Metric Halo Super Gate

Product description

“SuperGate has some black magic under the hood. Some of the most useless drum tracks have been given a new life with this plugin.” - Ashton Parsons, Mix Engineer

Finally, a gate that actually does what a gate was always supposed to do…

First and foremost, the job of an audio gate is to let the target audio events through unaffected, and only attenuate the unwanted signal. In SuperGate, like any other gate, you have two jobs: find and isolate the target sound, and determine when to trigger the gate. Unlike other gates, SuperGate lets you customize the gate attack and release gain curves precisely to the sound you are isolating, as you listen, while visually referencing our specialized WYSIWYG detector display. Further, the gate curve you build is not applied as a set of dynamic expander parameters, but a programmed set of sample-by-sample instructions defining the gain structure and duration of the Attack-Hold-Release gate envelope itself. When the trigger point is reached during playback, this set of instructions modifies the samples describing the target sound, thereby applying the gate.

Applying the gain curves in this way completely avoids aliasing artifacts, the interpolation stages required to correct for them, and the modulation and smearing effects that degrade the gain transition. The audible advantage of this approach is immediately apparent as you work with the processor. The Open and Close gate curves are applied with perfect repeatability as if they were copy/pasted onto the audio stream at the trigger point (which is in fact exactly the case), and all the minute variations of each audio event which provide feel and personality can come through the gate completely untouched.

The v4 AAX plugins are Native only. In order to support AAX DSP (e.g. Pro Tools HDX and Carbon), MH has developed v4 so that it may be co-installed with v3. The v3 plugins will continue to be used for DSP instances, and new DSP instances may be added with v3. v4 plugins can be inserted for Native instances. If the v3 plugins are not installed, Pro Tools will automatically migrate v3 instances to v4 Native. v3 Instances may be manually migrated by the user if both v3 and v4 are installed.
For current Metric Halo Production Bundle & plugin users, MH has been careful to ensure that old settings and presets are correctly loaded by the new plugins, and that the VST3 plugins provide compatible IDs for the VST2 plugins (and AU and AAX plugins also are configured to be fully ID compatible with the v1, v2, and v3 versions of the PB plugins) so the all existing sessions migrate forward seamlessly.

" Adds VST3 versions for all plugins on both macOS and Windows
" VST3 Apple Silicon Native support for Steinberg products (Cubase, Nuendo, etc).
" VST3 Native Sidechain Support for our plugins that provide Sidechain input.
" All plugins support AU, AAX, VST2 and VST3 on macOS.
" All plugins support AAX, VST2, and VST3 on Windows.