Transform your drum tracks from raw to radio-ready. The Sonnox Drum Refinement Bundlepairs Oxford Drum Gate and Oxford Envolution: two cutting-edge tools that work in tandem to deliver cleaner, punchier, more professional drums in your mixes.

Designed for users recording or programming drums, this exclusive bundle takes the guesswork out of drum mixing, letting you achieve a tight, polished drum sound without hours of editing.

Plugin 1: Oxford Drum Gate

Clean Up Your Drums Effortlessly

Oxford Drum Gate is a noise gate reimagined for drums. It uses intelligent hit detection to recognise kicks, snares, and toms in real time and isolate them with precision.

Forget fiddling with thresholds that cut off the wrong hits—Drum Gate automatically keeps the drum hits you want and removes spill and bleed that muddies your mix. The result? Clean, tight drum tracks that still sound natural and full of life.

It’s like having a seasoned drum editor fixing your tracks in seconds: your kick, snare, and toms will be punchy and noise-free, sitting perfectly in the mix.

Plugin 2: Oxford Envolution

Shape and Punch Up the Sound

Oxford Envolution then lets you sculpt the tone and impact of your drums with innovative envelope shaping. This plugin gives you independent control over a drum hit’s attack and sustain portions, opening up a world of creative refinement.

Want a harder punch on your kick or more snap on the snare? Dial up the attack to make each hit slam through with more impact. Need to tame ringing or overly long cymbal wash? Shorten the sustain to tighten up the decay and clean up the mix.

You can even focus Envolution’s effect on specific frequency ranges—for example, boost the thump of the kick without adding mud, or soften only the harsh high-end of a snare hit. It’s surgical and creative.

With the Drum Refinement Bundle, even a bedroom-recorded drum track can sound mix-ready and professional. Drum Gate and Envolution work together to save you from the technical drudgery—no more manual gating or endless EQing to fix issues. Instead, you’ll spend minutes getting your drums clean, punchy, and dynamically exciting, and you can spend the rest of your time making music.