Precise transient detection & intelligent drum-type matching.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
"It’s already blowing my mind. They are calling this a drum gate but it’s a magic box of tricks and a drum mixing dream come true!"
"Separating a kick/snare out of a loop, if even possible, was always a total pain in the a*s. I have no idea how Sonnox did it but they figured it out!! What a time saver. You’ve made my assistants so happy!"
"This is a great one-stop-shop of a plugin. Drum gate achieves what I’ve been trying to do with 3 separate plug-ins and more"
"Best rack and floor sound I've got in a long time, thanks to the decay settings"
"Never isolated bass drum and snare drum so easily with such accuracy. Even subtle ghost notes in a very dynamic jazz performance!"
"Drum Gate is just smarter than anything else designed to detect drum hits. Dynamics handling is out of this world!"
"This plugin is amazing black magic sh*t! I can't believe what I just did to fix a crappy drum track"
| This plug-in offers 2 activations for each product licence you own. | |
| All licences must be kept on the same iLok account, and each activation will allow you to authorise your Plug-In using either of the following methods: | |
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The Drum Gate does not support Avid’s TDM/HDX hardware DSP platform (including Venue, S3L and S6L systems), Waves SoundGrid or Universal Audio's UAD platform.
| NATIVE | ||
| Sample Rate (kHz) | Latency (Samples) | Latency (ms) |
| 44.1 | 2289 | 65.5 |
| 48 | 3144 | 65.5 |
| 88.2 | 5777 | 65.5 |
| 96 | 6288 | 65.5 |
| 176.4 | 11554 | 65.5 |
| 192 | 12576 | 65.5 |
| NATIVE | |
| 44.1 – 48 kHz: | ✔ |
| 88.2 – 96 kHz: | ✔ |
| 176.4 – 192 kHz: | ✔ |