Duck

Get instant sidechain pumping, simple kick and bass mixing, and many more creative effects with Duck.

Duck's draw-your-own curve window makes it easy to design a custom volume shape that repeats at a speed and depth of your choice. You can set Duck's envelope to loop continuously to the beat, or use trigger sources: internal audio level, external audio level, or MIDI.

Enable split band mode to adjust your curve's depth for separate low and high frequency controls – perfect for ducking a bassline whenever a kick hits, while leaving its higher frequencies intact.

Why You Need Duck:

• Instant sidechain pumping as soon as you load the plugin.
• Cleaner, louder and more exciting mixes.
• Choose from 8 quick preset curves or 72 creative and useful Duck patches.
• Draw your own curves and rhythms to use now, or save them later.
• Set the overall pump, or apply to low and high bands with adjustable crossover.
• Run Duck in Repeat mode, or trigger with sidechained audio or MIDI signals.
• Smoothing control to remove clicks: including super-accurate pre-smoothing algorithm when in LFO mode.
• Run on individual tracks, groups or your master bus for different pump effects.
• NEW: Lookahead control to fine-tune ducking with transient sources.
• NEW: Group multiple Ducks in one of four groups for control over all curve shapes.
• NEW: Band Solo on low/high bands to audition crossover frequency.
• NEW: MIDI Input Filtering – select which notes in an input track trigger ducking.
• Low CPU usage means you can run Duck on loads of tracks.
• Mac and Windows: VST2/VST3/AU/AAX plugin.

Duck is available from the Devious Machines website.

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