You can also use the mix bus plugin on submixes if you prefer. Generally you stick the mix bus on the master fader and a channel on every track of your project. Impossible in real life, but accomplished in a minute with VCC.Īctually VCC is a pair of plug-ins – the channel and the mix bus. Say you wanted your guitars mixed on an SSL, drums on a vintage Neve, bass on a vintage RCA tube console, everything else through a Trident console and finally all those tracks summed through an API. Not only that, but you get a choice of several consoles that you can use in any combination. VCC is a plug-in that claims to make your mixes sound more analog and to make your DAW react exactly like an analog console. There was SO MUCH HYPE about this product that I was completely put off by the idea of it and tried to ignore it for a while. When it was released a while back, Steven Slate’s Virtual Console Collection (VCC) was one of those so-called game changing plug-ins. Every new plug-in is announced as a “total game changer.”
It seems like every few weeks there some new piece of audio software that claims to make your music bigger, louder, deeper, and more badass in every way. I too have grown as a CEO, and can better appreciate the responsibility of running a complex and often unpredictable technology company.This article is provided by Audio Geek Zine. The Slate Digital Team has grown significantly. As I’ve said in the past, we did not prioritize things properly and thought we could achieve big feats without having the manpower to do so.
But rest assured, the FG-X 2.0 update will also be FREE, and will fix all of these issues.Ī: Yes, when the FG-X 2.0 comes out later this year, you will get it for FREE.Ī: Go to your Slate Account, it is waiting for you right now.įolks, we’ve learned a lot over the past year about how we can be a better company for you. If you found a few bugs in your current FG-X, you’ll likely see some of these same bugs in the 1.4.0.4 version. However, users in beta did claim that their CPU usage did go down, but it is not an official feature that we are advertising.
Q: What is the difference between FG-X 1.4.0.4 and the old FG-X 32bit version?Ī: Not much besides the 64bit support. The FG-X 1.4.0.4 in your user account is the same algorithms as your current FG-X, but with added support for the 64bit DAW formats.
It is being developed right now, and will be a free update later this year. Q: Where is FG-X 2.0 and what is the difference between FG-X 2.0 and today’s 1.4.0.4 release?Ī: FG-X 2.0 is going to be a brand new, completely reworked plugin with new algorithms, created from the ground up in our new framework. The official Q&A (is it a Q&A if you’re answering your own questions?) from Mr.S is included below: But personally, I’m just relieved that I no longer feel like I took a $100 and lit it like a cigar. Slate himself (heretofore referred to as Mr.S so that I can run this acronym gag completely into the ground) an actual FG-X 2.0 is coming soon, tweaked not only for today’s computing environment but also packaged with updated audio algorhythms. The deal is that it’s been upgraded: not to version 2, which will come later, but the current FG-X 1.4.0.4 now at least works with modern DAWs again. But what about Slate’s FG-X mastering plug-in suite? I know that mastering engineers don’t get the love they should in today’s “just crush it with a Waves L2” world, but come on guys. You probably noticed a couple days ago that VCC ( yeah you know me Vintage Console Collection) has been bumped up to version 2.0 and not only plays nice in 64-bit audio engines but also integrates easily into the new GUI format of the VMR.
But what about all of the other three-letter acronyms that SD sold me in that package? As a Pro Tools 11 user who lives the jet-setting 64-bit AAX lifestyle I was SOL.
I took full advantage of VMR along with VTM (Virtual Tape Machines) and VBC (Virtual Buss Compressors). But here’s the rub: I picked up Virtual Mix Rack along with the entire suite of Slate plugs in a Black Friday or Cyber Monday or whaterverthehell sale, and I was only able to use half of them.