SPL Transient Designer

Universal Audio partnered with Germany's Sound Performance Lab (SPL) to bring you the Transient Designer, with its unique and compelling Differential Envelope Technology for shaping the dynamic response of a sound. Two simple audio controls allow reshaping of the attack and sustain characteristics.

SPL was the first company to design an analog solution for level-independent shaping of envelopes, allowing transients to be accelerated or slowed down and sustain prolonged or shortened.

The Transient Designer has a multitude of studio applications and can be used to solve many types of audio track problems. You can shorten or lengthen the attack and sustain of percussive signals such as kick drum, snare or toms, easily take the bleed from open mics, or expand the room sound of overheads.

The Transient Designer can be applied to virtually any other signal as well: Amplify or reduce the picking sound of an acoustic guitar, hold the sound of strings longer, reduce the reverb time of a choir. Attack can be amplified or attenuated by up to 15 dB while Sustain can be amplified or attenuated by up to 24 dB. Lastly, Output allows quick gain matching with the unprocessed signal.

Features:

• UA modeled, SPL authorized and endorsed plug-in version of Transient Designer's unique Differential Envelope Technology.
• Increase or decrease the transients of percussive sources for greater impact, or a softened response.
• Sustain of sources can be transparently shortened or increased for greater musicality.
• Reduces or increases room sound or preexisting reverb on virtually any source.
• Highly useful as a gate substitute, a transparent tool for minimizing mic bleed.

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