Introduction, Main applications, 1 introduction – Sonnox Oxford Transient Modulator User Manual
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1 INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction
The Sonnox Oxford TransMod is an application that allows the dynamic level of signals to
be modified, over time, by transients in the programme material. The effect is to bring
transient events in the programme forward, or push them to the background, such that
the attack of instruments can be accentuated or softened depending on the settings
provided.
The application was developed to address a common situation where there is a need to
selectively tighten up percussive instruments or soften the unwanted percussive effects of
acoustic musical instruments. Such effects are easily achieved with the TransMod
because its purpose designed adaptive processing acts on differential information in the
programme, so that the overall long-term programme level is minimally affected, and
sensitivity to control parameters is drastically reduced.
1.1 MainApplications
• Radically change the dynamics of instruments
• Accentuate or flatten attacks and transients
• Bring sounds forward or push them back
• Increase or reduce the effects of ambience
• Produce rounded and dynamic percussive effects
• Harden up and give life to dull or flat-sounding recordings and mixes, without the
unwanted changes in overall timbre associated with multi-band compression
techniques
• Increase overall modulation potential by the reduction of very short peaks