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

[jinxtigr]

TL;DW: Disintegrate is Discontinuity on steroids.

Disintegrate in Airwindows Consolidated under 'Effects' (CLAP, AU, VST3, LV2)
Disintegrate.zip (509k) standalone(AU, VST2)

So what if you had a distortion that wasn't actually about distortion?

Disintegrate extends Discontinuity to the point of total unreality.

This algorithm was invented to emulate the asymmetrical compression of air, and already exists in Discontinuity and ConsoleX. You set it according to what at the point of clipping, would be the physical loudness in air, and it applies a delay modulation that distorts the sound. It's meant to reproduce what happens when a huge rocket launch, heard from miles away, turns into strange air crackles (a natural phenomenon having to do with pressure discontinuities in the speed of sound). This happens in all sound transmitted through air, all of the time, and Discontinuity scales it appropriately.

Thing is, Discontinuity is designed to sound nice and not too crazy. So… why not go for broke?

All the controls on Disintegrate are things that are under the hood on Discontinuity. It's designed to let you get inappropriate noises, unnatural sounds. Typically it sounds like distortions, but it's not: it's a stack of modulating delay lines, but rather than modulating by an LFO, the sound's modulated by itself, over and over. When you get into distortion-like edge, that's mostly the frequencies stacking up, though it does have the ability to overdrive internally. In particular, Disintegrate takes pains to overdrive internally, the better to sonically obliterate and destroy.

Hope you like Disintegrate! I'll work on more realistic things soon!

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[whassup]

Cool! I like your freaky saturation/overdrive/softeners/fattener plugins.
Discontinuity on steroids, yes! Much appreciated.
After quite some fun with Discontinuity now this.
Could easily become one of my new favourites.

[thecontrolcentre]

Thanks jinxtigr ...

[RipleySterling]

Been a little bit since I checked out your plugins, this sounds great, looking forward to trying it.

[Borion]

Cool and unique sound design tool. Thank you Sir!

[DJErmac]

Hi,

I have an effect suggestion for you Chris, if you like the idea. If it seems impossible just forget about it.

Think of what happens when you snap a guitar harder and harder. Think of what happens when you hit a piano keyboard harder and harder. Think of what happens using a harp. The sound seems harder, with more harmonics, snapier... And if you play gently, the sound if soft, of course.

Do you think you could create a plugin that mimics this behaviour so we can apply the same concept to any sound you feed in ? I mean : with a slider (or maybe several), you could make any synth sound like you’re hitting your keyboard harder or lower, so you could create virtual surreal instruments starting from any sound...

And I’m not talking distorsion. A piano doesn’t distort as you play harder. It adds components to the sound. Not only transients, not only more or less treble, like most synths use the adsr filter trick. Maybe by adding and lowering harmonics, playing with transients, adding and lowering noise, playing with the harmonic content of the sound... I don’t know... Do you think you could create something like that ?

Anyway, if somebody can do it, I’m sure it’s you.