Airwindows kPlate240: Free Mac/Windows/Linux/Pi CLAP/AU/VST3/VST2/LV2/Rack

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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 :)

[@lastdaysguitar]

VERY cool! I just discovered your effects a couple months ago Chris, really like your unique approach.

[@benhunter5896]

Hey Chris, I just wanted to say big thank you for all your love passion and work on the airwindows plugins, much appreciated, you make a huge contribution to the music world!

[@diodebridge]

Absolutely loving your new reverbs. You make them sound great without need for a ton of fiddling.

[@PocketSunlight]

Loving the regen slider, Chris. Superb as ever!

[@petergedd9330]

Chris, another 'Gem' sounds really good, especially when you brought it from complete wet to nearly dry, what a stonker of a sound!! I'm getting into Old Style Blues and this will be a great asset. Thank You Chris. NB-Those drums sounded like they were really Live in a stadium, Magic.

[@BenCatman]

Well, exactly what we were looking for - wanted to simulate the sound when you are standing outside a concert venue.. thx DeRez!

[@rodrigobelinchon2982]

Love your reverbs ! Plenty of old school mojo to choose from. And your filters !

[@gregmakesmusic8805]

Wonderful Plate reverb! One of the best there are 😍

[@GrensOost]

Man... once again, Master Chris, this is cool! Love! Thank you!

[@redenzionerecords4880]

Hi Chris! Love your plugins and thanks to the Consolidated version, they just entered in my workflow. Also loved the in-out gain knobs inside consolidated, and I was wondering, could you add an autogain, or something to link those knobs, like while holding the Ctrl botton they both move in the opposite direction, something like that? Greetings from Italy :)

[@gitarrenpost]

great stereo projection lately I tried Air4 and for me it is like a wizzard

[@KOSMIKFEADRECORDS]

always greatful.real hard to find non metalic reverbs

[@danclark745]

Oh my, you're after my heat mister, who else could mention, The Message and Echoes in the same sentence, bravo! Astronomy Domine...lime and limpid green...do it! Great stuff as always.

[@airwindows]

KZbin AI wishes me to correct you and say "It's not 'lime and limpid green' - it's 'lime and *lemon* green,' but I agree that it's a great" and that is the end of the AI suggestion that I can see. What the actual hell, AI. Listen to the song. It's stealing from me and I swear I have never even said 'lemon green'. What even is lemon green? I can only assume the AI IS listening to Pink Floyd… and trippin'.

[@danclark745]

@@airwindows Ha, thats classic! AI, go back to school, more training for you. Thanks again, for bringing together Pink Floyd and Grand Master Flash, I'm sure Syd would love it...I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like, but don't push me I'm close to the Edge...

[@robinschell8767]

I'm just on my laptop at the moment but it sounds great 🙂

[@geometrichumanoid]

THANK YOU

[@Vingul]

I’ve been using practically only Airwindows reverbs (heck, even mostly just AW plugins in general) since I began making music some months ago. NonlinearSpace is also great for making things sound like they’re playing in a room down the hall or things like that. P.S. a video about how to add newer plugins to Consolidated would be helpful. Or do I just download it again? I want to keep all the ones currently in there, like ToTape7, although «outdated».

[@alkaiosmusic]

You have to download Consolidated again, but you don't lose any of the old plugins. They are simply filtered to the latest or most relevant version. You can change how you see the list

[@Vingul]

​@@alkaiosmusic Thank you! I'll give it a try. Must try to avoid it messing with the routing of plugins in older projects and such.

[@indihomestudio3035]

If you do not mind (and have some extra time), could you please create a video demonstrating how to mix a song using only your plugin (Airwindows)? Sorry to bother..

[@mikeblack622]

Hi,. downloaded and installed this today. kPlate240 is showing up in the Standalone version. In my DAW the CLAP version is showing and working buit NOT the VST one. Any ideas?

[@airwindows]

I don't code Consolidated, and my understanding is that Consolidated changed to JUCE 8 recently. I might need to keep closer track of that: I wasn't told that a bunch of people would suddenly have Consolidated stop working, otherwise I'd have warned people. Are you running a DAW or an older computer where the new JUCE doesn't work? Might not be a fair question as it's not the sort of thing you'd just know ahead of time :)

[@mikeblack622]

@@airwindows I'm using REAPER on WINDOWS 10 so I think JUCE 8 should work fine. It's not really an issue for me as I can use the CLAP version I just thought that you should know about it. :-)

[@airwindows]

I spoke to baconpaul about it and he tried some changes that might help other people, including people on older OSes :)

[@mikeblack622]

@@airwindows Thanks Chris, I will try again. 😀

[@mthomas1091]

Scorpio =O