SideChain Gate / Expander

SideChain Gate / Expander is a lightweight audio plugin developed specifically for helping you tweak the sound using several tools, like gate attack, hold, release, routing, and threshold. You can make use of its capabilities and install it on all Windows versions out there, provided that you have a VST host like energyXT or VSTHost deployed on the target computer. It comes with support for different sampling rate options, namely 44.1k, 48k, 88.2k, and 96k.

The audio plugin reveals a clean and well-structured suite of features. Thanks to the integrated knobs, you can quickly set up the audio options. A help manual is comprised in the package and includes only a few descriptions about the audio’s plugin capabilities. You need to take some extra time and experiment with the built-in parameters in order to understand how the plugin works.

SideChain Gate / Expander gives you the possibility to set the threshold level of the gate (-60dB to 0dB), configure the attack time of the gate (0.05ms to 100ms), specify the hold time of the gate (0ms to 1000ms), as well as tweak the release time of the gate.

Other important configuration settings worth being mentioned enable you to alter the ratio of the expander, set the minimum level when the gate closes (-oodB to 0dB), output the trigger signals, enable or disable the ducker mode, carry out routing tasks by assigning the input channels, as well as configure the cutoff frequency of a low-pass and high-pass filter for the signals.

Tests have demonstrated that SideChain Gate / Expander carries out tasks quickly and without errors. It offers very good output quality. It remains light on system resources so the overall performance of the computer is not affected.

To sum things up, SideChain Gate / Expander proves to be a handy VST audio plugin that comes bundled with several useful audio parameters for altering the sound. It is ideal for music enthusiasts.