AXELL SIGNATURE · VOICE-AWARE GATE
Axell Gate
A gate that hears your voice, not just its level.
WINDOWS · LINUX · VST3 · VOICE NETWORKS · BLEED REMOVAL · MIDI OUT
Most gates open on level. Axell Gate opens on your voice. Two voice networks trained on 111 voices tell a word from a breath, a breath from the room, and the room from the beat bleeding out of your headphones - then remove what isn't you, in the gaps and under the voice.
01 WHY IT'S DIFFERENT
Five reasons, all measured.
7.7 dB less damage to the voice
than a classic gate whose every setting was searched per take - a perfect engineer - at equal background removal.
Takes the beat out of your vocal
beat on the side-chain: gaps 11-15 dB cleaner, 10-13 dB of headphone bleed removed under the voice.
Never cuts a soft syllable
PITCH HOLD keeps the zero-latency gate open while the voice is still pitched.
A drum shaper with MIDI out
SHAPE shortens tails with 10-55 dB less click than a release, and sends one MIDI note per hit, within 3 ms.
Featherweight
VOCAL mode 1.5 % of one core; SHAPE and RHYTHM under 0.2 %.
Every figure comes from the plugin's own test suites and published benchmarks — the full measurements, the method and every version's history are on GitHub.
02 A CLOSER LOOK
Every screen, every mode.
03 GET IT
Windows first. Linux too.
Free and open source. Copy one folder into your VST3 folder — or install the whole suite in one go with the Axell Signature Suite installer, and let the Dojo keep everything up to date.
Runs in any VST3 host — FL Studio, Ableton Live, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, REAPER
THE SUITE