Waves Smack Attack
Waves Smack Attack: Emphasize, tame, and shape drums and percussion. Shape Your Drums’ Punch with the Ultimate Transient Shaper.
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Description
Make drums leap out of a mix. Help the snare crack instead of thud. Get strummed acoustic guitar to sound crisper. Enable percussive rap vocals to hit hard. Or, go in the other direction—tame hand percussion to sit better in the mix, or pull back a bass’s attack to emphasize sustain.
Compared to traditional transient shapers, Smack Attack’s powerful processing provides more detailed control over the initial attack. From tracks to masters, your sound comes alive.
Restore Presence for Drums and Percussive instruments
The recording process can’t always capture transients faithfully, which dulls the sound. Smack Attack not only restores transients, but can emphasize them to produce hyper-realistic presence and energy.
Pick Your Punch
Add as much, or as little, punch as you want to any instrument with a percussive attack. Bring drums, bass, brass stabs, string attacks, even vocals closer to a mix’s forefront. Or, push the punch hard—and set sounds on stun.
Take the Edge Off, Too
Bright acoustic guitars sound great—but the pick noise can be overwhelming. Use Smack Attack to soften the pick transient, but keep the brightness. Or, take the edge off tambourines and other aggressive percussion.
From Surgical Fixes to Creative Effects
Apply different shapes to the attack, from tight spikes to blunt shapes with a slower rise. Raise sustain to bring up room sound on drums, or lower sustain to tighten up any sound (like a ringing tom) that overstays its welcome. Both Attack and Sustain come with Sensitivity and Duration controls to tailor the effect with precision.
Flexible and Versatile
Parallel processing lets you dial in the right blend of transient-shaped and original sound. And even when pushing punch to the max, you can enable clipping or limiting to guard against excessive output levels.
Zero Latency for Live Sound
Smack Attack’s real-time operation has no latency, so it rocks your sound in live shows as well. You can even add real-time expressiveness with MIDI controllers, like a keyboard’s mod wheel, or footpedal.
Features
- Emphasizes percussive peaks for more punch and presence
- Customize attack levels, and how much of the attack to process
- Selectively tighten or extend transients and sustain
- Advanced features—parallel processing, MIDI control
- Real-time graphic display makes it easy to optimize settings quickly
- Controls attack characteristics more flexibly than ever before
- Softens peaks to place instruments further back in the mix
- Sensitivity control for selective transient shaping
- Limiter/clipper to drive your sound to the limit
- Zero latency for live sound mixing in real time
Tech Specs
MAC
OS X macOS Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14
Memory: 8 GB
Disk: 16 GB
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AU, AAX
WINDOWS
Windows Windows 10 64 bit Windows 11
Memory: 8 GB
Disk: 16 GB
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX
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