Kilohearts - Transient Shaper

Kilohearts Transient Shaper: Free Transient Shaper Plugin

When you want to carefully tweak the punch of your snare, the ricki-ticki-ticking of your hi-hats or the snappiness of a synth line, Transient Shaper is the right tool for the job.

Using a compressor is the most common way of adjusting the dynamics of a sound, but sometimes this can be a bit cumbersome. Transient Shaper gives you very direct control over the character of both the attack and sustaining sections of the sound, in a way that's simple to understand and tweak.

Controls

• Attack: the amount of amplification or attenuation of the transient.
• Pump: the amount of attenuation directly after the transient, emphasizing the transient without increasing the level.
• Sustain: the amount of amplification or attenuation of the sustained sound.
• Clip: when enabled, the output signal is clipped to 0dB.
• Sidechain: when enabled, transients are detected based on a secondary input, but the effect is applied to the main input.
• Speed: higher values result in snappier transient modification, and lower values result in smoother curves.

Plugin requirements

• An x86 64-bit processor with SSE3 support. On macOS, Apple "M" processors are also supported.
• A DAW supporting the VST2, VST3, AAX or Audio Unit plugin standards.

CPU usage will increase if you run many instances of Kilohearts plugins or use many Snapins in one patch.