Sonnox® Oxford Envolution
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Get comprehensive control over
transients and sustain.
Developed by Sonnox, the Oxford Envolution for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces is a frequency-dependent envelope shaper that can radically modify the sound of your sources, boosting sustain for added ambience or cutting it for quick, precise gating.
For over 20 years Sonnox has been creating innovative, award-winning, audio processing plug-ins for professional audio engineers. Oxford plug-ins are used in a variety of audio applications including music production, live sound, broadcast, TV, and feature film audio post productionShape percussion, piano, and guitar far beyond EQ and compression
Easily target frequency dependent control of transients and sustain
Add presence and/or distance to drums, piano, guitar, and more
Apply the Warmth control for harmonic saturation and further tone shaping
Take a Listen
The Importance of Transients
All music contains transients of some kind, whether it’s drums, percussion, guitars, or piano to name a few. Being able to boost or cut these transients gives you unprecedented control of an instrument’s presence and weight in a mix. With the Envolution plug-in, you can easily make a snare snap to the foreground, or add presence and/or distance to drums, piano, guitar, and more.
Two Sections — Total Control
The Envolution plug-in offers Transient and Sustain sections, each with its own set of Attack, Hold, and Release controls. This amount of fine tuning gives you a wide variety of uses — from subtly cutting down room ambience on drums and guitar to completely re-imagining signals with extreme envelope shaping.
Frequency-Dependent Tweaking and More
Both the Sustain and Transient sections feature a FREQ control that offers Tilt or Focus EQ modes. Tilt is perfect for more gentle envelope shaping whereas Focus mode provides a band-pass or notch response for more precise control. The Envolution also features a Warmth function that adds harmonic richness while also preventing output signal overload and a Mix control for added versatility.
Customer Reviews
M. Ranauro
January 16, 2023
honest
if you need to use transients in a surgical way, from a cello to a ruined Drop Edm(!) , you should probably use Envolution. I am convinced that I have used my money wisely. Uad and Sonnox...
Read MoreJ. Hershberger
December 23, 2022
Excellent
Really helps bring individual drums to life. What a valuable tool to have in the box
Read MoreC. Oyakhilome
December 15, 2022
Worth the buy. Effective plugin.
Possibly the best transient shaper I’ve used so far and more…
Read MoreJ. Szeszel
November 14, 2022
Best transient shaper for kick.
I use in every project for kick.
Read MoreJ. Sehlin
December 24, 2021
Secret weapon
My go to secret weapon for taming harsh and hard consonants
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Key Features
Separate and frequency dependent control of transients & sustain
Comprehensive control of key shaping parameters including attack, hold, and release
Tilt/parametric targeting of frequencies to process
DIFF button to solo the effect
Huge gain ranges: Transients ±24 dB; Sustain -48 dB to +24 dB
Best in class transient/onset detection
Sensitivity parameter to control the number of events detected
Frequency dependency with none of the limitations of conventional multi-band solutions
Use Envolution in parallel routing paths without phase cancellation
Warmth control for harmonic saturation/tone shaping and prevention of excessive output levels
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Customer Reviews
Sonnox Oxford Envolution
M. Ranauro
honest
if you need to use transients in a surgical way, from a cello to a ruined Drop Edm(!) , you should probably use Envolution. I am convinced that I have used my money wisely. Uad and Sonnox are a nice combination. Michele Ranauro (close friend of a singing horse, hired on Midjourney by mistake )
J. Hershberger
Excellent
Really helps bring individual drums to life. What a valuable tool to have in the box
C. Oyakhilome
Worth the buy. Effective plugin.
Possibly the best transient shaper I’ve used so far and more…
J. Szeszel
Best transient shaper for kick.
I use in every project for kick.
S. Friedrich
Great Plugin
Best transient shaper I‘ve ever tried
J. Sehlin
Secret weapon
My go to secret weapon for taming harsh and hard consonants
J. Neves
Great Transient Designer
Awesome alternative to Spiff, SPL, Smack Attack etc etc etc. It certainly has its own flavour and definitely deserves a place in my tool box!
A. Mascheroni
MUST HAVE
This plug in is so damn helpful!!
C. Azarcon
Awesome plug-in!
I use it for my drums, piano, and synths!
P. Matejicek
Secret weapon
This is best on market . Easy guy- great results.its chameleon of dynamics !!!
UAD User
Surprised By the Results
I used this plug-in on drums to tame transients. I was amazed by the results. Nothing else has done the job like the Oxford Evolution! Great tool to have in your tool belt.
R. Walsh
Great on Midi Drums
The best thing I have ever tried to make midi drums sound real. I use Groove Agent since it is part of Cubase. I use Envotution on all my snares, kicks and hats. The difference in night and day. Works well on other instruments put for drums it is a must
R. Marant
ESCULPE TU SONIDO!!
Tengo varios diseñadores de transientes y me resignaba a no adquirir este. Pero como tal es el más completo de todos y no me arrepiento de tenerlo entre mis principales herramientas.
F. Stoica
Oxford Envolution my go to transient designer
Envolution is by far the best transient designer I have ever used. Works magic on everything related to drums. May be used as a creative tool for Dance music. All in all, excellent.
U. Khan
Simply the best transient designer in the business
Sonnox Oxford does it again. This is the best transient shaper in the business. extensive control over attack and sustain with visual representation of what the processing is doing to the wave shape. The most perfect percussive sculpting tool.
R. Gonzalez Yanel
Control total
Perfecto para producir y esculpir tus sonidos. Ofrece un gran control sobre la envolvente.
E. Kruse
Wundervoll
Ein absolut fantastischer Transienten Designer mit vielen speziellen Möglichkeiten.
R. Cote
Here is some new blood for your sound
If you want to experiment with original software, which you certainly don't have in your plugins library, this is probably the one to get you thrilled. I haven't worked much with it yet at the time of my review, but I plan to experiment with this software with different instruments. I'm sure you'll be surprised with the results playing around with the settings. If you want new blood in your sound, you're going to be served. A +
Y. Kim
kick is this
The end of transient control!!!!
r. stepan
Great for lead guitar tracks !
Instead of the ubiquitous compression in a guitar track...this baby yields
some fat guitar lead that sound unique and rich.
My secret weapon....
