I'm Chris from Airwindows. I've recently done a bunch of work on extending what's possible in slew clipping and slew softclipping, and I'm about to do my level

I'm Chris from Airwindows. I've recently done a bunch of work on extending what's possible in slew clipping and slew softclipping, and I'm about to do my level best to provide legit big-analog-console sounds ITB as open source free software: that is through minimal but unorthodox DSP to target the end state of the sound rather than putting up GUIs and then using traditional DSP to imitate every last analog step in the process. A recent milestone is Console Zero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDAZTEUtSpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDAZTEUtSpk which is a bit of a radical experiment in applying only such mathematical calculations that preserve the mantissa of the floating-point value being worked on (where possible). This led to a 'switched' panner with a completely different (or absent!) pan law, in which every pan position retains the mantissa of the audio word, for an LCR-like effect where you also get a mid-right and mid-left position plus a whole array of increasingly hard-panned positions. baconpaul from the Surge Synth project has helped me extend my codebase to things like VCV Rack support and is generally pleased with the relentless consistency of my code library (especially the VST2s which are all stereo and have no control variation beyond 0-1 inputs) and my ability to write notes and descriptions in such a way that he can write code to parse that and do things like bring all the plugins, INCLUDING what documentation they have, into a single package via elaborate scripting. As a rule I put out a new open-source plugin under the MIT license every week. I am paid a bit over minimum wage by my Patreon, and if I didn't need or want to get studio gear to use and study, that would cover my cost of living handily :)