Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machines 1.1, User Manual

Page 1: ...Slate Digital Virtual Buss Compressors Virtual Tape Machines 1 1...

Page 2: ...berg Wade Norton Ross Hogarth and our Bh Beatle Jay Baumgardner User Manual by Anthony TaglianeJ Steven Slate Fabrice Gabriel Fabrice Gabriel Algorithm Design Tuning Steven Slate Plugin Design Tuning...

Page 3: ...s 9 Virtual Tape Machines Quick Start 10 Grouping 11 Using Groups 11 Isolating the Gain Stage from a Group 12 Automating VTM Groups 12 Frequently Asked Questions 13 How hard should the tape be hit 13...

Page 4: ...Preset Options Panel 18 Navigating Presets 18 Snapshot Slots 18 Hide Reels 18 Installation 19 Redeeming Your iLok License 19 Installing Virtual Tape Machines 19 System Requirements 20 3rd Party iLok...

Page 5: ...problems for this industry but one thing that it was not going to do was sound like tape Digital has come a long way since the rst 16bit VHS recorders Using a nice converter and clock you can record...

Page 6: ...hat was needed since new tape decks at the Pme were able to handle higher headroom signals in their electronics 456 is known as a 6 tape which means it s 6dB over the 185 nWb m standard which means yo...

Page 7: ...e machines is a bit extended which adds a nice presence and bite Overall the 15ips Speed seYng on both models is de nitely great when you want to add more aYtude and avor to your recordings And the be...

Page 8: ...ng for more details Process Bypass Bypasses plugin processing Settings Opens the SeYngs Panel VU Meters Displays the signal level post calibraPon and input gain Slate Digital Logo Opens the info panel...

Page 9: ...litude variaPons inherent in tape machines have been faithfully reproduced with VTM as well The e ect intensi es as the slider is dragged to the right Hiss Automute AutomaPcally mutes the tape hiss wh...

Page 10: ...of the VTM instances select a Tape Machine Tape Type Tape Speed and Bias All instances of VTM will slave to these changes 5 Start playback Depending on your material you may need to boost or a enuate...

Page 11: ...lt Group You can quickly assign mulPple Tape Channels to a group by using the Default Group feature in the SeYngs Panel Click SeYngs and change the Default Group to the VTM Group of your choice All ne...

Page 12: ...im to show the change Now you can adjust the gain secPon of this channel independently from the group To add it back to the group simply click the Link symbol again The isolated Input and Output value...

Page 13: ...C Mixbuss as the rst insert on your Master Fader 5 VTM as the last insert on your Master Fader but before any limiPng set to the 1 2 2 Track Machine 6 Set Tape Type Speed and Bias to taste This e ecPv...

Page 14: ...nked levels to have the highs I want For a piano track I would use a di erent con guraPon VCC EQ VTM For the piano I d use the VCC Mixbuss to get some cool stereo and harmonic e ects then EQ then VTM...

Page 15: ...be too hot by default because we wanted the user to use the Virtual Tape Machines at the right calibraPon preferably with the needle around 0dB VU I also wanted the VU CalibraPon and the Model Calibra...

Page 16: ...ll illuminate at the point in which the algorithm begins to react in a non linear fashion This is normal tape saturaPon not digital full scale clipping Noise Reduction We believe that Tape Hiss is an...

Page 17: ...fully maintained tape machine had a u er which corresponds to the 25 SeYng Most tape machines are around the 50 seYng and not very well maintained tape machine is at 100 which can be sPll interesPng W...

Page 18: ...nk Banks are saved with the extension ebf Preset Options Panel SelecPng the preset opPons panel will show a list of opPons for the currently loaded Bank and Preset Bank name Rename bank Delete bank Ex...

Page 19: ...ode 1 Launch the iLok License Manager and sign in to your iLok account 2 Click this bu on in the upper right corner of the window 3 Enter your AcPvaPon Code and click Next 4 Select your iLok 2 Dongle...

Page 20: ...irements AAX AU RTAS VST Dual Core Intel Processor Quad Core Recommended 4GB RAM iLok 2 Mac OS X 10 6 or later 3rd Party iLok License Transfer Fee When reselling any Slate soTware product there will b...

Page 21: ...lick on the version number to open a menu Copy plug in info to clipboard click it Open a text editor an e mail or a support Pcket and paste Example of informa on displayed Plugin Host InformaPon Versi...

Page 22: ...tates the analog sound rather than accurately replicaPng it For me it s really easy to see in their algorithm what they did and how they did it what they missed and where technical issues are Some peo...

Page 23: ...tape sound and behavior that is our mission at Slate Digital and this is the reason why we say Advanced Algorithms Steven and I are so involved in making the best replicaPons on the market we hope th...