Or you can pay 14.99 a month forever to rent (not own) Slates whole catalog of plugins. Seems like just checking with the iLok it uses CPU, without any processing taking place. Its free, but you need Slates Virtual Mix Rack (VMR) in order to use it. It’s a snap to audition different console emulations across multiple tracks in order to select the right one for your mix, as well as bypassing all group members to A/B as well.Īn iLok dongle is a small USB key used to protect your licenses. I realised that it is impossible to use the software without Internet connection, since it always checks for iLok Cloud authorisation which essentially makes the plugins unusable in a live environment, on stage where there is no Internet connection. Ok so I tried Cubase with no VCC instance and the usage is 0, but as soon as I add a Slate Virtual Mix Rack with nothing playing or any tracks enabled the Pace Service hits 10-12 by doing nothing. The Slate Digital VCC 2.0 Virtual Console Collection brings the sound of 5 of the world's top analog consoles into your DAW workstation. Sons-of-bitches Thanks for letting me vent. Unless Im missing something only Slate subscription subscribers are dongle-less. I have a perpetual licenses for Trigger with expansions, FG-X, VBC, VCC and VMR.
To make Virtual Console Collection easier to use, up to eight separate control groups can be created in your mixing session, allowing you to manipulate multiple channels from any module assigned to the same group. Over the past ten years, multiple audio manufacturers have produced simplified analog summing boxes that allow DAW users to get the benefits of analog mixing without having to use a full fledged analog desk. 15,000 authorizations I just wish I could get my Slate authorizations off of the iLok dongle. These emulations are sonically indistinguishable from the original desks they model, so your mixes will come together quicker, feel more even and exciting, and require less work than ever before. Virtual Console Collection contains emulations of six classic inline recording consoles, including the most sought-after models from Britain and the US. Virtual Channel is applied on individual mixing channels in your DAW, and Virtual Mixbuss is intended to be placed on the first insert of the master fader.
If you don’t already have an iLok account, you’ll need to create one and install the iLok License Manager app.
That means to use it, you will need to connect its iLok license to your computer either on your hard drive or an iLok USB stick. To accurately emulate all of this complexity, the Virtual Console Collection consists of two separate plugins – the Virtual Channel and Virtual Mixbuss – both of which allow the user to choose from one of six analog console emulations. Trigger 2 Platinum software is licensed with iLok. The behavior of an analog console is immensely complex, because the individual channels contribute different things sonically than the summing busses do, and the number of individual channels in use matters to the overall sound of the desk.