superior drummer 2's transient fx was made by??

[arv_foh]

Don't know if they make one but I like Stilwell Audio's Transient Monster.

+1

 

[MortenDK]

This is the one I would get if I was looking for a transient designer!.

http://www.eiosis.com/e2transienter

 

[AllanD]

Just tested Bittersweet Transient Designer, it sounds awesome. It's like a compressor with awesome settings, I can't really explain past that.

 

[jipchen]

The SPL transient designer's price dropped heavily, and now you get the VST, AU, RTAS plus the TDM version.
Pretty tempted..

 

[pipaguapique]

This is the one I would get if I was looking for a transient designer!.

http://www.eiosis.com/e2transienter

that's just way too many buttons yo!

TD is just 2 buttons "awesome" and "awesomer" haha (they should be call that though)

 

[ahjteam]

SPL Transient Designer 2 or SPL Transient Designer 4. I don't know why, but I think they sound way superior to the plugin versions.

 

[Dexter_prog]

The idea is it makes the transients (the loudest parts) more/less obvious - on drums, it's about making the instant the stick/beater hits the skin really stand out. They also often have decay/sustain controls to adjust the 'ring' or fade out of the hit too, so for instance on a kick hit you can make the 'smack' stand out and the 'whump' shorter and more obvious.

Steve

So, let me see if I got this right, could one, hypothetically speaking, achieve the SAME result using a compressor?

 

[mva801]

So, let me see if I got this right, could one, hypothetically speaking, achieve the SAME result using a compressor?

SIMILAR, sure. The transient designer is different from a compressor in that it has no threshold control. So you get more consistent results with material that has greater dynamic range.

 

[Charles J]

you pretty much can't get away with an amazing drum sound without a transient designer

need attack and sustain. its better than using compression which doesnt translate after programming (because you're putting pre-compressed hits together rather than hits into a compressor)

people love slate samples, they've been through a transient designer of some sort, no doubt.

exactly my man. never liked the sonnox when I demo'd it.

I use the SPL a LOT. The trick really is to automate the shit out of it. It can make the attacks huge and punching in a chorus and then it can get all spitty and disgusting in the verse...

i always use somerthing like psp's mixsat after the TD though. Shit just gets too spikey.

 

[Ermz]

Yeah, transient control can be a bitch, especially on natural drums. I'm usually running L1s, Gclips and tape saturation everywhere to get a hold on them.

 

[CatharsisStudios]

i feel like a god damn idiot for not using transient designers i just used one now and like all my drums finally have that POP i've been looking for also for us reaper users JS transient shaper/controller works really nice too

 

[Dexter_prog]

Are you using this on anything else than snare drums?