Everything your tracks need for the finishing touch. If there's anything better than SSL plugins, it's SSL plugin packages!

This package contains two plugins that are sure to become part of your workflow: X-Gate and X-Limit.

First, X-Gate combines the natural behavior of analog gating devices with an incredibly convenient user interface and intelligent lookahead modes that only the digital era can provide.

Secondly, X-Limit also features its own intelligent lookahead algorithms for lower latency, a useful Gain Lock function for comparing presets, and a Mix Control for parallel processing, to add more impact to buses and groups rather than simply tame your transients.

Used together, these two SSL plug-ins can help provide the cleanup and flatness needed to elevate your tracks from demo-ready to Grammy-worthy.

X-Gate: timeless analog quality for the digital age

Regardless of your recording needs, a solid gate is critical to a great mix. Fortunately, Solid State Logic has you covered. The native X-Gate plug-in masterfully merges hardware design with digital convenience, impressing studio professionals with its ability to capture the classic analog qualities of hardware gate tools. Dynamic, responsive visual feedback includes a moving waveform graphic, and three-color, "traffic light"-style indications clearly show the open/closed/hold state of each channel at any given time. An interactive filter graph allows you to quickly visualize highpass and lowpass filter implementation with the sidechain signal. Comprehensive anticipation, threshold and range controls - along with attack, release and hold time parameters - allow for extensive sonic sculpting to refine your output. Expansion and ducking modes add even greater degrees of sonic shaping, with customizable hysteresis behaviors that let you fine-tune your sound, all from a single plug-in.

SSL X-Gate Plugin Features:

• Detailed visualization tools let you sculpt and shape sound in real-time with ease
• Inspiration from classic analog hardware captures vintage quality and interface design
• One-click ducking mode allows you to quickly invert sidechain logic for use as a ducking module
• Mid/Side processing tools promote creativity with gate triggering, including use with mono and stereo signal components
• Variable RMS and peak detection options tailor the gate to your needs
• Highpass and lowpass filters accompany a filter graph for real-time dynamic visual representation.

X-Limit: advanced high-level limiting

Packed with cutting-edge technology, X-Limit controls peaks and maximizes volume, all with negligible latency. X-Limit's standards-compliant True Peak limiting algorithm utilizes intelligent oversampling and ensures peaks between samples are effectively and efficiently contained. And with four selectable limiting modes - Clear, Glue, Punch and Auto - it sounds great on anything. No matter what kind of mix we put it through, the resulting sound was smooth, musical, and complementary to the source material.

SSL X-Limit Plugin Features:

• Controls peaks and maximizes volume with negligible latency
• Standards-compliant True Peak limiting algorithm, protecting against spikes between samples
• Intelligent oversampling minimizes aliasing, digital clipping and quantization distortion
• 4 selectable limiting modes: Transparent, Glue, Punch and Auto
• The all-in-one waveform viewer is incredibly easy to navigate
• Intuitive Ducking and Steering meters help minimize stereo degradation

Technical specifications

• Software Type: SSL Limit and Gate Plugin Bundle
• Platform: Mac, PC
• Update/Complete: Complete
• Download/Box: Download
• Bit depth: 64 bits
• Format: AAX, AU, VST2, VST3
• Authorization type: Requires iLok account
• Hardware Requirements - Mac: 2.4GHz Intel Dual Core or higher (Apple M1 support), 8GB RAM recommended
• Hardware Requirements - PC: 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or higher, 8GB RAM recommended
• Operating system requirements - Mac: macOS 10.15 or later
• Operating system requirements - PC: Windows 10 or later