Back in the Rack

FG-A is deployed as a module within Slate Digital’s Virtual Mix Rack 2. This is a modular channel strip plugin (VST/AU/AAX), graphically referencing the API 500 ‘lunchbox’ format, in which up to eight modules from a regularly expanding range of analogue-style compressors, EQs and other processors – including the superb Virtual Console (9/10, 169) and Virtual Tube (9/10,

247) Collections – are chained in series. You can buy modules individually or, alternatively, ‘unlock’ the whole lot with an All Access subscription.

VMR 2 itself doesn’t offer any meaningful functionality beyond the ability to save out effects chains as presets, and the hooking up of host automation assignments, but the exceptional quality of the modules make it without doubt one of the most compelling ‘in the box’ mixing tools around. We wish said modules could be loaded as self-contained plugins, too, however.