Gate plugins

We list 12 Gate plugins from 10 brands. The most represented are Kilohearts, Steinberg and Ableton. Open any of them for a rundown of what it does and where it fits.

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Dyn III Expander/Gate

Avid

Tighten weak signals and eliminate noise while preserving natural transients with Look Ahead detection and smooth expansion curves.

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Ableton

Cut hiss and hum between notes or chop off reverb tails, with hysteresis to stop chatter and up to 10 ms lookahead.

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Bitwig

Silence unwanted noise with external sidechain control and built-in effect processing for sculpted, dynamic suppression.

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Kilohearts

Silence unwanted noise and tighten sloppy performances with precision gating—5ms look-ahead keeps your transients intact while you shape exactly how much signal passes through.

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PreSonus

Stop unwanted noise below your threshold with flexible attack and release times for transparent gating.

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Steinberg

Silence unwanted noise and tighten transients with surgical threshold control and flexible hold/release dynamics.

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MidiGate

Steinberg

Trigger rhythmic gating directly from MIDI notes and shape dynamics with velocity. Play evolving gates with modulated attack/release linked to your playing.

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Noise Gate

Apple

Silence unwanted noise between phrases while keeping your performance intact. Predictive lookahead and hysteresis controls eliminate chatter for studio-clean results.

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Oxford Drum Gate 2

Sonnox

Oxford Drum Gate 2 is a specialized noise gate plugin designed exclusively for drum mixing that combines hit detection with phase alignment and adaptive decay control. Unlike traditional threshold-based gates, it identifies and classifies individual drum hits by type—kick, snare, tom, hi-hat—to remove bleed and spill while preserving ghost notes and natural resonance. It delivers mix-ready drums from the first hit with precise time, polarity, and phase alignment across multitrack kits, plus built-in leveling and clipping for consistent, punchy drum sounds.

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Pro-G

FabFilter

Eliminate unwanted noise and control dynamics with five specialized gate algorithms, plus ducking mode for precise sidechain management. Linear-phase processing keeps your tone pristine while mid/side control handles mono and stereo independently.

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ReaGate

Cockos

Eliminate unwanted bleed and gate chatter with predictive lookahead and hysteresis control for pristine, articulate dynamics.

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Trance Gate

Kilohearts

Lock rhythmic energy with 8 customizable gate patterns and step sequencer control—craft synchronized, on-beat textures effortlessly.

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