Slate Digital Announces The VMS Virtual Microphone System

With their expanding array of hardware and digital audio products, Slate Digital has created a hybrid solution – the Virtual Microphone System.

The VMS combines high quality audio capturing with extensive digital modeling to re-create a wide range of classic microphones by printing signature sound qualities onto the ultra clean signal path provided by the Virtual Microphone System.

Vintage mic modeling signal path from Slate Digital.

The VMS Virtual Microphone System’s release date is still to be announced but will be displayed at the 2014 NAMM show in Anaheim, CA in booth #6921.

Here are the complete details from Slate Digital:

Imagine having the world’s greatest mic locker full of the most classic microphones from the history of the recording industry. Well, you can stop imagining.

The VMS Virtual Microphone System

ML1

The ML-1 is an extremely high definition, ultra linear, large diaphragm microphone. It has extremely precise transient reproduction, flat frequency response, and super wide bandwidth, making it the ideal blank canvas on which to impart the colorful vibe of classic tube and condenser microphones. The capsule proximity effect precisely replicates the classic cardioid response of vintage large diaphragm mics.

ML2

The ML-2, like the ML-1, is high definition, linear, low distortion, and clean. It can handle an spl of 135dB with ease making it an ideal instrument microphone. When combined with the VMS plugin module, this tiny microphone can model classic dynamic microphones, classic small diaphragm condensers, and even ribbon microphones.

VMS Dual Preamp Converter

To ensure that the ML-1 and ML-2 avoid any color when recorded to the workstation, we created the VMS Dual Preamp/Converter. Using the most state of the art amplifiers and converters, this super linear and clean circuit is the final step in ensuring that the most pure signal is created, giving the VMS plugin module the opportunity to add the perfect reproduction of classic microphones and preamps.

VMS Plugin Module

The final piece of the VMS system is the VMS plugin module. This module turns the ultra clean signal coming from the VMS hardware into classic recreations of famous microphones and microphone preamps. It accomplishes this through extremely complex algorithms that are the result of a new state of the art physical modeling process that is ultimately tuned by ear. The VMS algorithms add zero latency, so recording in realtime through the emulations is easy on a new powerful native system.

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