Sonnox Drum Gate 2

FEATURES:

• Intelligent Drum Hit Detection – Say goodbye to ineffective threshold-based gating. Oxford Drum Gate 2 uses intelligent hit detection to isolate kicks, snares, and toms—even in complex performances. Click to select which drums you want to process, and let the plugin do the rest. Want to keep delicate ghost notes or cross-stick hits on a snare track while eliminating spill? Drum Gate handles it with accuracy and ease.
• Adaptive Drum Decay for Natural Resonance – Traditional gates often choke off a drum’s natural ring, leaving hits sounding flat. Drum Gate 2 solves this with its Adaptive Decay feature, which adjusts the decay dynamically based on each drum hit’s velocity. This allows your drums to maintain their natural resonance while the gate clamps down on unwanted spill — tight control without sacrificing tone.
• Drum Leveller for Consistent Hits – Inconsistent drum hits can make balancing your mix tricky. Drum Gate’s Level tab gives you precise control over the dynamics, smoothing out performance variations without killing the contrast between loud hits and softer ghost notes. Maintain natural dynamics while evening out your drummer’s performance for a tighter, cleaner sound.
• Fast & Accurate MIDI Drum Replacement – Need to replace or augment drums in the mix? Drum Gate makes it easy—export the isolated drum hits as MIDI directly to your DAW, perfectly aligned and with all the original dynamics intact. Whether you’re augmenting or replacing, Drum Gate 2 gives you complete flexibility without compromising the feel of the performance.
• Time, Polarity & Phase Alignment
  Kick drums losing low-end weight. Snares thinning out. Transients smearing before the mix has even begun. When drum tracks aren’t aligned in time and phase, you’re fighting the kit from the very first hit. Drum Gate 2 precisely aligns your entire drum setup in both time and phase, locking the kit together so the foundation of your mix is solid from the start.
• Hit Clipper
  Traditional clippers react unevenly to changing drum dynamics. Loud hits get crushed while quieter hits slip through untouched. Drum Gate 2’s Intelligent Leveller feeds the clipper the peak information, so each transient is clipped on its own terms. Uniform power, density, and clarity, even in dense mixes.