sweepable gate plugin ?

[Mr No Name]

Does anyone know of a software vst gate plug in that will gate a signal, drums particularly, and then be able to "lock" the gate and sweep it along the waveform,

I suppose it will be a gate that will transform into a sweepable filter ??

 

Thanks

[Leizer]

I don't understand what result you are looking for, but could a locked gate+ a sweeping low pass filter do the trick?

[Mr No Name]

yes, but I don't know how you would connect the gated signal to the sweeping filter and move it along the waveform?

it would be like a multiple narrow Q equalizer being able to move as one along the spectrum/waveform? 10 bands? 20 bands? depending on how many transients were let through on a 4 bar loop on the gate.

It's for sound design purposes not sound engineering.

 

I'm sure one exists, if not I'll invent it and sell it for $149.99.  Cheaper on black friday.

[Amberwolf]

I think you might need to provide a different form of explanation so we can better help you find what you're after:

I dont' really understand what you are trying to do, or get as a sound result?

How does a gate "move" with a sweeping filter?  they do completely different things?

AFAIK a gate either lets sound thru or it doesn't, based on things like attack time, etc. 

A filter lets some range of sound frequencies thru; a sweeping filter changes the frequency range or central frequency,  etc.  

 

What way do you want to combine those two things, for what result?    

 

[Mr No Name]

I'll try a more abstract way of explaining it, you have 2 pieces of white cardboard in a circular tube shape (a loop) 

on the outside is the "gated" "transient shaped" signal, it would be cut into the cardboard so you could see through the gaps

to the piece of card board on the inside would be the waveform.

 

you would be able to turn the outside "cylinder" and depending where it was turned to would determine what was seen of the waveform inside.

(what sound would come out)

 

you could "cut" any shape into the outside but it would be "frozen"

the inside "sound" would always change as it was turned.

 

make more sense?

 

[Amberwolf]

No, not really.

The "picture" I get tells me that this would be a way to do it, but I probably still don't know what you want, so it's probalby still wrong:

 

If you're just trying to make a template of the gate pattern, you'd probably have to use an automation envelope (gain, volume, etc) that zeroes out the parts you don't want to hear, that simulate the gating.   If you have a gate plugin that can output MIDI or automation in response to the gate trigger, you coudl record that to create the automation.

 

Then you can slide that around timewise on the waveform you're processing with the filter, so that it isn't actually gating the way a gate would trigger (because that doesn't work the way you describe), but instead is gating the way you want it to.