- #SLATE DIGITAL VMR REVIEW UPDATE#
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The new subscription VMR came with two new EQ plugins but they didn't grab me, possibly because by then I was already too annoyed by the whole thing, but also because I have a lot of good EQ plugins already. I was already using those plugins for "free" in the sense that I had already bought them.
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The idea of paying for a subscription to not yet existing plugins while also using plugins I already bought (VCC and the VMR modules) but which were now part of the subscription model was odd and Slate's offer of six moths free subscription did not ease that sense of oddness. It does not to me, but Slate has announced that the subscription model will be optional, and you can choose to still buy plugins the old way, if you like.įor me, the rack became too much of an irritant. This may seem like an attractive option to some. Over those four years you will have spent close to $1000 to rent those plugins. I'm not at all sure I need forty plugins: I know for a fact they won't make my mixes 40 times better. Slate has claimed they will produce ten new plugins a year, in perpetuity I suppose, so in four years you will be paying 20 a month for forty plugins, all in VMR.
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The answer was that the new update coincided with the release of Slate's new "subscription" plan, in which for 20 bucks a month you could get the use of every Slate plugin. It was like sending your shirt in to be dry cleaned and having it come back sewn to a pair of pants and a tie. But now it had been converted in an update to part of a virtual rack. Why was I putting a single instance of VMR containing only VCC on each track? I liked VCC as standalone plugin-I bought it as a standalone plugin. I didn't like the rack to begin with: this made it really ridiculous. The new version of VCC was better, more stable and lighter on CPU, but it only worked within VMR. VMR was then updated, and in the process the long awaited VCC update came out. If you want to, say, EQ two tracks together at the same time, both with VMR, you can't, because each instance of VMR takes up too much space. If all you want to do is adjust the high shelf on the eq, VMR is eating your entire screen while you do it. Let's say you have VMR on a track with six modules. The huge size of the rack is also a problem. It's small annoyance but if you care about workflow it begins to build. What is in each instance of VMR? You don't know till you click on it. I found myself growing less and less happy with it in use, because i have a number of carefully chosen non-slate plugins i like to use, and my tracks started to look something like this : In your DAW's plugin list, VMR shows up as "VMR," not as the modules you have chosen. The rack takes up a good deal of screen real estate, but it's low on CPU use and if you only ever want to use slate plugins, ever, it's not bad, although the idea of a rack inside the rack in your DAW is odd. The red comps worked better for me for lighter, more transparent compression.
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I had a hard time with the black comp, based on an 1176, but once I figured it out I found it to be an excellent software comp for smacky stuff. It seemed t add a degree of "dimension," Although when i A/B/x'ed it with different Neve emulation I had a hard time picking it out. Small changes had significant impact on a mix. The Neve Eq especially grabbed me: it was very "musical" and it seemed to be highly effective. I liked the modules very much for the most part. There was also a free module called "revival" which was something like an exciter/saturator for highs and lows. As initially released, VMR included five modules: Two compressors, one modeled on an 1176 and one modeled on several different un-named comps, and two eqs, one based on Neve and one based on SSL. You choose one of those modules, drag it into the box, and you are off to work. VMR is a departure from Slate's other plugins in that as the name says it's a virtual "rack." You choose it in your DAW, click on it, and it opens as a rectangular box with a scrolling list of plugin modules in it. They are now pioneers in new forms of marketing-VMR is the centerpiece of a new subscription model. They seem to get very close if not actually all the way there, depending on who you ask. They promise-with no shortage of hyperbole-to deliver plugins that are virtually indistinguishable from the hardware they emulate. Slate Digital specializes in analog modeled plugins. The individual plugins are very good, the rest is a big pill to swallow. Synopsis: You can't consider this separately from the delivery system it comes with.
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