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Transient Shapers
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:45 pm
by k_k
Anyone know of any good free ones?
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:32 pm
by futures_untold
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:39 pm
by macc
Flux Bittersweet is probably the best free one around.
Other than that, UAD SPL Transient Designer (which
actually has magic fairies in it) and Voxengo Transmodder are the best for me

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:35 pm
by ketamine
Macc wrote:UAD SPL Transient Designer
It
looks amazing, but... what the h3ll does it
do? In english?? LOL It's just some sort of envelope? Compressor? Site's not very clear if you don't already know what you're looking at, which I don't, they're about to loose a sale...
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:40 pm
by ketamine
Ketamine wrote:Macc wrote:UAD SPL Transient Designer
It
looks amazing, but... what the h3ll does it
do? In english?? LOL It's just some sort of envelope? Compressor? Site's not very clear if you don't already know what you're looking at, which I don't, they're about to loose a sale...
Nevermind,
this site explained it better (I suggest anybody else going

read it too)
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:11 am
by macc
It's less digital sounding than all the other TDs I have here, I tell you that

Especially when using it for overcompression effects with raising the sustain level. BAD BAD BAD plugin, a real fave.
BTW I'm selling a UAD-1 PCI card for 70 quid (no plugins though) if anyone is interested

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:10 am
by Brisance
Can someone tell me why it's better to use some memory and CPU hogging expensive-as-fuck bling-bling gear full of faeries, if I can use one of these:

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:14 am
by macc
What is that?
Well, obviously it is an envelope generator, but where from?

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:16 am
by Brisance
FL's built-in sampler's volume envelope

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:29 am
by macc
What if you want to increase the punch and/or sustain of every hit in an audio loop? Or increase the verb of a choral sample? Or increase the amount of 'pluck' in a bass guitar recording of an entire song (which is what I use it most for)? Or increase the sustain/fatness of a snare drum without using compression?
etc
BTW 'chop it up and edit each hit in the sampler' is only an answer to the audio loop bit - and even then you'll have a hard time increasing sustain

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:29 am
by Sharmaji
^ not a transient designer for audio, though close in practice.
flux's bittersweet is very cool-- especially for a freebie-- but it's not the balls-to-the-wall smack/suck machine that the SPL and good digi versions are. I like logic's OK for boosts, but love it for cuts. the sonnox one is quite nice as well.
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:36 am
by macc
TeReKeTe wrote:balls-to-the-wall smack/suck machine that the SPL and good digi versions are.

Nicely put

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:26 pm
by futures_untold
Macc wrote:UAD SPL Transient Designer - Actually has magic fairies in it....
Technology these days!!!

Re: Transient Shapers
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:21 pm
by Roswell
Guitar rig 5 has a good transient shaper if i'm not mistaken. It don't have fairies inside though

Re: Transient Shapers
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 2:10 am
by nowaysj
Hey, I remember this thread!
I posted in this thread back in the day, but all my posts got deleted. I'VE BEEN ERASED.
Re: Transient Shapers
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 8:57 pm
by wormcode
nowaysj wrote:Hey, I remember this thread!
I posted in this thread back in the day, but all my posts got deleted. I'VE BEEN ERASED.
BTW, SPL make native versions of their hardware/plugins now, including the Transient Designer ones. They gave out a free version of Attacker a while back which is pretty great. I suspect they hold up well against the UAD version, probably the same minus the CPU hit. I didn't notice anything different, but I didn't really A/B.