Slate Digital is giving away its mixing plugin bundle, the Complete Access Free Collection, for free.
This article covers the giveaway details and an overview of every plugin in the Complete Access Free Collection. Be sure to check it out.
1. What Is Slate Digital “Complete Access Free Collection”?
The Complete Access Free Collection lets you use 16 plugins from four brands (Slate Digital, Solid State Logic, Harrison Audio and sonible) for free, permanently. All you need is a free Complete Access account. No purchase, trial period or iLok dongle is required. The collection covers tone, dynamics, saturation and spatial effects.
Included plugins (16 products)
- Slate Digital (10 products): Virtual Mix Rack / Revival / Trimmer / Monster / Heatwave / Fresh Air / Submerge / VBC FG-Red / FG-Bomber / Air & Earth EQ
- Solid State Logic (2 products): X-Orcism II / GateVerb
- Harrison Audio (3 products): 3D Delay / Tape Saturator / Dyno Mite
- sonible (1 product): puffer:fish
Highlights of the Free Collection
- One free Complete Access account unlocks every product
- The Complete Access Hub scans, installs and updates the entire free collection in one go
- Permanent use with no expiration
- Playground sessions in the Complete Access Hub let you learn how to use the plugins inside real mixes
2. Plugin Details
Virtual Mix Rack
A rack-style plugin that lets you build your own channel strip by combining analog-modeled modules such as EQs, compressors, gates and saturators. You can load the included preset chains or drag and drop to build your own chain, and save favorite chains as a “Dream Strip” to recall with one click.
Key features
- Preset browser: an online preset library you can search and filter by instrument, genre, author and more. You can see the modules in a chain and its intended use at a glance
- Macro controls: presets come with purpose-named macro knobs pre-assigned, so one knob controls multiple parameters at once. You can also create macros for your own chains
- Sidechain input: control the dynamics modules inside VMR from other channels in your DAW
- Module gain trim: adjust gain staging between modules
- Resizable UI
Revival
An enhancer that incorporates elements of tubes, tape, transformers and analog filters. It can add air to pop vocals or thicken drums on individual tracks, and also suits mastering to bring out detail across the whole mix.
Two controls
- Shimmer: handles the high end, adding depth, clarity and a natural sense of space and air
- Thickness: handles the low end, adding warmth, punch and body
Trimmer
A simple gain adjustment module. It can be used inside Virtual Mix Rack or on its own.
Monster
A plugin that recreates the extreme compression sound of a vintage FET limiter with all buttons pushed in. Crush a drum bus hard for powerful drums, or use the Mix knob to thicken vocals and bring them forward without muddying the mix.
Added controls
- High Frequency Detection: boosts the high-frequency content of the sidechain detection circuit so it reacts more strongly to highs. You can crush drums without harsh cymbals
- Hi Pass Filter: makes the compressor ignore low frequencies below the set frequency, keeping low-end weight and punch while reducing pumping
- Punch: restores transients to heavily crushed sound for added punch
- Mix: balances against the dry signal, making extreme settings easier to use
Heatwave
A plugin that adds grit, saturation and warmth quickly with a single knob. Just insert it on a snare, bass, synth, vocal or any source that needs texture, and it adds character while preserving transients. Internally it combines transient shaping, EQ and compression.
Controls
- Drive: the main control. It changes the amount and quality of saturation, EQ and compression
- Input: pushes the signal harder into the algorithm to change the overall sound. Use it together with Drive to shape tone
- Clip: clips the output to tame unruly transients or create more aggressive distortion. It can also be bypassed
- Output: adjusts the output level
Fresh Air
A plugin that adds smooth highs that never hurt the ears. It is based on a vintage exciter circuit (a modified Dolby-A noise reduction type) and advanced dynamics processing, combining several parallel processes internally to add clarity and sparkle from individual tracks up to the entire mix bus.
Two knobs
- Mid Air
- High Air
It works on a wide range of sources, including lead vocals, drums, individual tracks and the mix bus.
Submerge
An automatic sidechain plugin that creates ducking and pumping effects without any routing in your DAW. With 3 trigger modes, 8 effect types and customizable control curves, you can flexibly craft the classic sidechain effects of EDM and hip-hop.
Features
- 3 triggers: Auto-sync / MIDI / Audio
- 3 control curves: Natural / Extreme / Special classes, covering subtle to extreme results
- 8 effect types: duck only the center or sides, push and crush, filter sweeps and more
- Duck and Push: pressing SHIFT while selecting a curve inverts it, making it work as a “pusher” that ducks everything except when triggered
Main controls
- Threshold: the level at which the control curve is triggered
- Speed: how fast the curve progresses
- Morph: release and hold time of the curve
- Depth: how strongly the curve affects the selected effect
- Tweak: adds variations specific to each effect type
- A/B comparison: switch between two sets of settings to compare
- Preset browser, input and output gain
VBC FG-Red
From the Virtual Buss Compressors series, FG-Red, a model of the classic bus compressor with the red face, is included in the free collection. It features tight, punchy mix bus compression, with musical attack and auto-release behavior.
FG-Bomber
An analog-modeled “dynamic impact enhancer” that adds impact, presence and power to tracks and mixes. It gives mix elements a front-to-back depth as if they jump out of the speakers, and the effect translates even on small speakers. Internally it uses a complex analog-modeling circuit combining harmonic generation, compressors, saturators, filters and more.
Three controls
- Drive: the amount of signal sent to the effect processing. The most impactful setting is around where the VU meter needle peaks at the bomb icon, and pushing further adds depth and sustain
- Intensity: the blend between effect sound and dry sound. A small amount gives subtle impact and space; a large amount gives a punchy, fat sound
- Tone: choose from three effect styles: Present / Fat / Tight
Air & Earth EQ
An EQ that turns the musical core of Eiosis AirEQ into a module for Virtual Mix Rack. In addition to the Air and Earth filters, it has a HiCut (Air side) and LoCut (Earth side) filter, each with resonance, with slopes from 6 dB to 36 dB/oct.
Features
- Air: a new type of filter that adds or restores brightness without sounding unnatural. It lifts the highs without adding harshness or digital artifacts, bringing instruments forward, adding breath to vocals, or adding a subtle shine to the whole mix
- Earth: a circuit inspired by real transformer behavior that controls deep, stable sub lows. It adds weight to kicks and bass, and works for any sub bass, including low-end sound effects in post-production
- Hi Cut / Lo Cut: naturally roll off frequencies. The Q control adjusts resonance, and you can lift the cutoff frequency (for example to emphasize a kick) while cutting below it
X-Orcism II
A horror-flavored voice changer that combines a delay, pitch shifter, reverb and noise generator in one plugin. It suits sound design, game development, music production, podcasts, live performance and any situation where you want an eerie atmosphere. Beyond vocals, it gives otherworldly sounds on synths and dystopian tones on guitars, and works for experimental production and ambient music.
Main controls and features
- Echoes / Crypt Size: layers reverberant echoes on the voice
- Howl: a noise generator evoking desolate landscapes. Automate it to build swells and lulls
- Tombverb: a deep reverb
- Ghoul / Wail: unsettling pitch shifting
- Built-in presets by top producers, with preset management that can be shared between DAWs
- GUI resizable from 50% to 200%, with tooltips for each control
- Accessibility features for visually impaired users, including screen reader support and keyboard operation
GateVerb
A non-linear gated reverb for punchy drums and big soundscapes.
3D Delay
A stereo digital delay that quickly adds depth and width with doubling and slapback echoes, or creates evolving multi-tap ping-pong delays. It suits adding edge to vocals and stereo width to guitar solos and synth leads. The modulation and damping controls also give it a vintage character reminiscent of classic rack-mount digital delays.
Key features
- 10 ready-to-use presets
- 3 independently adjustable delay taps (Left / Centre / Right), each with its own pan position, timing and feedback
- HP / LP filters to filter the delay sound
- Tap Tempo, BPM sync and delay time adjustment
- Modulation and Damping for a vintage delay feel
- Adjust the amount of signal sent between taps to create your own delay effects
- Click and drag on the delay tap display graph to adjust panning intuitively
- Wet/Dry mix
Tape Saturator
A plugin that recreates the character of a 2-track tape machine, adding anything from subtle glue to rich saturation. The Drive, Fidelity and tape speed controls let you adjust harmonic texture and the fluctuations typical of vintage gear, and it also handles tape-like elements such as modulation/flutter, dropouts and noise.
Dyno Mite
A transient shaper that controls attack and sustain. Everything is combined into a single fader: move it left to strengthen the attack and reduce sustain for more punch, or move it right to extend sustain and soften transients.
puffer:fish
A saturation plugin where you choose from three pufferfish characters. The more saturation you apply, the more the fish visually react, making for a playful interface that covers everything from subtle warmth to unruly distortion.
Three characters
- Tinyfin: smooth, warm, understated saturation. It adds warmth, depth and body without drawing attention, ideal for vocals, pads, guitars, keyboards, buses and anything that needs to be glued together
- Spikeskin: bold, edgy distortion. Harmonics stack up quickly and transients get sharper, great for hard-hitting drums, growling bass and screaming synths
- Twitchgill: a character that starts warm and becomes unpredictable the harder you push it. Dynamically responsive harmonics create movement and grit, suited to experimenting with drums, bass, synths, loops and sound design
3. How to Install Complete Access Free Collection
You can install and activate the Complete Access Free Collection with the following steps.
- Create a Slate Digital account and check out the Free Collection for $0
- Download and install the Complete Access Hub
- Log in to the Complete Access Hub and link your iLok account
- Select “Install all” to install all 16 products at once
That is all for the Complete Access Free Collection giveaway information.