The Virtual Mix Rack could be the most anticipated release in the history of audio plug-in processors, though that might have something to do with the fact that Steven Slate announced the plug-in in October of 2013. Rishabh Rajan explores VMR in immense depth with audio examples. Push the “S” on any module to hear it alone in the signal chain, and hit the “power” button to turn it off.Slate Digital's new Virtual Mix Rack looks set to really shake up the mixing plug-ins industry and this is just the beginning. You can load up to eight modules at once into VMR, but it’s still easy to solo or mute any of the processing modules you have loaded using the Solo and Power buttons. To A/B the signal chains against each other, just press the A or B button in real time to hear that signal chain in action. Once cloned, you can change some parameters on the alternate path, or even swap out entire modules.

With VMR it’s easy to clone an entire signal chain for comparison – just press the right arrow and everything currently on path A is copied to path B. You can also drag to reorder the modules as well. You can easily see all of the processing modules installed in the Library Pane, and you just drag and drop to get them into the signal chain. You can change the vibe, color and sound of your mix with a single click and easily undo and redo your changes.

VMR 2.0 comes with seven default Dream Strips, although you can remove them and make your own. Now you can instantly start mixing with the modules you use the most. So whenever VMR 2.0 is launched the leftmost Dream Strip always loads first. VMR 2.0 opens with your own custom dream channel strip by default. VMR 2.0 ships with the Mix Bundle One, which contains four Slate Digital processing modules: FG-401 Compressor, FG-S EQ, FG-116 FET Compressor and FG-N EQ. But even beyond the sound you can get with VMR 2.0, you also get the added bonus of speed and efficiency from having your entire processing chain in one convenient window. Choose from dozens of modules including vintage modeled EQs, compressors, enhancers, filters, preamps, mixing consoles, and more. VMR 2.0 allows audio engineers to easily create the channel strips of their dreams using a library full of analog modeled plugins.

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