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Oxford Drumgate 2 (nat)
The noise gate that actually understands drums.
Oxford Drumgate 2 (nat)
Description
The Noise Gate Built For Drums
Inconsistent hits, phase issues, and uncontrolled spill can make or break a drum mix before the rest of the production has even begun.
Not a threshold-based noise gate. Not source separation. A purpose-built drum detection engine.
Whether you’re mixing live-tracked drums across close mics, overheads and rooms, or shaping kit sounds from stems, Drum Gate 2 gives you total command so these elements work for your mix rather than against it.
What’s New In Drum Gate 2?
| Drum Gate 1 | Drum Gate 2 | |
| Detect every intended drum hit (with zero false triggers) without babysitting multiple controls. | V | V |
| Align time, polarity, and phase across any set of drum tracks to give a clean, punchy starting point for downstream mixing decisions. | V | |
| Decay drum resonances naturally while attenuating spill (no fiddly filter-tweaking or whumpy source-separation artefacts). | V | V |
| Level out dynamic inconsistencies without losing expressive playing dynamics. | V | V |
| Clip each hit consistently so that drums cut through dense mixes evenly. | V | |
| Enhance pre-beat-detected drums with Drum Gate 2’s Decay and Leveller (no re-detection needed). | V | |
| Export MIDI for detected hits for sample triggering. | V | V |
Key Features
*Intelligent Drum Hit Detection
*Adaptive Decay
*Leveller
*Accurate Drum Sample triggering
*Time, Polarity & Phase Alignment
*External sidechain
*Hit Clipper
Brand
Sonnox
Sonnox
Sonnox is the leading designer of innovative, high quality, award-winning audio processing plug-ins for professional audio engineers. Oxford Plug-Ins are used in an extraordinary range of audio applications including mixing for music production, live sound, broadcast, TV & Film, and even scientific and forensics projects.
System Requirements
Licencing
Each Oxford plugin license includes two simultaneous activations.
With an iLok account, you can authorise each activation on one of the following devices:
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- Local MachineInstall directly on your computer.
- iLok DeviceRequires an iLok2 or iLok3 USB dongle (latest drivers required).
- iLok CloudRequires an active internet connection. Only one activation can be assigned to iLok Cloud; the other must be on a Local Machine or iLok Device.
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All versions: Free iLok account and the iLok License Manager, plus an appropriate Sonnox product licence.
Supported Platforms
Compatible plugin formats for common DAWs:
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- AAX NativeAvid® Pro Tools® 11 or higher.
- VST3Supported VST3 hosts.
- AudioUnit (AU)Supported AU hosts on macOS.
System Requirements
Minimum and recommended specifications for reliable performance.
Minimum System Requirements
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- macOS®macOS® 11.0 • Intel i5 6600 CPU • 8GB RAM
- Windows®Microsoft® Windows® 10 22H2 (64-bit only) • Intel i5 6600 CPU or equivalent • 8GB RAM
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Recommended System Requirements
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- macOS®macOS® 12.0 or higher • Apple® M1 CPU or higher • More than 8GB RAM
- Windows®Microsoft® Windows® 11 (64-bit only) • Intel i7 9700 CPU or higher/equivalent • More than 8GB RAM
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Disclaimer: Our products may work on older OS or host DAW versions, but they are untested.
Sample Rates & Latency
Oxford Drum Gate 2 introduces latency due to its lookahead detection, ML classification, and spectral processing. This makes it primarily intended for mixing rather than live tracking.
Your DAW’s automatic delay compensation will handle this latency across all tracks, so it won’t cause timing issues in your mix.
For live monitoring or tracking sessions, bypass Oxford Drum Gate 2 during recording and enable it afterwards for mixing.
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