Antelope Audio [Summer NAMM booth 343] has announced updates and additions to its collection of authentic digital recreations of classic vintage recording gear.
The hardware-powered FX contained in Vintage Pack 2.0, which leverage Antelope’s proprietary FPGA engine, brings an even wider set of production tools to users of Antelope’s Orion Studio, Zen Tour and Goliath Thunderbolt interfaces.
The [AP550A] places the sound of this studio preamp and EQ at your fingertips with 3-band EQ, switchable filters and optional shelving behavior in the high and low frequency bands, easily accessed from within your Antelope Thunderbolt interface.
The FET-76 compressor is based on a studio FET-based peak limiter, Antelope’s FET-76 features 4:1, 8:1, 12:1, and 20:1 compression ratios, the FET-76 works well in a range of applications, from vocals to drum buses and everything in between. Engage the ‘all-buttons-mode’ for extra grit and spank.
Using a proprietary FPGA engine, Antelope’s latest hardware is capable of real-time performance before the signal even reaches the DAW component. Vintage Pack 2.0 uses this proprietary FPGA circuit, built into all of Antelope’s latest hardware units, to apply effects that maintain the true feel and response of real hardware, working in real time without buffering. Since FPGA is an actual digital hardware processor, utilizing Vintage Pack 2.0 effects avoids the need for buffered plugins, which can add undesired latency and often artifacts to the sound.
“Vintage Pack 2.0 puts the tone shaping capabilities of an entire analog studio at your fingertips without the cost and fuss of purchasing or maintaining a rack full of vintage gear,” commented Marcel James, director of U.S. Sales for Antelope Audio. “By combining the industry-leading performance of our clocking and conversion technology with the real-time effects capabilities of our FPGA engine, we are now giving Antelope Audio users all the firepower they need to create professional mixes in the box. And you don’t have to hire a studio technician.”
