hi there.
would you guys at psp be so kind that made a killer gate/expander plug, just for me
i'd like that it would:
1: be RTAS and AU that has very low cpu needs
2: have a big threshold knob right in the middle, having gate closed/open indicator in close proximity (with separate red/green lights as you get more attention when something moves instead of just changing colour of one indicator), and somewhere close to these essentials - a ducking mode button (the only button i want to see in this plug) that inverts the gate action.
3: have a little smaller gate controls (attack/hold/release) and expander controls (range/ratio/knee) below the gigantic threshold knob. range from 1:1 to 10:1 so the expander would be turned off when the 1:1 range is selected. i believe these controls should be knobs that you can drag with a mouse, or click a knob and then use the arrow keys on the keyboard to tweak. also, a text box that shows current exact value and where you can type the value directly.
4: have builtin sidechain with frequency/bandwidth control, (and in rtas version, the possibility to arm an external key signal). if the bandwidth setting would be turned to either extreme, it would disable the sidechain function.
5: no graphical representation of the input/output curve to waste cpu cycles. also no analog/saturation algorithms other than if you get to some clever analog-like solution in transient shaping
why am i asking such a basic thing? because nobody has done a perfectly good gate plug yet. please do it, i'm sure it will sell. there are tons of compressor/limiter plugs but little gates. (in case you haven't noticed... and the ones that are available, suck big time, most notably when extremely fast settings are used).
for some reason gates have just been "thrown in" a compressor plug and even then implemented "with a left hand", but still, there's a place for a very good gate. it's very frustrating having to think "well i'd like to use a gate here, but i don't have a good one and i don't like to insert a compressor plug that'd just hog cpu cycles for nothing. so maybe i just don't use the gate here."
if you made such a gate that would excel in what it is supposed to do and would use very little cpu recources, that'd be used a lot. everywhere.