Tape VST Plugins

Bring your sound back to the golden age of cassette tapes (minus the tangle)

DAW Cassette brings back the magic era of the 1980s 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.

Choose your preferred level of cassetteness with the different controls for input/output gain, tape/motor/head quality, and tape/noise type. Now, look in the mirror and get stunned by your new mullet haircut.

Anatomy

• 1. Quality – Use these controls to set the desired quality of the Tape (magnetic band saturation), Head (frequency response), and Motor (speed consistency).
• 2. Emul80ies – Different types of cassette tape, as well as Noise reduction emulation.
• 3. Trim the sound, not the mullet – Input, Output, Mix. Serve chilled.

Flip It

• 1. Let it bleed – Adjust the amount of channel crosstalk.
• 2. Bring on the noise – Fine level noise adjustment for every noise taste.
• 3. Built to tilt – Skew the tape head angle for some nice phase issues.
• 4. Graphic Equalizer – Four excellent bands for your excellent band.

Features

• Choose between three different tape types (Normal, Chrome, Metal)
• Control the noise level with Dolby emulation (including a noise-free option, Dolby K)
• Tape-, head- and motor quality knobs for dialing in the perfect sound
• Additional input gain, output gain, and dry/wet mix parameters

Stator is a tape wobble simulator.

It uses a creative approach to replicate the effects of speed fluctuations in tape machines: wow and flutter coming from uneven electric motor rotation and tape feed, as well as scrape flutter caused by the friction of the tape against the tape head. The result is a complex speed modulation signal that produces a wide variety of pitch drift and lo-fi jitter effects – similar to the sound of worn-out, unstable audio and video cassette players. Stator also employs individual stereo widening formulas in each of its three modulation components, plus it has variable channel crosstalk for adding chorusing and phasing artifacts – and creating sounds with a truly beautiful vintage vibe.

Sound Engine

• Combination of 13 fine-tuned DSP algorithms for simulating tape machine speed wobble
• Separate modulation depth adjustment for pitch wow, flutter, and scrape flutter
• Variable stereo phase offset with individual calibration for each modulation source
• Variable stereo crosstalk for chorusing and phasing artifacts
• Built-in adjustable feedback loop for additional sound coloration
• Lag filters on all continuous parameters for smooth, click-free adjustment
• Supports mono › mono, mono › stereo, and stereo › stereo channel configurations

Graphic Interface

• Color-coded graphic elements
• Consistent name, mapping, value, and unit implemented for all parameters in both graphic user interface and host control/automation
• Built-in preset management functions
• Supports window size scaling up to 200%

Virtual Tape Machines

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 musical. So we modeled two of the most famous tape machines in audio and provide them both along with options like bias, tape speed, tape type, and more in Virtual Tape Machines.

World-Class Tape Machines For Your DAW

VTM has been praised by pro engineers for its extreme authenticity, because every aspect of tape is carefully reproduced. This authenticity is due to years of intense study from Slate Digital CTO Fabrice Gabriel. Using VTM on your tracks and mixes will make your mixes warmer, smoother, punchier, and more analog!

Choose Your Favorite Machines & Tape Stock

VTM emulates both a 16-track 2-inch tape machine and a 1/2 inch stereo mastering deck. Not only that, you can also choose between the two most popular tape formulations. Different formulations have different properties and headroom, and ultimately will give you different sonic results.

Control Your Speed

Virtual Tape Machines accurately emulates the behavior of both of the most common tape speeds of 15 and 30 ips. Engineers who use tape sometimes choose which speed to use based upon the material they’re recording, since the bass response can differ a great deal between the two speeds. You can further refine the bass response using the bass alignment slider in the Settings module.