Paul says, "Alright chris, here's the last 36 hours: Support double precision processing if your host does, not just float, using the plugin processDoubleReplacing branch Move the settings menu from the bottom of the filter menu to a "cog" settings menu in the lower left In the settings menu, add an option to show or hide the documentation which is sticky Make the 'Airwindows' footer text no longer a link which surprisingly would open a browser; move the visit airwindows link to the settings/about menu Adjust to a particular use of the VST3/AU API in Renoise which caused AW Consolidated to deadlock/crash"
This is revolutionary and shows the beauty of open source. The included documentation and the various ways to sort, filter and search are great solutions to allow effective sifting through your enormous library of plugins. Big fan of the "chris order" as a sort order. Huge thanks to baconpaul, surge xt and you for making this possible
I'm glad you like Chris Order :) I lobbied for that one, because I felt some people would find it a lot more helpful than alphabetical order. Some folks really like alphabetical order, and if you know the names of the plugins and what they do, it's great. But, well, um, er :D the whole point of Chris Order is for ALL the people who have no idea what anything is. If you're just exploring, use that and go from top down :) then you can even use All Plugins, sort of! You can also affect Chris Order, Basic, and Recommended. Ask me to change them and they can be changed by popular demand without Paul having to recode anything.
@@airwindowsi love the chris order! It was always a challenge to pick the right aw plugin for me.. Ive been dreaming and requesting such guidence for some time now. Hope we get an analog emulation subgrouo witha chris order. Greetings and all the best
Considering the plugin size I thought it would be just a cool browser that scans airwindows plugs I already have... But no it's ALL OF THEM. This gives me a whole new appreciation to how lightweight those little effects are.
Yup! And it will continue to get all future plugins that will fit in it, which is where the Newest option comes in handy, you can get a new version after some time away, and find if anything you care about got an update of some sort :)
Wow, I totally missed the boat on this so far. What an astouding leap forward! Thank you Chris and Baconpaul and the Surge Team to bring such innovation to us. I'm stunned all this is now at my fingertips. I need to be sure I watch every video so I don't miss out :-)
Monumental news! Also this opens a new speedrun category: airwindows%, where the runner must install airwindows and launch the plugin in a DAW to stop the timer.
As a screen reader user, I thank you for collaborating with the Surge Synth Team not only to make this happen, but to make it accessible to our assistive technology. Even simply flipping through with the next preset button is enough to spark interest in certain AirWindows plugins I hadn't previously used. Just being able to do that, and make the association in my brain for later refinement is big enough, but to then be able to read the commentary within the plugin itself is huge.
as someone who recently discovered airwindows and was simultaneously very excited and very intimidated by the sheer quantity - i'm really looking forward to exploring with the help of AWC. thanks to all involved!
this is so fucking amazing. my struggle with your plugins was mostly knowing what they were right away without having to look it up which often broke the creative flow, and sometimes it was overwhelming to have 300+ plugins of yours and not using most of them. this is amazing, it's the piece that was missing. Thank you for your contribution to music, Chris, and thank you baconpaul for putting this together.
This is also where you can ask me to change Chris Order, or the Basic menu, or especially the Recommended menu. I can do that without Paul having to recode anything. So if you have suggestions for how those should go, make them or upvote them here and get more people to upvote the thing you're suggesting, because these are sort of community things, especially Recommended. It can include whatever you think is best! Let me know what should go there, if it's not there already :)
Hey hey! First of all, this is A-MA-ZING! I've been dreaming of this! Your plugins are awesome, but the sheer number of them - plus the individualitites of each one- made it cumbersome to explore! Having them collected all in one place WITH your descriptions is killer! As for the menus... I think the concept of the orders looks cool as is, I'll definitely see as I work with Consolidated. How would you feel for a ''User'' menu though? A big part of the charm of airwindows is the ''mix-and-match-what-suits-you'' thing you can do with 400+ plugins. I may need a couple of compressors, reverbs, utilites, etc for everyday use, and a dedicated user adjustable menu/collection (or multiple, user-named ones - though more far-fetched) would be very cool!
for me this looks good as it is and is amazing. since you make very specific vsts, its great to have all in a dropdown selector. i think for me the real next improvement would be, if i could select myself whats included when building the thing but i would expect that this is a big problem and out of scope.
Interesting update! Is it possible to add a button to enable or disable descriptions in plugins to save screen space? Something like [?] button. May be useful
This would require new programming to implement, I'm sure... But it would be really cool, eventually, to have the ability to make our own list of most used Airwindows plugins.... And especially in that mode, it would be really cool to also be able to go into small UI mode, once the plug-in is selected... With just the controls, no text (of course with the ability to enter search mode again and return to the larger GUI with a click)
Thank you for all the work you do. I realize a comment might not fully convey proper appreciation, but for what it's worth, a genuine thank you for giving tools to folks who want to make music that might not be financially able to afford much.
"One small step for a man... one Giant Leap for AirWindows!" - So glad to see this happening. This is in one word: AWESOMENESS! (pretty sure that's a word)
Awesome. Finally, a one-plugin all algorithms thing. Not gonna lie, keeping up with all the stuff manually was a major PITA, especially when everything has vague or numeric iterations as naming schemes. Now I can just pull up the master Airwindows plugin and get to work using sound rather than load ten different things to see what'll work on the current project. Good on ya mate Also glad to hear screen readers mentioned. Honestly, Surge is amazing in that area too. Paul and co did a lotta work so blindos can use this stuff too rather than endlessly faff about with poorly labeled automation parameters that only have half the parameters available in a synth plugin. So in other words, what a time to be alive. Thx Chris and Paul and everyone.
Who better to be able to hear properly? :) I'm proud to be able to call on the expertise the Surge folks have brought to bear here. The instant I heard about it I was like 'wait, you can do THAT? Do it do it do iiittt!' :D As for the one-plugin part: that is why it now goes to the TOP of my list along with its Rack counterpart. I couldn't put it as first call when I made plugins and it was only for Rack, but now it's the go-to option. I will continue to make stuff as individual plugins for retro purposes and smaller machines :)
Paul's told me this: "so maybe tomorrow at start of day you want to do a post or comment on the various socials about what we found and fixed day 1. That list is All systems: Add mousewheel support on the knobs. How could we have forgotten! Further fix the problems involving the plugin not switching when audio processing wasnt running Windows UI: Menu follows HDPI status of the plugin and isn't tiny Fixed a problem with font metrics which made all windows fonts too small, and low DPI ones unreadable Linux: Move the setting sfile from ~/AirwindowsConsolidated to ~/.config/AirwindowsConsolidated" So there you go, that's the first day. We are agreed that Consolidated isn't going to become a multi-effects unit, and that we can't change the plugin name as shown in the DAW. Still, not bad for the first day of existence! Re-download it from the links at Github if any of these above problems seem like they'd be good to have fixed, because work is underway and often already done :)
OMG, consolidated Airwindows is awesome. Dream comes true! Forget all the tons of other effect plugins with nice GUI's and weaker results, Airwindows covers really most of our needs!
This might answer all of the issues I had with really giving Airwindows plugs a fair shot. I really appreciate the decision to include the information about the plugins, and most importantly the KNOBS! the sliders in reaper were killing me
THIS IS HUGE! If anyone is overwhelmed by just how many tools Chris makes, THIS is your ticket to Airwindows instant gratification. It's not just all-plugins-packaged-together etc, it's how quickly/smoothly you can fly though so many different 'flavors' of the same category (& I definitely appreciate Chris' recommendations lists :) Also, if you're using a midi controller (for instance to control Ableton's Device Parameters) each time you click a new Airwindows tool here, the Parameters update on your controller as well.
You are an incredibly unique, generous, talented and fascinating individual! 🥹What a pleasure to exist at the same time as a genius like yourself! 🙌 This looks amazing! 🤩My personal brand of ADHD would otherwise have me drown in disarray, were I to pursue all of your plugins in standalone format! 😵💫 I look forward to arming myself with these ✨weapons of mass production✨, which you’ve so expertly crafted and cleverly consolidated for us! 😅 I salute you Chris, Paul & co.! 🫡
I literally thought of an AI assistant that could help with airwindows plugins and describing them, and then lo and behold you drop this a few weeks later. I am so happy.
just discovered your plugins this week... after years of dealing with pretentious brands and their plugins... like your stuff a lot and now this thing consolidated is so great!!... much respect from me
this is amazing! Hats of to you both! this really makes the airwindows library user friendly - especially for people new to your plugins or mixing. Also i don't have 400 individual Plugins cluttering my search (as if i hadn't 1000s of other Plugins lol). Next step could be a Soundtoys Effects-Rack style plugin and online preset sharing.
This way of using airwindows plugs is a gamechanger! So much fun. Thanks Chris for your never ending input to the music world. If there is one thing that would make this experience even more special is if you can make little chains of effects within Consolidated. Just an idea. Keep up the good work & thanks!
What stops you doing that now? The preset contains the sub plugin identity so if you just use your daw preset librarian it should all work. I exposed the default setting of each effect as a factory preset
@@baconpaul5772 I am using Reaper 7 on windows 10 x64. I am not a very advanced user. I don’t know if I am doing it wrong and there is a better way to organize presets. What I am seeing is a long list of default presets for VST3 version and an empty list for CLAP version. Anyway, if I want to save my own presets, they are stored in the same common list, in order of there creation, regardless of the plugin they belong to. Unless I manually order the presets, they are making a huge mess. Also, there is a bug in CLAP version: I can’t switch between presets that I saved. It’s locked on the first preset that I ever saved and doesn’t switch to any other. I still can navigate via plugin menu, but preset menu isn’t working. VST3 version works properly.
This is AMAZING! (I would, ofc, love to be able to create chains/racks (like waves studiorack) and i assume (?) that i can hide the text, but otherwise (or even still)... absolutely brilliant! Super excited to d/l.)
Thank you so much for this, Chris and everyone else involved! I eventually got overwhelmed by your output when it got into the mid 200s and settled in to about a half dozen Airwindows plugins I use almost all the time (mainly different flavors of filtering and tape emulation) and maybe 10 more I use occasionally (mainly reverbs, saturation and compressors) but couldn't keep up with the new releases anymore. So I'm thrilled about this - if the only thing it did was make it easy to compare similar plugins or different versions of the same plugin quickly and seamlessly that would already be enough. If there was a quick, automatic way to migrate all of my old projects over to this I wouldn't even keep the individual plugins installed anymore and I'm definitely going to use this format for everything except the Console series (which still makes more sense to use as individual plugins in template projects IMO) going forward.
This needed to be done for a while. I cannot keep track of the 100s of airwindows releases so much that I don't have them in my workflow anymore which is a shame because I know they offer so much potential. From a user POV it makes total sense that there is a suite version of plugins eg. Distortion suite which has all of the main distortions in there. Console suite, with all of those models. As artists and creators we need less options not more, having plugins that do more means we don’t need to know the ins and outs of 1000s of plugins and we can just do our jobs and focus again on making music instead of the technicals. But thats just one persons opinion of course! :-)
this is the coolest AirWindows plugin yet and shows how much you Chris are a legend to me and i'm dead sure many others alike ! some of the most fun producing has been with these plugins and it's exciting that I can read about them as I use them now because sometimes I was really just using my ears ! ;P
I was so used to downloading them all individually that I downloaded this like 12 times from github cause I didn't know it had existed until today hahah
Son of a bit shift! Next time you're late, I won't worry! So now Airwindows plugins have a graphic UI .A.N.D. a spoken one. You went from no UI to what the future of UIs should be: focused on accessibility and freedom (screen reader, search engine, dark mode, user manual always visible [I had the same idea for my JSFX plugins, yay!], no Steinberg, no Apple...). Thank you Paul (for Surge and for this) and, as usual, thank you Chris. P.S.: Drowning amongst hundreds of plugins and fighting my way through them was part of the fun of discovering Airwindows. Plus it made me learn a lot about both mixing and coding. So I wanna say to new comers (and I already hear the crowd running to this new appealing free stuff with thousands of sliders): just because you got given a swimming suit doesn't mean you don't have to swim anymore, it only means you don't have to drown either.
This is so useful! Over the past month or so, I've been focused on organizing everything in my physical and digital space to make it easier to spend more time doing the things I enjoy. I even started a list to try to keep track of new plugins for music production and mixing since. This will make keeping track of all the airwindows plugins so much easier! I don't use screen readers myself, but it's so wonderful that people who do now have that option. Everyone should be doing this!
That's awesome Chris and a big thank you to Baconpaul! I use your plugins actively and I know there's no bypass button but this is the first time I've ever needed one. Other daw's have a bypass button somewhere in the plugin but in ableton you always have to move the mouse to the bottom. I know the solution is simple but a tiny bypass button in this beauty with all your plugins can save time and would be great for ableton users like me :)
Ahhh. I've been intrigued by Airwindows for a long time, but I've felt completely lost with it as I'm trying to learn things. This will certainly make it a lot easier to utilize the tools. Thank you!
This is amazing! Glad to see others coming in & consolidating your work in a way that makes it less daunting for new people to start to try using it. Thank you to Surge XT!
Hi Chris, you really are the Great Wizard of music FXs, the Master Jedi of VSTs. How can you find so many incredible ideas for such original and inspiring FXs,? And you give them to us so generously. ( I love TapeDelay 1 & 2, Galactic, slewsonic ...) . They are so well thought, and subtly designed. Your VSTs are a gold mind to find a new sound. This Airwindows Consolidated is a fantastic idea. It works very well. Thank you very much Chris, and. take care.
It's something really well thought out. Simple but very genius! Just as a suggestion, being able to chain some plugins in the same instance is a very natural path to follow, even if more in the future. Thanks again for that!
Really cool to see this, definitely needed. Having a bit of trouble with it though, the plug-in isn't changing within Airwindows Consolidated - running an M1 Pro MacBook Pro on the latest version of MacOS.
Let me see if I can help. Are you using the menu to pick the new plugin? When you do that, if you hit play and have audio go through it, does it switch to the new one that you expected to get? Also, which sort are you using, CLAP, VST3 or AU? :)
Good! We'll look into whether there's something overlooked: I had a situation like that in one particular sound editor and Paul fixed it, so there might be a quiet lil' update this morning and then everything will update just as soon as you select the new thing, not only when playback is active :)
Yeah what’s your daw and operating environment? Basicalky if audio is running I need to do something different than if it is not when you change effect type but detecting if audio is not running is a wee bit tricky
very good improvement, i will re-install it, before that there were too many : it bloated the plugins list, and it was time consuming to go through it...thanks
The audio (-plugin) world is still benefiting far too little from the Open Source mindset in software, while demand as well as creativity are super high. Good to see that more and more audio technicians jump on the train. By open sourcing your content, you are not giving away anything for free (you can even sell open source software for money). Instead, you are exposing that stuff within an organized structure, that allows others to contribute to your craft, enabling them to improve it or to pull it into directions the author never even thought about, possibly emerging new craft ultimately. Which in turn you may or may not integrate within your craft. Its a winwin for everybody like in this case. Good job!
I suggested this not because I was kooky, but because this is obvious. Airwindows is like beyond Eventide in a way. Next inevitable step I guess is a nifty chainer pane in the plugin. That ought to be _relatively_ easy now that the ball is rolling. Congrats on this collaboration.
The way I factored the code is actually into three parts. A headless neutral processing and params library with all the effects. A rack plugin that loads that. And a juce plugin that loads that. This means that, yes, a person who wanted to build a chainer and include all dsp could do so easily. I plan to write some cmake rules so you can build a subset library also (short circuit needs galactic but it doesn’t need to compile console7bus etc) for people to pick and choose. I’m not gonna write a chainer plug in. I can chain fine in logic :) but if someone wants to and wants all of chrises code that’s now really easy and there’s a uniform api to the library.
@@baconpaul5772 That's rad. I figured however you thought this though, you would need a relatively easy way to keep up with Chris' plugins update schedule. I guess other than Eventide there's Kilohearts who has a multifx unit. I can't think of too many swiss army knife plugins of this magnitude though. Thanks for doing this! And thanks for reminding me about Shortcircuit, I need to get in there and play around with it.
@@intelligenceservices its amazing what you can do with a perl script and a pile of very regular dsp code but yeah indeed, the entire thing had to be automated otherwise it would fail. Chris literally pushes one button after he codes a new plugin and the whole thing updates automatically. That was quite a large bit of the work, actually.
I will download it just because of Chris Order! :) Thanks! It's very handy. I know and use many of your plugins, but I can't remember everything I read about all the stuff you did. So classification and description in a plugin is great idea! Speaking of plugin format and compatibility. I hope that one day plugins like BassAmp and DeBess will work on Windows ;)
For native M1 compatibility from the individual plugins that are found here, download the Signed disk images of either AUs or VST2s, and those have been Apple Silicon (and signed code) for some time :)
Again - made another comment on your pinned one - this is KILLER. Here is a thought... how would you feel if this became a sort of series-500 mini-rack plugin? It could have a rack-mode (it boots up in single-plugin mode, as in your vid, and then a user can switch to rack-mode from the settings). And then you can have 3-5 airwindows plugins in a series... and make your own airwindows strip! Change the order on the fly, have controls of multiple airwindows plugins simultaneously visible for tweaking... like Limiter6 from Tokyo Dawn Lab. This would be neat. Just brainstorming now and throwing suggestions (I have zero experience with coding/UI design, so I can't substantially contribute)... one can dream :D
I am going to run interference for Paul a bit here: he probably can do that! But he has all of Surge, ShortCircuit to also do. So, mull over your stuff, and take today to try out the new thing. This ain't going away! All my new 10-slider-or-less stuff goes in here, and it will continue to evolve but it should also be able to be stable and 'done', sort of. Today is a good day to make sure everything in the video works
@@airwindows thanks chris yeah! We had a similar request in the beta period, and I thought about a 'great big effects routing plugin' which had all the air windows and surge and short circuit effects. But then I realized I can set that up as channel strips in my daw and its a *lot* of work so I sort of parked it in my head as one to ponder but not do. Good idea, but quite a lot of work for something you can realized, perhaps more clumsily, in the proprietary daws. Saving and sharing a surge/shortcircuit/airwindows effects strip though was a pretty compelling idea. Just its part of a long list of compelling ideas :)
Paul, you're working on being able to put out Airwindows as a library of DSP effects anyone can use. If you do that and the same for Surge effects, then many people can build their own effect racks in their own ways, and it will be made easy for them :)
@airwindows definitely a HUGE library to mull over 😅 I follow the work being done for Surge XT, Shorcircuit (which I am SO looking forward to), so to have the Consolidated library/plugin being done amongst those is beyond my dreams. So thanks again, lot's of stuff to sink my teeth in for the following... months (and that's an understatement!). @baconpaul5772 you are the GOAT 🙏 💕. Besides that, I have no shortage of options to route stuff, especially in Reaper. Had to give my two pennies though 😅 Thanks again for all the great effort - and it's fruits! - to you and the Surge XT team 😁
Paul says, "Alright chris, here's the last 36 hours:
Support double precision processing if your host does, not just float, using the plugin processDoubleReplacing branch
Move the settings menu from the bottom of the filter menu to a "cog" settings menu in the lower left
In the settings menu, add an option to show or hide the documentation which is sticky
Make the 'Airwindows' footer text no longer a link which surprisingly would open a browser; move the visit airwindows link to the settings/about menu
Adjust to a particular use of the VST3/AU API in Renoise which caused AW Consolidated to deadlock/crash"
Renoise just had a bugfix release with fixes related to vst3's, does it still crash in the latest Renoise, if so please report in the bugforum.
This is revolutionary and shows the beauty of open source. The included documentation and the various ways to sort, filter and search are great solutions to allow effective sifting through your enormous library of plugins. Big fan of the "chris order" as a sort order.
Huge thanks to baconpaul, surge xt and you for making this possible
I'm glad you like Chris Order :) I lobbied for that one, because I felt some people would find it a lot more helpful than alphabetical order. Some folks really like alphabetical order, and if you know the names of the plugins and what they do, it's great. But, well, um, er :D the whole point of Chris Order is for ALL the people who have no idea what anything is. If you're just exploring, use that and go from top down :) then you can even use All Plugins, sort of! You can also affect Chris Order, Basic, and Recommended. Ask me to change them and they can be changed by popular demand without Paul having to recode anything.
@@airwindowsi love the chris order! It was always a challenge to pick the right aw plugin for me.. Ive been dreaming and requesting such guidence for some time now. Hope we get an analog emulation subgrouo witha chris order. Greetings and all the best
Considering the plugin size I thought it would be just a cool browser that scans airwindows plugs I already have... But no it's ALL OF THEM. This gives me a whole new appreciation to how lightweight those little effects are.
Yup! And it will continue to get all future plugins that will fit in it, which is where the Newest option comes in handy, you can get a new version after some time away, and find if anything you care about got an update of some sort :)
Wow, I totally missed the boat on this so far. What an astouding leap forward! Thank you Chris and Baconpaul and the Surge Team to bring such innovation to us. I'm stunned all this is now at my fingertips. I need to be sure I watch every video so I don't miss out :-)
Monumental news! Also this opens a new speedrun category: airwindows%, where the runner must install airwindows and launch the plugin in a DAW to stop the timer.
As a screen reader user, I thank you for collaborating with the Surge Synth Team not only to make this happen, but to make it accessible to our assistive technology. Even simply flipping through with the next preset button is enough to spark interest in certain AirWindows plugins I hadn't previously used. Just being able to do that, and make the association in my brain for later refinement is big enough, but to then be able to read the commentary within the plugin itself is huge.
as someone who recently discovered airwindows and was simultaneously very excited and very intimidated by the sheer quantity - i'm really looking forward to exploring with the help of AWC. thanks to all involved!
this is so fucking amazing. my struggle with your plugins was mostly knowing what they were right away without having to look it up which often broke the creative flow, and sometimes it was overwhelming to have 300+ plugins of yours and not using most of them. this is amazing, it's the piece that was missing. Thank you for your contribution to music, Chris, and thank you baconpaul for putting this together.
This is also where you can ask me to change Chris Order, or the Basic menu, or especially the Recommended menu. I can do that without Paul having to recode anything. So if you have suggestions for how those should go, make them or upvote them here and get more people to upvote the thing you're suggesting, because these are sort of community things, especially Recommended. It can include whatever you think is best! Let me know what should go there, if it's not there already :)
Hey hey! First of all, this is A-MA-ZING! I've been dreaming of this! Your plugins are awesome, but the sheer number of them - plus the individualitites of each one- made it cumbersome to explore! Having them collected all in one place WITH your descriptions is killer!
As for the menus... I think the concept of the orders looks cool as is, I'll definitely see as I work with Consolidated. How would you feel for a ''User'' menu though? A big part of the charm of airwindows is the ''mix-and-match-what-suits-you'' thing you can do with 400+ plugins.
I may need a couple of compressors, reverbs, utilites, etc for everyday use, and a dedicated user adjustable menu/collection (or multiple, user-named ones - though more far-fetched) would be very cool!
for me this looks good as it is and is amazing. since you make very specific vsts, its great to have all in a dropdown selector. i think for me the real next improvement would be, if i could select myself whats included when building the thing but i would expect that this is a big problem and out of scope.
@@LaymensLament Even just being able to hide certain plugins would work as space isn't much of a concern.
Interesting update!
Is it possible to add a button to enable or disable descriptions in plugins to save screen space? Something like [?] button. May be useful
This would require new programming to implement, I'm sure... But it would be really cool, eventually, to have the ability to make our own list of most used Airwindows plugins....
And especially in that mode, it would be really cool to also be able to go into small UI mode, once the plug-in is selected... With just the controls, no text (of course with the ability to enter search mode again and return to the larger GUI with a click)
Thank you for all the work you do. I realize a comment might not fully convey proper appreciation, but for what it's worth, a genuine thank you for giving tools to folks who want to make music that might not be financially able to afford much.
And a personal thank you in return… for also caring :)
"One small step for a man... one Giant Leap for AirWindows!" - So glad to see this happening. This is in one word: AWESOMENESS! (pretty sure that's a word)
Awesome. Finally, a one-plugin all algorithms thing. Not gonna lie, keeping up with all the stuff manually was a major PITA, especially when everything has vague or numeric iterations as naming schemes. Now I can just pull up the master Airwindows plugin and get to work using sound rather than load ten different things to see what'll work on the current project. Good on ya mate
Also glad to hear screen readers mentioned. Honestly, Surge is amazing in that area too. Paul and co did a lotta work so blindos can use this stuff too rather than endlessly faff about with poorly labeled automation parameters that only have half the parameters available in a synth plugin. So in other words, what a time to be alive.
Thx Chris and Paul and everyone.
Who better to be able to hear properly? :) I'm proud to be able to call on the expertise the Surge folks have brought to bear here. The instant I heard about it I was like 'wait, you can do THAT? Do it do it do iiittt!' :D As for the one-plugin part: that is why it now goes to the TOP of my list along with its Rack counterpart. I couldn't put it as first call when I made plugins and it was only for Rack, but now it's the go-to option. I will continue to make stuff as individual plugins for retro purposes and smaller machines :)
This is massive! Love the work you, SurgeXT and other people are doing!
Paul's told me this: "so maybe tomorrow at start of day you want to do a post or comment on the various socials about what we found and fixed day 1. That list is
All systems:
Add mousewheel support on the knobs. How could we have forgotten!
Further fix the problems involving the plugin not switching when audio processing wasnt running
Windows UI:
Menu follows HDPI status of the plugin and isn't tiny
Fixed a problem with font metrics which made all windows fonts too small, and low DPI ones unreadable
Linux:
Move the setting sfile from ~/AirwindowsConsolidated to ~/.config/AirwindowsConsolidated"
So there you go, that's the first day. We are agreed that Consolidated isn't going to become a multi-effects unit, and that we can't change the plugin name as shown in the DAW. Still, not bad for the first day of existence! Re-download it from the links at Github if any of these above problems seem like they'd be good to have fixed, because work is underway and often already done :)
This will be something to use in every project going forward
OMG, consolidated Airwindows is awesome. Dream comes true! Forget all the tons of other effect plugins with nice GUI's and weaker results, Airwindows covers really most of our needs!
As a visually impaired daw-user the screen reader support is more than welcome - it's a game changer. Thnx guys.
This might answer all of the issues I had with really giving Airwindows plugs a fair shot. I really appreciate the decision to include the information about the plugins, and most importantly the KNOBS! the sliders in reaper were killing me
THIS IS HUGE! If anyone is overwhelmed by just how many tools Chris makes, THIS is your ticket to Airwindows instant gratification. It's not just all-plugins-packaged-together etc, it's how quickly/smoothly you can fly though so many different 'flavors' of the same category (& I definitely appreciate Chris' recommendations lists :)
Also, if you're using a midi controller (for instance to control Ableton's Device Parameters) each time you click a new Airwindows tool here, the Parameters update on your controller as well.
You are an incredibly unique, generous, talented and fascinating individual! 🥹What a pleasure to exist at the same time as a genius like yourself! 🙌 This looks amazing! 🤩My personal brand of ADHD would otherwise have me drown in disarray, were I to pursue all of your plugins in standalone format! 😵💫 I look forward to arming myself with these ✨weapons of mass production✨, which you’ve so expertly crafted and cleverly consolidated for us! 😅 I salute you Chris, Paul & co.! 🫡
Thank you, Christopher Johnson. You are a godsend. It's a miracle, this Airwindows.
I literally thought of an AI assistant that could help with airwindows plugins and describing them, and then lo and behold you drop this a few weeks later. I am so happy.
just discovered your plugins this week... after years of dealing with pretentious brands and their plugins... like your stuff a lot and now this thing consolidated is so great!!... much respect from me
SO generous, thanks mate.
this is amazing! Hats of to you both! this really makes the airwindows library user friendly - especially for people new to your plugins or mixing. Also i don't have 400 individual Plugins cluttering my search (as if i hadn't 1000s of other Plugins lol). Next step could be a Soundtoys Effects-Rack style plugin and online preset sharing.
This way of using airwindows plugs is a gamechanger! So much fun. Thanks Chris for your never ending input to the music world. If there is one thing that would make this experience even more special is if you can make little chains of effects within Consolidated. Just an idea. Keep up the good work & thanks!
THE multi effect
I would suggest adding ability to save presets to individual plugins, so that a 100 plugins wouldn't have to share the same list of presets
What stops you doing that now? The preset contains the sub plugin identity so if you just use your daw preset librarian it should all work. I exposed the default setting of each effect as a factory preset
@@baconpaul5772 I am using Reaper 7 on windows 10 x64. I am not a very advanced user. I don’t know if I am doing it wrong and there is a better way to organize presets. What I am seeing is a long list of default presets for VST3 version and an empty list for CLAP version. Anyway, if I want to save my own presets, they are stored in the same common list, in order of there creation, regardless of the plugin they belong to. Unless I manually order the presets, they are making a huge mess.
Also, there is a bug in CLAP version: I can’t switch between presets that I saved. It’s locked on the first preset that I ever saved and doesn’t switch to any other. I still can navigate via plugin menu, but preset menu isn’t working. VST3 version works properly.
Baconpaul is my hero.
This is AMAZING!
(I would, ofc, love to be able to create chains/racks (like waves studiorack) and i assume (?) that i can hide the text, but otherwise (or even still)... absolutely brilliant! Super excited to d/l.)
I'm from Brazil and forgive my terrible English.
Congratulations on your extraordinary work in sharing it for free with everyone. God bless you!
Thank you so much for this, Chris and everyone else involved! I eventually got overwhelmed by your output when it got into the mid 200s and settled in to about a half dozen Airwindows plugins I use almost all the time (mainly different flavors of filtering and tape emulation) and maybe 10 more I use occasionally (mainly reverbs, saturation and compressors) but couldn't keep up with the new releases anymore. So I'm thrilled about this - if the only thing it did was make it easy to compare similar plugins or different versions of the same plugin quickly and seamlessly that would already be enough.
If there was a quick, automatic way to migrate all of my old projects over to this I wouldn't even keep the individual plugins installed anymore and I'm definitely going to use this format for everything except the Console series (which still makes more sense to use as individual plugins in template projects IMO) going forward.
This is amazing! Thank you Chris and Baconpaul!
Absolutely brilliant. This really simplifies the stuff that you've put out.
Well done Chris. Well done Paul and the Surge XT team.
This needed to be done for a while. I cannot keep track of the 100s of airwindows releases so much that I don't have them in my workflow anymore which is a shame because I know they offer so much potential. From a user POV it makes total sense that there is a suite version of plugins eg. Distortion suite which has all of the main distortions in there. Console suite, with all of those models. As artists and creators we need less options not more, having plugins that do more means we don’t need to know the ins and outs of 1000s of plugins and we can just do our jobs and focus again on making music instead of the technicals. But thats just one persons opinion of course! :-)
this is the coolest AirWindows plugin yet and shows how much you Chris are a legend to me and i'm dead sure many others alike ! some of the most fun producing has been with these plugins and it's exciting that I can read about them as I use them now because sometimes I was really just using my ears ! ;P
I was so used to downloading them all individually that I downloaded this like 12 times from github cause I didn't know it had existed until today hahah
congratulations on the milestone chris. i hope that many new people will be enjoying the AW experience in the next few weeks and months.
Son of a bit shift!
Next time you're late, I won't worry!
So now Airwindows plugins have a graphic UI .A.N.D. a spoken one. You went from no UI to what the future of UIs should be: focused on accessibility and freedom (screen reader, search engine, dark mode, user manual always visible [I had the same idea for my JSFX plugins, yay!], no Steinberg, no Apple...).
Thank you Paul (for Surge and for this) and, as usual, thank you Chris.
P.S.: Drowning amongst hundreds of plugins and fighting my way through them was part of the fun of discovering Airwindows. Plus it made me learn a lot about both mixing and coding.
So I wanna say to new comers (and I already hear the crowd running to this new appealing free stuff with thousands of sliders): just because you got given a swimming suit doesn't mean you don't have to swim anymore, it only means you don't have to drown either.
This is so useful! Over the past month or so, I've been focused on organizing everything in my physical and digital space to make it easier to spend more time doing the things I enjoy. I even started a list to try to keep track of new plugins for music production and mixing since. This will make keeping track of all the airwindows plugins so much easier! I don't use screen readers myself, but it's so wonderful that people who do now have that option. Everyone should be doing this!
big step for airwindows! thanks chris and baconpaul, and congrats!
This is *amazing* man, thank you so much!
thanks Chris and everyone involved, I've already found a couple new favorites thanks to consolidated :)
I'm not sure I've ever been so excited for something. This is so awesome. Thank you, Chris and anyone else that worked on this.
glad people have a streamlined way of using airwindows now
That's awesome Chris and a big thank you to Baconpaul! I use your plugins actively and I know there's no bypass button but this is the first time I've ever needed one. Other daw's have a bypass button somewhere in the plugin but in ableton you always have to move the mouse to the bottom. I know the solution is simple but a tiny bypass button in this beauty with all your plugins can save time and would be great for ableton users like me :)
In Ableton there are container devices with bypass button AFAIK. Couldn't you just put airwindows inside one of those?
this is genuinely amazing. thank you and baconpaul for this
Ahhh. I've been intrigued by Airwindows for a long time, but I've felt completely lost with it as I'm trying to learn things. This will certainly make it a lot easier to utilize the tools. Thank you!
Wow what a beautiful evolution of airwindows technology for the people !! Thanks Chris and Paul and everyone involved!!
Great work Chris. Thank you.
Giving it a try for sure, downloading now !
So wonderful to see all the excitement! And great video Chris!
Surge xt is incredible and so is this. Truly appreciate your efforts.
This is amazing! Glad to see others coming in & consolidating your work in a way that makes it less daunting for new people to start to try using it. Thank you to Surge XT!
Hi Chris, you really are the Great Wizard of music FXs, the Master Jedi of VSTs. How can you find so many incredible ideas for such original and inspiring FXs,? And you give them to us so generously. ( I love TapeDelay 1 & 2, Galactic, slewsonic ...) . They are so well thought, and subtly designed. Your VSTs are a gold mind to find a new sound. This Airwindows Consolidated is a fantastic idea. It works very well. Thank you very much Chris, and. take care.
This is one of the most beautiful and interesting things I’ve seen in music production. Thank you.
This is exactly what I needed, big up to botch of you good fellas!
Just moved to M2, clean install. You saved me, ty!
A very worthwhile effort for the Airwindows project that I'm sure will help folk use it better. Kudos for accessibility work.
I had those wallpapers. They are dynamic.
Also: great! Thanks!
I'm out of words and getting chills. Wow! How absolutely delightful! Thank you!
This is some remarkable stuff from audio engineering history right here.
I felt like starting to applause a few time during that video. Thank you for your work.
this is so cool, something I only dreamed of! also this is why open source is so so important... thank you so much chris and paul!
This is amazing stuff. Wanted this for years... LOVE
Although the UI is quite minimal, the sound quality and usage are pushed to the limit. Thank you for sharing this to the community ❤
Omgggg this is game changing!!! 😮😮😮😮😮😮 I just wanted this so much 👏👏👏👏 thank you soooo much
Thank you for your(everyone involved) work here!
Very cool!
Rack ui now in daw🙂 Great for exploration. Thanks Chris and Paul. TTS is something new i hope more developers make such great things
this is great!
Just thank god for people like you truly enamored by the beauty driven to create. Thank you good sir 🙏🏾
This is fantastic! The commentary helps so much. Thank you!
Thanks
It's something really well thought out. Simple but very genius! Just as a suggestion, being able to chain some plugins in the same instance is a very natural path to follow, even if more in the future. Thanks again for that!
Thanks!
Really cool to see this, definitely needed. Having a bit of trouble with it though, the plug-in isn't changing within Airwindows Consolidated - running an M1 Pro MacBook Pro on the latest version of MacOS.
Let me see if I can help. Are you using the menu to pick the new plugin? When you do that, if you hit play and have audio go through it, does it switch to the new one that you expected to get? Also, which sort are you using, CLAP, VST3 or AU? :)
@@airwindows ah, that's really interesting. Yep, the plug-in's are now changing when playback is active. Thank you!
Good! We'll look into whether there's something overlooked: I had a situation like that in one particular sound editor and Paul fixed it, so there might be a quiet lil' update this morning and then everything will update just as soon as you select the new thing, not only when playback is active :)
Yeah what’s your daw and operating environment? Basicalky if audio is running I need to do something different than if it is not when you change effect type but detecting if audio is not running is a wee bit tricky
very good improvement, i will re-install it, before that there were too many : it bloated the plugins list, and it was time consuming to go through it...thanks
This is a great idea. Great work CHris
So, if I download this plugin .... I will spent hours and hours trying things out und testing und hearing etc.
I will ...
Thanks for your work, Chris!
Awesome, thanks! Extra thanks for the screen reader support!
You Sir, are a redwood among mere sprouts.
oh wow. ive had these plugins in my list for so long but the sheer amount of them was so overwhelming i didnt really even know where to start
A total gamechanger, thank you Chris
The audio (-plugin) world is still benefiting far too little from the Open Source mindset in software, while demand as well as creativity are super high. Good to see that more and more audio technicians jump on the train. By open sourcing your content, you are not giving away anything for free (you can even sell open source software for money). Instead, you are exposing that stuff within an organized structure, that allows others to contribute to your craft, enabling them to improve it or to pull it into directions the author never even thought about, possibly emerging new craft ultimately. Which in turn you may or may not integrate within your craft. Its a winwin for everybody like in this case. Good job!
you sir are a legend
waiting for this for long 😊❤
AWESOME work! Thank you very much for this GREAT "plugin" of plugins!
I suggested this not because I was kooky, but because this is obvious. Airwindows is like beyond Eventide in a way. Next inevitable step I guess is a nifty chainer pane in the plugin. That ought to be _relatively_ easy now that the ball is rolling. Congrats on this collaboration.
The way I factored the code is actually into three parts. A headless neutral processing and params library with all the effects. A rack plugin that loads that. And a juce plugin that loads that. This means that, yes, a person who wanted to build a chainer and include all dsp could do so easily. I plan to write some cmake rules so you can build a subset library also (short circuit needs galactic but it doesn’t need to compile console7bus etc) for people to pick and choose.
I’m not gonna write a chainer plug in. I can chain fine in logic :) but if someone wants to and wants all of chrises code that’s now really easy and there’s a uniform api to the library.
@@baconpaul5772 That's rad. I figured however you thought this though, you would need a relatively easy way to keep up with Chris' plugins update schedule. I guess other than Eventide there's Kilohearts who has a multifx unit. I can't think of too many swiss army knife plugins of this magnitude though. Thanks for doing this! And thanks for reminding me about Shortcircuit, I need to get in there and play around with it.
@@intelligenceservices its amazing what you can do with a perl script and a pile of very regular dsp code but yeah indeed, the entire thing had to be automated otherwise it would fail. Chris literally pushes one button after he codes a new plugin and the whole thing updates automatically. That was quite a large bit of the work, actually.
@@baconpaul5772 where's the most appropriate place to make comments or suggestions? would it be the Surge Team discord?
Thank you so much for this Chris, incredible stuff, You are a legend man
Wowwww now I can use AirWindows inside Izotope RX this is huge!
I will download it just because of Chris Order! :)
Thanks! It's very handy. I know and use many of your plugins, but I can't remember everything I read about all the stuff you did. So classification and description in a plugin is great idea!
Speaking of plugin format and compatibility.
I hope that one day plugins like BassAmp and DeBess will work on Windows ;)
greatest plugin of all time hell yeah
The definition of "Multi-Effect". 😎
Thanks a ton for this! Also M1 compatibility is amazing!
For native M1 compatibility from the individual plugins that are found here, download the Signed disk images of either AUs or VST2s, and those have been Apple Silicon (and signed code) for some time :)
Simply amazing. Oh, and generous too. I would encourage all of us to be generous in return!!!
This is just amazing. Superb work, long live open source!
Chris, great job! The only one thing I wanted to ask you - to add oversampling to all plugins (x2 x8 x8 x16) PLEASE!!!
Amazing - super cool! Excited to try this out.
woww, again !! and always !! crazy work you re doing!! 💥
Bravo Chris and all involved. Effing BRAVO!
Such and awesome packet for your plugins!! as Always thanks for your amazing work!
Again - made another comment on your pinned one - this is KILLER.
Here is a thought... how would you feel if this became a sort of series-500 mini-rack plugin?
It could have a rack-mode (it boots up in single-plugin mode, as in your vid, and then a user can switch to rack-mode from the settings). And then you can have 3-5 airwindows plugins in a series... and make your own airwindows strip! Change the order on the fly, have controls of multiple airwindows plugins simultaneously visible for tweaking... like Limiter6 from Tokyo Dawn Lab. This would be neat.
Just brainstorming now and throwing suggestions (I have zero experience with coding/UI design, so I can't substantially contribute)... one can dream :D
I am going to run interference for Paul a bit here: he probably can do that! But he has all of Surge, ShortCircuit to also do. So, mull over your stuff, and take today to try out the new thing. This ain't going away! All my new 10-slider-or-less stuff goes in here, and it will continue to evolve but it should also be able to be stable and 'done', sort of. Today is a good day to make sure everything in the video works
@@airwindows thanks chris yeah!
We had a similar request in the beta period, and I thought about a 'great big effects routing plugin' which had all the air windows and surge and short circuit effects. But then I realized I can set that up as channel strips in my daw and its a *lot* of work so I sort of parked it in my head as one to ponder but not do. Good idea, but quite a lot of work for something you can realized, perhaps more clumsily, in the proprietary daws.
Saving and sharing a surge/shortcircuit/airwindows effects strip though was a pretty compelling idea. Just its part of a long list of compelling ideas :)
Paul, you're working on being able to put out Airwindows as a library of DSP effects anyone can use. If you do that and the same for Surge effects, then many people can build their own effect racks in their own ways, and it will be made easy for them :)
@airwindows definitely a HUGE library to mull over 😅 I follow the work being done for Surge XT, Shorcircuit (which I am SO looking forward to), so to have the Consolidated library/plugin being done amongst those is beyond my dreams. So thanks again, lot's of stuff to sink my teeth in for the following... months (and that's an understatement!).
@baconpaul5772 you are the GOAT 🙏 💕. Besides that, I have no shortage of options to route stuff, especially in Reaper. Had to give my two pennies though 😅 Thanks again for all the great effort - and it's fruits! - to you and the Surge XT team 😁
More documentation on what Each knob does and each plug-in would be super great. And how to use them.