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4.9/5
(71 reviews)

Get comprehensive control over
transients and sustain.

Developed by Sonnox, the Oxford Envolution for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces is a frequency-dependent envelope shaper that can radically modify the sound of your sources, boosting sustain for added ambience or cutting it for quick, precise gating.

For over 20 years Sonnox has been creating innovative, award-winning, audio processing plug-ins for professional audio engineers. Oxford plug-ins are used in a variety of audio applications including music production, live sound, broadcast, TV, and feature film audio post production

Shape percussion, piano, and guitar far beyond EQ and compression

Easily target frequency dependent control of transients and sustain

Add presence and/or distance to drums, piano, guitar, and more

Apply the Warmth control for harmonic saturation and further tone shaping

Take a Listen

Take a Listen
The Importance of Transients

The Importance of Transients

All music contains transients of some kind, whether it’s drums, percussion, guitars, or piano to name a few. Being able to boost or cut these transients gives you unprecedented control of an instrument’s presence and weight in a mix. With the Envolution plug-in, you can easily make a snare snap to the foreground, or add presence and/or distance to drums, piano, guitar, and more.

Two Sections — Total Control

Two Sections — Total Control

The Envolution plug-in offers Transient and Sustain sections, each with its own set of Attack, Hold, and Release controls. This amount of fine tuning gives you a wide variety of uses — from subtly cutting down room ambience on drums and guitar to completely re-imagining signals with extreme envelope shaping.

Frequency-Dependent Tweaking and More

Frequency-Dependent Tweaking and More

Both the Sustain and Transient sections feature a FREQ control that offers Tilt or Focus EQ modes. Tilt is perfect for more gentle envelope shaping whereas Focus mode provides a band-pass or notch response for more precise control. The Envolution also features a Warmth function that adds harmonic richness while also preventing output signal overload and a Mix control for added versatility.

Key Features

Separate and frequency dependent control of transients & sustain
Comprehensive control of key shaping parameters including attack, hold, and release
Tilt/parametric targeting of frequencies to process
DIFF button to solo the effect
Huge gain ranges: Transients ±24 dB; Sustain -48 dB to +24 dB
Best in class transient/onset detection
Sensitivity parameter to control the number of events detected
Frequency dependency with none of the limitations of conventional multi-band solutions
Use Envolution in parallel routing paths without phase cancellation
Warmth control for harmonic saturation/tone shaping and prevention of excessive output levels

Customer Reviews

Sonnox Oxford Envolution

Overall Rating

4.9/5
(71 reviews)

J. Szeszel

November 14, 2022

Best transient shaper for kick.

I use in every project for kick.

S. Friedrich

December 28, 2021

Great Plugin

Best transient shaper I‘ve ever tried

J. Sehlin

December 24, 2021

Secret weapon

My go to secret weapon for taming harsh and hard consonants

J. Neves

December 3, 2021

Great Transient Designer

Awesome alternative to Spiff, SPL, Smack Attack etc etc etc. It certainly has its own flavour and definitely deserves a place in my tool box!

A. Mascheroni

July 12, 2021

MUST HAVE

This plug in is so damn helpful!!

C. Azarcon

May 17, 2021

Awesome plug-in!

I use it for my drums, piano, and synths!

P. Matejicek

January 16, 2021

Secret weapon

This is best on market . Easy guy- great results.its chameleon of dynamics !!!

UAD User

January 15, 2021

Surprised By the Results

I used this plug-in on drums to tame transients. I was amazed by the results. Nothing else has done the job like the Oxford Evolution! Great tool to have in your tool belt.

R. Walsh

January 14, 2021

Great on Midi Drums

The best thing I have ever tried to make midi drums sound real. I use Groove Agent since it is part of Cubase. I use Envotution on all my snares, kicks and hats. The difference in night and day. Works well on other instruments put for drums it is a must

R. Marant

January 14, 2021

ESCULPE TU SONIDO!!

Tengo varios diseñadores de transientes y me resignaba a no adquirir este. Pero como tal es el más completo de todos y no me arrepiento de tenerlo entre mis principales herramientas.

F. Stoica

January 14, 2021

Oxford Envolution my go to transient designer

Envolution is by far the best transient designer I have ever used. Works magic on everything related to drums. May be used as a creative tool for Dance music. All in all, excellent.

U. Khan

January 12, 2021

Simply the best transient designer in the business

Sonnox Oxford does it again. This is the best transient shaper in the business. extensive control over attack and sustain with visual representation of what the processing is doing to the wave shape. The most perfect percussive sculpting tool.

R. Gonzalez Yanel

January 6, 2021

Control total

Perfecto para producir y esculpir tus sonidos. Ofrece un gran control sobre la envolvente.

E. Kruse

December 25, 2020

Wundervoll

Ein absolut fantastischer Transienten Designer mit vielen speziellen Möglichkeiten.

R. Cote

December 18, 2020

Here is some new blood for your sound

If you want to experiment with original software, which you certainly don't have in your plugins library, this is probably the one to get you thrilled. I haven't worked much with it yet at the time of my review, but I plan to experiment with this software with different instruments. I'm sure you'll be surprised with the results playing around with the settings. If you want new blood in your sound, you're going to be served. A +

Y. Kim

December 15, 2020

kick is this

The end of transient control!!!!

r. stepan

August 7, 2020

Great for lead guitar tracks !

Instead of the ubiquitous compression in a guitar track...this baby yields
some fat guitar lead that sound unique and rich.
My secret weapon....

A. Divinsky

June 27, 2020

Next level of dense sound!!!

I don't regret a single cent spent! This unique instrument takes drum sounds to a new level. I would call it "hard clipper" in a good way! I write electronic music, particularly psytrance. Working with Sonnox Oxford Evolution in conjunction with the equalizer, you synthesize an incredibly clear and very dense sound! It's also magic for drop bassline Thank you UAD!

UAD User

June 14, 2020

Tight & Controllable

Using this type of transient designer has really shaped my drum bus and bass tracks. if your looking for something tight and still get that punch and clarity...look no further. This will get the job done!

UAD User

January 12, 2020

it works ....

Works Perfect on many categories... best for my kickdrum and Percussion.. Love it !!