Gating Plugins

[rickwaugh]

I did find a couple of presets on Saturn which created a lot of noise when not playing. I'm believing that if i want to put a gate on these, I need to pick up the Fabfilter Pro-G, as it's the only gate in the store, and put it into the chain after Saturn. The inserts always come after the channel strip, so the gate there is not going to be of any use.

Have I got this right?

[Johow]

According to this drawing I'd say you have it right.

[rickwaugh]

Yup, unless there's some routing trick that I haven't been able to figure out. But I don't think so.

It's not a cheap plugin, the one in the channel strip works pretty good, except in this case. Well, I can live without using those presets for now.

[Johow]

If you have Tonestack, you might try closing all amps and effects and add Noisex!....
But I think you said your plan was to get rid of the amp sims....
I searched for a noise gate but like you said the only thing I cound fine is the in app purchase unless you want it as part of an amp sim spread...good luck!

[Anthony Alves]

The presets in Saturn are not all dedicated for guitar. You will find some presets with modulations that are continuous that is that they feedback loop on purpose. You can adjust these modulations attack and release within the plugin. You may also consider wave editing of the track to cut out the silent parts where you don't play. You may also use automation to accomplish this. I own the ProG and I highly recommend it especially for electronic music effects. Cheers and hope this helped.~~_/)~~~*

[rickwaugh]

Thanks, Anthony. I'm so in love with the quality the FF stuff, I'll probably end up getting all of it at one point or another. The multiband compressor is probably more than I need, and I didn't think I'd need the gate, but it's not a lot of money. Pickup Volcano at some point, too.

[Wolle]

The multiband compressor is probably more than I need, and I didn't think I'd need the gate...

Hi Rick,

you might be right with PRO MB. It's a bit over the top for gating only but the downwards expansion works quite well for that purpose too. You might want to have a look at this FabFilter video on youtube, where Dan Warrall does a great job, explaining the gating capabilities of the PRO MB.

http://youtu.be/ek0Oea6kvBA

I personally do have PRO G and PRO MB and i'm quite happy with both of them though PRO MB it's "a bit" CPU intensive on my iPAD 2.

I hope you get your problems fixed.

Wolle

[rickwaugh]

I'll take a look, thanks.