Digital recording is now the standard for professional music production, but many engineers and musicians still long for the days of analog recording. And they do for good reason – Analog Tape Machines have a SOUND. Big, fat, warm, deep, rich and exciting are just some of the terms used to describe what recording onto a piece of magnetic tape sounds like. To those that know, tape is simply more [...]

A 'lofi flavor' beast - Feel the lofi vibes of the VHS era. As kids of the 80s we have always been drawn to the sound of slightly out-of-tune synths, warm tape saturation, gritty samples and grainy reverbs. So we set out on a mission to capture the lofi spirit of our favorite decade - and bring it into a new decade. [...]

Tape recordings have a musical quality that digital mixes often lack. TAIP brings this quality into your DAW. It will add some authentic analog heat to your tracks, without the need to route any audio outside the box. [...]

denise audio has released Bad Tape, described as "a tape harming effect plugin". Its focus is on creating extreme tape artifacts. The inspiration for Bad Tape came from denise team member Enrico 'nrec' Tiberi: "I was using a lot of my old Akai 4000 DS MK2 reel to reel tape recorder pressing the tape to slow it down as an effect and that made me want a plugin that could control how to break the [...]

SuperflyDSP has released a new tape emulation plugin for Windows, Mac and Linux. Housed in a resizable GUI, Lost-Tapes features various tape types, with controls for artifacts, tape depth and flutter rate, harmonic distortion, and more. [...]

RC-20 Retro Color is a creative effect plugin that adds life and texture to any recording. It easily recreates the warm, cozy feeling of vintage recording equipment, but also works perfectly in any modern production setting. [...]

Tape Pro is a multi-effect tape audio plugin that introduces warmth, frequency shaping, modulation, noise and delay. Whether you want to accurately replicate a microcassette tape running at 1.2cm/s, or you want to drive a mastering grade tape machine with strange distortion shapes into a high feedback delay engine, Tape Pro is the plugin for the job. [...]

Reelight Pro is a tape saturation plugin with many features for getting an authentic tape vibe and also some of the desirable artifacts associated with tape. The plugin authentically emulates tape saturation/compression, overall sound, and vibe. We bring you 6 tape machines at 2 speeds and various levels of sampling and modeling to get the most authentic sound possible to date! [...]

We took a journey back to the Golden Age of magnetic tape recording. We wanted to recreate all kinds of tape machines in software, from the ground up. After many months spent on research, measurement and on developing an architecture that would be flexible enough for the job, we knew we had nailed it... But we couldn't stop there: We added the old noise-reduction systems that were often (mis)used [...]

Cassette is an audio plugin that imparts the unique character and sonic imprint of an often maligned recording medium. A one that offers a sound like nothing else and that I’m in love with. This is not a tape machine, this is a time machine. [...]

Inspired by 4-track cassette recorders, SketchCassette is designed to introduce a wide array of lo-fi tape effects into your mixes. From subtle warble to unearthed-from-the-attic destruction, SketchCassette is your one-stop-shop for anything and everything cheap tape. [...]

Analog tape has a smoothing effect and adds weight and glue to a mix – it turns the recording from a collection of individual tracks into a song, where everything is connected and works together. [...]

Designer Dave Hill has crafted this software with the same attention to detail he used to create the electronics for ATR Service's much heralded "Aria" discrete tape recorders. His intimate knowledge of analog electronics, as well as decades of experience as a recording engineer has spawned a very useful, musical suite of plug-ins. The Phoenix II process not only incorporates the nonlinear [...]

Tape Mafia is a plugin that will add analogue quality cassette tape in the form of magnetic and vinyl noise effect as well as other effects to each of your production. In our plugin we have placed 10 unique recorded in our professional studio noises of a cassette tape and a vinyl record. These noises only start when any sound goes through the plug, so you avoid the problem of turning off the [...]

We're Excited To Bring The ProducerGANG An All New Effect Plug-In That We Have Been Working Hard On. This New PlugIn Makes It Very Simple For You To Get That Vintage Sound In Your Productions With Little To No Effort & Experience Needed. [...]

CRTIV Tape Bus plug-in for professional music production applications recreates characteristic elements of the reel-to-reel tape sound. This includes saturation, modulation noise and smearing effects which are known for the “analog” feel they bring to audio recordings. This plug-in also applies a selected impulse response taken by us from the existing tape machines. [...]

Analog Pro brings to life your digital audio by simulating the way Analog hardware such as tape machines, valves and vinyl turntables warm up and saturate your audio. We recreated the imperfections of playing back audio from a Tape or a turntable via the Wow and Flutter controls. [...]

Tapedesk combines a tape machine and multiple console models into a single plugin, to replicate the warm tones of an analog mixing workflow. In the real world, a tape machine is always physically connected to a console. The sound enters into the console’s preamplifier, gets fed into the tape machine and is recorded to tape. From there the tape is played back and the audio again hits the console [...]

Fuse Audio Lab has launched the TCS-68, an audio effect that pays homage to one of the most iconic cassette tape based 8-track recorders. The TCS-68 cassette tape channel effect includes a faithful recreation of the preamp, the tape system and the EQ. [...]

DAW Cassette brings back the magic era of the 1980:s by emulating the sound of a tape deck. Saturation, distortion, noise, wobble, it’s all there. While there’s no real rational logic to it, the sound color gives us chills down the spines, (or it might be the mullet haircut that tickles). Fresh. [...]

Be prepared for original sound effects using Tape One! Explore micro delay times (5 ms) exploding feedback gains (up to 110%) ping pong, filters, saturation…Tape One offers a wide range of sound manipulations, from fast-forward / slow-down tape effects, to extreme comb filters and stereo echoes. [...]