SlateDigital new FG-A beats API

[Fleer]

Here’s the Gearslutz thread:
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/new-pro ... lizer.html

[marooned ufo]

Hey look everyone, it's yet another API emulation. Again late to the party, pretty much with everything they release. As if they've recreated the wheel at an inflated price to make their everything bundle look even more enticing. Why rent something when you can own several good emulations already available, for years?

Seriously, when are they going to release something innovative, instead of all these vintage emulations. What happens when they run out of gear to emulate, they'll have to license more from third party developers, like their reverb and delay. Seriously, they can't create their own reverb and delay? What does that tell you about their technology? So they know how to make convolution algorithms to capture (steal) existing products, amazing.

Where do I sign up for lifetime paid plugins?

[Winstontaneous]

If it beats it then it’d be a poor emulation

haha

[badass_billy]

Here’s the Gearslutz thread:
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/new-pro ... lizer.html

Oh Gosh, my eyes hurt after that. What a trainwreck of a message board.

I"m going to puke form all the fanboy-ism.

You can tell that place is run by the advertisers. It's like every critical comment gets ganged-up on, shamed and banned. Until they just say "Ah f**k it" and give up.

[kmonkey]

It's sad how Slate in every plugin release throw a bait for possible customers so they think they are getting something special and that every other developer is missing something. His deceptive subtle tactics improved that's for sure.

"the nonlinear coloration is dynamically dependent on the settings, which is something that we found in the hardware but not in any other emulation of the hardware..

Therefore, audio pros will likely hear something unique about the FG-A, even if they have similar plugins from other developers."

Yeah right. I bet his team are Batman cousins with super hearing. He always do that disrespectful thing then he says in his lemonade forum which he is funding (gearslutz) "ooo nnooo i respect UAD they are the best but..."..

[bbtr]

"the nonlinear coloration is dynamically dependent on the settings, which is something that we found in the hardware but not in any other emulation of the hardware..

That's basic stuff everyone should know about. And easily measurable. Hard to believe other developers just slap a 'preset' and leave it at that. Can not check, though, but if the second part of his statement is true - uh-oh mama, esp. for UAD.

[badass_billy]

It's an API EQ. And the API, at least for it's time, had sort of a hi-fi sound. And there was something really cool about the transformers in it's mic pres. They handled transients a certain way. I remember the first time I heard an AIP on a snare drum, and there was just a certain snap to it I liked.

But the EQ? It's nice. But it's also just a curve. And it has this thing where it's Q gets narrower as you crank it. It's a good EQ because AIP builds nice stuff. But nothing space age. Any decent DSP programmer should be able to put together a good-sounding EQ plugin that incorporates it's curves and it's Qs. Honestly, I don't know what kinds of other distortions or other unique characteristics it would have imparted that one would need to "model."

My guess is that PSP's PreQursor would destroy this Slate thing. Because every EQ PSP cranks out is good. It doesn't have those goofy-shaped knobs though, and that's a shame.

[bbtr]

It's an API EQ. And the API, at least for it's time, had sort of a hi-fi sound. And there was something really cool about the transformers in it's mic pres. They handled transients a certain way. I remember the first time I heard an AIP on a snare drum, and there was just a certain snap to it I liked.

But the EQ? It's nice. But it's also just a curve. And it has this thing where it's Q gets narrower as you crank it. It's a good EQ because AIP builds nice stuff. But nothing space age. Any decent DSP programmer should be able to put together a good-sounding EQ plugin that incorporates it's curves and it's Qs. Honestly, I don't know what kinds of other distortions or other unique characteristics it would have imparted that one would need to "model."

My guess is that PSP's PreQursor would destroy this Slate thing. Because every EQ PSP cranks out is good. It doesn't have those goofy-shaped knobs though, and that's a shame.

ignorant

[sleepcircle]

oh good, we've gotten into the mud-slinging and presumptive dismissals part of the discussion.

this thread is probably reaching midnight on the doomsday clock.

[Burillo]

and how they're "still working on" making it independent of their virtual mixer thingie.

they are? i thought Slate said he'd never do that.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

and how they're "still working on" making it independent of their virtual mixer thingie.

they are? i thought Slate said he'd never do that.

Yeah, there's a promise to break the plugins out with no kind of indication as to when. Could be a year away, could be five years away, who knows?

[Burillo]

the minute he does it, i'm interested in VMR again. i had it for a while, but it's so cumbersome to use that i ended up gravitating towards other tools because the workflow is just so much better.

[badass_billy]

Yeah, there's a promise to break the plugins out with no kind of indication as to when. Could be a year away, could be five years away, who knows?

He's "working on it."



Apparently, his dream team of analog-modelling physicists are too busy developing their dynamically-dependent nonlinear colorations.

[bbtr]

Just use PSP...

[badass_billy]

ignorant

Ah yes, we have one of our resident non-linear coloration experts here. Please do tell us of all the complex variables that go in to crafting these super special space-age equalizers.