SlateDigital new FG-A beats API

[bbtr]

That's your statement - now go ahead and prove it.

@badass_billy:

One week later, and all you have produced as evidence of your statements is more trolling and more arrogance. Yes, users need to know the weaknesses of Slate, but not by trolling, spamming and derailing whole threads with offtopics. That's why your posts got deleted, not because you showed evidence that Waves and Slate sound identical to the HW. Which you didn't.

So I'll be reporting you - let's see what happens. BTW, how many accounts do you have on kvr?

And yes, you can upload/link wavs to kvr posts.

[ghettosynth]

That's your statement - now go ahead and prove it.

@badass_billy:

One week later, and all you have produced as evidence of your statements is more trolling and more arrogance.

Not quite, the post WAS deleted. You have no more evidence of the reasons why than he does and regardless of the reasons it is still aggressive mod behavior.

[bbtr]

OK, let's see the test he made - what's the problem? I really want to see how the Waves plug is identical to the hardware. You think he has the skills and tools to measure everything correctly and make a proper test?

And the post WAS deleted for a reason - that's for sure. But not because it contained a proper test which was allegedly harming Slate's $$ interest which the mods allegedly seek to protect by censoring valid tech research and measurement.

[ghettosynth]

And the post WAS deleted for a reason - that's for sure.

That's all I said.

But not because it contained a proper test which was allegedly harming Slate's $$ interest which the mods allegedly seek to protect by censoring valid tech research and measurement.

You don't know why it was deleted.

[bbtr]

That's going a bit or two too far...

Because, LET'S SEE THE f**king TEST

He is the one making the bold claims and he is the one throwing mud at a reputable company. Time after time after time - that's an agenda.

[badass_billy]

it would've been a post in good faith if you wanted to say what you wanted to say. however, that's not what you did - you didn't post that just as honest feedback to Slate, you have devised some sort of "test" for Gearslutz mods to fall into, and used this post as means to prove some other point about Gearslutz mods, unrelated to the thread.

How do you think I knew it would be deleted?

Because I've said that very comment in good faith, or variations of that same comment, numerous times, only to be deleted. Those are my genuine and honest thoughts.

[badass_billy]

One week later, and all you have produced as evidence of your statements is more trolling and more arrogance. Yes, users need to know the weaknesses of Slate, but not by trolling, spamming and derailing whole threads with offtopics. That's why your posts got deleted, not because you showed evidence that Waves and Slate sound identical to the HW. Which you didn't.

I can't prove the existence of something that was deleted because the laws of physics prevent it.

And there was absolutely no trolling, spamming or derailing involved. I answered the question honestly. A user started a thread asking peoples' thoughts on a rent-to-own model. I answered the question honestly. That I like their plugins, and that I would indeed consider a rent-to-own model, provided it didn't require a physical iLok dongle.

Closed off with a genuine compliment of their product. They are kind of dope.

This was hardly a derailment, or a religious holy war.

You, my friend, are very respectfully wrong. And your reporting of it was an aggressive act of deliberate trolling that I do not appreciate. And if you keep it up, I will make sure that your experiences on KVR are inconvenient and annoying. Using nothing but my God-given powers to annoy.

[Fleer]

OK, let's see the test he made - what's the problem? I really want to see how the Waves plug is identical to the hardware.

Me too. He may have lost it, though

[badass_billy]

It says I can't attach .wav files.

The extension wav is not allowed.

Between the turds demanding I share links to posts that no longer exist, and wanting me to attach files that can't be attached, I can see this place is filled with a lot of the same Rhodes Scholars as they have on gearslutz.

[kmonkey]

Slate vs Waves vs Acustica vs whoever. Really aren't we beyond all this now?? Are people's egos really that important that dates like this in 2018 still matter?!?

Are you smoking something bad? It's not about ego it's about who is more closer (for me anyway). If you are seeing plugin comparison as ego fight then you are the one having ego problems - obviously. But i may be wrong and it is possible you are likely tired of these threads so you think it's ego fight (it's not and not all of us are tired of comparison plots..)


Slate is well known paying Gearslutz customer and people actually know that their post are being deleted there if they put any doubt in Slate.

Like i said : avoid like a plague. Plenty of other to choose from.

The saddest part in all this is that his plugins (i mean on Slate plugins) are quite good and in reality he does not even need all these deceptive tactics but i guess it's his thing..

(i can't deny value of his subscription model though...it really is valuable)

[kmonkey]

One of the deleted posts, by the way, was a comparison I put together of API plugins, comparing them to hardware. And the results of them were so similar, no person could possibly conclude that there was a meaningful difference between the Waves, Slate, Acustica and the hardware.

Next thing I knew, it was vapor!

Can you repost this here, or prove that this was the exact content of your deleted post? Because I was following the GS thread closely before Mod intervention and don't recall any such *detailed* comparison, esp. involving hardware.

He does not have to prove anything. Just follow Slate threads and you will see for yourself. I have seen it A LOT of times.

My post in Slate threads were deleted when i questioned his endorsed IR reverb plugin vs Algorithmic plugins out there. I asked very specific technical questions about reverb itself and my posts were deleted (just vanished) and Slate himself told me that i don't have a clue what i am talking about. Go figure that.

It was that or the fact that i asked him when he will deliver VTM with less latency because he promised it (at that time) more then 3. years ago. I even posted a link were he promised that.

My post was deleted (with link to his promise) - i then abandoned his plugins. To this date (more then 5 years) VTM was not improved like he promised, let alone people with FGX issues and all that...

You have been warned..


btw it's not just Slate. I even started (i did not whined i simply asked) a thread were i asked why do i have to pay Gearslutz only to see seller contact at their second hand software sale forum. I simply asked. My post was deleted and i got warning that IT IS FORBIDDEN to talk about their pricing policy and since this is against rules i got a warning ticket. Meh...

[kmonkey]

It says I can't attach .wav files.

The extension wav is not allowed.

Between the turds demanding I share links to posts that no longer exist, and wanting me to attach files that can't be attached, I can see this place is filled with a lot of the same Rhodes Scholars as they have on gearslutz.

I remember your posting there (yes i do read new product alert very often) and i do remember someone started to talk about weird artificial LoEnd bump or did i mess something with something else?

Anyway try to upload attachments to https://postimages.org/

[badass_billy]

I remember your posting there (yes i do read new product alert very often) and i do remember someone started to talk about weird artificial LoEnd bump or did i mess something with something else?

Someone else posted the image, and I was just asking about it.

As in "what's up with that?"

Next thing I know a team of slate fanboys jumped me. The worst is some guy there named BM Grabber. I mean, with a username like that, you know you're probably dealing with the upper crust of the audio engineering kingdom. They have one or two guys like him that just troll the hell out of anyone who says anything bad about one of two thingss:

iLok
Steven Slate

And their trolling is so out of hand, that I'd almost call it online harassment. And no that's not an exaggeration or hyperbole. And yes, I know it's just a site about recording gear and I'm probably sounding like a crazy person. But there's like two trolls there that literally online harass you for saying anything slightly critical about Slate or iLok. As if you just told them you had a threesom with their Mom and their sister or something.

Then those same guys turn right around and start talking crap about Slate themselves! It's totally dysfunctional. It's like the Movie "The Hills Have Eyes." Or Children of the corn or whatever (Children of the Slate). It's like the whole "Only I can insult my idiot brother, because he's my idiot" kind of thing.

That place is just a freak show.

[sleepcircle]

every once in a while i come back to this thread to stare at it and wonder when this particular strain of conversation will end.

[Gamma-UT]

every once in a while i come back to this thread to stare at it and wonder when this particular strain of conversation will end.

For reasons I don't fully understand, Slate is a crazy-magnet. This could go on for pages and pages. The holy war against whatever it is can never end.