Say goodbye to bleed-filled drum tracks with Oxford Drum Gate. It smartly detects hits, reduces spill, and preserves the natural ring—giving you clean, punchy drums. For tight control or effortless editing, Drum Gate delivers every time.
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Description
The Sonnox Oxford Drum Gate redefines precision gating for drum and percussive tracks, solving the common challenges of bleed and mis-triggering that often plague drum mixes. Using intelligent drum-hit detection, this advanced gate plugin accurately isolates and controls each drum, ensuring clarity and impact without losing the natural feel of your performance. With its adaptive decay feature, you can tailor the gate’s release to match the resonance of each drum, capturing the full sustain without unwanted noise.
Optimized for studio professionals and mixing engineers, Oxford Drum Gate’s detailed frequency control allows you to refine individual elements in a drum kit, from tight kicks to shimmering cymbals. It integrates seamlessly with leading DAWs, enhancing workflow with efficient, high-performance processing. Designed with Sonnox’s DSP technology, the plugin delivers pristine sound quality while minimizing CPU usage, making it a versatile addition to any producer’s toolkit. Perfect for music production, mixing, and post-production, this gate is essential for achieving a polished, professional drum sound.
The Noise Gate Built for Drums
Oxford Drum Gate changes the game. It intelligently isolates drum hits, reduces spill, and preserves the natural resonance of your kit—no more misdetections or unnatural gating—just clean, tight, and powerful drum sounds.
Whether you’re controlling bleed on a live kit or refining drum loops, Drum Gate delivers authentic, natural, and precise results every time.
Oxford Drum Gate walkthrough with Mike Exeter
Key Features
Intelligent Drum Hit Detection
Oxford Drum Gate uses intelligent hit detection to isolate kicks, snares, and toms—even in complex performances. Click to select which drums you want to process, and let the plugin do the rest.
Want to keep delicate ghost notes or cross-stick hits on a snare track while eliminating spill? Drum Gate handles it with accuracy and ease.
Adaptive Drum Decay for Natural Resonance
Drum Gate solves this with its Adaptive Decay feature, which adjusts the decay dynamically based on each drum hit’s velocity.
This allows your drums to maintain their natural resonance while the gate clamps down on unwanted spill — tight control without sacrificing tone.
Drum Leveller for Consistent Hits
The Drum Leveller gives you precise control over the dynamics, smoothing out performance variations without killing the contrast between loud hits and softer ghost notes.
Maintain natural dynamics while evening out your drummer’s performance for a tighter, cleaner sound.
Fast & Accurate MIDI Drum Replacement
Drum Gate makes it easy—export the isolated drum hits as MIDI directly to your DAW, perfectly aligned and with all the original dynamics intact.
Whether you’re augmenting or replacing, Drum Gate gives you complete flexibility without compromising the feel of the performance.
What our users say
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"Never isolated bass drum and snare drum so easily with such accuracy. Even subtle ghost notes in a very dynamic jazz performance!"
Nils Hahmann, Audio Engineer and Abbey Road Institute lecturer -
"Drum Gate is just smarter than anything else designed to detect drum hits. Dynamics handling is out of this world!"
Dax Liniere, producer/mixer at Puzzle Factory Sound Studios -
"This plugin is amazing black magic sh*t! I can't believe what I just did to fix a crappy drum track"
Will Russell, Grammy award-winning engineer/producer -
"It’s already blowing my mind. They are calling this a drum gate but it’s a magic box of tricks and a drum mixing dream come true!"
Greg Wells (The Greatest Showman, Adele, John Legend, Keith Urban, Deftones) -
"Separating a kick/snare out of a loop, if even possible, was always a total pain in the a*s. I have no idea how Sonnox did it but they figured it out!! What a time saver. You’ve made my assistants so happy!"
Michael Brauer (John Mayer, Coldplay, Bon Jovi, George Ezra) -
"This is a great one-stop-shop of a plugin. Drum gate achieves what I’ve been trying to do with 3 separate plug-ins and more"
Andy Sneap (Killswitch Engage, Megadeth, Bullet for my Valentine, Opeth)
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