Tapewave

The Ultimate Cassette Tape Plugin

Tapewave delivers the true character of vintage cassette tape with six unique tape styles and adjustable tape age control. Enjoy authentic wow and flutter modulation, rich tape saturation, and analog-style compression that breathe life into your mix. Designed to capture every nuance of real tape machines, Tapewave makes it effortless to add warmth, texture, and lo-fi charm straight inside your DAW. Whether you want subtle warmth or full-on gritty tape degradation, Tapewave lets you crush, drive, and shape your sound with intuitive controls and a sleek interface.

Features

• Authentic cassette tape sound in a streamlined, easy-to-use plugin

• Add warmth, life, and soul to your digital mixes

• Six distinct tape styles from clean, punchy to dark, gritty, and lo-fi

• Tape Age control shifts each style from pristine to worn-out degradation

• Meticulously modeled analog tape saturation circuit

• Two analog-style compression modes, including Shure Level Loc emulation

• Realistic pitch fluctuations with Wow & Flutter engine, using cosine and Perlin noise

• Drift control adds extra instability to pitch modulation

• Switchable tape hiss for added texture

• Punchy output maximizer for louder mixes

• Up to 16x oversampling for smooth, alias-free sound

• Internal preset browser with search, tags, and favorites

• 100 ready-to-use production presets

• Resizable high-definition user interface

• Undo and redo for all parameter changes

macOS:

• macOS 10.12 or higher

Windows:

• Windows 10 or higher
• 64-bit