Smack Attack.
Transient shaping with independent attack and sustain, and adjustable curve shapes.

Overview
Transients, shaped to taste.
Smack Attack is a transient shaper with more control over the initial attack than the usual design allows, letting you set the level of the attack and how much of it is processed. It makes a snare crack rather than thud, sharpens a strummed acoustic and hardens percussive rap vocals, and works in the other direction to settle hand percussion sitting too far forward. Transients and sustain can be tightened or extended independently.
Highlights
Compatibility
Specs and requirements.
Licence and delivery
- Formats
- VSTVST3AUAAX NativeAAX DSP
- Licence
- Perpetual licence
- Delivery
- Instant download
- Type
- Transient Shaper
- SKU
- 1246-2844
- Product code
- SMATCK
macOS
- OS
- 11 or later (native Apple Silicon)
- Processor
- Apple Silicon & Intel
Windows
- OS
- 10 or later (64-bit)
- Processor
- 64-bit Intel / AMD
Apple Silicon and Intel Macs are both natively supported.
About the maker
Meet Waves.
Waves Audio, founded in 1992 in Israel, is one of the world's largest developers of audio plugins and signal processors. Its catalogue spans EQs, compressors, reverbs, and vintage console emulations used across music, film, broadcast, and live sound.
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