

The first device of its kind was the Transient Designer 2 model 9946 from SPL. Well-known counterparts are the Trans-X from Waves, the transient modulator from Sony Oxford, the Transmodder from Voxengo or the freeware plug-in Dominion from Digitalfishphones. SPL Transient Designer), or as software plug-in for the known interfaces, such as VST or AU. Transient designers are available in different designs: as hardware (e.g. Transient designers are primarily designed to process individual signals Due to their principle, they are not suitable for composite signals, even if they are occasionally used in the mastering chain. Creative and atypical applications are of course also conceivable: Percussion sounds can represent an interesting sound idea without a really audible attack. Possible applications for transient designers are, for example, the targeted emphasis on the impact of a drum or the attenuation of the reverberation in a signal.
