Devious Machines releases Duck 2

Devious Machines has released Duck 2, a major new version of the sidechaining and volume-shaping plugin.

Duck 2 is the easiest way to get your kick and bass hitting just right. Draw a volume envelope, carve out the exact shape you need. It's that easy. Duck is also great for rhythmic patterns, tremolo, drum-shaping, and much more.

Duck 2 is a complete careful redesign of the original with many powerful new features while preserving the easy, fast workflow trusted by thousands of producers.

What's new

• Modernised, freely-resizable GUI.
• Expanded preset library.
• Undo/redo.
• Trace envelope from imported audio file, or sidechain input.
• New output section with gain reduction metering.
• New freely adjustable offset function that combines the old offset and lookahead features, and supports both milliseconds and samples mode.
• New preset browser.
• Unsynced Hz mode for LFO.
• Improved support for non-4/4 time signatures.

New multiband features

Powerful new multiband features include:

• Two or three band mode.
• Separate envelope per-band (optional).
• Adjustable crossover slope (12, 24, 48dB/oct).
• Linear phase mode.
• Spectrum analyser.

New envelope editor features

• Modernised look and feel.
• New curve shapes (spline, 2D bend).
• Randomise function.
• New edit operations (rotate, duplicate, invert, etc).
• New brush tools.
• Multi-select points.
• Expanded envelope preset palette.
• Copy+paste of shapes (including from Infiltrator).

New trigger features

• Loop and release modes: For MIDI and audio triggering, the envelope can sustain while held and release when the trigger ends.
• MIDI velocity control: Note velocity can control the depth of ducking, or volume.
• Improved audio triggering: Better threshold meter and trigger LED showing trigger positions.
• Trigger settings lock: Prevent trigger settings from changing when browsing presets.

Pricing & Availability

Duck 2 is available for macOS and Windows in VST, AU and AAX plugin formats for £29.99. Upgrades from Duck 1 are £9.99 / €9.99 / $15.99.

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