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Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 12:45 pm

Hi guys

What's been your experiences with the various transient designers out there?

I'd like to get the SPL but I am wondering if there is something out there just as good but cheaper?

Schwa Sculpto? Or Stillwell transient monster?

I am aware I can demo these and I will get round to it but some of you have probably done the transient designer hunt already.

I've read before that the cheaper ones just don't cut it.

Holophonic · Post by **Holophonic** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 12:56 pm

http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.p ... &subItem=4

Check out this one, its the best one i know of on the cheap, its really good imo.

filter303 · Post by **filter303** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:03 pm

I compared a whole bunch of plugins before I ended up getting this:

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/transie ... chnologies

try it out, you might be surprised how good it is.

sonicpowa · Post by **sonicpowa** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:04 pm

This is pretty good:

http://www.schaack-audio.com/transientshaper.html

49€+VAT

- Ah, Filter303 beat me to it..

Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:04 pm

oh my goodness, look at the price of transient designer and twin tube, i am sure they used to be $99 before plugin alliance. Now they are twice that!

Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:05 pm

filter303 wrote:I compared a whole bunch of plugins before I ended up getting this:

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/transie ... chnologies

try it out, you might be surprised how good it is.

Oh yes I've seen this once before. Will check it out!

bronxsound · Post by **bronxsound** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:09 pm

Bittersweet II by Flux is free and does the job.

sonicpowa · Post by **sonicpowa** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:10 pm

Something new:

http://www.soniqware.com/products-picoseries.htm

but it appears to have attack/release transient processing in 2 different plugins (?!)

Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:12 pm

I like the different curve options, those are always very useful. This looks really good, will try it out later. I don't think I've seen a shaper before with different curve choices. Unless Sculpto does that too.

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:12 pm

Aiynzahev wrote:oh my goodness, look at the price of transient designer and twin tube, i am sure they used to be $99 before plugin alliance. Now they are twice that!

**** me.

When did this happen? They're on my list too.

samsam · Post by **samsam** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:14 pm

extrabigmehdi · Post by **extrabigmehdi** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:15 pm

The spl transient designer , adds a pleasing quality to the sound.
A bit like auto tune with the voice.
I found that the transient designer doesn't work as good with big sampling rates.

Also, I don't like effects that rely on a threshold , or on compression.
SPL transient allow powerful results with only two knobs.
If you combine crossover vst, and/or msed , with transient designer, you win lot of flexibility.

dennisjr · Post by **dennisjr** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:15 pm

sonicpowa wrote:This is pretty good:

http://www.schaack-audio.com/transientshaper.html

49€+VAT

+ 1

Use this a lot!!

Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:16 pm

sonicpowa wrote:Something new:

http://www.soniqware.com/products-picoseries.htm

but it appears to have attack/release transient processing in 2 different plugins (?!)

Yeah, that's $80 for both. Interesting company though. They have a plug similar to the waves designer, though maybe more complex. Multiband transient designer. Bit over my budget though.

I will try the flux one again, that's on the to-demo list. It's free anyway like you said.

I tried a bunch of the free ones out a while ago and don't remember being satisfied, I may have not been judging them properly though.

Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:22 pm

Mushy Mushy wrote:
Aiynzahev wrote:oh my goodness, look at the price of transient designer and twin tube, i am sure they used to be $99 before plugin alliance. Now they are twice that!

**** me.

When did this happen? They're on my list too.

I know it's horrible. I don't like plug-in alliance, they are so expensive and I don't think they are really better than everyone else.

Anyway, shame about the twintube, however if you ask me the very best tube emulation I've ever heard was WaveArts TubeSat. I wan't to buy that sometime. Someone was selling it here for $50 not long ago. Should have picked it up its a steal at that price.

http://wavearts.com/products/plugins/tube/

Don't worry about the CPU usage, just get around it somehow. I typically never like "tube" or "saturation" plug-ins but this one really sounds good.

Transient Designer on the cheap