SPL Transient Designer 4

The SPL Transient Designer 4 offers a completely new dynamic processing technique to shape the attack and sustain of a signal with minimal effort. The level of the signal is not affected, as is the case with compression, but rather its dynamic response.

The achievable effects expand the repertoire of sound shaping and correction immensely: percussive signals of all kinds, i.e. kick drum, snares, toms, congas etc., can be shortened or lengthened on the outgoing side and given more "kick" or flattened on the incoming side. The same is true for almost all other signals: amplify or reduce the picking noise of an acoustic guitar, let the sound of the strings stand longer, operate the pedal on the piano "electronically", whistle the slap bass back a little or give it even more attack, etc.

The importance of processing with the Transient Designer with regard to the placement and embedding of signals in the mix can hardly be overestimated, especially since its effect is neither comparable nor reproducible with conventional dynamics processors.