cabinets, as well as dozens of effects pedals and modules
that sound great on vocals, drums, and synths, and more. 200 video classes to start with, you’ll learn production and mix
techniques that will make your music sound better, faster.
Kilohearts Plug-In Suite - With all Slate Academy courses, you not only get the
multitrack session in your own DAW format, but also
all the plug-ins, samples, and every last preset.
The final plug-in addition to the All Access Pass. This
incredible multi-effects suite features over 25 plug-ins
that can be uniquely chained together to create your own
custom audio processors. It also comes with featured plug-in
presets created especially for All Access Pass subscribers
including some crazy multi-band distortion processors and
many more. Kilohearts call this the ‘Snapin Eco-system’.
The Slate Academy
launch of the Slate Academy, which all AAP
members will have full access to.
The Slate Academy is designed to be the “industry’s
most innovative online production school taught by
the biggest names in music and production”.
As an AAP member you will automatically
have access to every new course as it becomes
available with no additions fees or charges.
Having access to an ever growing stash of plug-ins is very
useful, but knowing how to get the best from those plug-
ins is really where we all start to grow as producers and
mixers. Whether you’re brand new to making music or
a seasoned professional, the All Access Pass really does
look like a fantastic way to get everything you need to
make incredible sounding music and grow your audio
skillset along the way. There’s more good news as these
days you don’t even need an iLok as the Slate Digital
plug-ins can all be authorised using iLok Cloud.
Subscribers will be able to learn from industry
heavyweights such as Chris Lord-Alge, Just
Blaze, Cameron Cartee and many more.
McDSP UNVEIL 6060
Channel Strip by McDSP
McDSP, in my opinion, makes some of the cleanest and
smoothest plugins of the lot. They are among some of the
pioneers in digital processing and still to this day, make some
excellent plugins. They are often overlooked and underrated.
As a longtime fan of their 6030 Ultimate Compressor collection,
I was quite excited for this one when it was announced earlier
this year. The 6060 Ulti-mate Module Collection contains the
largest collection of processing options of any module-based
plug-in available. The 6060 includes over 30 unique modules for
EQ, compression, saturation, distortion, specialized filtering,
dynamic range expansion, gating, and more. Custom modules
include bass optimized biasing for the larger than life low
end, transformer-based tone shaping circuits for high-end
shine, tape simulation, de-essing and new EQ and compression
designs. Additional modules are already in the works.
The 6060 allows up to six modules to be operated at once.
Modules can be arranged in any order and swapped
on the fly using the module selector panel, or from
the popup menu in each module. Any combination of
mod-ules can even be split into two separate signal
paths for some serious paral-lel processing.
The 6060 also includes updated compression algorithms
not available in the 6050 Ultimate Channel Strip or the
original 6030 Ultimate Compressor. Im-provements include
feedback and feedforward processing, and the rare op-
tion of negative compression on a few select modules.
The easy drag and drop style module auditioning is a breeze
to use and is something I prefer over to the Slate VMR. The
split mode operation for sep-arate signal paths allow for some
very interesting parallel processing oppor-tunities and is
something I would like to see in more module style plugins.
The analog saturation modelling is easily one of the best. Its
got the warmth with a highly minimized hint of the usual cold
digital-ness that usually comes along with it. The plugin also
runs at ultra-low latency and I’ve found it to be quite light
even when running multiple instances of it in a session.
All in all, super excited to see the direction McDSP is
taking with this. Would like to see a more affordable
subscription model tied to it to make it a steal deal. Even
otherwise, with the chances of more modules being
added to this collection, it's quite worth it if you're a
stickler for some extremely clean digi-tal processing
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