Airwindows Consolidated: Free Mac/Windows/Linux CLAP/VST3/AU/LV2!
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1399 posts since 7 Apr, 2007 from Bellows Falls, VT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_mO9r_xEuw
TL;DW: Welcome to the Airwindows plugin for everybody else
Airwindows Consolidated Manual
Airwindows Consolidated Download
For many years, I've built up a library of DSP effects, executed in a stripped-down, retro-friendly format that is impossibly light and efficient compared to how plugins usually are. It's also completely overwhelming at nearly 400 plugins all with their own names (or iterations like Channel6, Channel7, Console8, Console9 and so on) and stuck on older formats like VST2, because for years I insisted that Steinberg might try to take away the legal right to put out VST2 plugins and I wasn't going to risk that, being committed to supporting all possible machines.
Airwindows Consolidated fixes all those things, at a stroke. It's just become the one true way for a lot of people to use the Airwindows plugin ecosystem, and it will be fully supported going forward as a format for all new plugins (at least, all new plugins that aren't themselves a giant leap forward, more on that later). What do you get?
Airwindows Consolidated is CLAP native, and gives you all the things special to that format (as seen in the Manual, running as a CLAP plugin in Bitwig!) A lot of us feel this is the format of the future. Now it's got all of Airwindows, native, and will continue to have the new plugins added.
Airwindows Consolidated is also VST3 native, so this is for the Cubase users and other folks who can't get on with VST2 for whatever reason. It's also for folks who can't handle the 'slider only' minimalist look: there's knobs! (the Rack version has knobs, jacks, and attentuators, because it's a Rack module!). It's also AU. It's also LV2. Lots of native formats!
There's also theming: it reads dark mode or light mode off your system setting, AND you can override that if you want. No more bright gray rectangles if you don't like them. At a stroke, a lot of known issues are just gone. You can type in values in a text box (heck, I can't even do that with my own VST2s in Reaper, only with the AUs).
Doesn't stop there: Airwindows Consolidated has screen reader support. Why, I ask you, shouldn't visually impaired musicians make AUDIO music? Airwindows Consolidated works with screen readers to properly read out all the text. So what's this 'all the text', how hard could that be?
Airwindows Consolidated contains the entire Airwindopedia. Every plugin shows the entire Chris explanation given on release, in a sidebar. That's close to a hundred and fifty thousand words, built in! And because you're not going to read a hundred and fifty thousand words just to get started…
Airwindows Consolidated contains a whole menu system, which defaults to 'Recommended'. That shows basically Airwindows' Greatest Hits, the ones you'll want to look at first. It's a much smaller list, and isn't always the most recent plugin in a series. For instance, Galactic2 is more specialized than the Recommended original Galactic. There's also 'Basic', which is a set of plugins that are easily understood and used when you're just getting started with mixing and music making, and 'Recent', which is just the newest stuff. And when you're ready, there's 'All Plugins', which opens up the menus to everything. (If you save a mix and then change the menus, it won't take away your plugin just because the new menu setting isn't listing it: you're safe there)
This is all you need. It might be the only Airwindows plugin you ever download, because there'll be a new build of it every week every time a new Airwindows plugin drops. Just re-download it and re-install. It has installers to make it easy for you to do that, and it's an open source project so it's hosted by Microsoft at their expense, not me and Paul. Downloading it costs us nothing, so go give it a try.
And who do you have to thank for this? Well, yes, it's all nearly-400 Airwindows plugins. If those didn't exist, neither would Airwindows Consolidated. But I wouldn't have been able to do this on my own, even as an open source developer. So this is thanks to the inspired work of Baconpaul, of the Surge XT synthesizer project, who also made my VCV Rack module be a thing (and it is essentially the same as this: it should have all the same features and all the new plugins, each week). The whole Surge XT project deserves your attention and support, and there's more than just Paul involved: for instance, EvilDragon has had lots of influence on the menu system, actively helped develop the categories, and at his request the entire Airwindows website now uses those same categories to help find stuff.
Airwindows Consolidated is out, and it's gonna be at the top of my list of ways to download my plugins. This is a big deal. I hope you like how much easier this has made the whole world of Airwindows
Airwindows Consolidated Download
Most recent VCV Rack module
download 64 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Signed M1/Intel Mac AUs.dmg
download Signed M1/Intel Mac VSTs.dmg
download LinuxVSTs.zip
download LinuxARMVSTs.zip for the Pi
download Retro 32 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac AUs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac VSTs.zip
Mediafire Backup of all downloads
All this is free and open source under the MIT license, brought to you by my Patreon.
TL;DW: Welcome to the Airwindows plugin for everybody else
Airwindows Consolidated Manual
Airwindows Consolidated Download
For many years, I've built up a library of DSP effects, executed in a stripped-down, retro-friendly format that is impossibly light and efficient compared to how plugins usually are. It's also completely overwhelming at nearly 400 plugins all with their own names (or iterations like Channel6, Channel7, Console8, Console9 and so on) and stuck on older formats like VST2, because for years I insisted that Steinberg might try to take away the legal right to put out VST2 plugins and I wasn't going to risk that, being committed to supporting all possible machines.
Airwindows Consolidated fixes all those things, at a stroke. It's just become the one true way for a lot of people to use the Airwindows plugin ecosystem, and it will be fully supported going forward as a format for all new plugins (at least, all new plugins that aren't themselves a giant leap forward, more on that later). What do you get?
Airwindows Consolidated is CLAP native, and gives you all the things special to that format (as seen in the Manual, running as a CLAP plugin in Bitwig!) A lot of us feel this is the format of the future. Now it's got all of Airwindows, native, and will continue to have the new plugins added.
Airwindows Consolidated is also VST3 native, so this is for the Cubase users and other folks who can't get on with VST2 for whatever reason. It's also for folks who can't handle the 'slider only' minimalist look: there's knobs! (the Rack version has knobs, jacks, and attentuators, because it's a Rack module!). It's also AU. It's also LV2. Lots of native formats!
There's also theming: it reads dark mode or light mode off your system setting, AND you can override that if you want. No more bright gray rectangles if you don't like them. At a stroke, a lot of known issues are just gone. You can type in values in a text box (heck, I can't even do that with my own VST2s in Reaper, only with the AUs).
Doesn't stop there: Airwindows Consolidated has screen reader support. Why, I ask you, shouldn't visually impaired musicians make AUDIO music? Airwindows Consolidated works with screen readers to properly read out all the text. So what's this 'all the text', how hard could that be?
Airwindows Consolidated contains the entire Airwindopedia. Every plugin shows the entire Chris explanation given on release, in a sidebar. That's close to a hundred and fifty thousand words, built in! And because you're not going to read a hundred and fifty thousand words just to get started…
Airwindows Consolidated contains a whole menu system, which defaults to 'Recommended'. That shows basically Airwindows' Greatest Hits, the ones you'll want to look at first. It's a much smaller list, and isn't always the most recent plugin in a series. For instance, Galactic2 is more specialized than the Recommended original Galactic. There's also 'Basic', which is a set of plugins that are easily understood and used when you're just getting started with mixing and music making, and 'Recent', which is just the newest stuff. And when you're ready, there's 'All Plugins', which opens up the menus to everything. (If you save a mix and then change the menus, it won't take away your plugin just because the new menu setting isn't listing it: you're safe there)
This is all you need. It might be the only Airwindows plugin you ever download, because there'll be a new build of it every week every time a new Airwindows plugin drops. Just re-download it and re-install. It has installers to make it easy for you to do that, and it's an open source project so it's hosted by Microsoft at their expense, not me and Paul. Downloading it costs us nothing, so go give it a try.
And who do you have to thank for this? Well, yes, it's all nearly-400 Airwindows plugins. If those didn't exist, neither would Airwindows Consolidated. But I wouldn't have been able to do this on my own, even as an open source developer. So this is thanks to the inspired work of Baconpaul, of the Surge XT synthesizer project, who also made my VCV Rack module be a thing (and it is essentially the same as this: it should have all the same features and all the new plugins, each week). The whole Surge XT project deserves your attention and support, and there's more than just Paul involved: for instance, EvilDragon has had lots of influence on the menu system, actively helped develop the categories, and at his request the entire Airwindows website now uses those same categories to help find stuff.
Airwindows Consolidated is out, and it's gonna be at the top of my list of ways to download my plugins. This is a big deal. I hope you like how much easier this has made the whole world of Airwindows
Airwindows Consolidated Download
Most recent VCV Rack module
download 64 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Signed M1/Intel Mac AUs.dmg
download Signed M1/Intel Mac VSTs.dmg
download LinuxVSTs.zip
download LinuxARMVSTs.zip for the Pi
download Retro 32 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac AUs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac VSTs.zip
Mediafire Backup of all downloads
All this is free and open source under the MIT license, brought to you by my Patreon.
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- KVRian
- 1294 posts since 9 Jan, 2013 from morf
dL'd the other day & had to restrain myself from posting about it on KvR
Great to have the Info about each effect on screen
Great to have the Info about each effect on screen
Man is least himself when he talks in the first person. Give him a mask, and he'll show you his true face
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- KVRian
- 1127 posts since 19 Apr, 2004
Thanks to all involved, linux .clap and .vst3 running great. Have to admit the amount and names of the plugins stopped me from using, not anymore.
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- KVRAF
- 2431 posts since 16 Jan, 2013
Very cool. It's great to have these all in one place and in lv2. Saves me having to build just to get that. Thanks Chris, Paul and everyone else involved.
If I can make one feature request, it would be nice to be able to adjust the parameters via the mouse wheel. Currently scrolling the wheel over a parameter's dial has no effect. This works in Surge XT Effects so hopefully it's something that can be implemented relatively easily.
If I can make one feature request, it would be nice to be able to adjust the parameters via the mouse wheel. Currently scrolling the wheel over a parameter's dial has no effect. This works in Surge XT Effects so hopefully it's something that can be implemented relatively easily.
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- KVRist
- 209 posts since 26 May, 2018
Now this makes it very easy to use Console8 original, without the lowpass filtering (due to a bug), which can come in useful if you oversample. I wonder if baconpaul is willing to implement oversampling within the plugin...
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1399 posts since 7 Apr, 2007 from Bellows Falls, VT
We aren't adding new features on launch day (everyone is full of ideas!) but I personally like this suggestion. I myself tried to use the scrollwheel to adjustsprnva wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 1:47 pm Very cool. It's great to have these all in one place and in lv2. Saves me having to build just to get that. Thanks Chris, Paul and everyone else involved.
If I can make one feature request, it would be nice to be able to adjust the parameters via the mouse wheel. Currently scrolling the wheel over a parameter's dial has no effect. This works in Surge XT Effects so hopefully it's something that can be implemented relatively easily.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1399 posts since 7 Apr, 2007 from Bellows Falls, VT
Absolutely. A lot of the reason for this is to deal with all the very reasonable objections lots of people have had for lots of perfectly good reasons
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- KVRian
- 910 posts since 25 Dec, 2018
Oh darn it did I really forget that? That’s an easy omission to correct yeahjinxtigr wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 5:12 pmWe aren't adding new features on launch day (everyone is full of ideas!) but I personally like this suggestion. I myself tried to use the scrollwheel to adjustsprnva wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 1:47 pm Very cool. It's great to have these all in one place and in lv2. Saves me having to build just to get that. Thanks Chris, Paul and everyone else involved.
If I can make one feature request, it would be nice to be able to adjust the parameters via the mouse wheel. Currently scrolling the wheel over a parameter's dial has no effect. This works in Surge XT Effects so hopefully it's something that can be implemented relatively easily.
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- KVRian
- 910 posts since 25 Dec, 2018
Anyway took 10 minutes to add mouse wheel support, so I did, and the builds just finished up, so if you download again (or self build at head again if that's your thing) it should all work fine.
Mouse wheel calibration is a bit odd but I tested it on a MBP trackpad and a win11 box with a cheapo logitech mouse.
Mouse wheel calibration is a bit odd but I tested it on a MBP trackpad and a win11 box with a cheapo logitech mouse.
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- KVRAF
- 2431 posts since 16 Jan, 2013
- KVRAF
- 4661 posts since 15 Jul, 2001 from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, U.K
Very cool and thanks to all involved
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a stackable rack version of this so you can have more than one AW plugin loaded
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a stackable rack version of this so you can have more than one AW plugin loaded
- Boss Lovin' DR
- 13777 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Nice one cheers! Also seems here that there's a bit less CPU hit as well compared to the single plug-ins? Not that the originals were CPU hogs of course!