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Gate with long hold and/or release time?

synthetic

synthetic

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I have a weird application where I'm often working with prototype synths or dev boards which are very noisy. I'm looking for a VST3 gate with a very long hold and/or release time, like 10-30 seconds. Fabfilter Pro-G has a 250ms hold and 5s fade, though it sounds shorter than that to me. Steinberg has 2s hold / 1s release. I don't want to hear the gate while I'm working on sounds, but I want the noise to go away after a minute without constantly hitting the mute button.

I know it's a longshot but if anyone knows of something please let me know. I asked on Gearspace and other mixing forums and gotten "you don't need that / you don't know what you're doing." Thanks.
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Can you do something with sidechaining a control signal?

Assuming you are working within a DAW, here's an initial thought:

Set up two VIs, the noisy one ("working synth") and a second synth that is programmed to produce sound immediately, but with a very, very long release or, better yet, a release sample 10-30 seconds long.

Assign the same MIDI input to both VIs.

Assign the second synth audio output to side chain a gate thru which the working synth output is fed. Don't feed the second synth into your monitor path. You don't want to hear it.

Set the release/release sample on the second synth long enough so it doesn't drop to the gate threshold until you want the working synth to go away. Adjust the gate release/hold to avoid chatter as the second synth is moving thru threshold.

Let us know if that works!
 
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Nomad Factory Blue Tubes ExpanderGate GX622 has a 2200 ms hold and a 9000 ms release. Longest I've been able to observe, but I have not nearly exhausted the possibilities. Curious more about the application where such a long release would serve purpose. I've been thinking it might be useful for ambient music but wondering what material would really show off such a function.
 
I don't know if this will give you the desired behavior, but most guitar amp sims have a built-in gate knob to filter out buzz, hum, and other undesirable low level noises that occur when a guitar is plugged into an amp, especially high-gain amps.

These gates are essentially perpetual - the single knob sets the threshold and the gate does the rest. When running your synths thru it, you would simply bypass the amp and cabinet and only activate the gate effect.

There are also gate guitar pedals (in plugin form) that perform the same function. In fact, I think Nembrini offers a free one.

Nembrini is a good place to start, but you can also check out Kazrog and Plugin Alliance for other low cost alternatives. And if you have NI's Guitar Rig, I'm sure there's a gate effect in there.

Hope that might help. Good luck!
 
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