SPL Transient Designer Plus – Plugin Alliance.Below is a list of others on the market not listed above: While all the products above I have personally used, there are many others not mentioned here and I encourage reader feedback if there are those with particular favorites. Transify – Reveal Transient Processor from JST Price: $299 (bundled with Neutron 2 Standard) Once Neutron has found a stable and transparent place for the cutoffs, the Learn function will disable automatically. In Learn Mode the plugin searches for natural crossover cutoff points using a few criteria, including minima in the spectrum. When enabled, the LFE Bypass will ensure that any audio information in the LFE channel is passed through unprocessed, but with the correct latency compensation. The best mode for adding large amounts of sustain.Īn LFE bypass button appears when Neutron is loaded in either a 5.1 or 7.1 surround configuration. LOOSE: Slowest transient recovery time for all types of material. Fairly quick attack and medium release time when recovering from one transient to the next. BALANCED: Middle ground of the three modes. Most accurate and responsive when adding or removing attack to a signal. PRECISE: Fastest recovery time to the next transient. Price: $39Ī powerful multiband transient shaper with selectable response curves (sharp, medium, smooth), a summing function that will mono-ize the input, polarity inversion button and three different shaping algorithms: It is part of Kilohearts Snapin Eco-System I recently reviewed here. kiloHearts Transient Shaperĭon’t let the low price fool you, this is an extremely responsive and ultra simple plugin with mouse-over help comments that will have you getting great results in seconds. Then it’s just a matter of picking the one that suits your needs.īelow are some excellent choices you might consider (in no particular order). If you’ve neglected using a transient designer in the past, give one a try and I guarantee you’ll be hooked. More feature-rich plugins will add multiband capability or surgical FFT-based manipulation. I’ve had great success adding bite and punch to synth parts and truly any transient-based sample can benefit from this sort of processing.įundamentally, these effects operate by giving the user separate control over the attack and decay portions of a transient. And there is no need to limit their use to percussion parts.

Transient Designer plugins are really fun! They can instantly transform a dull and lifeless drum or percussion part into something that really pops, creating a dynamic and living part that can give you that cutting edge you’ve been looking for.

Transient master vst free