Airwindows Console7Crunch: Mac/Windows/Linux AU/VST

Console7Crunch is a variation on Console7Cascade, to experiment with something. Cascade stacked up distortion algorithms inside an instance of Ultrasonic, basically. For that reason, it distorted the super-highs very early on, and compensated for this in later stages, rolling off brightness and smoothing the distortion out. Well, with experiments like UltrasonX, and some upcoming even-more-intense filtering of that nature, I wanted to do a variation on Console7Cascade where the ONLY thing I changed was the order of the filtering. They're supposed to combine to a perfectly flat multistage filter, and they do… but the way it hits nonlinearities and clipping is a whole other story. The result is a Console7Cascade that's more crunchy, with more obvious clipping and an additional ability to deliver distorted punch in the extreme highs: Console7Crunch. It's not wildly different (all this is meant to be ultrasonic! But of course it affects everything anyhow) but it's a noticeably different color for when you're looking for higher gain in the Console7 system. I hope you like it, and I found the experiment interesting. There are many more experiments to come: this year I've committed to many things and among them is the upcoming plugin format, CLAP. It looks very much like my job will be to stop derping around just adding to the huge Airwindows open source library, and reboot into a new plugin format from which, perhaps, other formats can be generated… and which might finally support the GUIs and visual feedback elements people have clamored for. I know people who are doing it, and my emphasis on supporting retro systems has been kinda dwindling to where some of the things that take plenty of my energy and effort are maybe a tenth of what modern stuff is doing, out there in the world. Plus, I'm very enthusiastic about Apple Silicon and might be able to move forward into an era of Airwindows where I can do just as innovative things in plugin experience as I've done over the years in sonics. I've got a lot of experiments underway and will try to keep things moving at the rate people have come to expect. http://www.airwindows.com/console7crunch/ https://www.patreon.com/airwindows/