This innovative plugin was employed a new method of creating perceived loudness without sacrificing the Dynamic Range of the music. Their first product was the award winning FG-X Mastering plugin suite, which was specifically designed to combat the Loudness vs Dynamic range war. In 2008 Steven Slate met DSP designer Fabrice Gabriel at an AES convention and the pair teamed up to create Slate Digital. This changed the way drum samples were used in the professional and home recording market.

The hallmark of the company was not only a collection of high quality drum samples but the development of “Trigger”, a software system that delivered these samples in a user friendly way.

As things go that did not work out they way he intended, these engineers wanted more of these drum samples and Steven Slate Drums was born. Steven Slate started his career sneaking into Grammy parties in LA with a pocket full of burned CDR’s of Drum Samples he created, which he would hand out to top audio engineers with the hopes of getting to work with one.

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