Hi Folks
Many of you know the air windows (www.airwindows.com) plugins, a set of really interesting and distinct MIT-licensed FX plugins. In the Surge team we’ve been working with Chris (the airwindows author) on a variety of things over the years, and Surge includes many of these plugins. In rack, there was a set of rack 1.0 plugins which included about 14 of his fx, but air windows has never comprehensively made it to rack.
But that’s changed now! I’ve been working with Chris and several other members of the surge team to make a single module which contains all 328 FX in a single rack multi-effect module. To do this rationally you have to automate everything, and we’ve done that. And we are now ready for some patient testers.
As a reminder: patient tester means (1) you don’t mind downloading binaries from outside the library, (2) you are willing to give clear feedback on a bug either here on on GitHub, and (3) you realize that early stage software can change, so if you patch your chart topping track with one of these fx, it may not render the same (or at all) in the future. You know the drill.
But with that caveat: if you are interested in trying out where we are then
download there. (These modules will probably move from baconpaul GitHub eventually but for now they are there).
It’s really easy to use. Click on the name of the effect and a menu pops up that lets you choose any of the other 327. The front panel reconfigures appropriately. Each param has a knob, a CV and an attenuverter. The manual links to the list of what all the FX do.
For some fun: try using galactic as a super spicy reverb, or some of the amp models or Z Lowpass filters for some drive. But also just you know - explore this massive collection.
We have set it up so we can track Chris automatically as he adds new FX, but the one above is as of his GitHub repo from last night.
Anyway let us know what you think! and have fun!
(Oh and the todo list includes a few things around a UI review, a light mode, etc… but we think the DSP is complete)