Devious Machines Duck

Duck by Devious Machines is a top-rated envelope shaper plugin that provides instant sidechain ducking. This defining effect of modern music, featured in tracks by Daft Punk, Noisia, and Eric Prydz, is delivered in seconds with this product. Duck makes it easy to design a custom volume shape that repeats at a speed and depth of your choice, or use one of 58 presets to find new and inspiring effects.

Besides sidechain compression, Duck is also capable of trance-gating, tremolo, and any other volume effect you can think of. For more control, enable split-band mode and adjust the separate low and high-frequency controls. Plus, Duck can be triggered with audio from a sidechain input or by MIDI notes, making it a great tool for hip-hop and bass music producers.

Duck also comes with features like The Crossover and Lookahead. The Crossover allows you to process the high and low frequencies of your music separately. If you are triggering Duck using audio or midi, Lookahead can clean up your audio and avoid unwanted clicks.

Another interesting feature of Duck is its capacity for audio input based triggering. This, paired with the Lookahead feature, makes it perfect for the precise designing of gated reverb style sounds.

Features

• Instant sidechain pumping as soon as you load the plugin
• Cleaner, louder, and more exciting mixes
• Groups let you edit the shape of multiple instances of Duck at the same time
• 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
• Set the overall pump, or apply to low and high bands with adjustable crossover
• Run Duck in Repeat mode, or use sidechained audio or MIDI signals to trigger
• Smoothing control to remove clicks: including super-accurate pre-smoothing algorithm when in LFO mode
• Low CPU usage means you can run Duck on different tracks
• Use Lookahead to get more accurate ducking with transient signals
• Solo Low or High band to adjust crossover frequency more accurately
• Group infinite Ducks into one of four groups to edit their curves as one
• MIDI Filtering for MIDI trigger mode sets note range for triggering
• Compatible with macOS and Windows: VST/AU/AAX plugin

System Requirements

macOS

• OS X 10.9 or later (Intel / M1 Apple Silicon supported) (64-bit only)
• VST, AU, AAX

Windows

• Windows 10 or later (64-bit only)
• VST, AAX

Important Notes:

• DAW with sidechain functionality is required.
• 2 GB of RAM is recommended.