Waves Smack Attack
Transient Shaper Plugin
Shape Your Drums' Punch with the Ultimate Transient Shaper
Make drums leap out of a mix.
Help the snare crack instead of thud.
Get strummed acoustic guitar to sound crisper.
Enable percussive rap vocals to hit hard.
Or, go in the other direction - tame hand percussion to sit better in the mix, or pull back a bass's attack to emphasize sustain.
Compared to traditional transient shapers, Smack Attack's powerful processing provides more detailed control over the initial attack.
From tracks to masters, your sound comes alive.
Features
- Emphasizes percussive peaks for more punch and presence
- Controls attack characteristics more flexibly than ever before
- Customize attack levels, and how much of the attack to process
- Softens peaks to place instruments further back in the mix
- Selectively tighten or extend transients and sustain
- Sensitivity control for selective transient shaping
- Advanced features - parallel processing, MIDI control
- Limiter/clipper to drive your sound to the limit
- Real-time graphic display makes it easy to optimize settings quickly
- Zero latency for live sound mixing in real time
System Requirements
- MacOS 14 Sonoma and above
- Officially supported up to MacOS 26 Tahoe
- Windows 10 and above (64-bit only)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
- 8GB RAM or more (16GB or more recommended)
- 1920x1080 screen resolution or higher
- Includes 1 activation per license
Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AudioSuite, AU, VST2, VST3
