simple free gating for drums?

[rpc9943]

Hey any suggestions? (free simple gating program to eliminate any sounds under xdB)

tried floorfish but didnt seem to do it... Where do I look?

Thx
RonC

[smart]

slimslowslider's autogate works well.

[shamann]

slimslowslider has a sidechain gate worth checking out, too.

[greendoor]

Real or sampled drums? If samples, it's much better to do this in the sampler, or with midi. A cool trick is to make use of a blank wave in your drum player. For example, you might have a snare with a huge reverb. Assign the snare, and the blank wave to the same mute/choke group. Then - use a midi note to the blank wave, which will effectively choke the snare exactly where you want it. I think the timing of the release of gated effects is critical to the groove, so this gives you the control you need - which still works if you change the tempo. Of course a midi gate can do a similar effect too.

[Sascha Franck]

Good suggestion, greendoor - it's just that choke/mute groupings might cut off the sound in a too much abrupt manner - so probably setting up proper envelopes would still be the better choice.

[greendoor]

Yeah - that's a fairly '80's trick that isn't too subtle. I would like to see a midi gate with ADSR (or draw your own curves) that could be synced to host (optional). Imagine if you could design your own preset curves - e.g. for a kick drum - wait for 1 16th note, slowly ramp up for 3 x 16th notes, hold for a 1/4 note then fade to nothing by the end of the bar (for example). Then be able to apply that effect to your reverb tail, regardless of tempo.

[PeterL]

RonC, maybe the free GreenGate will do it:
http://www.greenmachine.pwuq.net/html/download.html
If you want side-chain gating (gating triggered by another audio track) I recommend Compadre Beatpuncher. Just use it in 'Shaper' mode with very high ratio (attack,release at your taste). Then simply adjust the threshold where the gate should set in.
http://otiumfx.com/compadre.php#
Of course this can also be done with the free SlimSlowSlider Sidechain compressor or Sidechain Gate:
http://www.ismusic.ne.jp/slim_slow_slid ... index.html

[.jon]

Hey any suggestions? (free simple gating program to eliminate any sounds under xdB)

tried floorfish but didnt seem to do it... Where do I look?

Thx
RonC

Maybe the floorfish is better with vocals, then, cause I think it's freaking perfect for the job It could be that I'm used to fishfillets, but I got better results with floorfish & blockfish than with the GAC...