The first attack, initial hit or onset of a sound is known as its ‘transient.’ By controlling the exact level, shape and duration of these sounds, you can give your tracks the perfect tightness and dynamics they need, in ways that a compressor can’t always do.
With Smack Attack, you can unleash or tame kicks, snares, claps, drum samples, or any other drum or percussion instrument – but also guitar and bass plucks, quick piano arpeggios, synth stabs, or even your entire mix.
Unlike traditional transient shapers, Smack Attack lets you control more than just attack and sustain levels; you also get pinpoint control over the transients’ shape and duration. You can make a kick tighter than you’d ever imagined – or give your snares that extra crack. You also have a Sensitivity control for selective transient shaping: you can process all your transients, only the loudest ones, or anything in between.
With a user-friendly GUI, plus zero latency in the studio and live, Smack Attack will let you go sensitive or aggressive on your transients, design the perfect pulse in your tracks, and make every hit count.
- ‘Secret weapon’ for mixing drums and all other percussive instruments
- Unleash or tame transient attack & sustain
- Fine-tune transient level, shape and duration
- Real-time graphic wave display
- Zero latency in the studio or live
- Limiter/clipper for driving your sound to the limit
- Sensitivity control for selective transient shaping
- Wet/Dry mix control for parallel processing
- MIDI control assignable
Smack Attack (V11) – System Requirements
Intel Core i5 / i7 / i9 / Xeon
Memory
8 GB RAM
8 GB free disk space on the system drive
Operating System
10.12.6 – 10.15
Screen Resolution
Minimum: 1024×768
Recommended: 1280×1024 / 1600×1024
USB displays are not supported as the primary display.
Intel Core i5 / i7 / i9 / Xeon / AMD Quad-Core
Memory
8 GB RAM
8 GB free disk space on the system drive
Operating System
Windows 10 64 bit
Screen Resolution
Minimum: 1024×768
Recommended: 1280×1024 / 1600×1024