The degree of dynamic processing required to do this couldn't be duplicated even using a chain of several conventional compressors, yet only two controls per channel are required to allow the user to completely reshape the attack and sustain characteristics of a sound. SPL's Differential Envelope Technology is the first analog solution for level-independent shaping of envelopes allowing transients to be accelerated or slowed down and sustain prolonged or shortened. The Transient Designer's automation is highly developed, so that while the processing going on inside the box may be very complex, the user has to deal with just a few intuitive controls. The SPL Transient Designer 4 Dynamics Processor provides a revolutionary concept for dynamic processing rendering controls such as Threshold, Ratio and Gain superfluous. Long has it stood as the standard for transient shaping, making it an invaluable tool for engineers around the world. With automation, the musical possibilities from subtly building up and dropping intensities using the Sustain control are particularly exciting.SPL Transient Designer 4 Dynamics Processor The SPL Transient Designer 4 Dynamics Processor is a legendary piece of gear in it's own right. The sheer variation of attack and sustain characteristics created here is still astonishing, and all from just two knobs. The software version has lost none of the excitement that its hardware parent engendered. Oh, and what about a sidechain facility? That could be fun. You can get round it with a trim plug-in beforehand, but an Input control would make more sense. A lookahead feature might have helped with this.Īlso, without an input level control, there's a danger of overloading the plug-in at the input if you're upping the attack on an already high-level signal. In our tests, we could hear the hi-hats spitting in the processed loop under software control, whereas with the hardware, the attack was completely smooth. The Attack response, particularly with high frequencies, doesn't seem as controlled as the hardware. There are one or two blots on its copybook, but nothing major. Turn it down and any hard, spiky parts sink softly into the mix. Turn the Attack up and the impact of any blunt performance is enhanced. If anything, the shape of the bottom end on pumped loops is more appealing with the plug-in than the hardware. Turn it up and you get that satisfying pumping with the accompanying bottom-end breathing.

Pull the Sustain back and any reverb on the audio starts to fade away.

A/B'ing it against the hardware version, it's clear that the essence of the original has been captured in the plug-in. Beside the main panel are four 'settings' buttons for storing and recalling different combinations with a click of the mouse.

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