Transient Designer Analog Code
®
Plug-in
13
Applications
Bass: Staccato vs. Legato
Speaking of bass: Imagine a too sluggishly played bass track ...
you may not have to re-record it: Reduce the SUSTAIN until you can
hear clear gaps between the downbeats—the legato will turn into
a nice staccato, driving the rhythm-section forward.
The Re-Invention Of Reverb
With all reverb applications mentioned below, the left and right
channels of the Transient Designer are panned hard to left and right
(or where they would have been panned to without the Transient
Designer™) to achieve the same stereo image.
Always and everywhere the same reverb presets – boring, aren‘t
they? Try looping the left and right output of your reverb through
the Transient Designer.
Create two mono tracks panned hard left and right with the same
audio material and insert the same reverb in both channels in an
insert before the Transient Designer plug-in. Now crank the master
ATTACK control to the maximum and reduce SUSTAIN to a bare
minimum. The intensity of the reverb is now much higher in the
beginning while the reverb time is reduced.
The opposite can be just as intriguing: manipulate a reverb pattern
so that it takes on a pyramidal slope. Turn the ATTACK all the way
to the left and SUSTAIN all the way to the right. Now the beginning
of the reverb is strongly reduced whereas the sustain blossoms
and seems almost endless (obviously that will only happen if the
decay of the reverb in the actual reverb device has been set to a
sufficient value—a signal must always be present as long as the
sustain time lasts).
