I challenged this A.I... I FAILED... 

If you deal with noisy recording spaces but want to have relatively clean voice recordings (podcasts, narration voice-over etc.): Try the combination Waves Clarity vx and Sonible smart:gate. One plugin cleans within the signal, the other in the spaces between. Astonishing results.

Oxford Drum Gate has been around a while and does the drum stuff really well. Plus it has an in built "Leveller" which can even out the back beats and the ghost notes independently with what is effectively automatic volume automation.

I'm still waiting for a sonible AI de-esser tbh ... would help a lot with all those home recordings these days

You deserve those affiliate links . It's what you built as a crédible réputation that makes it 100% legit . 👌

I'm all for anything that makes the process quicker and produces even better results. It's a win-win situation! I'm excited to see how this new technology changes the way we create

Hi Wytse. It does always seems a little suspect when someone has an affiliate link to a product positively reviewed within the same video. However, I always find you very transparent in your relationships to products, and thorough in your evaluations of the same. So here I generally believe it can be reasonably left up to the consumer in such cases how to weigh the pros and cons of all this for themselves. Thanks for all your efforts.

I really appreciate your honesty and that you're encouraging people to make their own minds and decisions. Kant would have been proud!

Wow! That is the best gate plugin I’ve seen/heard. I have the other Smart plugins from Sonible and it looks like I’ll be adding this 1 to the collection

Definitely feel free to use affiliate links. At least that’s my opinion.

I've used Oxford Drum Gate for these kinds of tasks. But just checked out the Sonible Gate and ... (I didn't expect this) I like it better than my Oxford Gate. Seems more forgiving and flexible and faster to dial in too.

ALL is fair. You take out your time and personal experience to inform us so YES!! affiliate links are a HUGE thumbs up. I use them

Love your videos! I’ve said it before: you enable me to spend my plugin dollars more wisely. This is a must have!

Sonible can't count on their web page. They're selling the Smart bundle now for a low price with the smart:gate introduction and still say "Four individual plug-ins in a powerful bundle." instead of 5... ahh those Austrians.

I have no problem whatsoever with affiliate links, especially when you're so transparent about it. You don't see like a sales person to me but an professional audio engineer that is simply enthusiastic about all the great digital technologies out there

I concur, this is the logical purpose for AI/software learning, and should have come first in their line.....but no matter, it's here....yaaay! 🤗 This is a tool that will speed up everyone's work flow, when dealing with acoustic drums, and that's all that matters. It would take me waaaaay longer to achieve this with a stock gate, and side chaining, and freq focusing. I've been having some good results with the Denise Audio Poltergate. It's much more flexible than the traditional gate, and gives better results. But it still takes time to dial it all in to get great results. SmartGate is the next evolution forward 😉👍

It certainly feels like a timesaver. I mostly deal in MIDI with my productions, but it’d be good to have this if I ever have to deal with real drums.

For those looking for multiband gating you could always use this inside Blue Cat MB7.

Looks / sounds promising! One thing I was looking for was gating different toms (ie tom 1, tom 2, floor tom) especially if there's a part in the song that uses a lot of toms. Not a huge dealbreaker as most of the labour intensive gating I use is on kick and snare (I usually just cut because most gating plugs fail in the nuances). Would be GREAT (and impressive) if it could differentiate between different toms tho

FIrstly, I would never use a gate to unmix a drum mix...we use RX. Unfiltered Audio's G8 plugin has replaced all other gate plugins. This looks like a good addition...I'll have to try it out.

Great videos, my man...Thanks for explaining your monetization structure. Some people think talented, experienced experts should work for free. I got smart gate cuz my killer Stam sa-47 mk2 mic has an RF issue in my Manhattan studio. It's dead quiet everywhere else. 😞Smart gate fixes that completely. Re: affiliate links--As any pro session musician knows-"Anything worth doing, is worth doing for money" I say you deserve every penny...

RU-vidrs gotta eat too, no issues with affiliate links to products you trust and think will benefit the community, I'm sure enough of us ask in the comments what XYZ plugins, equipment etc you use so makes sense to have links to these things.

As I pointed out before, they thanked you for the - I think it was - pure:comp update where it had auto-gain set as the default ... so they are at the very least appreciative of you keeping them on their toes =] So I will not be surprised if somewhere down the line, you have a smart:desser, which will set the levels at an optimum where you can tame the harshness but not lose intelligibility (i.e. not giving your vocalist a lisp). But other than that, I really can't think of anything more on the "smart" line. Basically, your virtual assistant or apprentice engineer will be named sonible =]

Don't forget to be always objective for any product. That's why we follow you!

Tried it on full drum mix recording (LR) and it did admirable job, to separate sound sources. Bought it after 5 minutes of tweaking demo version. 😀

Especially when I first saw the "content aware" characterization, I thought "this is not actually possible except in 'manufactured' circumstances". However, after having used Sonible's smart:gate for over a month now, they have convinced me that their algorithms, (whatever they are), are "the real deal", and can actually do what they claim they can do. WOW ... Impressive, Sonible!!!

I trust your judgement and objectivity after watching your channel for some time, and have no problem with affiliate links.

This all begs the question, to me at least, of when we see a commercial version of whatever magical tools Pete Jackson & Co used to pull the audio for Get Back

Hoping this solves my issues with gating ghost notes on the snare without getting triggered by the other drums

Love to see a compare video with Black Salt Audio just released SILENCER vs smart gate in mind! Or just a review on Silencer..

That's incredible! Very cool indeed

@Whiteseastudio Wytse, do you know if there is a facility to make User Target Profiles or if Sonible is going to include this in the future ?

Hi!!! Great video!! This works with obs studio?

Yep. This is a perfect example of how useful machine learning systems will be for audio production.

Bought i before I saw this, intro offer € 65,- great stuff Sonible in my humble opinion. Tried it out onm vocals where the music had bled out of the headphones into the vocal recording with great result.. Affiliate links are alright with me by the way.

Do you think you could review the new Wavesfactory equalizer? A lot of people are struggling to understand exactly what it’s function is. A video on your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

This will be the best for vocals, I hope it can remove all breaths, or maybe only remove things that are not vocal and breath.

i like the comparison with pro-G... i think there is currently no tool that does "inverse filter"... because the snare has also low frequencies (additional to the broad spectrum noise). so you really want to gate on something that has the low frequencies of the drum body but WITHOUT the upper freq part. essentially like "when there is also something in this frequency range, DON't trigger, otherwise do". i am pretty sure something like this could be wired within reaper with some clever sidechaining

This is really cool.

okay, so what about the ozone plugins? which one prefer you more? # Ozone vs. Sonible

I think even regarding how good Sonible's other plugins are, this is the most obvious one to get for a mixing engineer. You tried it on drums, but using it for removing/taming breath on vocals saves SO MUCH TIME. I'm testing it today and I'm pretty sure I'll buy it even before the trial ends. By the way, if Sonible's engineers are reading this comment, I'm having very big performance issues using Smart EQ, on M1 Mac with Logic Pro. It's even 100% unusable at 96kHz on a (not so heavy) full mix.

Thank god we finally have a company offering an AI assisted noise gate. Because a noise gate was always such a difficult tool to use. I mean it would take me like entire SECONDS to dial it in. It was unbearable.

this is astonishin, would have loved hearing speech on set sound. so gating out cars and background noise etc so to see if that + pro q eq match might make saving on set audio that seemed unsavable till now saveable.

nice but i will be really impressed when you can feed it the kick only and then it analyse and removes everything but the kick, like you could make a pre-session test where you hit every part of a drum so that you can feed it as a reference, then in the song it would know exactly what is a kick and remove the cymbals we hear on each kick hit.

Это просто какое-то волшебство!

You definitely don't seem biased here. This just seems like a great product! . . . . . . (Lewitt is the only company where I don't always get that impression from your videos.)

Personally I use standard gate, it has an fully eq able sidechain, mid side processing (with the ability to detect and process different channels, such as detecting a kick with the mid and processing the side to get rid of any cymbal wash for instance), different modes for rms window, percussive, peaks etc. it has fully variable lookahead, ratio, modes for ducking, gating, upwards expansion, oversampling. Plus it’s pretty damn cheap, it’s made by the people who make standard clip

Can you do a review on the spirit by cradle? Please and thank you 😅

Would love to see if it can use its vocals target to isolate vox from a full arrangement.

This is why I love your reviews. You started out so skeptical, I felt I was more excited about this plugin than you, so you lowered my expectations, but then you're not afraid of changing your mind in real time and admitting it, which I think is an incredible skill and why your reviews are so transparent. So thanks for this, I don't do that much work that requires this plugin as I don't deal with that many live recorded signals (although I feel like this could be a game changer in sampling as well), but I think I'm still going to get it when I can afford it because once again sonible have smashed it! As for affiliate links, I think anyone who's watched you for a while, and for all the reasons I described above, will agree that we would still trust your review even if you were directly linking to the product that is being reviewed.

I would like to see this be multiband, or at least I'd like to see it have the ability to shorten release times in higher frequencies. I use Fabfilter Pro-MB as my drum gate because I can set the high shelf super super short and snappy so it only lets the snap come through in the highs. You can't really combat cymbal bleed with this one.

something tells me cubase 13 will have this integrated, feels like spectralayers but used in gates

Ahh, so I don't have to get my magnifying glass out when I use Fabfilter's gate now!

Wow. Once again Sonible makes a FabFilter plugin look like an outdated Waves plugin. Love Sonible!

So, is this going to be your go-to gate now, Wytse? It seems pretty fantastic.

What do you think of the wavesfactory equalizer?

If it can learn how I sound and gate other people speaking it's definitely an instant buy for me.

I'm feeling frustrated because the sonible plugins on my PC aren't working properly, except for the smart limiter which is functioning well. Unfortunately, I didn't receive any helpful support.

This vs Sonnox drum gate?? Please help haha!!

Sonible told me personally that they aren't nervous when Whyte makes a video about one of their plugins... now they poop bricks when Dan Worrell sets his sights on one of their plugins. And that came directly from Lord and Lady Sonible during last night's dinner, which I was personally invited to. 😏 And oh, I now own all of Sonible's AI plugins. I use their smart EQ on just about every bus in my productions.

"real time" only applies to live performances.

I do beats, so samples of snare and kick are always separated lol.. kisses from South America

It's probably a generalized application of a noise reduction algorithm. Cuz once you identify the signal all else is noise.

Latency?

impressive

Hmm content awareness suggests sentient software, which it is not. That being said, it sounds damn good.

idk man. a gate without ratio and knee? no lookahead control? it sounds really unnatural like that. they should consider some more options to tweak the settings

I think Addictive trigger had this technology years ago, but for triggering. I'm not saying it's not amazing but had to mention it :)

I have been wanting a better gate so bad

That's a game changer.

I would have loved to have seen this on vocals.

AI is going to be the most abused , exploited, monetized, grifted term and construct in our modern times ... as always great vid :)

if White Sea S. says this plugin is ok then it is. thx 4 the vid. ( never give up on Rick Astley 😃)

I think Oxford Drum Gate wins this round :)

Nothing wrong with affiliate links 🤷🏽‍♂️

so sad there is no zero latency mode like their smart eq, can't use it in live situation...

Rick Astley.. Wytse, ik was even bang dat je me zou rickrollen! Gelukkig was het Darude ;) edit: typo I couldn't withstand

If they turned that into a mutliband gate - so that it only opens specific frequencies - it would be a lot better. Smart detection plus only opening on a specific range would be more valuable imo.

Cool tool but still cuts out the attack which is terrible for drums. Only reliable way I've found is to go in manually and edit which is a major pain.

I like general affiliate links like you have - then it's not about the specific product you may be reviewing.

The plugin looks cool, but I am very skeptical when companies use word artificial intelligence in the plugins. Simply because AI requires lots of processing power and GPU to be truly usable and to do its job. And this feels just a marketing term.. I could be wrong of course, but I feel that it's just a bit more advanced than the regular programming. There is probably a very lightweight neural network that has some kind of AI capabilities, but it's definitely not a full AI implementation. I suspect we will see the true AI whenever plugins will be able to use a GPU properly. Then we will see some nice capabilities from the plugins for sure.

I can't wait till someone makes a proper AI-powered real-time De-bleed VST, so it could, for example, remove the hi-hat from the snare mic completely, without affecting the sound of the snare. The closest thing we have to that is Drumatom, but it's not real time and it's far from perfect. When we have that, gates won't matter as much...

Having purchased a Polyend play after watching many videos, Bo, Cookie, Ben, everyone , only to find that the midi implementation was awful. I don’t really trust many RU-vidr anymore. However, I recently purchased the smart bundle because, the overwhelming majority say that the Smart plugins are really good. My thoughts are that a conspiracy this large would be unaffordable by Sonible😂

You didnt even test external sidechaining, literarily one if not the most important thing in gating, unfortunately it doesn't work in FL studio...

Affiliate links… Go for it:)

If a plugins gets positive review from you than it's not only great but also dumbproof

There should be an AI plugin for all the stuff we currently solve by automating

jippie juhu :)

My Sonible intro offer is € 65,- . I would buy it via Plugin Boutique but... That's € 89,-

I could've used this a week ago.

damn I just realized that he looks a lot like Lionel Messi. I always thought he reminded me of someone and I couldn't quite put my finger on whom.

Hello, I'm a fan of you and Sonible, but unfortunately I'm a beginner in mixing. I think it's great to be so enthusiastic, but at the same time so critical. I do very simple things in folk music and old hits and Sonible's plugins give me a lot of positive things. (my products: smart reverb, smart limit, pure limit, smart com 2, smart EQ, true level, true balance and now also smart gate) Unfortunately, I really miss the fact that there are no useful tutorials for the respective plugins, neither in English nor in German. Please please criticize this at Sonible as well. I subscribed to your site today and would be very happy to get some more help for my hobby. Thank you for your critical and also very expert input on Sonible's plugins. Greetings from the Ötztal mountains in Tyrol. Joseph Ribis👋👍

Shame that Smart Comp2 is so disgustingly broken still

It’s an ok gate, the sonnox gate is as good or better. The thing about Sonible is their customer service is absolutely awful, it’s so bad and they are so rude and unpleasant that a number of influencers on RU-vid have severed ties with them just for this

hmm took me few seconds to break it. Maybe that’s why I’m great at QA, alpha and beta testing

The danger of this plugin is, it can make one lazy on mic positioning, no worry we can fix it with the Sonibel plugins... !

anyone who cares negatively about the fact that you have affiliate links can send money directly to you to pay your bills so you can keep doing videos.

The thing with affiliates discourages me that you need buys to get revenue. So you are instantly in a position of an advertiser, and what advertiser wants to point out the problems in its product? (And it is not a critique for you specifically, I like your videos.) But generally I think it is conflict of interests. If you want more money you have to sell more stuff, but if you make honest reviews where you clearly point out the problems, or clearly say that X plugin does everything that Y does, then who would buy Y? Me, as an average viewer, can never know if the reviewer praises a product because it is really good, or because he wants more revenue, or because he is afraid that the given manufacturer will blacklist him in the future if he says the truth.

Advanced Mythology?

Take my money

From a philosophical point of view: Now even real recorded drumkits sound like sample libraries. If you can subtract the bleed that well... what sense does it make to record a drumkit anyway? The human feel? bollocks. Record sample drums in real time, there you go. Or take e-drums to trigger the library. The sample libraries of Handheldsound for instance are so good (and big!) that you have no lack of articulations. You can even open the Hi Hat gradually with the mod wheel. I think Glenn Fricker might disagree. But if he is honest, THIS plugin makes the difference literally inexistent.