Airwindows Pear2: Free Mac/Windows/Linux/Pi AU/VST/Rack

[jinxtigr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXNQrvMJ3vo

TL;DW: Pear2 is my Pear filter plus nonlinearity.

Pear2.zip(499k)

Turns out I got more use out of Pear than anybody else… until now.

Pear (as a plugin) is real experimental. It's got fixed cutoff points based on bit shifting, to see what that was like and whether it would maximize tone purity. Maybe it did (you've got it already so you're free to check it out). It's got a Poles control, but it's not meant to be a sweepy synth filter, it was purely an experiment on things I could do with the Holt algorithm.

Turns out you can have a lot more fun with it when you turn it loose.

Pear2 doesn't restrict the frequencies. In fact it smooths the control, specifically so you can sweep it. You can sweep everything except Poles: there's a switch on that, but you get to add WAY more poles than before.

And then there's the Nonlin control… and now it's time to get gnarly.

This doesn't have a distortion circuit! As filthy as it can get, none of that is from distortion or saturation. It's purely from the same nonlinearity calculation present in Capacitor2, in BiquadNonlin, and so on. That is applied here to a completely different algorithm based on Holt, and the more poles you add to the gnarly brew, the weirder it gets. You can use this for a really vibey analog-style EQ (high or low shelf: I'll be using it as a crossover) or you can push it until it's making a sound that has not been heard before.

So if you liked weirdness like the Y series filters, this is your new toy. Back next week with…

…more.

Yeah, let's just call it 'more'

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[jamcat]

The nonlin makes it sound like a cassette tape after getting eaten by the tape player.

[enroe]

The nonlin makes it sound like a cassette tape after getting eaten by the tape player.

Yes, but this effect is so unique today that DJ and EDM makers are craving it!

[jinxtigr]

The nonlin makes it sound like a cassette tape after getting eaten by the tape player.

I can't tell if this is a criticism, but now that you've said it I can expect that at least some people are going to demand I make exactly that

[jamcat]

The nonlin makes it sound like a cassette tape after getting eaten by the tape player.

I can't tell if this is a criticism

Not a criticism, just an observation. Because at certain settings (Freq down , Nonlin up), that’s exactly what it sounds like to me. I know the horror and the heartbreak all too well.

And with automation, you could give the listener the experience of having their tape getting eaten in real-time. There’s nothing more authentically analogue than that!