Everything Your Tracks Need for That Final Polish
If there’s one thing that Sweetwater studio engineers love even more than SSL plug-ins, it’s SSL plug-in bundles! This bundle contains two plug-ins that are sure to become part of your workflow: X-Gate and X-Limit. First, X-Gate combines the natural sounding behavior of analog gating hardware with an incredibly convenient GUI and intelligent lookahead modes that only the digital age can provide. Secondly, X-Limit also features its own clever lookahead algorithms for reduced latency, a handy Gain Lock function for A/Bing presets, and a Mix Control for parallel processing to add some oomph to buses and groups instead of merely taming their transients. Used in tandem, these two SSL plug-ins can help add that final bit of cleaning and leveling necessary to take your tracks from demo-ready to Grammy-worthy.
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X-Gate: timeless analog quality for the digital age
No matter your recording needs, a solid gate is integral to a great mix. Fortunately, Solid State Logic has you covered. The X-Gate Native plug-in masterfully blends hardware design with digital convenience, impressing Sweetwater’s studio pros with its ability to capture the classic analog qualities of hardware gate tools. Dynamic and responsive visual feedback includes a rolling waveform graph, and tricolor “traffic light” cues clearly indicate each channel’s open/closed/hold state at any given moment. An interactive filter graph lets you quickly visualize highpass and lowpass filter implementation with the sidechain signal. Comprehensive lookahead, threshold, and range controls — alongside attack, release, and hold time parameters — allow for extensive sound sculpting to refine your output. Expander and ducking modes add even greater degrees of sonic shaping, with customizable hysteresis behaviors letting you perfect your sound, all from one convenient plug-in.
SSL X-Gate Plug-in Features:
- Detailed visualization tools allow you to easily sculpt and shape sound in real time
- Inspiration from classic analog hardware captures vintage quality and interface design
- Single-click Ducking mode lets you 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 Peak and RMS detection options tailor the gate to your needs
- Highpass and lowpass filters accompany a filter graph for dynamic, real-time visual representation
X-Limit: state-of-the-art brickwall limiting
Packed to the gills with cutting-edge technology, X-Limit controls peaks and maximizes loudness, all with negligible latency. X-Limit's standard-compliant True Peak limiting algorithm employs intelligent oversampling and ensures that inter-sample peaks are effectively and efficiently contained. And with four selectable limiter modes — Transparent, Glue, Punch, and Auto — it sounds great on everything. The engineers here at Sweetwater have been quite impressed by X-Limit. No matter what type of mix we ran through ti, the resulting sound was smooth, musical, and complementary to the source material.
SSL X-Limit Plug-in Features:
- Controls peaks and maximizes loudness with negligible latency
- Standard-compliant True Peak limiting algorithm safeguards against inter-sample peaks
- Intelligent oversampling minimizes aliasing, digital clipping, and quantization distortion
- 4 selectable limiter modes: Transparent, Glue, Punch, and Auto
- All-in-one waveform visualizer is incredibly easy to navigate
- Intuitive Ducking and Steering meters help you minimize stereo degradation