so if i understand correctly, Slate's F G X works fine with vo, no control surface needed. But for VCC and waves SSL you need a control surface to change perimeters and the save/load buttons aren't accessible?
Thanks for the info On Dec 6, 2012, at 11:14 PM, Mike Lockett <mloc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys here are the report on Slate’s VCC and NLS by Waves. > Briefly these are plug-ins that for the most part tries to emulate the > old famous analog consoles. After working on or just being in studios > that had SSL, Neves and some of the others, I will say VCC and NLS are > great emulators. > After a few days with both, I am leaning toward one over the other but > this isn’t the time or place for that discussion. > > The VCC does need the ilok2 to operate. > The NLS runs on Wave’s WLC, that’s there new wave’s cloud system. > On purchase or demo, Slate will send you a code where you go to redeem > license on ilok.com. > The wave’s WLC is still not accessible so you would have to call tech > support and they would do a team viewer a kind of remote on your Cpu > to install. > Once installed both windows are for most part accessible. > The VCC only has about 6 or 7 controls and voiceover sees them all. > The one issue is where you change the type of console; voiceover reads > it as numbers like it’s a volume control or something. > Actually is changing say from SSL to Neve > NLS on the other hand has many more controls. Most of them are visible > to voiceover. > As you move from console to console VO reads them. > So in short both are usable. > Slate as in with the documented problems we have been having with > waves and some other third party plug-ins, > The windows that display the load and save buttons are not accessible. > Both of these plug-in parameters as I reported VCC and NLS > Can be read by voiceover, but you can’t move them by interacting with them. > You are going to have to use your control surface to do this. > > With a small amount of work a rounds maybe quick keys or something, > To access the load and save buttons these are excellent and usable plug-ins.