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.

http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.php?item=2&subItem=4

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

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

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/transient_shaper_by_schaack_ audio_technologies

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

This is pretty good:

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

49€+VAT

- Ah, Filter303 beat me to it..
Last edited by sonicpowa on Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:05 am; edited 1 time in total

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!

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

Bittersweet II by Flux is free and does the job.

Something new:

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

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

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.

**** me.

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

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Last edited by samsam on Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:31 am; edited 1 time in total

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.

+ 1

Use this a lot!!

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.