![]() ![]() Tape will not bamboozle you with loads of options. Type C emulates a British tape machine “with a distinct vintage vibe”. Type B is described as “much more colourful”, adding more “weight” and adding more thump in the low-end frequencies. ![]() 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”. Tape includes three emulation algorithms, giving you three different tape machines that are influenced in different ways by speed and volume controls. A listen to the sound examples below, however, suggests that Tape is a potentially valuable tool that certainly sounds the part. 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. 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. Only the other day we covered a ELPHNT’s tape emulation Rack module for Ableton Live, while Overloud’s TapeDeck was another recent foray into the emulation arena. One look at the market suggests that we must be nearing some kind of saturation point. ![]()
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