SPL® Transient Designer
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Effortlessly reshape the attack and
sustain of any source.
Revered as a “secret weapon” mix tool by some of the world’s finest engineers, the SPL Transient Designer plug-in for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces allows you to shape sustain and attack of your sources. This allows for total transparent control over important elements of your mix, such as snare drums, overhead and room mics, piano, and more.
Soften or slam percussion for maximum dynamic impact
Transparently shorten or increase sustain on drum overheads
Reduce or increase room mic ambience
Easily minimize mic bleed on important sources
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Featuring Dave Isaac
Simple Features — Huge Control
With just three simple controls, Sustain, Attack, and Output Level, the SPL Transient Designer plug-in gives you a powerful fixative tool, as well as a creative one. Shorten or lengthen the “thwack” and decay of percussive signals such as kick drum, snare, and toms. Or, you can easily remove unwanted mic bleed, or expand the room sound of overheads. The result? Total control of individual drums and the dynamic impact of your mix.
Useful on any Instrument
The SPL Transient Designer plug-in is indispensable for a variety of instruments. You can enhance a piano’s delicacy by reducing a noisy attack, or add length to ringing chords. On acoustic guitar, you can accentuate or reduce the picking sound, depending on the part. The SPL Transient Designer also gives you control over the environment of a source. For example, easily reduce the amount of reverb on a choir, or take unwanted ambience out of dialog.
“The UAD SPL Transient Designer adds an energy that will bring out the life in your audio every time!”
– David Isaac (Marcus Miller, Luther Vandross, Eric Clapton)
“I use the SPL Transient Designer on almost every one of my drums. You want your transients to shine through and ‘wow’ — this plug-in does it like no other.”
– Armin Van Buuren
“The SPL Transient Designer plug-in is the perfect tool for crafting snare samples that can really make or break a groove.”
– Just Blaze (Jay Z, Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé)Customer Reviews
Z. Munir
October 22, 2022
Such a great plugin!!
One of my favorites from UAD. Love it on drums to shape the sound
Read MoreB. Gfeller
July 12, 2022
Grat tool for drums
Perfect and easy way to give the drums punch Beat Gfeller Eurotopmusic.ch Recording Studios Switzerland
Read MoreM. Bernabel
July 11, 2022
The Mix Saviour
This little guy can save your mix. Is your bass, kick, or snare not sitting correctly in your mix? Worry no further! Is your synth pad decaying too fast? Are your percussion elements...
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Key Features
UA-modeled, SPL 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
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
Attack can be amplified or attenuated by up to 15 dB while Sustain can be amplified or attenuated by up to 24 dB
Requires a UAD DSP Accelerator Card or Apollo Interface available from authorized dealers worldwide.
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Customer Reviews
SPL® Transient Designer
Z. Munir
Such a great plugin!!
One of my favorites from UAD. Love it on drums to shape the sound
B. Gfeller
Grat tool for drums
Perfect and easy way to give the drums punch
Beat Gfeller Eurotopmusic.ch Recording Studios SwitzerlandM. Bernabel
The Mix Saviour
This little guy can save your mix. Is your bass, kick, or snare not sitting correctly in your mix? Worry no further! Is your synth pad decaying too fast? Are your percussion elements clashing with the attack times of your vocals? SPL Transient Designer!!!!
L. Producer
Good
It will be more perfect with more Side Chain
K. Yamanaka
Good!
Nice transient design plugin!
J. Rodriguez
Designing transient
great plug-in
S. Schmidt
It is the Transient Designer!
It does what it should - and it sounds absolutely awesome. I love working the drums with it. It is also a great tool to suppress a probably minor recording room sound with the Transient Designer and add a new room dimension with the Ocean Ways Studio!!!
A. Lund
THE transient plugin for drums
I have been using SPL stuff for quite a while and was happy to see the UAD version. I got this one for a better deal than the native plugin, with the advantage that I can run it using my Apollos DSP. Insanely flexible for a plugin with only two knobs(ignoring the output gain knob that is just there for volume).
K. Dobracki
Sharp as knife :)
I tried a few transient plugins... but none sounded like UAD SPL. It is very audible, some tracks are getting punchy as hell! One of my favourite UAD plug!
N. ALLEN
Perfect Touch
Here we go, this will make your transients smack. I use this on my snare, hi hat and kick awesome job with this one
N. Taplin
Killer
This plugin is spectacular. It's now letting me get what I want on my kick drum sounds while letting me compress the kick less. The sound quality (like fidelity) is perfect too, I hear zero degradation with the sound. My only issue is occasionally the plugin crashes on my sessions (and I have Pro Tools HD), and no other UA plugin has done that to me, but it's worth the inconvenience of needing to occasionally save, close, and reopen a session to be able to keep using this fantastic plugin.
A. Mullen
Expected more
This was the least wow of my UA plugins to date. The iZotope transient tool seems to have much more control, variation and nuance than this one.
L. Tian Siung
Easy to use
Easy to use with amazing result!
N. Hatfield
This is the best transient shaper.
I’ve used many transient shapers before- this is THE BEST. Nothing compares. Just be careful, less is more sometimes.
J. Geary
Its THE SPL Transient Designer
With quite a few UA plugins being developed by Brainworx I cant imagine im alone in having always thought this was just an older version of their SPL TD. This is FAR from the truth. No phase flip needed the differences between the two are shocking. The UA version is much more natural especially in the low end whilst the native sounds muffled and thin. Up until now Ive held on to my hardware SPL TD as it really outshines the plugins with full range material but this thing nails what the others cant. Thanks for helping me free up some rack space!
i. hill
Amazing
For the obvious. I use this plug on drums sampled from a record. This really does a great job controlling the sustain. Some plugs are ok at best. This one is great.
K. Didvalis
SPL Transient Designer.
For a long time i tried variuos transient plugins, SPL transient designer is the best!
b. Nieminen
Best transient designer type of plugin
Sounds way way better than any other transient designer type of plugins that there is, I have at least four of them.
A. Nelson
Powerful
Tried on friend's recommendation and I love it. Controlling the attack/sustain of cymbals, drums, pianos to adjust them in a mix without altering their level or tonal. I had no idea how many problems this would be the only solution for! It's not an exciting plug-in - until until it saves your mix.
K. Beat
Great!
Sound is good. It is easy to use.
