Wonderful
The best transient/envelope shaper I have used. One of the best plugins I ever bought.
Oxford Envolution
The Creative Envelope Shaper
Gain complete control of your track’s transients and sustain, and unlock the boundless creative potential of envelope shaping for your mixes.
£199.99
Description
The Sonnox Oxford Envolution is a dynamic envelope shaper designed for precise, creative control over transients in your audio mix. This powerful tool allows you to independently shape the attack and sustain characteristics of sounds, bringing life, depth, and clarity to drums, guitars, vocals, and more. With its intuitive interface, Envolution provides full-spectrum frequency control, making it versatile for a wide range of audio production applications. Whether you’re boosting punch in percussive elements or subtly enhancing the presence of an instrument, Envolution’s tailored frequency shaping empowers you to create high-impact mixes effortlessly.
Ideal for both beginners and seasoned professionals, Envolution’s adaptive control system allows you to target specific frequency ranges without compromising the integrity of the overall sound. It’s compatible with leading DAWs, ensuring seamless integration into any studio setup. Designed with Sonnox’s industry-leading DSP technology, Envolution minimizes CPU load while delivering pristine audio quality. Perfect for music producers, audio engineers, and sound designers, this plugin is an essential tool for refining dynamics and achieving a polished, professional mix in any project.
Limitless Envelope Shaping Possibilities
Shape your drum transients and sustains to the finest detail with Oxford Envolution.
This powerful envelope shaper gives you precise control over the attack and sustain of every drum hit, allowing you to craft the perfect dynamic feel for your tracks.
Add punch to kicks and snares, tighten room ambience, or enhance the natural resonance of toms with intuitive, frequency-dependent shaping.
Your drums will always sit perfectly in the mix.
This powerful envelope shaper gives you precise control over the attack and sustain of every drum hit, allowing you to craft the perfect dynamic feel for your tracks.
Add punch to kicks and snares, tighten room ambience, or enhance the natural resonance of toms with intuitive, frequency-dependent shaping.
Your drums will always sit perfectly in the mix.
What The Pros Think Of Envolution
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MusicTech
"Oxford Envolution is a very useful tool. People after options will love the control, not only over the frequencies that are processed, but also the attack and release envelopes for both the Transient and Sustain portions of the signal."
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TapeOp
"I've been combing through recordings tracked years ago, using Envolution to fix everything in my life that I've done wrong; murky pianos, lifeless room mics, bass amps (whoa!), and of course, the damn kick drum. I love Envolution. Not only a great fixing tool, but also an extremely creative one too." -
Electronic Musician
"Uniquely powerful, flexible and reasonably priced, Oxford Envolution is a terrific-sounding plug-in every mix engineer should own."
Key Features
Transient Control Section
Shape the attack of your drum hits with precision, adding punch to kicks, snap to snares, or softening harsh transients using frequency-dependent control.
Intuitive parameters like attack, hold, and release make it easy to dial in the perfect dynamic response, helping your drums stand out in the mix with clarity and impact.
Intuitive parameters like attack, hold, and release make it easy to dial in the perfect dynamic response, helping your drums stand out in the mix with clarity and impact.
Sustain Design Section
Control the sustain of your drum sounds with pinpoint accuracy.
Tighten room ambience, enhance the natural resonance of toms, or shorten the decay for a cleaner mix.
Intuitive parameters let you easily adjust the sustain’s character, ensuring your drums have the perfect balance of presence and space in any track.
Tighten room ambience, enhance the natural resonance of toms, or shorten the decay for a cleaner mix.
Intuitive parameters let you easily adjust the sustain’s character, ensuring your drums have the perfect balance of presence and space in any track.
Frequency-Dependant Shaping
Fully control individual frequency ranges within the envelope to create unique textures and sonic signatures.
Boost the punch of a kick drum without adding excess low-end weight, tighten up the lower frequencies of a snare for added clarity, or easily manage toms’ resonance.
Envolution’s frequency-dependent controls allow for precise sculpting, ensuring every frequency fits perfectly within your mix.
Boost the punch of a kick drum without adding excess low-end weight, tighten up the lower frequencies of a snare for added clarity, or easily manage toms’ resonance.
Envolution’s frequency-dependent controls allow for precise sculpting, ensuring every frequency fits perfectly within your mix.
Harmonic Saturation
Envolution’s Warmth feature adds harmonic richness and depth to both transient and sustained sections, bringing a subtle analogue character to your sound.
Whether you’re looking to breathe life into flat, digital tracks or smooth out harsh transients, Envolution helps you add dimension, texture, and musicality to every element of your mix.
Whether you’re looking to breathe life into flat, digital tracks or smooth out harsh transients, Envolution helps you add dimension, texture, and musicality to every element of your mix.
FAQs
Oxford Envolution is a frequency-dependent envelope shaper that gives you precise control over the attack and sustain of your audio. It can radically re-shape the character of drums, instruments, or even full mixes with clarity and flexibility.
Instead of traditional compression, Envolution lets you target specific frequency ranges and adjust their attack or sustain independently. This means you can add punch to transients, reduce reverb tails, or bring out subtle details without squashing the overall dynamic range.
You can tighten snares, add body to toms, enhance the pick of a guitar, or control room ambience in overheads. On a mix bus, it can add presence, energy, or focus, making it a powerful tool for both corrective tasks and creative sound design.
What our customers say 6 Reviews
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Oxford Envolution (Native)
Sensational product, a must for percussion recordings. Good on the master bus and probably great for a bunch more situations that I have not tried it for yet. Highly recommended
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Incredibly powerful
All is in the title, but the result and the power of the Sonnox plugins in how they can change the sound in a natural and musical way without any distortion or artefact is clearly for me the brand of the best. After having used plugins like Dynamics, Inflator or Envolution, they become the go-to plugins you want to use right away.
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Drumgate
Good plugin so far enjoying how it makes my drums sound. Manipulating sound is what this plugin is about. Being able to get sound to do what you want it to do is priceless
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Envolution
Great plugin. Best I tried and I tried many. Super clean with no artifacts, no distortion... Just amazing. Easy to use, you have a graph so you can see what you are doing not just hear. Love it. It is on my drums 99 percent of the time.
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Envolution
One of the best tools ever created
Compatibility
Licencing
- Local MachineInstall directly on your computer.
- iLok DeviceRequires an iLok2 or iLok3 USB dongle (latest drivers required).
- iLok CloudActivation via iLok Cloud requires an active internet connection (only one activation can be assigned to iLok Cloud; the other must be on a Local Machine or iLok Device).
Each Oxford plugin license includes two simultaneous activations.
With an iLok account, you can authorise each activation on one of the following devices:
Supported Formats
- Audio Unit (AU)
- VST3
- AAX-NativePro Tools 11 or later.
- AAX-DSPPro Tools Ultimate, Pro Tools HD, or Avid VENUE systems.
Compatible plugin formats for various digital audio workstations (DAWs):
AAX-DSP Instances per chip
Number of AAX-DSP instances per chip:
Variant
44.1/48 kHz
88.2/96 kHz
176.4/192 kHz
Mono
7
3
1
Stereo
6
2
1
Supported Operating Systems
- macOSmacOS 10.13 High Sierra or later.
- WindowsWindows 10 (64-bit) or later.
Our plugins are compatible with the following operating systems:
For compatibility with older systems, please contact our support team.
Documentation
For detailed setup instructions and additional usage tips, please refer to the user guide.
Oxford Envolution User Guide.
