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Chisel - Transient Shaper and Envelope Designer

by unmouldsound

High-Precision Transient Shaper & ADSR Envelope Designer ...

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Type
Audio Effect
Author
unmouldsound
Version
0.3.0
License
Commercial
Live version
12.2
Max version
9.0
Downloads
0
Updated
2025-11-13

Description

High-Precision Transient Shaper & ADSR Envelope Designer

== BETA RELEASE ==

Sculpt, isolate and re-shape the attack, sustain and release of any audio signal — drums, synths, guitars or vocals — with precise control. Chisel offers phase-by-phase envelope shaping and sidechain input in a compact, low‑CPU Max for Live device, optimized with Gen~ and RNBO for sample‑accurate processing and high performance.

Main features:

- Hear and process each envelope phase independently — Attack (Attack + Hold + Decay), Sustain, Release — with per‑phase Solo buttons. Isolate a snare’s initial hit, sculpt the body of a pad, or tighten the tail of a vocal.

- Per‑phase Gain, Length and Curvature controls let you precisely shape dynamics and timing. The Attack section includes a Speed control: when Speed > 0% a Hold stage is inserted before Decay, and the time (ms) shown beneath Speed indicates how long it takes to reach the Attack gain.

- Sidechain input with its own filter and drive — use an external trigger to duck or re‑shape audio dynamically.

- Envelope filter section with Solo, filter and drive.

- Both filters include Type (Lowpass/Highpass/Bandpass), Cutoff/Center frequency and Q controls.

- Sensitivity slider to tune how the detector responds.

- Attack energy meter for visualizing transient strength, plus a Threshold slider to set the detection level.

- Hard, Soft and No Clip modes.

- Mix control to blend processed and dry signals.

- Lookahead (1.5 / 3 / 6 ms).

- Delta mode monitors only the processing added by the device (Wet minus Dry).

- Input and Output meters and sliders for gain staging.

- Documentation is available in the Info View of Ableton for each parameter.

Audio examples are available in the device's product page.

The device is free until its official release; please note it may still contain minor bugs. For support, reach out to support@unmouldsound.ca. Enjoy!

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