use of transient designer plugin

[pyelagin]

Do u use transient designers? And if yes than how and where?

[Myrok Rolles]

Originally Posted by pyelagin

Do u use transient designers? And if yes than how and where?

nah... i've always relied on mixing skills and compression to get sharp transients...

[mrprecs1]

I had a track to mix with to much reverb applied to the snare stem, so I used the tran designer to gate the tail of the snare and make it much more cleaner.

That's one use

[mikeyoung]

I've used them on snare's or kicks which were lacking some attack. even putting them on percussion loops can sound cool. but using to much will make the sample sound thin (at least to me it does.) try it out!

[Torpedo]

Yes...SPL or Sonnox...

[Halma]

I prefer using a transient designer than using a compressor to modify my transients if I don´t want to alter the dynamics of the sound (like squashing the rest of the sound).

Most of the time I´m using it on drum and perc sounds.

I´m also using a transient designer to get rid of prominent transients.

[bentley]

I've often used one to tame the attack of a sound on reverb or delay sends.

[golden beers]

i use the UAD SPL one. which is pretty good.

i've found it's most useful when you use it on percussive synth stab lines. it's really effective in that application.

what i do not like it for is on an element that is static, for example a kick drum: if you have the same kick drum going on for 16 bars or what have you, its better to get in there and physically edit the wave with standard envelope shaping processes.

in short, if you want to add snap, it sounds better to edit a wave by hand, but when you dont want to do that because it would mean hundreds of edits, the plugin is the answer.

also SPL trans des vs standard cubase envelope shaper, for adding attack the SPL wins, for taking out decay, the envelope shaper wins.

[DaVogi]

besides drums/percussion TD is also great for picky acoustic guitars and that kind... btw: I compared my spl hardware unit to the spl native software and the hardware sounds a tad better with heavy processing (more vibrant, punchy and alive). but for small tweaking software is fine!

[Jon Silva]

using it mostly on drum loops to make them more dry

[CountingToes]

I swear by them, infact i use one on every element that I want movement on throughout the track, conga loops are a good example, changing the attack from gentle to forceful over a drop can add a good bit of subtle emphasis without introducing any new elements. Love them

[mattyc]

used one on a vocal today and it was just the ticket