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New Softube Plugins - "TAPE"

slamthecrank

Hall of Fame Member
Headed over to audiodeluxe to dig into their Sonnox Sale prices, and after logging in.... this pops up. No mention of it on Softube's website or anywhere else I can find. (will post a link and photos in case they take it down) --

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From description:

Time to get reel! Softube’s Tape plug-in adds cohesion and weight to your mixes. But Tape goes far beyond your average tape machine emulation. It includes three distinctly different tape machine types, and it offers the ease of use and low CPU strain that today’s music creators rightfully expect.

Even in this day and age, it's common practice for computer based professional studios to run their mixes through at least one generation of analog tape. Why? Because even when used subtly, analog tape has a smoothing effect and adds cohesion and weight to a mix—it takes the recording from a collection of individual tracks into a song where everything is connected and works together. With Softube’s Tape plug-in, you can have all that and more.

Three Machines in One
Tape includes three different tape machine types in one plug-in. Type A is based on a classic Swiss high end reel-to-reel machine, known and loved for its precision and linearity. Type B is much more colorful—it’s a transformer based machine which adds extra weight and cream to the low end. Lastly, Type C is based on a British tape machine with a distinct vintage vibe.

Ease of Use
Select your favorite tape machine Type, and adjust the Amount knob to taste. In most cases, that’s all you need to do to soak your tracks in analog tape sweetness. Easier still, load up one of the included presets, made by award winning engineers such as Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2, Strokes) and Howard Willing (Smashing Pumpkins, Sheryl Crow, Kris Kristofferson).

But Wait, There’s More
Feeling tweaky? Why not start by trying the different tape speed settings—you’ll find that the slower the tape speed, the more pronounced is the so-called tape head bump, which adds low end to the mix. Or open the Remote Control panel where you can control the selected tape machine’s speed stability, crosstalk amount and several other tape-a-liscious features.

Dense Sound, Light on CPU
Add a single instance of Tape on your master bus to emulate what most computer based studios do today—mix in the computer, then mix down to a stereo tape machine—or go vintage style by adding Tape to every single track in your mix. Yes, your computer will be able to handle it. As most Softube plug-ins, Tape is uniquely light on your computer’s processor.

Extras for Studio One Users
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.

Realistic analog tape sound
Three tape machine types included
Easy to use
Low CPU usage
Includes Tape Multitrack which can be used in the MixFX slot of Presonus Studio One—adding individual channel crosstalk and singleinterface control of all tracks
 
I just received an audiodeluxe email with mention of the softube tape plug for sale.
Also surprised there is no other info I could find on it.
 

Eric Dahlberg

Purveyor of musical dreams fullfilled.
We're featuring it on our front page, $79 with an extra discount in cart. The coolest part is that it's the first 3rd party MixFX plugin for Studio One.
 

maximus

Established Member
Its advertised this morning from Softube.
Ohh wow , will definitely have to try this one. I've been looking for a native tape plug that isn't slate, great that it is S1 mix effects compatible too. Could be just the job.

Interested to hear all of your opinions on it !
 

shimel

Venerated Member
I find Sofftube Tape a little buggy when playing with underthehood buttons :
for instance, woobly fx stay activ for a while even when the pot is set to "stable" position
Do you guys are experimenting the same issue ?

I'm currently testing " tape" against "UADAmpex" " UADStuder" and UADOxide"
Really nice work from Softube but my first feeling is that "Tape" is NOT a game changer for UAD 's tape sim trilogy owners
When you lake dsp / time... ( I personally have to pre treat nearly all my tracks with Studer ) "Tape" is surely welcome
Even I cannot affirm that "Tape" is playing in the same ballpark than UADs tape sim I'm pretty confident Softube's Tape will outperform Slate's VTM ( but I can't no longer compare )
Take all this with grains of salt : I'm still in the discovering phase :)
 
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Matt Hepworth

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Hoenerbr

Hall of Fame Member
We're featuring it on our front page, $79 with an extra discount in cart. The coolest part is that it's the first 3rd party MixFX plugin for Studio One.
Yeah this one looks nice! I just upgraded to Studio One Professional, so its looks like this will be a must buy. Interesting though that Softube seems to be spreading their affiliations with different companies. Console 1 is integrated into Sonar, now this plugin is integrated into Studio one. Its fine for me but I can't see why they couldn't do the same with all major Daws? Any ideas?
 

Zion

Active Member
What is that? Haven't heard of it.
To sum it up the MixFx plugin slot allows the plug-in to integrate into the softwares internal mixer which is supposed to simulate cross talk and non-linearies across each channel and buss like a hardware console. Swapping different plug-ins with these features is like swapping consoles. Studio one created this a few years ago but were only using their own plug-ins. Now they are adding third-party. Only plug-ins with this design will work in the Mix/FX slot. In this case they're doing the same thing with the tape machine. It's sort of like software summing.
 
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Gemylon

Active Member
So...

What happened to the original thread ?
I notice mine, and many others post have been deleted without any notice.


This is not good !


EDIT : Please check my next post !
 
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Matt Hepworth

Master of the UADiverse
Forum Admin
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What thread? I'm not aware of any deletions.

EDIT: checked system logs and no deletions.
 

maximus

Established Member
Interesting though that Softube seems to be spreading their affiliations with different companies. Console 1 is integrated into Sonar, now this plugin is integrated into Studio one. Its fine for me but I can't see why they couldn't do the same with all major Daws? Any ideas?
I've seen several responses from Softube to the question about Console one integration with Logic, Reaper and PT, the response is that they have been in touch with all major DAW dev teams and that the onus is on them to do some development to support it. Some have been quicker to adopt than others. I gave up waiting for Apple which is why I also switched to S1, I don't think I'll be going back to Logic even if they did support it.

I think it's quite commendable that Softube seem willing to work with everybody, it really shows a modern and collaborative ethos.
 
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Arionas

Established Member
My apologies Matt/guys.
I thought I was in another thread ;)


Think I'm out of my mind today.
Been in 'feverland' for the last 4 days.


Need a couple of days to get back in real life ...
Nice post Gemylon! Real life and plugin developers are waiting for you and us!
 

Eric Dahlberg

Purveyor of musical dreams fullfilled.
I'm currently testing " tape" against "UADAmpex" " UADStuder" and UADOxide"
Really nice work from Softube but my first feeling is that "Tape" is NOT a game changer for UAD 's tape sim trilogy owners
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Console 1 is integrated into Sonar, now this plugin is integrated into Studio one. Its fine for me but I can't see why they couldn't do the same with all major Daws? Any ideas?
Console 1 is also integrated better into Studio One than most other DAW's. Studio One and Sonar both feature much better integration with 3rd parties than all the other DAW's, including Melodyne ARA which was my main reason for switching to Studio One from Cubase. The Softube Tape integration can only happen in Studio One because it's currently the only DAW that uses MixFX.
 
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Hoenerbr

Hall of Fame Member
The potential game changer is the crosstalk, I don't know if it's a good thing or not but it's the first tape plugin to provide it. Also, for non-UAD users, it's the only way to get the UAD Studer-style Gang Controls.



Console 1 is also integrated better into Studio One than most other DAW's. Studio One and Sonar both feature much better integration with 3rd parties than all the other DAW's, including Melodyne ARA which was my main reason for switching to Studio One from Cubase. The Softube Tape integration can only happen in Studio One because it's currently the only DAW that uses MixFX.
Thank You Uncle E for the great price on TAPE, I had a chance to mess with it tonite and I really like it. Much easier to use and almost instant gratification. Gotta find out why the presets aren't showing up in Studio One but I'm sure that's an easy one!
 
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