Ableton Gate Plugin Download
With Ableton Live you’ll find a Utility plugin, which can be used to separate the sum and difference of your stereo signal, the sum being a mono mix of both the right and left signals. With the Waves Center, on the other hand, you’ll get a “perceived” center rather than a mono sum. Gate effect to silence audio below a set threshold. Adjustable attack and release to create staccato chops or gentle fades. Good for opening up space in a mix, where noise from individual tracks can quickly build up. Live Sets, Racks, presets, Max for Live devices, and anything else you can download and use in Ableton Live. To download your free trial of Ableton Live visit Try Live for free Downloads. Plugins can emulate the behavior of vintage analog pieces of gear, or simply act as clean/linear digital signal processors, performing tasks such as equalization, compression, limiting, expansion, gating, time-domain effects, etc. Ableton Live comes with a variety of proprietary plugins (effects) that can help the user mix a music production.
Gates are the perfect plug-in to remove noise and unwanted signal from our audio but if your gate plug-in supports side chaining you might be able to use it for a whole lot more.
By feeding a percussion pattern or drum loop into your gate you can transform any sound fed through it into it's own rhythmical pattern. Let's take a look at this simple but effective technique in Ableton Live.
Step 1 - Loading Up Your Initial Sound
First up we have to focus on the sound we want to treat with our gate effect. I find that this tends to work very well on sustained sounds. So short percussive stabs or sequences may not be such a good idea but pads, strings and sustained vocals are perfect.
In this case I have gone for a synth based string sample, which I think should work pretty nicely. As I mentioned in the intro I am using Ableton Live here but of course you could use any DAW that has a gate plug-in and side chain capabilities.
Audio: The string sample I plan to treat:
Step 2 - Adding the Gate Plug-in
Next I loaded Live's stock gate plug-in. At the minute it should have no effect, with the threshold jacked all the way to the top you should be able to hear your sound with zero processing.
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Step 3 - Adding the Trigger Sound
Now we need our trigger sound. Just about any percussive groove based pattern will do here. Obviously this will be the basis of your gated pattern, so pick something that you like! You can either use a drum or percussion loop, or you could actually program a MIDI part.
The latter will give you a completely custom gate pattern but in this case I have used a loop to keep things simple.
Audio: The loop I'll use as the trigger:
Step 4 - Setting Up the Side Chain
The gate is opened to reveal the side chain functions.
Now get into the gate plug-in and open up the hidden panel. This is done by hitting the small arrow icon in the top left of the gate's interface. You should now see the controls for the side chain feature.
Activate the side chain and choose the audio channel you just placed your trigger sound on as the source. With these steps completed, your side chain is successfully set up.
Step 5 - Fine Tuning the Gate and Adding a Final Touch
Now move the gate's threshold control until it catches the peaks of your trigger audio. You should start to hear your gate react with the sound. At this point you can fine tune the attack and release settings. I find a fast attack, with no hold and a moderate release is a good starting point.
Once you're happy with the effect you can add some final touches, I always find that a subtle delay line works very well. To hear this working clearly you might want to turn off or mute the trigger audio.
The final gate setting in action.
Audio: The gate and trigger in the mix:
Audio: The gated string in isolation with some delay:
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