SSL X-Limit and X-Gate Plug-In Bundle - Electronic Delivery

Product Description

The Solid State Logic X-Limit and X-Gate Bundle combines SSL's renowned brickwall limiter and precision gate processor plug-in. The X-Gate is a comprehensive and highly visual gating plug-in, inspired by the workflow from SSL's digital broadcast consoles featuring a rolling waveform graph, mid/side processing options, and tweakable hysteresis using independent open and closed thresholds. X-Limit is a highly visual track and bus maximizer with multiple characteristics and True Peak inter-sample limiting.

X-GATE PRECISION GATE PROCESSOR

Solid State Logic X-Gate delivers a range of unique control features for sound sculpting – use the interactive sidechain filter interface and mid/side balance options to focus the gate on unwanted sounds and process the signal as naturally as you’d like. In addition to visual feedback including the hardware-inspired traffic light system for immediate visual confirmation of the gate’s current status, the rolling waveform visualization graph provides an intuitive display of the incoming signal against which to set your open and close thresholds.

The EXP and DUCK modes immediately drops the plug-in into two additional modes, visualized by the I/O graph: fixed expander mode for transparent gating, and duck mode for attenuating a signal only when it exceeds a threshold – combine this with your DAW’s sidechain for intelligent ducking.

• Gating made easy - The left-to-right design displays I/O metering, thresholds and the gate response all at once for the most visual gating tool ever
• DUCK mode - Duck background audio by triggering the duck from an external sidechain. Combine with mid/side processing to focus the stereo field of surrounding audio during dialogue or vocal solos
• Mid/side gating - Add punch and retain dynamics using the gate mid/side control. Remove stereo room bleed while leaving the center signal intact – great for drums!
• Intelligent lookahead - Several discrete lookahead modes allow you to improve gate response with the minimal amount of introduced latency – perfect for live tracking situations
• Ballistics - Use the attack, hold and release in the ballistics section - inspired by the controls on SSL hardware dynamic modules – to design the perfect gate response

X-LIMIT BRICKWALL LIMITER

SSL X-Limit is a versatile audio limiting tool that allows artists, producers, and engineers to increase the loudness of tracks and busses quickly and effectively, without clipping or changing tonal balance. X-Limit can easily control peaks and tame unwanted transients, creating full and dynamic recordings – perfect for crafting loud mixes with subtlety and emotion.

Featuring 4 characteristics ranging from extremely transparent to color and glue, variable release times with renowned ‘Auto’ release, and True Peak + Lookahead algorithm for precision processing. X-Limit can be used as an invisible loudness enhancer or as a colorful limiter to add character and vibe. Its intelligent algorithms introduce minimal latency regardless of settings, making it suitable for tracking and live performance applications.

The unique steering and ducking meters indicate how the limiting process might influence the stereo image of your signal, and to provide feedback on minimizing stereo degradation using the channel link control. The all-in-one waveform and threshold display lets you easily set your threshold and ceiling against the incoming signal level.

• Apple M1 native support - X-Limit is a universal binary, and features M1 Native support
• All-in-one visualizer - The all-in-one waveform visualizer and threshold/ceiling sliders let you easily set parameters against the incoming signal level
• True Peak - True Peak mode engages SSL’s True Peak algorithm – ensuring that inter-sample peaks are effectively limited and providing momentary and max True Peak value readouts
• Channel Link - The Ducking and Steering meters provide intuitive visual feedback the effect of limiting on the stereo: guiding you towards the ideal amount of channel linking for minimum stereo degradation
• Styles - Pick from 4 carefully designed limiter characteristics – Transparent, Glue, Punch and Auto – for quick but versatile options to suit every occasion
• Gain Lock - Easily lock the applied gain to quickly demo different presets and styles on your source material
• Mix Control - When using the limiter to add punch rather than catch peaks, use the Mix control to easily dial back the effect (note that this means your signal will exceed the ceiling, since it blends with the original unprocessed signal!)

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

MAC:

• macOS Sierra (10.12) or higher
• Intel Dual Core Mac running at 2.4GHz or higher
• 4GB of RAM minimum, 8GB preferable
• AU, VST2, VST3, AAX Native

WINDOWS:

• Windows 7 (64-bit), 8 (64-bit), 8.1 (64-bit), and Windows 10 (64-bit)
• Intel Core 2 (or comparable) CPU running at 2.4GHz or higher
• 4GB of RAM minimum, 8GB preferable
• VST 2 (64-bit), VST3 (64-bit), AAX Native (64-bit)