SketchCassette is a charming lo-fi plug-in with a sloppily sketched user interface. It emulates a 4-track cassette recorder with considerable depth, despite its casual-looking GUI.
Audio Animals' impressive collection of freebies is worth checking out - Available in VST, WAV, and Kontakt sampler formats, these instruments seem well-crafted and musically varied.
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Old style looping with the twin tape decks of Lubadh with lots of overdubbing, up to 5 minutes per deck, internal feedback loops and crossfading inputs with outputs.
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The CV Tape Player lets you play cassettes in your Eurorack while controlling the speed with CV. What does that sound like? Pretty awesome in a drunken, spooky, warbling kind of way.
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Initial Audio has released Analog Pro, a tape, vinyl, and valve simulation plug-in. If you're craving those vintage lo-fi vibes, here's another option for you.
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Instruó accidentally reveal a prototype looper module ahead of the official announcement at Superbooth. It's a 2-channel tape style looper with overdubbing and lots of CV control. Looks awesome!
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What happens when your Walkman decides to chew up and mangle your favourite cassette. Broken Tape will simulate the horror of unintended tape noise, delay and bit-crushed feedback.
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The new Echo Fix EF-X2 is a real tape echo, but with some extra features that help it integrate into a modern world. These include DSP reverb and preamp, making this a great tool for studio and live.
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Joyo's new D-Seed II is a stereo digital delay that's pretty feature packed given the price of under USD 90. Could this be the perfect delay/looper for newcomers to echo-type effects?
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If you have the room for authentically sampled Mellotron tapes on your iOS device then Mellotronics Streetlytron Pro will serve you up some classically trippy tape-based sounds.
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Verv is a string machine based on tape loops that have been left in the sun, on the dashboard of a car, in the desert, for the summer. It's wobbly wonderland of degraded sounds.
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The Keeley Synth-1 is a signal-triggered synth wave generator, the DDR is a Delay, Drive and Reverb, the Fuzz Bender is a three transistor hybrid-fuzz and the Eccos is a vintage tape flanged delay!
REAMP is a joy to look at with its pastel colors, and judging by the audio examples, the sound is on point. Among the available saturation modes are a casette deck, tape reel, and tube amplifiers.
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Electro-Harmonix has expanded the Canyon Delay, and not just in terms of its size: The Grand Canyon is a full-blown delay and looper with tap tempo, more presets and lots of control for decent money.
Overloud has released Echoson, an emulation of the legendary Binson Echorec 2, the Italian delay unit notably used by Pink Floyd in the 70's and very sought after on the second-hand market.
A sampled emulation of the ever-popular ARP Solina Strings from Sono Elements. SolinStrings captures the sound and feel of the original and offers a simple, unfussy interface without any bells or whistles.
