Devious Machines has announced an update to its popular effect plugin designed to help you sidechain and shape the volume envelope of your sounds with ease.
Now in a modern, freely-resizable GUI, Duck 2 is carefully redesigned from the ground up with a much-improved envelope editor, powerful new multiband section, more presets, and many new workflow-enhancing features.
It’s the easiest way to get your kick and bass hitting just right. Draw a volume envelope, carve out the exact shape you need. It’s that easy. Duck is also great for rhythmic patterns, tremolo, drum-shaping, and much more.
Changes in Duck 2
- Modernised, freely-resizable GUI.
- Powerful new multiband features:
- Two or three band mode.
- Separate envelope per-band (optional).
- Adjustable crossover slope (12, 24, 48dB/oct).
- Linear phase mode.
- Spectrum analyser.
- Improved envelope editor:
- Modernised look and feel.
- New curve shapes (spline, 2D bend).
- Randomise function.
- New edit operations (rotate, duplicate, invert, etc.).
- Brush tools.
- Multi-select of points.
- Expanded envelope preset palette.
- Copy and paste of shapes (including from Infiltrator 2).
- Expanded preset library.
- Undo/redo.
- Trace envelope shape from audio inputs, or imported file.
- Updated output section with gain reduction metering.
- New combined offset-lookhead function.
- New preset browser.
- Unsynced Hz mode for LFO.
- New advanced trigger settings panel.
- Loop and Release functions for triggered envelopes.
- Audio signal and trigger trace.
- Improved support for non-4/4 time signatures.
Duck 2 for Windows and macOS (VST/VST3, AU and AAX) is priced £29.99 GBP / €34.99 EUR / $39.99 USD at Plugin Boutique and from the Devious Machines store.
Owners of the previous version can upgrade to Duck 2 for £9.99 GBP / €9.99 EUR / $15.99 USD.
