Solidos Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 (edited) https://www.airwindows.com/consolidated/ This is incredible! Thanks to Chris from Airwindows and the SurgeXT team for making this possible. If you can, please support Chris on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/airwindows Edited May 6 by Solidos 8 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwal³ Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 nice! any standouts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esteban Villanova Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 3 minutes ago, pwal³ said: nice! any standouts? You can sort by "recommended" in the plugin (the default sorting). 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralfrobert Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 Wow, this is the mother of all plugins, sort of. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Only 36mb (Mac) 🤠 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr No Name Posted Saturday at 09:28 PM Share Posted Saturday at 09:28 PM pretty sure this man is a genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PavlovsCat Posted Sunday at 04:23 AM Share Posted Sunday at 04:23 AM How do these plugins compare to paid plugins in terms of quality? And how is there ease of use? Because I really don't have the expertise to assess mixing and mastering plugins, I largely turn to friends of mine who have expertise in audio engineering, or at least some depth. But they always seem to recommend the same paid stuff -- like Fab Filter, Valhalla, United Audio, etc. What do the more knowledgeable mixers think of Airwindows? Are they as good as pro effects and are they well designed / simple enough to use? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr No Name Posted Sunday at 08:38 AM Share Posted Sunday at 08:38 AM 4 hours ago, PavlovsCat said: How do these plugins compare to paid plugins in terms of quality? And how is there ease of use? Because I really don't have the expertise to assess mixing and mastering plugins, I largely turn to friends of mine who have expertise in audio engineering, or at least some depth. But they always seem to recommend the same paid stuff -- like Fab Filter, Valhalla, United Audio, etc. What do the more knowledgeable mixers think of Airwindows? Are they as good as pro effects and are they well designed / simple enough to use? They are very good, but they have the strange problem of having no GUI(or they did have) and tiny user interfaces, so instead of looking at a pretty plugin or digital picture of a piece oh hardware with lots of lights flashing, you had to listen to what it does and decide if it made an improvement to the sound of the audio. I think this put a lot of people off. plus they were free so had to be rubbish, Some people said. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Walton Posted Sunday at 11:35 AM Share Posted Sunday at 11:35 AM 7 hours ago, PavlovsCat said: How do these plugins compare to paid plugins in terms of quality? And how is there ease of use? Because I really don't have the expertise to assess mixing and mastering plugins, I largely turn to friends of mine who have expertise in audio engineering, or at least some depth. But they always seem to recommend the same paid stuff -- like Fab Filter, Valhalla, United Audio, etc. What do the more knowledgeable mixers think of Airwindows? Are they as good as pro effects and are they well designed / simple enough to use? They sound good but very different user experience than other plugins. A whole lot of knobs where you have to read the manual to figure out what it should control. A whole lot ot plugins doing esoteric things. But some are pretty straight forward. Haven't tried this new front end but seems like a good idea, but they should let you hide all the ones you don't want to see given so many of them do similar things or random esoteric stuff. Historically they are also light on the CPU as they have no GUI to speak of taking up resources. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PavlovsCat Posted Sunday at 06:51 PM Share Posted Sunday at 06:51 PM (edited) 12 hours ago, Brian Walton said: They sound good but very different user experience than other plugins. A whole lot of knobs where you have to read the manual to figure out what it should control. A whole lot ot plugins doing esoteric things. But some are pretty straight forward. Haven't tried this new front end but seems like a good idea, but they should let you hide all the ones you don't want to see given so many of them do similar things or random esoteric stuff. Historically they are also light on the CPU as they have no GUI to speak of taking up resources. I think it's with age and a career managing corporate websites and working with software developers that entails thinking about and working with user experience experts that has made me far more aware than I once was of the significance of workflow and ease of use to the point where I'd rather pay for something I find intuitive with a workflow that suits me than struggle with something I find unintuituve. That is one of the huge downsides of small software/sample/plugin developers is that it's very rare that one person can be excellent at creating an algorithm behind an effects plugin and also be excellent at designing GUIs, user experience, and usability. That, of course, makes it especially tough on solopreneurs like this guy, because they also have to play the role of fundraiser. I tip my hat to those who can do all of that at a high level, because it's quite rare. Edited Monday at 12:21 AM by PavlovsCat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorge Tata Arias Posted Sunday at 08:22 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:22 PM As an added and very important value, all of Chris's plugins are real-time with no or almost no latency! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSMcGuitar Posted Monday at 12:14 AM Share Posted Monday at 12:14 AM 5 hours ago, PavlovsCat said: I'd rather pay for something I find intuitive with a workflow that suits me than struggle with something I find unintuituve. +1 As much as you mix with your ears, the experience and flow is very important and what makes things fun too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted Monday at 12:36 AM Share Posted Monday at 12:36 AM 13 minutes ago, RSMcGuitar said: +1 As much as you mix with your ears, the experience and flow is very important and what makes things fun too. Agreed. How many people would say this works as well as this ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubdisciple Posted Monday at 03:06 AM Share Posted Monday at 03:06 AM Although some of the airwindows plugins suck in the usability department, some are simple (the console emulation ones in particular ) that they have no controls. Just insert and go. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v394 Posted Tuesday at 02:46 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 02:46 AM Yeah, the vast majority of his plugins are very easy to use. There are usually only a few controls, and I don't see how a GUI would change much with how simple most of them are. My favorites are the ones that do distortion/saturation like Inflamer, MultiBandDistortion, Bass Drive, NCSeventeen, Loud, Huge, Density, Mackity, Distortion, Focus, Creature, PurestDrive, and Edge. Reverb stuff like Galactic, PocketVerbs, and Nonlinear Space. A bunch of the weirder ones like CloudCoat and Distance2. If anything I like so many of them because of how weird they can get. Considering they're all free, just play around with some. I'm sure you'll find at least one of them to be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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