt index 3258529e5..e75d1155c 100644 --- a/Airwindopedia.txt +++ b/Airwindopedia.txt @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Lo-Fi: Flutter2, DeRez3, Pockey2, CrunchyGrooveWear, GrooveWear, Pockey, Flutter Noise: Noise, Texturize, TexturizeMS, VoiceOfTheStarship, DarkNoise, ElectroHat, Silhouette, TapeDust -Reverb: Galactic3, kCathedral3, CreamCoat, kPlateD, kPlateB, kPlateA, kPlateC, CrunchCoat, kCathedral2, Verbity2, Galactic, Galactic2, Verbity, Chamber2, Chamber, Infinity2, NonlinearSpace, kCathedral, Infinity, MatrixVerb, PocketVerbs, Reverb +Reverb: Galactic3, kCathedral3, kPlate240, CreamCoat, kPlateD, kPlateB, kPlateA, kPlateC, CrunchCoat, kCathedral2, Verbity2, Galactic, Galactic2, Verbity, Chamber2, Chamber, Infinity2, NonlinearSpace, kCathedral, Infinity, MatrixVerb, PocketVerbs, Reverb Saturation: Hypersoft, Creature, Huge, NCSeventeen, Tube2, Tube, Spiral2, PurestDrive, Focus, Mojo, Dyno, Spiral, UnBox, Desk4, Righteous4 @@ -2889,6 +2889,18 @@ Oh… because the delay works like you're speeding up the tape more and more, if I'll have more legit stuff coming soon. For now, have fun with the new monstrosity. It won't behave, but nothing you have will make noises like it, and that's always part of what I do :) +############ kPlate240 is for the texture of smaller, gold foil reverb. + +kPlate240 is the result of combining many recent Airwindows developments, with other stuff often too strange to work directly as plugins. Mind you, you can still have plugins like SubTight, the Pear filter and so on, but if I was able to track who was using what, you'd see a million instances of plugins like kPlateA and nobody doing anything with SubTight, and most of the uses of Pear would be inside other plugins like ConsoleMC. + +But sometimes, there's a purpose to achieve, and some odd plugin turns out to be able to get the sound, and in this case the purpose was simple. Both the gold-foil 240 plate, and the big 140, do not do damping in the sense a digital reverb does damping (by turning down the regeneration, without which any digital reverb gets very short indeed). Instead, they have a big physical panel that's brought near the vibrating plate, and it couples acoustically with the plate to damp it. But this is far from linear! And it'll be distorting low frequencies preferentially, nonlinearly, and the whole thing will produce a sound that's instantly recognized, but is really a bit of a mess. And it seems to me the gold foil version is all the more messy, even though it's portable. It's this lush cloudy thing, darker, oddly murky, and how would you go about making that sound? + +In this case, it's with a custom 5x5 Householder matrix (already an unusual Airwindows technique, and a set of delay times that haven't been used before, with a plate-style delay density), those Pear filters, and SubTight. The development was twitchy, making controls like Regen restricted to a narrower range of adjustment so things wouldn't blow up. And eventually kPlate240 took shape. + +This is not the big awesome famous plate reverb, it's a different sound like the gold-foil little brother. The idea is that kPlate240 can be tucked into mix spaces and won't dominate, but will cause a sonic bloom that can be helpful. It's a plate sound that's meant to be used with as much damping as you like: on top of that, as a more modern Airwindows reverb, you can use the DeRez control to both restrict the treble of the reverb, and scale the verb size up (lowering DeRez does both these things). Because DeRez is in play, it will work in consistent ways at any sample rate, even silly high rates: the higher your native DAW sample rate, the more 'steps' you'll get in the DeRez as it reconstructs the waveform using Bezier curves (which I find is an interesting-sounding texture for reverbs). + +Predelay gives you plenty of range for 'slapback, only it's a damped plate reverb' sounds. Wetness lets you go from dry, to both at full volume, to all-wet. It sounds surprisingly coherent at full wet, but that's because the damping plate cleans it up a lot. Would a 240 be your only reverb? Perhaps not, but when you can have the option from the click of a mouse, why not? Might not be the gold standard for big reverb, but this should find uses :) + ############ kPlateA is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road. So I just happened to turn my efforts to plate reverbs last week, since the internet exploded over some plugin drama and some of the plugins in question just happened to be models of some specific plate reverbs in a famous place: atop Abbey Road Studios. There were four of them, and I'm sure I can't make a plugin to model those exact ones, as the rights to the name are probably all tied up. And I wouldn't suggest that I tried to make reverb plugins MORE realistic than those made by this company with rights to the name. That would be rude! :D diff --git a/what.txt b/what.txt index 133cc352f..031462be2 100644 --- a/what.txt +++ b/what.txt @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ C5RawBuss is the original Console5 algorithm, with optional very gentle DC suppr C5RawChannel is the original Console5 algorithm, with optional very gentle DC suppression.[coll=] Cabs is an Airwindows guitar speaker cabinet simulator.[coll=Latest] Calibre is a re-release of another old Character plugin.[coll=] -Cans is a room simulator for headphone mixers.[coll=Latest,Recommended] +Cans is a room simulator for headphone mixers.[coll=Recommended,Latest] Capacitor is a lowpass/highpass filter of a new type.[coll=] Capacitor2 is Capacitor with extra analog modeling and mojo.[coll=Latest] Chamber is a feedforward reverb based on the golden ratio.[coll=Basic,Recommended] @@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ kCathedral is a giant reverby space.[coll=] kCathedral2 is a giant reverby space modeled after the Bricasti Cathedral.[coll=] kCathedral3 is a giant cathedral-like space using Bezier undersampling.[coll=Recommended,Latest] kChamberAR is a take on tape echo into chamber echo.[coll=Latest] +kPlate240 is for the texture of smaller, gold foil reverb.[coll=Recommended,Latest] kPlateA is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road.[coll=Recommended,Latest] kPlateB is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road.[coll=Recommended,Latest] kPlateC is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road.[coll=Recommended,Latest]