The Score Magazine July 2019 issue | Page 52

KAUSTHUB RAVI & SIVANESH NATARAJAN MAKING A SCENE Slate Digital All Access Pass GOODBYE EVERYTHING BUNDLE HELLO, ALL ACCESS PASS! Like it or loathe it, the software subscription model is here to stay and for many companies and users it is working really well. In making the All Access Pass stand out from the crowd, Slate Digital have worked hard to not just offer a plug- in bundle but to offer the subscriber a complete music production training centre called ‘The Slate Academy’. WHAT’S INCLUDED? Anyone who is already signed up to the Everything Bundle will be migrated to the All Access Pass and one of the best things about the AAP is that the price to the end user will stay the same at just $149 per year New and existing subscribers will also continue to get all the Slate Digital analogue modelled plug-ins, in what is now being called the ‘Virtual Analogue Bundle’, and subscribers will continue to get all new plug-ins in this suite included, at no additional cost, as part of their subscription. In short that’s over 60 top class plug-ins for less than your daily Costa Coffee bill! 50 The Score Magazine highonscore.com What’s New? ANA 2.0 Synthesizer From Sonic Academy new ANA 2.0 from Sonic Academy is very cool with some amazing tools to help even the most average of single finger keyboard player sound like they really know what they are doing 46 filter types and 24 built in effects those of us who are not masters of the keys the amazing Chord Memory Device offers instant chords on single keys to make producing interesting sounding tracks faster and more intuitive. ANA 2.0 also comes with over 500 presets, but the All Access Pass version adds another 300 presets created by top sound designers and programmers. You could almost call this the synth for people who don’t do synths. Overloud TH-U Slate Edition so included in the Slate Digital All Access Pass is the Overloud TH-U Slate Edition Guitar Amps & FX Bundle, which gives you over 30 amazing sounding guitar amps and