Slate FG-A beats Waves API

That $179 a year plan don't look bad. I spend that easy over a few months.
 
 
 
 
[edit] Now I remember why I haven't gone in that direction.

Yay, Zo, it’s so smooth. API to the fullest. The definitive 550A with bells on. Sweeheet.
By the way, Slate wrote @GearSlutz that those singles are coming soonish.

Fleer
By the way, Slate wrote @GearSlutz that those singles are coming soonish.

And so is FG-X v2 (for about five years now)
And so is SSD v5 (for about three years now)

I've got some of the VMR stuff and it just doesn't do it for me. I prefer the Waves stuff, and if I need more air, I just add AirEQ on top, but that's pretty rare. Slate talks a good game, but there are plenty of issues with his software that I just don't have the time to deal with.
 
Dan

I own all the Slate stuff. No real issues here.
 
I do have one corrupt CbB/SPlat project that refuses to recognize FG-X on opening. Fortunately the project is mixed and "in the can" but one day I'll try a "save copy as" and/or save as a .cwb and reopen into a new location to see if that solves the problem.
 
Have not had this problem in Reaper or Studio One or any other CbB/SPlat project.

bapu
BTW, I run hundreds on VSTs using an iLok without troubles.
 
I guess I'm the only one in the entire DAW world with a system built properly to handle that.

Nope, you're one of two, I'm the other one.

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Did you check with Slate support, Dan?
I find them very helpful.

Grem
I have zero issues with iLok.
 
I don't own any.
 
Nor will I ever.

Lol, I was a reluctant iLok user but...
When I had to replace my PC the iLok plugins were the easiest to deal with.
No activation or registration issues, just install the the plugins (in many cases just copy over the DLLs) and plug in the dongle.
That completely changed my attitude.

Fleer
Makes you want everything to be on iLok.

That thought crossed my mind a couple of times.
 
A little while back my computer's motherboard went bad, the replacement motherboard had issues, during these issues my hard drive got corrupted, etc..  Things would look fine and then I would have data corruption issues that would escalate till the system was nonbootable. This saga went on for a couple of months during which I ended up installing Window multiple time and reinstalling my plugins, etc.
Sometimes I was able to uninstall or deactivate my plugins or other software before the system died other times other times no. It went through around 4 complete installations in 4 to 6 months.
 
This got me paranoid about my plugins that kept activation counts.
Some plugin vendors have a lifetime cap on activations or deactivations  - for example with Plugin Alliance there is a maximum# of 3 current activations (per paid license) and limitation of 7 deactivations per license.
 
I finally got the computer issues resolved but I had lost confidence in the system so I got another and keep the old one as an emergency backup.

Grem
I have a beef with Pace that started long ago. I will never give them my money again. Period. I will do without before giving them my money again.

Same here. All the way back to the LPT1 Centronics parallel port dongles...one for each app. Of course, they all wanted to be first in line.
 
Remember key disks, like for Lotus 1-2-3? Had to be in Drive A: for the app to run. Screw that. I happily ran Borland's Quattro Pro for years.