FG-116 - UREI 1176 FET style compressor.FG-401 - SSL Console style VCA Compressor.Steven has mentioned on a popular audio forum that he is addressing the trim issue in a future update.Īs of right now there are 5 modules available for use in the mix rack (the fifth being free). So it will be quite hard to do true before/after comparisons due to perceived level changes. There is a solo and bypass switch for individual modules, though the bypass is not level compensated and there isn't a trim control on any of the modules. You can also setup A/B snapshots of your entire chains to make comparisons. You can save presets for individual modules or custom chains of modules. Its quite easy to move around modules in the rack and even in between different racks by using mouse drag and drop gestures. The mix rack will only show you four modules at a time but you can horizontally scroll to see additional modules that are loaded in a chain. You can load a maximum of 8 modules per instance of the mix rack, though in practice this might be overkill, but to each his own. The VMR is a 500 series style virtual rack that will let you load any combination of the 5 modules in series. The Virtual Mix Rack with 5 modules loaded. Clearly, he has experience creating virtual emulations of analog hardware so it's no surprise that his initials are on all the VMR modules. Fabrice also developed algorithms for the widely used Virtual Console Collection, Virtual Buss Compressors and Virtual Tape Machines all sold by Slate Digital. Now when it comes to analog modeling, the poster boy for algorithm design is Fabrice Gabriel, the man behind the algorithm designs of all modules in VMR.

The +1 refers to Revival, one of the free modules in VMR.

The Slate Digital VMR is a collection of 4+1 analog modeled plug-ins usable in a 500 series modular style virtual mix rack. Personally I don't mind waiting for a product that is being perfected rather than use a prematurely released buggy software. Slate Digital products are known to have a lot of hype surrounding them, but the positive is that their products live up to the hype more often than not. Slightly over a year later Slate Digital finally made the plug-in available commercially. The Virtual Mix Rack could be the most anticipated release in the history of audio plug-in processors, though that might have something to do with the fact that Steven Slate announced the plug-in in October of 2013.

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