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| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 60 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
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Key Features
The SSL X-Gate is an intuitive gate with advanced shaping features. With a range of highly visual features, X-Gate offers a comprehensive gating workflow inspired by classic analog gate hardware and SSL's Live and Broadcast consoles. This includes a rolling waveform graph, mid/side processing options and tweakable hysteresis using independent open and closed thresholds.
Enjoy a range of unique sound sculpting control features. Use the interactive sidechain filter interface and mid/side balance options to focus your gating on unwanted sounds and retain the natural elements of the signal as you process. Visual feedback is primary to the workflow of X-Gate, the hardware-inspired traffic light system offers immediate visual confirmation of the gate's current status. Furthermore, a rolling waveform visualisation graph provides an intuitive display of the incoming signal so you know where to set your open and close thresholds.
Push the functionality of X-Gate with two additional modes, visualised by the I/O graph. X-Gate offers a fixed expander mode for transparent gating and a duck mode for attenuating a signal only when it exceeds a threshold. Duck mode can be combined with your DAW's sidechaining abilities for intelligent ducking.
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At the core of X-Gate is a comprehensive visualiser. The visualiser offers both a waveform graph and an I/O graph, invaluable tools for representing key parameters in an all-in-one display. The waveform graph represents the incoming signal as dB over time, allowing you to see peaks in the waveform and identify the ideal position for open and close thresholds against the incoming signal. The I/O graph shows the input signal against the expected output signal, which is especially useful for visualising the expander and ducking modes.
A flexible sidechain circuit lets you shape incoming signals to stimulate the gate trigger for specific and creative uses. X-Gate features a side chain visualisation graph that displays the frequency range on the sidechain signal and allows the option to cut high and low frequencies with a filter in order to focus the sidechain to a limited frequency band. For stereo sources, you can alter the sidechain signal using mid/side processing, altering the incoming detection from focusing exclusively on mid-content, to only side content. Moreover, you can optionally sidechain the gate from an external sound input. Simply activate the EXT button to engage an external signal as the gate trigger.
Define the shape of your gating process with attack, hold, release, and knee parameters. The attack knob adjusts the rate at which the gate opens once passed the threshold. The Hold knob adjusts the time that the gate is held open following the signal passing back below the open threshold. The release knob adjusts the decay time of the gate closing when the signal has passed below the close threshold. Finally, the knee parameter is only available in expander mode and smoothens the transition between open and closed states.
