11/13/2019 Softube Tape Demo
. Many producers dream of transferring their projects to analogue tape to add some “cohesion” or “glue”, bringing their mix together into a sticky, weighty glob of analogue creaminess. If you don’t have a tape machine standing around, you might feel the need to grab a plug-in to help out. Softube have just launched Tape, a plug-in that (you guessed it) emulates analogue magnetic tape and its effects on audio material. Make no mistake, Tape is all the rage.
Softube Tape Demons
One look at the market suggests that we must be nearing some kind of saturation point. Only the other day we covered a, while was another recent foray into the emulation arena. And there are dozens more out there.
Cross-talkin’ What are the specific merits of this latest product in the tape saturation genre? Softube say that Tape goes easy on your CPU, which is good news, because you’re going to want to run a lot of instances of this to use the built-in crosstalk capability. And the GUI is, admittedly, sumptuous.
I try to avoid putting too much stock by nice interface graphics, because I suspect that we’re often more influenced by some flashy visuals in terms of what we perceive as “good” sound than we like to admit. A listen to the sound examples below, however, suggests that Tape is a potentially valuable tool that certainly sounds the part. Tape includes three emulation algorithms, giving you three different tape machines that are influenced in different ways by speed and volume controls.
Type A is based on a Swiss reel-to-reel machine, by which I take it they mean a Studer, and gives “precision and linearity”. Type B is described as “much more colourful”, adding more “weight” and adding more thump in the low-end frequencies. Type C emulates a British tape machine “with a distinct vintage vibe”.
Softube Tape Review
Tape will not bamboozle you with loads of options. Just crank up the Amount knob to “soak your tracks in analog tape sweetness”, Softube say. If that’s too hard for you, you can just call up a preset provided by some successful old white men. You can get into more detail, though, by opening a menu and jigging about with the tape speed, speed stability, crosstalk amount and a couple of other parameters.
‘Extras’ for PreSonus Studio One Softube have also implemented a neat feature for users. On top of the normal single instance of the plug-in, users of PreSonus DAW will find an extra Tape Multitrack mode that integrates with Studio One’s MixFX feature. This makes the amount of crosstalk selectable per track, which sounds like a nice option to have.
Price and Availability Tape is available now at an introductory price of $79, which goes up to $99 later. It supports VST, VST3, Audio Units and AAX Native, is available in 32-bit and 64-bit flavours for both Mac OS and Windows. There’s also a full 20-day demo version to help you make up your mind.
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Did we need another tape emulation style plug-in? Softube thought we did and I must say that I’m so pleased to see that they’ve finally developed one. I’ve always felt that a tape style plug-in was always missing from their plug-in range. The Tape plug-in by Softube couldn’t be easier to use and features a selection of really powerful controls such as dry/wet that is great for achieving tape flange effects and high freq control for shaping the top end of audio. The three tape machines are uniquely different from each other – I’ve already found my favourite in type B as I think it sounds the most rounded and punchy. The tape stop effect is also a nice creative addition that can add a nice production feature if used cleverly. Try Tape for yourself and let us know your thoughts – download the free 20 day trial from the Softube website: https://www.softube.com/index.php?id=tape.
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Softube Tape Democrat
Softube today announced a fantastic new plug-in TAPE, that adds tape emulation effects in not one but three flavors, even better it's able to work as a Studio One 3 MixFX. If you run Presonus Studio One, you can not only use Tape as a standard plug-in. Adding Tape to your MixFX slot gives you Tape Multitrack. Tape Multitrack includes all the goodies of Tape, but in addition, you get selectable crosstalk between each individual track—and you can easily control the Tape Multitrack settings from a single interface. The Tape and Tape Multitrack license is one and the same. This means that if you're not a Studio One user but at some future point decide to switch to that DAW, you will already have Tape Multitrack installed, licensed and ready to go.
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