Making a Scene Takes a First look at the Slate Digital All Access Pass

June 24, 2019

Making a Scene Takes a First Look at the Slate Digital “All Access Pass”!

When a software company announces they will be having a major announcement in the coming days, one of the first things that come into my mind is “How Much is it Going to Cost Me”. I have been a “Everything” bundle subscriber for about 2 years now, and I will be honest, the Slate Plugin Suite has become integral part of my mixing workflow (see Review of the Slate Everything Bundle). So when Slate Digital sent out the announcement that “Everything Will Change on 6/18/2019” I was apprehensive and excited at the same time.

For the most part, in the past the addition of a new plugin did not come with much fanfare. You would get an email that a new plugin was available for you to download or Gobbler would inform you there was an update to your plugin suite. But this was different, this was a bold attempt at creating a buzz within the Everything Bundle user base.

Everything Has Changed!

To say everything has changed is pretty much an understatement. The Everything Bundle has become the “All Access Pass“! The best part of this announcement, beside the major additions, is the fact that the price of $14.99 (or $149 a year) a month is not going to change! You can still even use their start and stop plan at $25 a month.

This, to me, is a big plus! This is the perfect price point for both the home studio owner as well as the professional studio. For Steven Slate to expand this suite and not have a price increase is a testament to Slate Digital’s commitment to delivering a great innovative products at a competitive price. So let’s take a look at what you get with this new All Access Pass:

1. As with the Everything Bundle you get the full Slate Digital suite of plugins. If you have not tried these plugins as of yet, you owe it to yourself to spend some time with them! These include:
2. Overloud TH-U – Added to the Everything Bundle this year, Overloud TH-U “Slate Edition” gives you OVER 100 MODELED PIECES, including 32 new amps, 39 new cabinets (including 15 OwnHammer Slate Exclusive), and 31 new effects pedals and modules. TH-U Slate Edition features exclusive OwnHammer impulse responses and utilizes a proprietary rig player technology, which allows users to reproduce entire rigs captured by manufacturers.
3. NEW – Kilohearts MutiPass Plugin with Snapheap
  
  – This plugin allows you to take a signal and split it into up to 5 bands and with a Snapheap suite of 28 “Snapin” plugins add Multiple processing to each individual band Separately. Compressors, Saturators, Transient Designers, Delays, Reverbs, and even modulation tools and creative tools like Trance Gates, formant filters and more. Snap Heap allows you to create custom serial and parallel effects chains also utilizing the same KiloHearts plugins.
4. NEW – KiloHeart SnapHeap
  
  – In addition to the Multi band version you can use “SnapHeap” to create a chain of series and parallel processing with the Kiloheart Snapins
5. NEW – Slate Presets for Kilohearts Snap Heap – This is a set of preset Multipass and Snapheap presets that is exclusive to the Slate bundle.
6. New – ANA 2 Synthesizer
  
  Packed with game-changing features like the G-Envelope, 6 Oscillators – including 3 Wavetables and 3 Samplers – and the revolutionary Chord Memory Device that offers instant pro chords on single keys, ANA 2 makes producing tracks faster and more intuitive than ever.
7. NEW – Mix Acadamy –
  
  Slate Academy is Slate Digital’s very own online audio masterclass portal. Browse over 200 video tutorials, download entire multitrack sessions in your DAW of choice, get all the presets, plugins, and samples, and learn in real time alongside the biggest names in music!

Conclusion:

As I stated in the beginning the slate bundle has been an important part of my workflow in the studio. With this new transition from the Everything Bundle to the All Access Pass I believe that it will remain one of the most important plugin suites in my collection! When you start doing the numbers (They don’t call it the Music “BUSINESS” for nothing). If you add up the cost of what you are getting in this All Access Pass at $149 a year (or $14.99 a month on a month by month basis) It would take me over 33 years to pay off what this Access Pass Gives me NOW! This does not take into account the cost of upgrading the existing plugins along the way! You can add another 20 years to that number. To me the All Access Pass just makes economic sense.

The new KiloHearts Multipass, Snapheap with the Slate presets, on first look is a unique new way of looking at processing audio and places an unbelievable amount of power at your fingertips with a low processor drain and simple easy to use interface. Top this off with the ANA 2 Synth and Access to the over 200 videos in the Slate Academy, not to mention the original Slate Plugins makes this one of the best deals around for the home studio as well as the professional engineer/producer.

This is a well rounded and comprehensive suite that not only gives you the tools to create great audio but also gives you all the resources that will help educate you on the best way to use those tools with real world examples taught by some of the industries most respected producers and engineers.

Disclaimer – Making a Scene has no economic association with Slate Digital and receives no compensation from any sales resulting from this review. This review is presented as an honest assessment of the software’s viability and value in the studio and to our readers.