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Transgressor sets a new standard for transient design by combining transient shaping with two 4-band equalizers, giving you the unprecedented power to EQ attack and sustain individually. Now you can craft the sound of your drums any way you want, whether it’s subtle enhancement or changing the sound of an entire kit, and more.
Transgressor Features
- Independent EQ for your transients and sustains
- Increase or soften the impact of your drums
- Internal, external and MIDI triggers
Transgressor makes it easy and intuitive to shape the sound of your drums in ways that you just can’t do anywhere else.
Transgressor is a hybrid EQ and transient shaper. The simplest way to explain what it does, is it gives you separate EQ control over your transients and your sustained sounds. This gives you a level of control over your drums that you just cannot get through EQ or transient designers alone, and once you get a feel for how it works,it’s amazing how simple it is to use. Whether you need to subtly enhance your drums, or completely overhaul the sound, Transgressor makes it quick and simple to do so.
Not Just Another Transient Designer
If we were to dissect the sound of a single drum hit, we would discover an incredibly complex series of events, all happening in rapid succession, that creates the unique tone of each drum. From the attack of the stick to the resonance of the head, these short time slices add together to create what we hear as the tone. This is why it’s such a shame that the standard is to rely on static EQ to sculpt the tone of our drums. To put it bluntly, eq is just not a very good tool for the job, especially if drastic changes are needed.
Enter Transgressor. Transgressor breaks up your drum hits into separate sections: Transient (attack) and Sustain and lets you control the volume and EQ of those sections independently. This opens up huge potential for dialing in your drums to sound exactly the way you want them too.
Do you need a sharper attack on your snare but don’t want a harsh ring? Just boost the high end of the attack only.
Does your kick drum ring out too long, cluttering your low end? Just take some low frequencies out of the sustain of your kick to retain the deep impact without the rumble.
Is your snare to harsh but you don’t want to deaden the resonance? Just remove some of the high end from the attack.
Power + Ease of Use
It’s not easy to create a plugin that so drastically changes the game while being easy and intuitive to use, but once you try it out, you will instantly click with what it can do.
Break the Rules
Because Transgressor lets you EQ such small slices of time, it also opens up a whole set of new possibilities on how you use your EQ. The traditional rules of EQ can be thrown out the window. That resonant shelf filter on your parametric EQ that no sane person in the history of music making has ever used? It suddenly becomes useful. 20dB of low end boost on your kick? Go for it. You don’t have to be shy when it comes to extreme settings anymore.
Just the Facts:
- Hybrid transient designer with two 4-band equalizers with selectable slopes
- Gain controls let you boost or eliminate transients and sustain independently
- Mix knob lets you adjust wet/dry signal
- Adjustable transient detector lets you control sensitivity, eliminate false triggers from bleed
- Internal, external and MIDI sidechain control of detector
- Factory presets to get you started
Description
System Requirements
This plugin was crafted to be as light as possible on your CPU, enabling you to put this on many tracks without eating up your processing power.
- For Mac, you must be running MacOS10.13 or greater (Intel and Apple Silicon)
- For Windows, you need Windows 7 or greater.
This plugin is available in 64 bit versions of each format. It is available in the following formats:
- Mac: VST2, VST3, AU, AAX Native (Intel and Apple Silicon)
- Windows: VST2, VST3, AAX Native
Change Log
What’s new in version 3
- native Apple Silicon compatibility
- easier to use interface
FAQs
Tutorials
Huge Kick with Boz Digital Labs Transgressor - Quick Tip
Learn how to use the EQ Curve in Transgressor to get a HUGE Kick Drum sound without using any sample replacement, in this quick tip. Bonus: This tip works for the newly updated Transgressor 3 AND the older Transgressor 2!!
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