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The Duck 2 Black Friday deal puts the full purchase of Devious Machines' envelope-based ducking plugin at 25% off, $29.99, until Nov 29, 2026.
Duck 2 can be bought outright, and there is a separate option for people moving up from an earlier version.
Duck 2 is a sidechaining and volume-shaping plugin. You draw a multi-segment envelope onto your audio, so the volume curve follows exactly the shape you set.
Ducking means briefly pulling one sound down so another can sit clearly in the mix. Traditionally that meant a sidechained compressor. Duck 2 is built around the envelope approach instead.
The maker says a bass fighting your kick is the kind of job it handles, without fiddly track automation or compressor setups.
Lock it to the beat and it behaves like an LFO. Trigger it from another element in the mix and it ducks in response to that signal.
The maker pitches Duck as more than a ducker. Rhythmic gating patterns can add movement to pads, guitars and synths.
With the LFO set free from the host tempo, Duck 2 turns into a tremolo you can shape however you like. Switch the trigger source to the incoming signal and the plugin acts as a multiband envelope shaper instead, handy for tidying a noisy kick tail or tweaking how long a chord stab rings out.
Trigger it from MIDI and it can act like a synth's ADSR envelope, with velocity sensitivity.
The GUI has been reworked and can be freely resized. The multiband section now has three bands with a separate envelope each.
The envelope editor gets a slicker interface, advanced curve shapes and randomise, along with new workflow features. Duck 2 is a drop-in upgrade from version 1, so your old sessions keep working.
Duck 2 also gives you undo and redo, copy and paste, paintbrush drawing, envelope presets, and thorough audio metering, with a grid you can adapt, swing that moves with the music, and the option to bring in shapes taken from a wave or a sidechain signal.
Yes. The Duck 2 Black Friday deal is 25% off, bringing the full purchase to $29.99. The offer ends Nov 29, 2026. This is the full purchase path, and an upgrade path is also available.
It is an envelope-based ducking and volume-shaping plugin. You draw a multi-segment volume curve onto your audio, then lock it to the beat or trigger it from MIDI, sidechain or audio inputs.
Yes. In multiband mode, Duck 2 divides incoming audio across as many as three frequency ranges and gives every range a separate envelope, so you can shape the tone with accuracy. Duck 2 also adds professional-grade linear phase filtering to this section.
Duck 2 replaces the first version without any setup changes, and projects made with the earlier release continue to function as they did before. The GUI is also rebuilt and freely resizable.
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