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.
Now You Can:
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
UA Artist Tips & Tricks
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, Kanye West)Customer Reviews
M. Malinski
August 24, 2020
Use with caution
It can be your best friend or worse nightmare
Read MoreT. Proznick
June 29, 2020
DRUMS ARE BANGING!!!
Love this thing... No more worry about bleed all over my drums from everywhere... Its like magic, and all those unwanted artifacts are gone!!! Should be called the Houdini Designer!!
Read MoreJ. Scott
June 13, 2020
Spl is soooooo good
I now own the full spl range on ua . This is top quality gear right here
Read MoreJ. Desfosses
May 24, 2020
Oh snap!
Had a couple of go-to transient designers, but this just blew them out of the water. Bought it about five minutes into the demo.
Read MoreS. Shaw
May 19, 2020
Very handy
Easy in concept, easy to DSP usage. To me it sounds much smoother than the Plugin Alliance version especially when driven hard.
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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
M. Malinski
Use with caution
It can be your best friend or worse nightmare
L. Nagy
Best Transient Shaper
Best transient shaper plugin I've ever used.
T. Proznick
DRUMS ARE BANGING!!!
Love this thing... No more worry about bleed all over my drums from everywhere... Its like magic, and all those unwanted artifacts are gone!!! Should be called the Houdini Designer!!
J. Scott
Spl is soooooo good
I now own the full spl range on ua . This is top quality gear right here
J. Desfosses
Oh snap!
Had a couple of go-to transient designers, but this just blew them out of the water. Bought it about five minutes into the demo.
S. Shaw
Very handy
Easy in concept, easy to DSP usage. To me it sounds much smoother than the Plugin Alliance version especially when driven hard.
C. White
Different drums
This plugin is awesome for me. It basically widens the number of drums that I have at my disposal for recording drum tracks that are tailored to each song.
A. Lepori
The Secret Weapon
Having the hardware ones in the studio I couldn’t help to get also this beautifully modelled plugin unit. One of my go to on live kick and snare !
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Andrea Lepori
Producer/Mixer/Engineer
Credits:
U2 The Europa EP
U2 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - The Gotham Experience
U2 E+I European Tour
U2 The Blackout - Vid Mix, Songs of Experience
U2 One Tree Hill - St Francis Hotel Remix, The Joshua Tree
Régine Chassagne - Arcade Fire
Jack Savoretti, Stealth, Violetta Zironi, Kevin Simm, George The Poet,
Island Records, BMG/Chrysalis, Universal Music UK, Ultra Music
The Mix Room - Studio45
www.mixroom.co.uk
e. studio@mixroom.co.ukS. Williams
BD & SN - shaped to perfection
I just bought this tool because I'm mixing our new album... we made a complex drum recording and this tool does the final shaping in pure perfection... I'm deeply impressed!
M. Reeves
SPL Transient Designer
Simple to use and very effective. Good to look at also.
Y. Nugraha
Better than compressor
This thing now my new secret weapon for shape my kick n snare when no compresor and EQ works.. Its also super for shape my vocal more in your face kind vocals
J. Westra
I get nothing luckily i had three free choices added to the bundle this was choice 3
Don't mean to push this off but in a bundle I wish I would have picked anything else. Doesn't use too much DSP but you get the same effect by comparison doesn't do much.
N. Gureev
Surprised
This one is different than plugin Alliance version and I was surprised by it. It worked great on the first session i tried it on and i bought it)
A. Kolomvatsos
Secret weapon
Just try the demo for a couple of minutes. You will be amazed by the simplicity and its effectiveness
R. Kristensen
Fantastic Plugin
I make techno and had a track where the kick disapeared a little in the low-end rumble.
I have compressor, eq's and tapemachine on the drumbus but couldnt make the kick sit 100% like I wanted to.
I demo'ed the SPL Transient Designer messed around with it for about 10 minutes and solved the problem. Bought it 2 minutes later.L. Cottrell
Great piece of kit
Literally given me so much control over individual drums to allow them to blend together nicely or pop through with a nice snap
R. Gulian
Does what others can't
I needed this and it took me a long time to realize it. Sustain is whete it's at!
D. McCarty
Love it!!!
So useful on drums, so good!
D. Bouche
A must have
When I bought my Twin Quad, I decided to go and get the 3 plugins bundle. Choice is tough, so many great plugins available. I read a lot of forum posts to get advices on what to choose. SPL Transient Designer was not part of this list: I guess it seems too basic for most. Yet I decided to run the demo before picking my 3 plugins: it was a no brainer, I instantly picked it.
I don't know "all" the transient designers out there, but this one is magical. It's a killer on drums: I mix hip-hop and I can bring back to life any shitty drum-kit trackouts artists send me. It also works beautifully on many instruments. I cannot ask for more from this plug.S. Vaidya
Clean and Quality
Its simple, its clean and the sound is quality. It does not turn introduce clicks and cracks, and does exactly what its meant to do: control sound rather than change it entirely.
