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Key Features
Sonnox Oxford Drum Gate (Native) is a precise and transparent drum gate that's powered by intelligent adaptive processors. Delivering punchy and musical drums, regardless of what's thrown at it, Oxford Drum Gate is the next-generation gate plug-in designed specifically for drums. Separating unwanted bleed from your drum recordings, Oxford Drum Gate is comprised of three independent tabs that offer a streamlined workflow including Detection, Decay and Leveller. Each tab is designed to alleviate the problems associated with traditional gate plug-ins, with a Match Drum-type transient detection tailor-made for bass drums, snare drums and toms as well as frequency-dependent decay times and audio leveller.
Avoiding issues from typical gates on drums that cause 'chatter' from inaccurate threshold levels, unnatural decay times, choking of ghost notes, Sonnox Drum Gate preserves the sound and feel of a live drum kit for modern and professional tones. The perfect solution for contemporary drummers, producers and mixing engineers, Oxford Drum Gate lets you address issues related to poorly recorded drums in non-ideal studios with unrivalled accuracy and speed.
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Standing out from the crowd of noise gates on the market, the Oxford Drum Gate employs unique intelligent algorithms to create an adaptive response that's program-dependent. Pushing the envelope on what's possible, the Oxford Drum Gate includes drum-type detection algorithms to tailor the response of your gating depending on if you're inputting a bass drum, snare or tom. Dynamic beats, backbeats, ghost notes, and cymbal bleed are all intelligently and effectively removed whilst maintaining the timbre and delivering a natural decay to your drum performance.
Using the Detection tab, Oxford Drum Gate provides a graphical display of the transients of your input track with a commonly-found selection of parameters including threshold level. Used in tandem with the threshold control is the Match Selection algorithm, telling Drum Gate if you've inputted a bass drum, snare or tom to match the profile of the transients. Not always will the drum type fit the offered Match Selection drum types and this is where the Learn Unmatched Control comes in. Here, Oxford Drum Gate will listen and adapt to your source to provide a more accurate gating experience.
A consistent issue with traditional gates is that the decay parameters often cut out the musicality of your sound with poorly tuned decay settings. Oxford Drum Gate (Native) ensures that you can maintain the natural sound of your source, even from the natural ring of your toms or snare. Developed using an adaptive algorithm, Oxford Drum Gate lets you focus on the frequency content of your sound in real-time, according to the velocity of each detected hit and adjust the decay naturally.
Displayed in a waterfall-style plot showing where the energy of the audio track is, you can hone in on a specific region of frequencies to produce the sound you need for your sessions. Ideal for the shells of a drumkit, you can steer the release of the gate to the lows, low-mids and upper midrange without letting any upper frequencies from cymbal bleed influence your drum. Complete with a master gain control, the Decay section allows you to blend the gated signal against the dry signal much like a traditional noise gate.
The final tab within Oxford Drum Gate addresses one of the main drawbacks of conventional gates when working with dynamic performance - the level of the soft hits. Improving the consistency of the drummer's performance is key to creating modern and professional sounds with powerful and punchy hits across the entire performance. The Leveller tab ensures that you can conform louder main hits and softer background ghost notes independently with two separately controlled target levels.
Ideal for dynamic drummers with lots of ghost notes to add excitement and movement to performances as well as for non-consistent drummers recorded in poor environments, the Leveller tab is the final piece of the puzzle. Heavily gated drums that isolate the sound away from bleed can mean that your softer notes get lost within the mix. Setting the target threshold for both loud and soft hits using the sliders and graphic interface for reference, you can then set the maximum amount of levelling required. Too much and you will lose the groove and bounce of the track, too little and the volume of the dynamic notes won't be heard above the mix. Getting this balance right will bring up the level of the softer hits whilst retaining all the dynamics to create a professional and consistent drum sound.
In modern drum production, it's not uncommon to reinforce your sound with a pre-mixed sample to gain consistency and power across every hit in a performance. Naturally, most gates when working with pre-mixed samples will choke notes and create a stuttering effect due to the low thresholds needed for natural acoustic recordings. Oxford Drum Gate takes care of this and lets you confidently retain the dynamics from the original performance, even when using drum samples! Simply trigger the MIDI functionality within Drum Gate and the intelligent algorithm will adapt to your sound source.
"This is a great one-stop-shop of a plugin. Drum gate achieves what I’ve been trying to do with 3 separate plug-ins and more" - Andy Sneap (Killswitch Engage, Bullet for My Valentine, Megadeth, Opeth)
"Best rack and floor sound I've got in a long time, thanks to the decay settings" - Alex Archer (Sigrid, Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs)
"Never isolated bass drum and snare drum so easily with such accuracy. Even subtle ghost notes in a very dynamic jazz performance!" - Nils Hahmann (Abbey Road Institute lecturer)
