Gate
EXN0ISE
by makrofon
Overview
EXN0ISE was built for one purpose: eliminate the noise between you and your audience.
Background hum, keyboard rattle, fan drone, room echo — every unwanted signal that bleeds into your stream gets identified, isolated, and pushed into silence. What remains is your voice, clean and uncompromised, exactly as it should sound.
At its core, EXN0ISE is a precision downward expander with intelligent noise gate behaviour. It does not simply cut audio below a threshold — it continuously shapes the dynamic boundary between signal and silence using soft-knee expansion, so the gate opens and closes in a way that sounds completely natural. No robotic stuttering. No clipped consonants. No pumping artefacts. Just clean audio, every time.
LEARN — Two Seconds to Calibration
Hit LEARN, stay silent for two seconds while EXN0ISE maps your noise floor, then speak for two seconds while it analyses your voice level and SNR. The plugin sets threshold and gain reduction automatically based on your exact environment. No manual sweeping of frequency bands. No trial and error. One button, four seconds, done.
SIGNAL MONITOR
A real-time waveform display shows your input signal against the calibrated threshold line at all times. Watch the gain reduction meter respond in real time as the gate opens and closes. You always know exactly what the plugin is doing and why.
PRECISION CONTROL
For those who want to go deeper: adjustable attack, release, hold, and ratio give you full control over the gate's timing and character. A high-pass sidechain filter keeps low-frequency rumble from keeping the gate open during silence. Lookahead mode adds seven milliseconds of forward analysis so the gate opens before transients arrive, preventing the first milliseconds of every word from potentially being clipped.
Choose between RMS detection for smooth, average-energy sensing that matches how humans perceive loudness, or peak detection for faster, transient-accurate response.
EXN0ISE processes stereo in full dual-channel operation and introduces no measurable latency by default. It loads on any microphone, in any DAW or streaming host, and requires no configuration to deliver a noticeably cleaner signal from the moment it is active.
Less noise. More signal. Go live.
Bug fixes
Version 1.1.2
Mar 23, 2026
Details
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