attackallmonsters Radiostation

Radiostation

A medium wave receiver as an audio effect. The signal is transmitted on an AM carrier, sent across a simulated band of fading, hiss, lightning, neighbouring transmitters and mains hum, and picked up again by a set with an IF filter, an envelope detector, an AGC and an output transformer. The radio-frequency path is modelled as a complex baseband, so the behaviour follows from the physics: tuning off centre distorts the detector, narrowing the bandwidth removes a neighbour along with the top end, and a loud programme pushes the noise floor down because the receiver rides its own gain. The stereo image comes from two receivers on independently fading paths.

Two plugins from one engine: a studio version exposing every parameter across three pages, and a pedal version with one knob per control and eight presets. The studio version supports 4 channel output. Output 3/4 is the pure wet output.

Format: LV2 · Platform: Linux, x86_64 and ARM · Licence: GPL-3.0, source available Requires: X11 for the editor, libfftw3-single3, liblilv-0-0, libcairo2, libx11-6.

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Installation

Each ZIP contains one LV2 bundle, a .lv2 folder.

For your user account:

mkdir -p ~/.lv2 unzip radiostation.lv2.zip -d ~/.lv2 unzip radiostation_pedal.lv2.zip -d ~/.lv2.

For all users, use /usr/local/lib/lv2 instead and prefix the unzip lines with sudo.

Restart your host, or make it rescan its plugin list. The two plugins appear as Radiostation and Radiostation Pedal.

Requirements. Linux on x86_64. Most hosts already pull these in; on a minimal system:

sudo apt install libfftw3-single3 liblilv-0-0 libcairo2 libx11-6.

The editor needs X11 or XWayland. Without it the plugin still loads and runs, but the host shows generic controls instead of the panel.

Uninstall: delete the two .lv2 folders you unpacked.