Airwindows ConsoleMC: Free Mac/Windows/Linux/Pi AU/VST/Rack
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This has been a real journey, to get to this point. (note there is an immediate followup to give this system the bass it deserves
ConsoleMD is replacing my fully analog mixing system, which I'm now looking to sell off. Technically, just the mixer, as I can re-use the Lavry for tracking, where I used to have it dedicated to re-capturing the mixdown from the Heritage Audio mixer. This is what it took, to retire that glorious beast.
It's a channel strip that functions like a normal Console Channel, except it's got treble, a sweepable mid that only boosts (like the classic MCI mid boost), bass, a fader that runs before the EQ section like the classic MCI, and a special pan switching network that's like an evil cousin of LCR panning. And it's a summing buss that brings the summing character of the big MCI desks with a gnarly analog dirtiness that's not simply 'add a distortion box' but is actually a modification of other recent and unique work I've put out.
ConsoleMD draws on the following recent plugins: Creature. NOT SubTight. Sinew. ResEQ2. Pear. BitShiftPan. There is not a single normal DSP algorithm in this thing unless you count sin() and asin() functions. It is ALL built out of current, 2023 Airwindows plugins that have all been pretty well received, sometimes with a fair bit of excitement. I told you all this was working up to something. This is it.
Specifically, this is the first 'it' to come together: I've got at least five other big console concepts that deserve this treatment, but ConsoleMC is right here for you to jump into, right now. There's a couple reverbs in the demo, including kCathedral which is a call-out to the corresponding Bricasti patch. Those are for later.
ConsoleMD is designed around running at 96k (or possibly 192k if you're so inclined) but ought to work at 44.1k. If you're at low sample rate and seek to oversample it 2x or 4x it shouldn't do it any harm.
All of the EQ options are designed to be pristine when flat (mids, being boost only, are flat at 0.0 boost, not 0.5) and bring in multiple stages as you crank them harder and harder, whether it's the highs and mids getting increasingly saturated or the mids getting increasingly high-Q, allowing for everything from clarity to tonal extremeness thoroughly beyond what any real MCI console would do. This is not a clone, it's a tone in its own right, that tries to do the same job as some of the greatest big analog consoles ever to exist, but does it by the unforgiving and touchy rules of digital.
I hope it brings you joy, and helps you get your sound as it helps me get mine.
Wake up babe, new airwindows plugin just dropped
Chris is a living legend.
Turns out I have a bit of an unexpected treble lift coming in on the stuff I'm using to CUT extreme lows, and it's adding more hype and space than I thought. Bear with me: ConsoleMC is not going away, but I'm looking into whether I ought to quickly put out a variation (quickly as in, already out as ConsoleMD). See the following video, use whichever you like best :)
Wow Chris I swear, You are just a gift to DSP and music creators everywhere. I am so, so grateful, and blown away by what you do. Sincerely, Thank you.
I love the song.
B I G
C O N S O L E
S O U N D
Analog Warmth™
The process of watching this come together through your videos was fun! Thanks Chris!
Truly grateful for the plugins and the zjourney it took you to get to this level of depth and quality with this latest release🔥
As much as you say its not as desirable, I really can't wait for your take on an SSL console coz I love that 9K sound the most as it just sounds like what I grew up on. That and the Neve sound
Today is a great day !!!! Chris is a True Legend....
Pure sonority and amazingness👏 Christmas came early with Airwindows once again⚡
Oh, right, I should think of an Xmas plugin. (not on religious grounds, just on 'good day to drop a big audio present for people' grounds)
I suggest ConsoleNV@@airwindows 😄
You get ClearCoat and kCathedral WAY sooner than that, my friend :)
Awesome✨@@airwindows
You are a hero Chris, I've been doing 100% airwindows lately and it's been incredible so far. Keep up the good work!
Man, your singing voice is really nice!
Chris is an absolute legend.
Thank you for showing us how you place the plugins in the DAW!
Made it more complicated, but I liked how it came out too: will see if I can do more of that in future, especially for Console plugins.
That high resonance peak sounds pretty clean
Unreal how good this sounds. Just amazing.
Those stacked-pitched vocals at the end are pretty intense, thanks for putting the time in, sounds great, going to download it and give it a go
It's the evil voice in your head bridge! :D again, you can and should apply this to your own music. I just needed to make a Console that could do a mix that intense :)
godbless this man
Thank you Chris, you are appreciated
Man, you are the best Chris....excellent job!
Airwindowsization!!!!
Fantastic work. Just working on a mix and trying out the CrickBass tweaks...sounding good. Thanks for your hard work!
Just tried it on a BPM patch and it sounds great and is totally easy to operate. Wicked.
this is amazing as expected i can’t thank you enough! i really do hope an api inspired version with stepped eq is on your list!
I like that song you're using on this one, reminds me of a track that Motorpsycho did, called Kill Devil Hills. Nowhere near the same progression, but a similar sonic vibe IMO
Congratulations on your new baby. What a legend!
Two random comments;
1. There's something about the lighting in this video that feels very 80's to me. Not sure what it is, just the way the light hits your hair, and the blinking lights in the background, it's really cool.
2. Had the realization watching the Airwindows system, gear and all, is basically the libre version of the Softube Console1 system, which is even cooler than point one lol
Anyway, amazing plugin, have been using it for months now!
Turns out I was using Console as a name for a plugin system before Softube. I'm not going to do anything to them (I consider it sort of like calling something an 'EQ' or 'compressor') but their thing is using a name that was already in use :)
Man Chris you are awesome. Your plugins sound amazing!
Just found out about your plugins. I'm poor, so I rely on free software. Thanks for your work!
I am so hyped to try this tonight
I just tried some of your plugins. It is pure gold. Thank You for Your work.
Hi Chris!!
I just discovered Airwindows, and I congratulate you for the excellent work you are doing.
One question: In your audio chain, how do you think about compression? I've noticed that you practically don't use compression on the channels. If you did, would it come before the ConsoleMC plugin? The same question for using the ToTape7 plugin, is it usually placed before or after the ConsoleMC? Thanks a lot!!
This ConsoleMC is pure magic. ConsoleMD is nice but MC has that extra phatness. Man I'm so happy. Thank you for this Chris.
Excited to see what the future holds for you! I'm curious: have you ever considered adding the Neve 5060 to your Console repertoire?
Incredible work. Beyond excited to put ConsoleMC and/or ConsoleMD to use 👏👌
This is fantastic, Chris. very well done
So good!! Thank you Chris!!!
Already one of my favorites. That's saying something cause I must have 30 something airwindows plugins.
A great philosphy on music as always Chris
Wow!
Sir, Thank you!
Thank you Chris,
And the mix easily passes the listen to it from the next room test.
I do that test too. It's a good test.
a API console would be cool!
Hey there !
Thanks a lot for the work and effort that went into this and the ones before.
Just a quick question, usually I have all parameters/dials when using in FL Studio, but this time I have none on Channel and Buss. Any suggestions beside switching the DAW ? 😂
It's the same generic parameter code as in all other plugins I make. You should at least be able to see Buss which is just one slider. What about other plugins I make, do those show parameters? Do you need to switch to a generic parameter mode to get 'em?
@@airwindows Hey there, thanks for the reply !
Buss shows me one dial for Volume, one for panning.
Usually I got all that you intended to, like for example right now I got BassKit in a Mix and it does have all dials.
Actually I don’t have to switch something, when I use the plugins you provide the dials and parameters are there. First time I encounter something like this
@@airwindows I’m sorry, I mean MCChannel shows me just one dial.
I’ll quickly reinstall and check again
@@airwindows Re-Install worked, got all 6 dials/parameters on channel, buss 1 master vol !
Thanks anyway for the reply, actually I never had something like this with your other plugins before. ✌️
Yeah, that's weird, but I'm glad they are working properly now :)
I wish you would make us a little guide on what plugins to use from the aw arsenal besides consolemc to get the "analog effect".
Fantastic plugin btw
Check out the starter kit. Some of the plugins are older, you can just replace some of them with the newer one
this is awesome! love your voice❤
thank you !!!!!! soo good !! do wonder if emulating harrison consoles is some thing that intrigues you?
What records have come off Harrison consoles?
Works great! Like a mix of Sinew and Console0 into one.
Awesome!
seems to be working, will leave artists list quoted from SOS Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Bad albums were recorded by Bruce Swedien through a 32C, for example. They also played a role in hit records by Paul Simon, Janet Jackson, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, ELO, Genesis, Blondie and Supertramp, and big‑name artists from ABBA to Zappa had one installed in personal studios.
Oh, right! Now that you mention it I remember the Bruce Swedien/Harrison connection. I'm not aware of where they got used with AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, or Genesis, though. Or really anything beyond Thriller… it's like CADAC, my research didn't really turn up enough. Are you suggesting UMRK was Harrison? Stuff like Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch?
yes Bruce was very much into Harrison, i wasn't aware about the other artists until now , some quite big names. just tested the software and made a connection with your plugins in terms of quality. yes its from the quote on sound on sound website says that Zappa's studio was Harrison. would hope that sound on sound got it right. i will have a look more deeply into what songs used Harrison and get back to you. @@airwindows
Reaper needs a postfader fx bin
My Daw/Card combo can run 48k at best. Also the daw doesn't support oversampling of plugins natively, It does have module that has 4x oversampling built in that allows you to insert FX pre and post module signal chain eg (audio > pre module fx -> module with 4xOS - > post module fx ) would that work or would running a plugin like glissEQ flat with oversampling enabled after the MCI channel/buss be a better option?
Congrats on this! Great job! It's really special tool from what I feel for now.
I'm going to try it and compare in with BitShiftConsole (my fav for now), and of course mix with it something after I'll get more familiar with it's sound.
Chris, can I ask, Fader parameter - is it PurestGain or usual gain or some modification?
Any gain trim inside an Airwindows plugin functions as PurestGain because they all dither to floating point. Fader is doubly like PurestGain since the pan is BitShiftPan making it more like there's only one gain operation in the plugin… I would say it's all 'some modification'. There is even a modification of Sinew on the master buss, audible when you push the level and brightness of the mix too hard.
@@airwindows cool! About the purest gain in all your plugins - has it always been like this or does it make sense to reload old plugins?
And second related question. I like to use your Dark plugin the most out of all other dithers, and not only on a master. Is there a possibility and more importantly a practical sense to incorporate Dark into PurestGain instead of dither stage in it? For the sake of another textural option.
Hell yeah!
Sounds baloneys! Which plugin does the midrange EQ's code come from? I think I kinda recognize it but I ain't sure.
ResEQ2
@@airwindows was pretty sure about the mids, but curious about the highs and lows :)
@@airwindows Ha! I got it right
Highs and lows are much like a multi-stage version of the way I did it in CStrip, except using Pear EQ for crossover points. It's a pretty flexible approach: every lettered Console's highs and lows will sound and act different consistent to what those big analog desks were like.
@@airwindows thanks for the answer. Pear is my go to mixing filter now, realy great and transparent. And for boosting highs I often use AverMatrix, gives cool and special results.
interesting, but I'm still cloudy on how console emus work (or why to use them, I'm a trog.) the concept refuses to stick in my brain. however it would be much easier if DAWS had an option to load the console emulation circuit of your choice. like if Reaper had an option where you could use the stock summing process or load third party ones such as Airwindows.
wew!
Flopingly amazing!!!!
Grande Chris
Thanks
VCV rack too?
Ought to be available now in the dailies :)
awesome! @@airwindows
is it me, or does that mix sounds really bright?
Faithful to the MCI mixes!
It's way brighter than the Heritage analog mix. Traditionally when mixers and musicians get new tools they use the hell out of them: I couldn't have got that kind of energy out of the no-EQ analog mix, even though many tracks had some form of simpler EQ on them.
Don’t the reverb channels need th console bus plug-in before the reverb plug-in? Since they’re sending an encoded channel?
I've always allowed for added reverb, and added delays, to run 'inside' Console so the space they are in, is expanded using the same kind of space you get between mixer channels :) also, note that the auxes are getting attenuated, like if you were applying the DAW fader on them. Feeding an all-wet reverb buss it's not as big of a deal :) if I was making the whole DAW I'd fix it, though.
Ah gotcha, makes sense . Thanks! I’m in the middle of mixing a record and currently using pure console 2. I’m tempted to redo it with this one, but I don’t think the clients are willing to wait lol.@@airwindows
Before I got my hardware reverbs I would use the sendit plug-in from bluecat audio before the console channel plug-in to send to the verb aux, and then just encode the verb track like a regular track. It’s a handy little plug-in
can you use this with console 8 or is this more of a replacement?
More of a replacement, but you could use it to replace just the submixes and use Console8 subs to Console8 buss if you wanted to experiment :)
@@airwindows thanks! Time to make a new default template and track templates.
Great🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
i miss airwindows plugins..i had to sell my imac..havent had a chance to get another one..i use my ipad to make music now..i bought a bunch of airwindows 50 bucks a piece back then..but i cant use them in my ipad..please make these compatible with auv3
I don't know how. Maybe someone out there does?
@@airwindows thanks for replying..i hope someone does know..i remember back then when it was only on au and lots of windows people kept asking you to make it available for them too..well its a good sign that you have it for many other formats now..hope more ipad people start asking you lol
@@airwindows I don't know how, but it seems pretty possible looking over the apple documentation. For iOS it might make sense to have a few collections of your stuff as channel strips. If my day job gets boring as it often does over the winter I might take a swing at a conversion, since your source is open.
:)
i send you an email, as the comments wasnt working ?