Sonnox Oxford Drum Gate (Native) (Serial Nr + Download)

Take your drum sounds to the next level, giving them punch, power and clarity with our intelligent, intuitive noise gate plugin.

A Noise Gate Designed Specifically for Drums

Most mix engineers have lost faith in the ability of a noise gate to clean up drums accurately, leading to drum tracks being replaced entirely by samples or remaining filled with bleed, resulting in a loss in clarity and punch.

Whether it’s noise gate chatter, misdetection, choked resonance or lost ghost notes, attempting to process a drum kit with your typical noise gate often leads to a worse result than you started with.

Sonnox Oxford Drum Gate solves all these problems in one intuitive plugin.

With its range of intelligent drum processing tools, Drum Gate will quickly become your ultimate companion for mixing controlled, impactful drums.

For drums that smash through the mix with unparalleled clarity and definition, choose Oxford Drum Gate.

Features

• Precise transient detection and intelligent drum-type matching to effortlessly separate the hits you want to keep from the spill you don't.
• Create custom drum profiles to isolate unusual drum types or fix the occasional kick, snare, or tom mismatch.
• Decay curve which adapts to the velocity of each drum hit, giving you consistent spill reduction on dynamic performances.
• Spectral decay editor lets you preserve the resonance, ring, or rattle of each drum hit while quickly clamping down on the spill.
• The leveller's dual target and amount controls let you improve level consistency without losing the contrast between loud hits and soft ghost notes.
• Real-time MIDI output and MIDI file capture, for accurately triggering drum samples.

Intelligent Drum Hit Detection

The days of using thresholds alone to ineffectively gate drums are over.

Oxford Drum Gate can reliably identify and isolate different drum types from the rest of the kit, even with different hits at different levels.

Choose whether to separate your snares, kicks and toms with the click of a button.

Need to reduce spill on a snare track in a dynamic mix of backbeats, ghost notes, and cross-stick hits? No problem! Just click the Snare button.

Adaptive Drum Decay

Allowing the natural ring of a drum through a noise gate whilst stopping the spill is a far-fetched reality in conventional noise gates, resulting in abrupt, choked and un-musical gating.

Drum Gate's adaptive Decay section quickly focuses on the resonance of each drum in real time, tailoring the length of each hit according to its velocity.

You’ll be able to remove spill whilst keeping the resonances that bring your drums to life, keeping your kit as lively as desired.

Drum Leveller

Consistency is crucial in making your kit the driving force behind your mix.

There are times you’ll wish the drummer’s performance could have been improved, and through the Leveller, getting a consistent level throughout will be made a breeze.

Consistency shouldn’t mean a lack of dynamics, so with Oxford Drum Gate, you can conform louder main hits and softer background articulations to two separately controlled target levels.

Drum MIDI Replacement

You can augment or replace individual drums with samples by simply dragging a MIDI file directly to your DAW from Oxford Drum Gate.

In addition to the perfectly aligned hits, you’ll retain all of the dynamics from the original performance