Devious Machines updates Duck to v1.3 - Adds Groups, MIDI Filtering and Band Solo features
Devious Machines has updated Duck, the sidechain plugin, to version 1.3.
The new version adds Groups, MIDI Filtering and Band Solo features, and is free for existing users.
Duck is available to demo or buy on the Devious Machines website for £20 / €25 / $27.
New in version 1.3:
- With Grouping, you can put as many iterations of Duck as you like in up to four groups (A, B, C and D) and edit curve shapes across all Ducks simultaneously.
- Use MIDI Filtering so Duck is only triggered by MIDI notes in set range. This makes it simpler to duck bass to a kick drum that's part of a larger MIDI drum kit part.
- You can now fine-tune the crossover point between high and low bands with Band Soloing, which helps to audition how the split sounds at different points.
You can read a more in-depth explanation of how to use the new features on the Devious Machines blog.
Duck Features:
- Instant sidechain pumping as soon as you load the plugin.
- Designed to help achieve cleaner, louder and more exciting mixes.
- Choose from 8 preset curves or 58 creative and useful Duck patches.
- Draw your own curves and rhythms to use now, or save them later.
- NEW: Group as many Ducks as you like and edit curves across up to four groups simultaneously.
- Set the overall pump, or apply to low and high bands with adjustable crossover.
- NEW: Solo the high or low bands for accurate fine tuning.
- Run Duck in Repeat mode, or use sidechained audio or MIDI signals to trigger, with optional lookahead for glitch free audio.
- Trigger sidechaining with external MIDI.
- NEW: Filter the MIDI so only notes in a set range trigger Duck.
- Smoothing control to remove clicks: including super-accurate pre-smoothing algorithm when in LFO mode.
- Run on individual tracks, groups or your master bus for different pump effects.
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Lookahead control to fine-tune ducking with transient sources.
- Low CPU usage means you can run Duck on loads of tracks.
- Mac and Windows: VST/AU/AAX plugin.
