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Exhile · Post by **Exhile** » Wed May 04, 2011 11:50 am

That is still not going to convince me. I hardly use gates and if i do its just to keep out some artifacts or to tighten ip a loop. I can do that just fine with al the other gates available. I guess they will add a nice display so you can visually see what the gate is doing...

Waker · Post by **Waker** » Wed May 04, 2011 2:46 pm

Great. Fabfilter makes good plugins, which are very usefull. I was tempted by the golden gate, but then Kjaerhus disapeared. The Sonalksis gate is too expensive. If it can compete with the UAD 88rs gate, then I'm game.

evanclay · Post by **evanclay** » Wed May 04, 2011 6:28 pm

I'm always interested in a new FF product, but... Can anybody help me out and explain other (maybe more creative) uses for a gate other than cutting audio at a certain threshold or time interval? As far as I know, that is all a gate really does. Very simple tool, right?

milosh_ · Post by **milosh_** » Wed May 04, 2011 7:00 pm

evanclay wrote:I'm always interested in a new FF product, but... Can anybody help me out and explain other (maybe more creative) uses for a gate other than cutting audio at a certain threshold or time interval? As far as I know, that is all a gate really does. Very simple tool, right?

Yep
U're wright, but...
as we know every gate just like every compressors can have it's own "character"
This is because of signal detection differences, gating curves, sidechaining possibilities etc.

one of the most popular creative ways of using it is putting a gate after the reverb

Orchidius · Post by **Orchidius** » Wed May 04, 2011 7:04 pm

Waker wrote:Great. Fabfilter makes good plugins, which are very usefull. I was tempted by the golden gate, but then Kjaerhus disapeared. The Sonalksis gate is too expensive. If it can compete with the UAD 88rs gate, then I'm game.

Hold on! Wait for the one within preFIX

@midnight · Post by **@midnight** » Wed May 04, 2011 7:39 pm

the waves ssl gate is what i use, since its in the channel strip. it works well when I need a gate, which is rarely.

Dr.Gunjah · Post by **Dr.Gunjah** » Wed May 04, 2011 7:54 pm

Somewhat disappointing unless it does something really freaky for a gate.
Especially if it's on the same price tag like their other stuff from the "Pro" series.
By no means would I pay 150€ for a gate.

Cheers,
Doc

Laguna Rising · Post by **Laguna Rising** » Wed May 04, 2011 8:05 pm

Weird. I hope that's not expensive
I look forward to it

ZenPunkHippy · Post by **ZenPunkHippy** » Wed May 04, 2011 8:06 pm

Who says it's a gate? It could be a Pro-Gooderiser ... full of magic pixie dust WIN ...

Dr.Gunjah · Post by **Dr.Gunjah** » Wed May 04, 2011 8:57 pm

from the fabfilter forum:

New plug-in: Pro-G available?

See download section

Flexible gate/expander (version 1.00 - Apr 28, 2011)

geroyannis · Post by **geroyannis** » Wed May 04, 2011 9:13 pm

Liero wrote:I'm unable to use a "pretty capable" gate after kjaerhus golden gate and the sonalksis gate. But I expect that Pro-G will crush all of them and become the gate of all gates.

It seems you didn't even take a look at the suggested ReaGate. I don't see what more you got in Sonalksis and Kjaerhus. ReaGate even has some exclusive features, like wet/dry mix.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Wed May 04, 2011 9:21 pm

I'm pretty excited to see what this is all about, TBH. Not only a gate, but also an expander, with FabFilter's creative thinking and excellent GUI on top of that - could be a winner IMO. Knowing those guys, I expect that it will be usable for conventional gating/expanding applications, as well as a creative one (e.g., trance gate effects, triggered by MIDI perhaps). Of course, price will be a big factor.

Cordelia · Post by **Cordelia** » Wed May 04, 2011 9:23 pm

Sidechaining a gate is way more fun than sidechaining a compressor. I'm hoping gates become more popular, they've been neglected for too long.

You know, Voxengo Voxformer has a really full featured multi-band gate inside. It is truly the king of gates. All kinds of fun can be had by sidechaining/gating certain frequency bands and automating release times.

Anyway, more power to FabFilter. I'm sure they'd like to offer a complete tool set, and any gate they make will be a nice addition.

bbaggins · Post by **bbaggins** » Thu May 05, 2011 12:59 am

Does a market even exist for a $200 gate?

I was really hoping their next product would be a multiband compressor.

psylevation · Post by **psylevation** » Thu May 05, 2011 2:39 am

I hope Fabfilter make a gate plugin, I love everything else by them and I'm in the market for a good gate plugin anyway

FabFilter Pro-G ???