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 the solution. The native X-Gate plug-in masterfully combines 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 scrolling waveform graphic, and three-color "traffic light" color cues clearly indicate the open/closed/hold state of each channel at any given time. An interactive filter graph allows you to easily visualize the implementation of highpass and lowpass filters with the sidechain signal. Comprehensive lookahead, threshold and range controls, along with attack, release and hold time parameters, allow for extensive sonic shaping to refine your output. Expanding and ducking modes add even greater degrees of sonic shaping, with customizable hysteresis behaviors that let you fine-tune the sound, all from a single convenient plug-in.
Solid State Logic X-Gate Features:
- Detailed visualization tools let you sculpt and shape sound in real time
- Inspired by classic analog hardware, captures vintage interface quality and design
- Single-click ducking mode allows you to quickly invert sidechain logic for use as a ducking module
- Mid/Side processing tools promote creativity with gate actuation, including use with mono and stereo signal components
- Variable Peak and RMS detection options adapt the gate to your needs
- Highpass and lowpass filters accompany a filter graph for real-time dynamic visual representation
Technical specifications
- Software type: X Gate
- Platform: Mac, PC
- Update/Complete: Complete
- Download/Boxed: Download
- Bit depth: 64 bits
- Format: AAX, VST2, VST3, AU
- Authorization type: iLok account required
- 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
