Bless you, Wytse: I noticed the effect but I did not know you'd made a video- your viewers are kind! :) remember, the head bump works LIKE a head bump but you can tune it freely like you were changing the tape speed or track width around! It is also 'Dubly', not real Dolby, but you quickly found the 'boost the encode' trick one can do, well spotted! I'm delighted you liked it. There's probably going to be a ToTape8 sooner than you think, as I can do Dubly better than I've got it here, I think. It won't remove this, it'll be another ToTape people can have :)
I love this plugin never heard nothing like it distortion without clipping, the flutter effect sounds realistic, and a little of bit of drive takes you far, I don't know how he nailed it 😂
The incredible thing for me about Chris' plugins is that the whole consolidated set, including every one of his plugins, is 8MB in total. No sloppy, bloated 2GB nonsense here. Cheers Chris 🧡
@@d1str3ss0r The consolidated version actually has custom GUI with both light/dark color scheme. It's still not as fancy as other plugins, but I enjoy it. Main advantage of the consolidated would be the included explanation text for each plugin, and that each knob reset to its default value when double clicked.
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” - Brian Eno
@@fromthemoonraccoononly the artists can decide that for themselves. I've heard some absolutely toasted mixes I don't think would be better if it was cleaner
There is something so incredibly pleasing about plug-ins designed in a very utilitarian, no-nonsense way but work incredibly well. That's why I've also grown to love REAPER's stock plug-ins so much. There's something magical about unapologetic engineering excellence without optical bells and whistles or fancy presets.
So we not gonna talk about how the entire consolidate set are the greatest sounding plugins ever made lmao. THE WIDENERS. THE SATURATION. THE CHANNEL STRIPS. THE CONTROL IN EVERY MODULE. chefs kiss
I tested this against all the other tape plugins, uad, ik, waves- I liked different plugins based on the source but airwindows was always the one that was warm and present without being shrill on the high end. The best on acoustic guitar!
Yo should get in touch w Chris Mara in nashville, he restores and sells tape machines and also has an online spot where you can upload your mix and he will run it through your preferred machine/tape and send back to you. He and Fab DuPont did a little series on how tape affects the sound, which size/formula etc. really good watch
@@Lucius338 It's all good but his approach to filters is quite unique and I love his reverbs. Lately I've been trying to get my head around his Mix Analysis tools and the thinking behind it. If you have the consolidated FX plugin, there's an option to have them all listed according to Chris' 'Quality' audit.
@@Lucius338 That really depends on what you want to do. Just watch a bunch of his videos to get the hang of the collection, he often references his older plugins. The "Airwindowpedia" document is also very helpful, as is his website, where you can filter the plugins by tags.
I' ve tried and still have a lot of tape emulations plugins. Most of these plugins gives me an emulation of the tape. THIS plugin gives a direct TAPE SOUND and feeling. My first reaction was" wow!" , " this is it! " . Thank you for the video! Great plugin!
DBX noise reduction was a compander based system. Compress your material to a certain ratio so the silent parts get loud, get it to tape, then expand the signal in the same ratio post-tape.
Nice one, thanks for the heads-up! Also: what music are we listening to throughout the video? That's some amazingly groovy stuff, I love it! I do have an analogue tape machine, but it's not a professional one by any means (Akai 4000DS Mk-II), and I should probably should have it looked at. I don't know much about tape machines or engineering, but anything I record on it comes out really noisy and broken-sounding. So far I've actually used that to my advantage in order to make electronic drums sound more interesting, and other than that, I've mostly just sampled stuff from the old tape that came with it (and in the wrong speed, too).
Why you want flutter in a tape emulation: You can put it on a return and use it as a send effect to get 1960s-style ‘up to zero’ tape flanging. And control how fast the flange effect is as well (on this one, very few others have that control). Also a lot of lo-fi hip hop musicians use flutter to rough up their melodic or chord sounds.
Re: Flutter: In Bitwig you can put plugins in the feedback chain of some of the built in delay devices, and adding a bit of flutter adds some really nice character.
That's insane! You can do the same in reaper with 2 tracks sending to each other in a feedback loop, with a sound delay plugin. But it's a scuffed setup.
Chris is an 'Analogue warrior' of the digital plugin world, I'm only just realising what potential his plugins hold, and you can use so many without them clogging up the works because he has streamlined them to work almost transparently together. He is also a very good musician in my opinion.
I watched him stream the development of this plugin. Amazing plugin. The tape bump from TT7 can be found in his DubSub2 and I use it as a sub frequency generator for my bass drum mixes (if the original didn't have enough low end). It's great to have it in the TT7. I'm endlessly fascinated with tape emulations and this one is up there with the retail ones. I do wish he had a slightly better GUI but I understand what he's going for in terms of simplicity.
ya know, it might be worth crowdsourcing a graphic designer to make some sleeker skins for these plugins. It should retain the simplicity, but make it a tad more elegant. These plugins are absolutely joyless to look at lol, but it seems like the work under the hood is great.
@@Lucius338 Yeah it's just better controls I want. I don't want a fancy tape spinning graphic or anything. Just some pleasant controls to dial things a bit easier. It's open source so anyone who knows how to program could probably do it. His work is amazing and watching the process he goes through to make the plugins is something else!
been using these from 2018 if i remember correctly they're a gold mine, some true gems, i recommend, i would love so see your top 5 and also see what plugin does to the full spectrum / waveform on your reviews, if you showed doctor plugin thingy i think it would be even more interesting to see whats going on, great video as always :)
maybe you know this or maybe someone else told you this already but, in Reaper, the small wet/dry knob on the top right of the plugin window, if you right click, gives you access to a "delta" function which allow you to ear only the difference from the processed sound and the unprocessed one.
If you want a tape saturation plugin comparation, you need to put on the list Variety of Sound´s Ferric TDS, is one of the best free ones! Its AnalogObsession level quality!
Thank you so much for showing us these plugins! Chris definitely deserves some attention and respect, I tried out his tape and it blew me away completely. Sure gonna donate to him
Chris has some CRAZY plug ins. I'm in love with how discontinuity makes my amp sim guitars sound, you should give it a try. This one is amazing too, great work all around.
The UI is the default UI from Reaper for Parameter control, that you can see for every plugin if you press the UI button at the top right. In Bitwig or Ableton the plugins look different then.
Yes! Give me all the sliders with no fancy GUI 🙌🏽 It’ll feel right at home with my Reaper stock plugins and old-slow processor 🤗 Cool tool! Right on for plugging creator support. Will do 👍🏽
Chris is awesome!!!! I Love the idea of comparing tape plugins to your tape machine. I like the new Ampex from UAD, or the softube tape. I think airwindows will rule them all tho
So, are we saying now that old school equipment recorded on was part of the performance and artistry? After years of getting rid of flaws, we are now adding them back for authenticity?
We've been doing that since forever. Didn't Ozone have a vinyl emulator back in the '90s?
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I seriously wonder why any DAWs still doesn't have auto gain-match function (in one click) in any plugin just like all Softube's plugin. Or am I missing anything? It would reduce your worktime drastically...
If you want an airwindows plug-in with a gui and easier manual gain compensation, get airwindows consolidated: every single airwindows plugin with the manual in one interface with a gui, available for vst3, and with independent I/o controls
and CLAP! It is thanks to the work of Baconpaul of the Surge XT synth project, he's way cleverer about plugins than me :) that means you also get it inside VCV Rack…
Would love to see another short video on this where you gain match a few examples. You could do a nice UA-cam hype title like "THIS IS WHAT A TAPE PLUGIN SHOULD SOUND LIKE" : )))))
Man Chris is a genius , !!!!!!. His plugins sounds like real tape for real for real !! His plugins are on every beat I start. People are always asking me , "What machine do you use" ? LMAO !!
Hi, Wytse! To focus the next tape plugin comparison, what about compare isolated features? Something like just the bias of each one, just the input distortion etc. There are so many things to make each tape machine unique... Maybe find a good plataform to reach a good emulation of a hardware one can be a good focus. A huge hug, man! Love your channel!
Hi! Thanks for your content once again. Have you checked mono compatibility? I used this plugin and I suspect stereo phase issues, but I haven't run proper tests.
Plugin suggestions for comparison: Neurontape 1972 by Audiosingularity Studer A800 by Universal Audio Tape by Softube T-Racks Tape Machines by IK Multimedia Rabbit Tape by SafariPedals
If Wytse had a $1 tier I would already be supporting his patreon, myself :) I can't afford to do a bunch of folks at higher tiers but I learned how to find online tape-hardware rental through a White Sea Studio video, so I would love to see him add a $1 tier :)
blown away by what ? you can do tall this with those two you already bought, actually they sound 10 times better than this plugin it's just tape it's not like a magic plugin or something back in the days we didn't have that much from where to choose from you only had one tape and we didn't use it all the time when we switch to digital stage. people have to understand music already sound awesome back in the days without this much craziness with the plugins you can actually mix a whole record with your stock plugins and sound amazing and professional knowing what are you doing.
The Ampex is amazing. I also love the Waves J37, but you can achieve the same results with the Ampex, although the clipping of the J37 is better. The Ampex needs a bit of tweaking on the volumes.
I first became aware of airwindows through the VCV module. His UA-cam videos are great to watch too. Not sure if there are any other UA-cam channels that feature live coding for plugins !!
@@jg_ultra Yeah! That was SUPER exciting when I found out about it. It's thanks to Baconpaul's work in extending and adapting the plugins to new platforms. And yes, there's someone working to establish code libraries so all the new things can also find new homes when they come out. I'm gonna want a 4ms metamodule myself :)
Thank you so much for making this video. This plugin was just what my vocal needed to feel more alive. Compared it with other very expensive tape emulation plugins I have and this one beat them all lol.
If I remember correctly, there's no output gain control because Chris wanted to put it all into 10 controls, so that the plugin could be nicely converted to his AirWindows Consolidated all-in-one plugin version. Thank you for supporting Chris's work, he really deserves much more attention. His plugins are all over my sessions because many of them are really great!
By the way, I highly recommend the AirWindows Consolidated plugin. It includes all of his plugins with descriptions, and they're sorted by category and his own rating (which can be chosen in the settings).
@@Fastvoice that entire top line is a part of reaper. The bypass and mix control, etc are all standard for any plugin instance. You should try reaper some day, it's got some great features 😄
Air windows does excellent plugins in all genres. An other free and excellent tape simulation: Chow Tape Model. Actualy it's the plugin I load when I'm to lazy to set up my revox. I realy recommend it.
I downloaded the Chow Tape plugin today, but went straight for this one when I saw the video, which one do you prefer to use? Maybe I'll try both myself, of course... but speaking of laziness. Maybe stack one on top of the other, even, lol.
You better check out the consolidated set of ALL the plugins. It's just one VST or CLAP plugin, it has in and out levels and explanations of everything in it.
one of my favorites right now is Rabbit Tape by sarfari pedals. this particular one sounds good but i think its for reaper isnt it? im using studio one.
It would be cool to see a comparison of the tape plugins. Including: Airwindows - ToTape UA - Ampex UA - Studer Kiive - Tape Face Slate - Virtual tape Machine
The term is compansion. It was compressing different frequency ranges in different ways, and then decompressing them again on playback. I don't really understand how some of the Dolby decompression works, because it uses negative feedback loops, and how a negative feedback loop can undo compression is beyond me. But compansion is what's going on.
@@EternalJourneys I mean AGC rather than just trim. I have LetMix Gainmatch set on AW Consolidated post-fx slot in Bitwig, then I have AGC when I need it, although iirc Polarity did an AGC in the Grid so that would work too for Consolidated.
Bless you, Wytse: I noticed the effect but I did not know you'd made a video- your viewers are kind! :) remember, the head bump works LIKE a head bump but you can tune it freely like you were changing the tape speed or track width around! It is also 'Dubly', not real Dolby, but you quickly found the 'boost the encode' trick one can do, well spotted! I'm delighted you liked it. There's probably going to be a ToTape8 sooner than you think, as I can do Dubly better than I've got it here, I think. It won't remove this, it'll be another ToTape people can have :)
Thank you for your great work friend!
I love this plugin never heard nothing like it distortion without clipping, the flutter effect sounds realistic, and a little of bit of drive takes you far, I don't know how he nailed it 😂
Dude this is absolutely amazing ! im blown away ...
Bless you Chris. your contrubution to the audio community is both original and imperative. 🙏
We love you! You’re for the culture! Definitely gonna pay for it, even if it’s free, because great work should be revarded
The incredible thing for me about Chris' plugins is that the whole consolidated set, including every one of his plugins, is 8MB in total. No sloppy, bloated 2GB nonsense here. Cheers Chris 🧡
With that interface i think is the minimum 😂
@@d1str3ss0r The consolidated version actually has custom GUI with both light/dark color scheme. It's still not as fancy as other plugins, but I enjoy it.
Main advantage of the consolidated would be the included explanation text for each plugin, and that each knob reset to its default value when double clicked.
@@NarendraU23 agree, consolidated is actually really nice and easy to use
is the consolidated version updating itself automatically everytime air windows releases a new device ?
The consolidated update is A1
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” - Brian Eno
That's so well worded on the topic. Eno is a total treasure!
Sure, but lo-fi sound, like anything beloved, is best used sparingly, lest we wear out our tolerance for it.
Didn't mention 12-bit samplers. Eno is dead to me.
@@fromthemoonraccoononly the artists can decide that for themselves. I've heard some absolutely toasted mixes I don't think would be better if it was cleaner
@@lilwombatYeah, but if the artist makes a bad call, the audience will ultimately decide for them by disappearing.
Chris deserves a music engineering lifetime achievement award
There is something so incredibly pleasing about plug-ins designed in a very utilitarian, no-nonsense way but work incredibly well. That's why I've also grown to love REAPER's stock plug-ins so much. There's something magical about unapologetic engineering excellence without optical bells and whistles or fancy presets.
Same thing with the kilohearts essentials stuff! Good, free stuff with no bullshit UI. Been using their distortions a lot lately.
@@ReinoRankaisija KHS has done amazing work. Their frequency shifter is an absolute go-to for game audio folks!
this genuinely sounds great, the super simple ui helps mitigate the placebo effect of some plugins too
So we not gonna talk about how the entire consolidate set are the greatest sounding plugins ever made lmao. THE WIDENERS. THE SATURATION. THE CHANNEL STRIPS. THE CONTROL IN EVERY MODULE. chefs kiss
Would love to see an updated tape comparison video!
"If you were using his consolidated plug-in, you would also have an input and output regulator. The plug-in is a host for all his plug-ins.
You know it's crazy I've been using airwindows plugs for ages and never knew this existed
@@666dreamboat don't worry, it's relatively new
Love seeing Airwindows get some love. Fully deserved.
I tested this against all the other tape plugins, uad, ik, waves- I liked different plugins based on the source but airwindows was always the one that was warm and present without being shrill on the high end. The best on acoustic guitar!
Yo should get in touch w Chris Mara in nashville, he restores and sells tape machines and also has an online spot where you can upload your mix and he will run it through your preferred machine/tape and send back to you. He and Fab DuPont did a little series on how tape affects the sound, which size/formula etc. really good watch
I've been over to 76 before. Very nice space.
where can i find that little series, please?
@@lowandodor1150 also lookinf for it
Knew it was going to be Airwindows. Chris is a genius.
Chris Airwindows is an undoubted genius.
I've been following him for some years now. 👍
What are some of your favorites from his collection of plugins? I'm new to his software and the long list is a bit daunting lol
@@Lucius338 It's all good but his approach to filters is quite unique and I love his reverbs.
Lately I've been trying to get my head around his Mix Analysis tools and the thinking behind it.
If you have the consolidated FX plugin, there's an option to have them all listed according to Chris' 'Quality' audit.
@@Lucius338 That really depends on what you want to do. Just watch a bunch of his videos to get the hang of the collection, he often references his older plugins. The "Airwindowpedia" document is also very helpful, as is his website, where you can filter the plugins by tags.
@@Lucius338 i really love Focus, for adding presence to sounds. Pop2 is a awesome aggresive compressor
@@Lucius338 download consolidated
so glad that chris got the recognition he deserve it , he put down some serious work for years , thank chris
I' ve tried and still have a lot of tape emulations plugins. Most of these plugins gives me an emulation of the tape. THIS plugin gives a direct TAPE SOUND and feeling. My first reaction was" wow!" , " this is it! " . Thank you for the video! Great plugin!
4:30 Chris! You were the chosen one!!!
DBX noise reduction was a compander based system. Compress your material to a certain ratio so the silent parts get loud, get it to tape, then expand the signal in the same ratio post-tape.
Nice one, thanks for the heads-up! Also: what music are we listening to throughout the video? That's some amazingly groovy stuff, I love it! I do have an analogue tape machine, but it's not a professional one by any means (Akai 4000DS Mk-II), and I should probably should have it looked at. I don't know much about tape machines or engineering, but anything I record on it comes out really noisy and broken-sounding. So far I've actually used that to my advantage in order to make electronic drums sound more interesting, and other than that, I've mostly just sampled stuff from the old tape that came with it (and in the wrong speed, too).
Why you want flutter in a tape emulation: You can put it on a return and use it as a send effect to get 1960s-style ‘up to zero’ tape flanging. And control how fast the flange effect is as well (on this one, very few others have that control). Also a lot of lo-fi hip hop musicians use flutter to rough up their melodic or chord sounds.
Flanging! That's a great idea.
What about the "Past to future reverbs" tape captures made for NAM?
I read on gearspace that they're a fraud. They seem to be sampling plugins.
aren't those mono?
@@lianmatic2 maybe proteus then
Re: Flutter: In Bitwig you can put plugins in the feedback chain of some of the built in delay devices, and adding a bit of flutter adds some really nice character.
Bitwig is incredible
That's insane!
You can do the same in reaper with 2 tracks sending to each other in a feedback loop, with a sound delay plugin. But it's a scuffed setup.
Chris is an 'Analogue warrior' of the digital plugin world, I'm only just realising what potential his plugins hold, and you can use so many without them clogging up the works because he has streamlined them to work almost transparently together. He is also a very good musician in my opinion.
I watched him stream the development of this plugin. Amazing plugin. The tape bump from TT7 can be found in his DubSub2 and I use it as a sub frequency generator for my bass drum mixes (if the original didn't have enough low end). It's great to have it in the TT7. I'm endlessly fascinated with tape emulations and this one is up there with the retail ones. I do wish he had a slightly better GUI but I understand what he's going for in terms of simplicity.
ya know, it might be worth crowdsourcing a graphic designer to make some sleeker skins for these plugins. It should retain the simplicity, but make it a tad more elegant. These plugins are absolutely joyless to look at lol, but it seems like the work under the hood is great.
@@Lucius338 Yeah it's just better controls I want. I don't want a fancy tape spinning graphic or anything. Just some pleasant controls to dial things a bit easier. It's open source so anyone who knows how to program could probably do it. His work is amazing and watching the process he goes through to make the plugins is something else!
I watched some of the streams too! It’s great that Chris has been getting some attention from other content creators lately.
@@Lucius338 its already there.. check out the Consolidated version.
I always use FathomFive for my bass and kicks personally
Gonna give this a try! Would love to see some tape comparison, real tape, UAD tape sim, IK Multimedia, Saturn2, Softube Tape. 😁
I just read his blog post before downloading, I like that he uses the term "Dubly" just like the Spinal Tap guys 😂
chris is GOATED, i regularly use like 10 of his plugins
been using these from 2018 if i remember correctly they're a gold mine, some true gems, i recommend, i would love so see your top 5 and also see what plugin does to the full spectrum / waveform on your reviews, if you showed doctor plugin thingy i think it would be even more interesting to see whats going on, great video as always :)
Thanks
maybe you know this or maybe someone else told you this already but, in Reaper, the small wet/dry knob on the top right of the plugin window, if you right click, gives you access to a "delta" function which allow you to ear only the difference from the processed sound and the unprocessed one.
Much love Chris! You're a good soul! ♥
_Go, Chris!_ _Go, Wytse!_ "Keep pushing", "and you can do this"...
This one, Universal Audio ones and real ones must be on the new Tape Machine comparison video. And the more complete the testings the better!
Thanks for putting me on this plugin. Would love to see a tape plugin comparison video including satin, that’s the I’ve been using lately. ✌️
Yes, to the new tape shootout with the new Air Windows and your machine as am analog example!
If you want a tape saturation plugin comparation, you need to put on the list Variety of Sound´s Ferric TDS, is one of the best free ones! Its AnalogObsession level quality!
Tape plugin comparison would be cool! I feel like they are (very slowly) getting better.
Hey! actually i have an Ampex ATR-102 1/4" and a Studer A80 1/2" both stereo, open to transfer stuff! Agree ToTape7 has the vibest sound
Excited to try this, would love to see the new tape comparison video you are thinking of making
wow! also try that Stereo Srsly on your master bus,.. it does some magic for your stereo image!
Thank you so much for showing us these plugins! Chris definitely deserves some attention and respect, I tried out his tape and it blew me away completely. Sure gonna donate to him
I adore Chris for his approach to IP and sharing information. More people be like Chris.
I am using his stuff for a while now. I just love this guy! Thanks Chris❤
I have this and was highly impressed with how i can shape any mix and make it sound way better. His other plugins are great too.
Chris has some CRAZY plug ins. I'm in love with how discontinuity makes my amp sim guitars sound, you should give it a try.
This one is amazing too, great work all around.
Chris is Chris. Chris understands...makes digital things and provides. Thank Chris.
Ah he's so good. and so generous. I really want to make some simple UI's for them Valhalla style but I struggle for time!
Love Chris. Also: would love an updated tape video
In the 90s Ocean Way charged us a billion dollars an hour to rent the Dolby system.
The UI is the default UI from Reaper for Parameter control, that you can see for every plugin if you press the UI button at the top right. In Bitwig or Ableton the plugins look different then.
He's improved the UI now also. I've just the consolidated installer and it's really good! Well worth paying for!
Yes! Give me all the sliders with no fancy GUI 🙌🏽 It’ll feel right at home with my Reaper stock plugins and old-slow processor 🤗 Cool tool! Right on for plugging creator support. Will do 👍🏽
Chris is awesome!!!!
I Love the idea of comparing tape plugins to your tape machine. I like the new Ampex from UAD, or the softube tape.
I think airwindows will rule them all tho
I bought the Ampex ATR-102 from UAD yesterday. It's on sale for $40.
I have tried many tape emulations, but softube one is easily my favorite. Really unobtrusive.
Is there a new UAD ATR-102 version ? I’ve had the plugin for a couple of years.
Didn't he just do a real tape vs plugin comparison? I remember watching him showing off his tape machine....
..wow it sounds so good..!!! respect airwindows....
I've been using this plugin for about 2 weeks. It's a bit amazing.I like to see Chris getting some White Sea love here.
Yes! A tape comparison and most importantly an in depth tutorial on ToTape7 please
Sounds awesome! Also Chow Tape is free and awesome
his reverbs are really good. just sound good and pretty "analog" without any complications
if you get the all in one plugin is has input and output controls for all the plugins. Chris makes fantastic stuff
So, are we saying now that old school equipment recorded on was part of the performance and artistry? After years of getting rid of flaws, we are now adding them back for authenticity?
We've been doing that since forever. Didn't Ozone have a vinyl emulator back in the '90s?
I seriously wonder why any DAWs still doesn't have auto gain-match function (in one click) in any plugin just like all Softube's plugin. Or am I missing anything? It would reduce your worktime drastically...
Bitwig does.
Kiive Tape ChowTAPE and Satin wouldbe my choisee.
Downloaded it and tape is amazing, the other stuff in one. plugin is crazy, already using it in multiple tracks in one song, going to support him!!
If you want an airwindows plug-in with a gui and easier manual gain compensation, get airwindows consolidated: every single airwindows plugin with the manual in one interface with a gui, available for vst3, and with independent I/o controls
and CLAP! It is thanks to the work of Baconpaul of the Surge XT synth project, he's way cleverer about plugins than me :) that means you also get it inside VCV Rack…
Would love to see another short video on this where you gain match a few examples. You could do a nice UA-cam hype title like "THIS IS WHAT A TAPE PLUGIN SHOULD SOUND LIKE" : )))))
Toneboosters reelbus 4 !
Toneboosters is underrated!
Man Chris is a genius , !!!!!!. His plugins sounds like real tape for real for real !! His plugins are on every beat I start. People are always asking me , "What machine do you use" ? LMAO !!
Hi, Wytse! To focus the next tape plugin comparison, what about compare isolated features? Something like just the bias of each one, just the input distortion etc. There are so many things to make each tape machine unique... Maybe find a good plataform to reach a good emulation of a hardware one can be a good focus. A huge hug, man! Love your channel!
Love tape, but working live right now, just used your Thurman link because i very much appreciate the videos. Thanks for pushing.
Loving the Lewitt Ray, Wytse. Loving the T-shirt, too.
Cool shirt, Lewitt makes some great microphones!
Yes do a comparison between all o f the tape simulation
yeahhh. I like tape process on bass 7:49 lovely. was really pushing the low end earlier.
Chris is a genius!
Sure it's been pointed out already but his Consolidated version has wet and gain knobs.
Hi! Thanks for your content once again. Have you checked mono compatibility? I used this plugin and I suspect stereo phase issues, but I haven't run proper tests.
Plugin suggestions for comparison:
Neurontape 1972 by Audiosingularity
Studer A800 by Universal Audio
Tape by Softube
T-Racks Tape Machines by IK Multimedia
Rabbit Tape by SafariPedals
MixHead by Make Believe Studios
Waves Tape Saturator J37
Kramer Master Tape
FabFilter Saturn
chowTapeModel, the OG free open source tape modelling plugin
Viewed this video downloaded it… It sounds amazing! Gonna do that $1 a month patreon.
If Wytse had a $1 tier I would already be supporting his patreon, myself :) I can't afford to do a bunch of folks at higher tiers but I learned how to find online tape-hardware rental through a White Sea Studio video, so I would love to see him add a $1 tier :)
Now you made me sad I just recently bought both the UAD Studer and Ampex. I tested this one and I'm just blown away
Don't be sad. Those UADs sound awesome, and you can dial them in quicker. I use 'em all, but prefer the Ampex.
Na sorry. Dont be sad. Totape is not bad, but a800 is better.
uad ampex sounds better imo
blown away by what ? you can do tall this with those two you already bought, actually they sound 10 times better than this plugin it's just tape it's not like a magic plugin or something back in the days we didn't have that much from where to choose from you only had one tape and we didn't use it all the time when we switch to digital stage. people have to understand music already sound awesome back in the days without this much craziness with the plugins you can actually mix a whole record with your stock plugins and sound amazing and professional knowing what are you doing.
The Ampex is amazing. I also love the Waves J37, but you can achieve the same results with the Ampex, although the clipping of the J37 is better. The Ampex needs a bit of tweaking on the volumes.
airwindows is....nuts. I like the consolidated. There is also a vcv version,quite handy module
I first became aware of airwindows through the VCV module. His UA-cam videos are great to watch too. Not sure if there are any other UA-cam channels that feature live coding for plugins !!
And the VCV version is going to be available on 4ms MetaModule, so the eurorack fans can have Airwindows right in their modular case!
@@jg_ultra Yeah! That was SUPER exciting when I found out about it. It's thanks to Baconpaul's work in extending and adapting the plugins to new platforms. And yes, there's someone working to establish code libraries so all the new things can also find new homes when they come out. I'm gonna want a 4ms metamodule myself :)
Thank you so much for making this video. This plugin was just what my vocal needed to feel more alive. Compared it with other very expensive tape emulation plugins I have and this one beat them all lol.
If I remember correctly, there's no output gain control because Chris wanted to put it all into 10 controls, so that the plugin could be nicely converted to his AirWindows Consolidated all-in-one plugin version.
Thank you for supporting Chris's work, he really deserves much more attention. His plugins are all over my sessions because many of them are really great!
By the way, I highly recommend the AirWindows Consolidated plugin. It includes all of his plugins with descriptions, and they're sorted by category and his own rating (which can be chosen in the settings).
The knob in the upper right corner (left of the bypass checkbox) looks like a gain control to me.
@@Fastvoicethat's reapers built in mix control
@@DuckForPope Interesting. Looks for me like a part of the plugin GUI. But I have no knowledge about Reaper.
@@Fastvoice that entire top line is a part of reaper. The bypass and mix control, etc are all standard for any plugin instance. You should try reaper some day, it's got some great features 😄
I’m so glad you are mentioning Air Windows❤
I like Softube Tape - I have about a dozen including the AirWindows
Air windows does excellent plugins in all genres. An other free and excellent tape simulation: Chow Tape Model. Actualy it's the plugin I load when I'm to lazy to set up my revox. I realy recommend it.
I downloaded the Chow Tape plugin today, but went straight for this one when I saw the video, which one do you prefer to use? Maybe I'll try both myself, of course... but speaking of laziness. Maybe stack one on top of the other, even, lol.
Love the Density 2 plug from air windows too
Will support on patroon 😊
definitely want to see any tape machine comparisons from plug ins to analog!
You should try Chris' consoles. They give something especial to the mix.
You better check out the consolidated set of ALL the plugins. It's just one VST or CLAP plugin, it has in and out levels and explanations of everything in it.
Really cool!!
What do you thunk about CHOW Tape Model plugin? Its been my favourite untile now, lets see of it gets dethroned :)
one of my favorites right now is Rabbit Tape by sarfari pedals. this particular one sounds good but i think its for reaper isnt it? im using studio one.
i always said uhe satin is the best but this really competes with the preset i made, for free which is crazy
A cassette tape plugin comparison video would be great!!
Yeah, that would be really cool. I love sketch cassette and use it all the time. I haven't tried many other cassette plugins though.
It would be cool to see a comparison of the tape plugins.
Including:
Airwindows - ToTape
UA - Ampex
UA - Studer
Kiive - Tape Face
Slate - Virtual tape Machine
Honestly it sound fire, already put it on every tracks
I just heard the Totape 8 version….sounds decent
The term is compansion. It was compressing different frequency ranges in different ways, and then decompressing them again on playback. I don't really understand how some of the Dolby decompression works, because it uses negative feedback loops, and how a negative feedback loop can undo compression is beyond me. But compansion is what's going on.
I've got loads of tape plugins, Id love to see your comparison video.
UAD seem best to me, but this sounds superb
There's so many gems in the Airwindows arsenal. You do need a gain match wrapper though to really hear what's going on without the gain change.
Airwindows Consolidated as input/output gain controls
@@EternalJourneys I mean AGC rather than just trim. I have LetMix Gainmatch set on AW Consolidated post-fx slot in Bitwig, then I have AGC when I need it, although iirc Polarity did an AGC in the Grid so that would work too for Consolidated.
He’ll yeah dog. The console system is probably the best plug-in ever made