Couldn't tell you - it's part of the "consolidated" pack I DLd recently.

(just looked and it seems to be about 6yrs old)

mdc wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 4:51 pm Couldn't tell you - it's part of the "consolidated" pack I DLd recently.

(just looked and it seems to be about 6yrs old)

Ah, that's not surprising. There's so many airwindows plugins with silly names and controls and esoteric explanations, it's hard to know what to look for sometimes.

Barbo wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 6:41 pm

seby wrote: One of my thesis students just rebuilt an Airwindows plugin from scratch in Rust (as opposed to C++). Solid effort and the guy is going places. He has documented everything and I shall share it here when it is ready.

I would very interested in seeing this. I know Rust very minimally. But have always been curious about plugin coding and have been too lazy to do much exploration.

Jon

Okay this is done and open source. Have at it:

https://gearspace.com/board/music-compu ... st17731680

Christ every time this comes up I remember I need to get situated with the dithering stuff.

I am sort of convinced that tracks in * Reaper (edit) w/ plugins don’t sound as good after freezing, or it sounds best when you’re monitoring the outboard processing live. Could be psychological, I don’t know, could be the way I am monitoring but it’s kind of bothering me.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2026 1:17 pmCould be psychological,

Could be. For a long time I thought so too, and also that the rendered song sounded different than when monitoring playback. I just stopped caring because if it's true the differences are so tiny that I can't really say it is "worse" or "better" and only sort of tell it is different at all f I squint my mind. A/Bing Dithering is too deep a hole for me to start digging and I don't think it would spark joy.

Kniferide wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2026 4:35 pmA/Bing Dithering is too deep a hole for me to start digging and I don't think it would spark joy.

Haha. I just had one of those moments. I bought something on Reverb and the company sent me the wrong item (which turned out to be a whole thing so I am being vague), so I had a fancy 500 series preamp to test out for a couple days. By the time I aligned everything with test tones and mic splitters and stuff I could have been well on my way to tracking something.

There was hardly a lick of difference between my cheapish Spectra mic preamp and the other one. I couldn’t even test it in overdrive because the other pre was already so gainy with a tube condenser mic on vocals. At the end I saved the session and made a note warning against going down that rabbit hole again.

But maybe if I just add dithering into my practice
It could dissuade me from worrying about it further, but I could at least give it a try. Just not a priority vs actually finishing stuff.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2026 6:23 pm There was hardly a lick of difference between my cheapish Spectra mic preamp

I've done a lot of A/B tests with every preamp I have and unless I'm pushing them into the red, they are basically interchangeable. Any differences are tiny and nothing an eq cant adjust for. The only preamp I have that instantly sounds significantly special is my weird little Precision Audio / Grommes tube mic mixer which sounds fantastic, and my trusty modified Shure M67's which just sound cool on stuff in a kinda lofi way. Preamps mostly fall into Bad / Good, and "That sounds kinda cool" as far as how I pick them.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2026 1:17 pm Christ every time this comes up I remember I need to get situated with the dithering stuff.

I am sort of convinced that tracks in Reverb w/ plugins don’t sound as good after freezing, or it sounds best when you’re monitoring the outboard processing live. Could be psychological, I don’t know, could be the way I am monitoring but it’s kind of bothering me.

There are months of fun in the dithering black hole : )