I had a Tascam 244 Portastudio 4-track cassette recorder - when it 1st came-out. I learned alot about Recording (bouncing & collapsing tracks) on that thing. It gave me hours of creative enjoyment (alone, & with bandmates). We all had-em. oNe LovE from NYC
I make beats Howie, let's work. I also engineer. Just finished mixing an album for BK from the Double XX Posse. It should be dropping this year sometime. I produced a few of the songs as well. Peace.
You guys might aswell Make a DAW like Harrison or Luna, I’m Pretty sure with all your plugs you will take over the whole DAW game!! Have all plugins in a console workflow. The Mastering Suite is already perfect.
I master everything through a Tascam Model 32 reel to reel from 1984. You have no idea how a track can suddenly step into reality when put through an analogue recorder.
I wish. But i understand, pitch control in digital is still fucky. Analog pitch control was a mechanical thing, but in DAWs its a sample rate adjustment which can mangle the audio. Logic Pro X has their "varispeed" which rules, but you lose high end and you get artifacts. One day!!!
@@nobodynoone2500 because its a digital representation of it, there's gonna be limitations, if you want the workflow of changing tape speeds its hard digitally, cubase does have a good "tape" warp mode but it isn't tape, nothing digital is going to be
@@morenazo6412 I'm in Lockdown Melbourne is run by an aspiring communist lapdog for China. But it ends soon and I'll get mine serviced. But Even the board as a DI into my Soundcard makes it sound better, and I can use inset jacks for hardware. I freaked out when I read about a 688 Plugin!
The first album of mine (Guitartalk, 2003 released on Lion Music) was recorded on a Tascam 234 Tape Machine and a Boss DR5 Drummachine. The sound I got back then was great, although my setup was pretty minimal
Anyone know what reel deck Scully was using on X-Files season 2 - Episode 1- in the last few minutes of the show? It's also an editing setup with keyboard. Is it a Tascam system?
I had a 244 which I had refurbished/fantastic ergonomics/plenty room 4 fingers 2 work. Then I let it go in favour of the 246 Portastudio which was similarly refurbished & still have. T-rack loox like an interesting bundle but I steer well away from computers & software just old-school analogue hardware work-flow. Bldg up a nice collection of Tascam electret condenser cardoids & omnis. Add an Alexis SR-16, bribe ur bassist buddy & u got some fun.
you guys thought of working with some of the fostex machines? specifically I'd love to hear a decent implementation of dolby C in addition to a higher speed tape emulation, its a very particular and clean sound that I've really yet to hear a tape machine plugin do well, most NR including tape plugins tend to be built around cassettes, and while a cool sound there too I really love the sound of my fostex e16, in particular with NR on, the 30ips makes a big difference
wow, this is super cool, i've been dreaming about plugins like theses for a while. i own 2 teac 5's and 3 porta ones, and they sound like no other. however they are getting really old and harder to service so i'm really happy we can finally get licensed virtual versions of them. this is definitely for me.
This is great, I use T-Racks Tape Machines on everything. Also consider making a Portastudio 4 track stand alone. Maybe using the Amplitube multitrack tools.
@@Gogies777 I do a lot of rock stuff from 70s through early 2000's and also a bit of folk, Americana and ambient. I throw it on my master buss almost always. I'll turn it off for tracking and on to listen back and do quick mixes. I really love the way it helps glue the mix together, It's very subtle but it's magic. I use the Studer for rock stuff and the 440 for folk or Americana. Point to point emulations like this can be very cpu intensive especially if you're using a lot of them. So I use midi where I can or try to get the sounds right before any processing is done.
Same here, I love the Tape Machines, especially 80 and 99. I don't know how different these would be from the original four, but I'll probably kick myself if I don't grab them while they are on special.
As with any program it will vary depending on which of the processors you are using and there are factors unique to you that will affect performance. So I'd suggest you try the demo versions of these processors and see how they work in your specific setup.
Can this be set up to emulate a total casette workflow ie using several preamps and "mix down" to casette, or is this mostly just for the master bus to "press your whole mix" to tape if you want to go for that authentic sound?
You can use these on single tracks or on the master. I would suggest trying these great tape machines out as we offer a generous demo period. www.ikmultimedia.com/tascam
yeah just make a bus for what you want to "sum" like if you have 10 guitar tracks, each with a copy of the tape emulator you can say each one was recorded on tape, and the bus with another copy would be the "bounce" of all the guitar tracks, make a new bus for each "bounce" it'll sound like what you're thinking but it'll probably be a shit ton of CPU without actually bouncing some tracks once you're done, but yeah just think about using the plugin like every time you'd of made a recording, like adding EQ to a bus or whatever, that'd be another print to tape, just a lot of planning
TASCAM is directly and officially involved so they think so. But note you can also demo them on your own material and judge for yourself. www.ikmultimedia.com/tascam Thanks!
@@whitehair8824 there are some side by side reviews out now. This plug in failed. I waited just for this reason. No way can digital do what analog tape can do. Not now at least. Not in this plug in. Money grab for those who don't know or aren't experienced with real tape.
I own all of these real tape machines for a very long time, so I know how they sound. I bought the collection and I didn't really believe that the plugins could hold a candle to the real machines. But hard to believe, the damn digital things sound incredible! I've heard a lot of emulations and they never sounded like the real tape machines, but these things are a blast.
It will be nice to design a USB device with tape head inputs and outputs connectors that comunicates directly with this software to drive the heads of a tape recorder bypassing the decks' electronics all together, The ideas is that electronics of old tape decks are aging and re-calibrating them requires test tapes and expensive meters and test devices, Yes it's a digital process but has more precision and acuracy than an aging analog circuit board.
Asmuth is manual on all tascams of this price point. You would be suprised how easy and simple the adjustment is. Don't pretend it's harder than it is to work with tape.
Let's hope they'll include these ones as they've done with the X-Pedals. I wouldn't mind it (even tho I already got what seems to be one of the best tape sims out there - Taipei).
Would definitely be nice, but I wouldn't get your hopes up. They didn't include The Resonator in the group buy, which is the other latest new product. It would be kind of silly to give it away for free right away. Plus, due to the Tascam partnership, Tascam will surely be taking a cut of the sales, making it even more unlikely they'll include it.
@@jebb. That group buy is bonkers, I've picked up stuff I couldn't normally justify buying. Bought the Hammond and Alternate Keys to give me double the amount of freebies! Cheers IK, you loonatics!
@@leopoldbluesky SAME. I've maxed out amplitube and most of T-Racks and now I'm getting sample tank stuff that I don't even know what I'm doing with. haha
This is a very great addition. And there is much potential to ramify this type of rack with more settings. Such as: -Wow -Flutter -Lofti-Type -Compression -Limiter -Tape Reverb -Tape Delay -Tape Multi-Tap -Convolution -Degradation -Pan Shimmering -Tape Reverse Section -Invertion -Tape Pitch -Tape Looper lol
wow and flutter would be included in the transport emulation, its just very low as the original machines would be. 'lo-fi type' would just constitute a misalignment, and thus just lowpass the signal before it goes into the machine and turn the gain up, even underbias it. tape compression isn't actually compression or limiting, its distortion, thus this would be adding an arbitrary control that isn't actually emulating any tape, compression is limiting designed to eliminate distortion and limiting is clipping designed to reduce distortion. "tape reverb" is not really a thing, unless you're thinking of like frippertronics or something. If you want to use this plugin to create "tape delay" sounds you'd just put a standard mono delay in front of it. I don't know what you mean by convolution in regards to tape? degradation of tape is an incredibly random process that sheds particles from the tape and can leave them on the heads, blocking signal, this response would be dependent on the machine and its entirely mechanical, thus very hard to simulate, its the kind of thing you could creatively apply with a volume automation instead of hoping it randomly spits out something that works. again im not sure what you mean with regards to shimmering, or panning? in regards to tape. Tape reverse would imply the plugin can see into the future, record normally, copy to another track, then reverse it and add the plugin. again, I really have no idea what you mean with regards to inversion of tape, backwards yeah but audio isn't upside down or rightside up, phase reverse isn't a thing you do with a tape machine if you mean that. a real time pitch shift wouldn't sound like an actual tape shift because when you shift pitch with tape it changes the length of the recording, with a real time-audio processing plugin this would mean it would need an audio buffer of lossless wav that would just get bigger and bigger, assume you left the plugin on for an hour with mic noise it'd be slowing down all that audio until you hit stop, and having to store it somewhere. If you wanted to pitch up then it would again, be seeing into the future to play the audio that is about to happen before it does. tape looping would assume the plugin is the one storing the audio. you have to remember that this isn't a /DAW/ its not emulating a /recorder/ its emulating the sonic characteristics of what audio passing through the electronics, and off of the tape would sound like, you have to get creative and put time into working solutions for sound design out based on the limitations of digital audio
I had a Tascam 244 Portastudio 4-track cassette recorder - when it 1st came-out. I learned alot about Recording (bouncing & collapsing tracks) on that thing. It gave me hours of creative enjoyment (alone, & with bandmates). We all had-em. oNe LovE from NYC
I had that and the 8-track version that followed. Good times...
I recorded Special Ed's Youngest In Charge album on the 388.
Howie Tee Da Hitman The Greats Peace.
@@ruff2007 Holla!
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That 388 is a nice sounding machine.
I make beats Howie, let's work. I also engineer. Just finished mixing an album for BK from the Double XX Posse. It should be dropping this year sometime. I produced a few of the songs as well. Peace.
You guys might aswell
Make a DAW like Harrison or Luna, I’m
Pretty sure with all your plugs you will take over the whole DAW game!! Have all plugins in a console workflow. The Mastering Suite is already perfect.
+1 Amplitube standalone has a built in recording system but a DAW could be epic!
I master everything through a Tascam Model 32 reel to reel from 1984. You have no idea how a track can suddenly step into reality when put through an analogue recorder.
What would you say is the biggest difference between mastering through your Tascam Model 32 and mastering with this plugin in your daw?
I record every on a Tascam 90-16. I used to use Tascam 80-8. I have mad respect for those machines
excellent quality! thank you 📼
Wonderful!!!
I still have my 3340S and remote. Guess I could fire it up and do a comparison!
I use my the 3340s my dad bought new back in the day, I wish I had your remote!
still waiting for them to make a DAW modeled after the 388.... that would be fun to play with
They went and damn did it. Reviewing this on our channel next week!
This didn't age well did it good sir! Lol tell these fools how they done did it after the fact.
Fire. I fucking love these. Great job IKM
With a Pitch Control on the Porta, would have been an instant buy
I wish. But i understand, pitch control in digital is still fucky. Analog pitch control was a mechanical thing, but in DAWs its a sample rate adjustment which can mangle the audio. Logic Pro X has their "varispeed" which rules, but you lose high end and you get artifacts. One day!!!
@@modernbodies It's almost as if the "analog sound" marketing here is total lies.
@@nobodynoone2500 because its a digital representation of it, there's gonna be limitations, if you want the workflow of changing tape speeds its hard digitally, cubase does have a good "tape" warp mode but it isn't tape, nothing digital is going to be
I literally bought a tascam 688 this week to put my stems through it..
TEAC A-3340S. The master legend Lee Scratch Perry's Favorite Tape Recorder
So glad I kept my 688!
Me too
@@morenazo6412 I'm in Lockdown Melbourne is run by an aspiring communist lapdog for China. But it ends soon and I'll get mine serviced. But Even the board as a DI into my Soundcard makes it sound better, and I can use inset jacks for hardware.
I freaked out when I read about a 688 Plugin!
The first album of mine (Guitartalk, 2003 released on Lion Music) was recorded on a Tascam 234 Tape Machine and a Boss DR5 Drummachine.
The sound I got back then was great, although my setup was pretty minimal
had them all and more.
Anyone know what reel deck Scully was using on X-Files season 2 - Episode 1- in the last few minutes of the show? It's also an editing setup with keyboard. Is it a Tascam system?
I had a 244 which I had refurbished/fantastic ergonomics/plenty room 4 fingers 2 work. Then I let it go in favour of the 246 Portastudio which was similarly refurbished & still have. T-rack loox like an interesting bundle but I steer well away from computers & software just old-school analogue hardware work-flow. Bldg up a nice collection of Tascam electret condenser cardoids & omnis. Add an Alexis SR-16, bribe ur bassist buddy & u got some fun.
Very cool! Now where is the dbx noise reduction? 😁 (But seriously, a dbx encode/decode section like u-he's Satin plug-in would be fantastic.)
I like the 388, but all analogic.
you guys thought of working with some of the fostex machines? specifically I'd love to hear a decent implementation of dolby C in addition to a higher speed tape emulation, its a very particular and clean sound that I've really yet to hear a tape machine plugin do well, most NR including tape plugins tend to be built around cassettes, and while a cool sound there too I really love the sound of my fostex e16, in particular with NR on, the 30ips makes a big difference
wow, this is super cool, i've been dreaming about plugins like theses for a while. i own 2 teac 5's and 3 porta ones, and they sound like no other. however they are getting really old and harder to service so i'm really happy we can finally get licensed virtual versions of them. this is definitely for me.
This is great, I use T-Racks Tape Machines on everything. Also consider making a Portastudio 4 track stand alone. Maybe using the Amplitube multitrack tools.
Which Tape machine do you use for which genre?Are they cpu intensive like what everyone is saying?thanks.
T-RackS can be run as standalone or in a DAW. Or do you mean without using T-RackS?
@@Gogies777 I do a lot of rock stuff from 70s through early 2000's and also a bit of folk, Americana and ambient. I throw it on my master buss almost always. I'll turn it off for tracking and on to listen back and do quick mixes. I really love the way it helps glue the mix together, It's very subtle but it's magic. I use the Studer for rock stuff and the 440 for folk or Americana. Point to point emulations like this can be very cpu intensive especially if you're using a lot of them. So I use midi where I can or try to get the sounds right before any processing is done.
@@Examigan Yep I mean a completely standalone 4 track. I think it would be kind of fun from a nostalgic standpoint.
Same here, I love the Tape Machines, especially 80 and 99. I don't know how different these would be from the original four, but I'll probably kick myself if I don't grab them while they are on special.
Instant purchase! I've been waiting for this!
Has the CPU usage been better optimised in this collection ?
As with any program it will vary depending on which of the processors you are using and there are factors unique to you that will affect performance. So I'd suggest you try the demo versions of these processors and see how they work in your specific setup.
@@ikmultimedia as of version 5.10.4 these eat CPU. Are you planning multi threading support anytime soon ?
Cool! Can’t wait to try this!
Really want this.
Do these devices have noise control? I love tape recorders because of the analog noise.
Oh here we go again!!!!
Can this be set up to emulate a total casette workflow ie using several preamps and "mix down" to casette, or is this mostly just for the master bus to "press your whole mix" to tape if you want to go for that authentic sound?
You can use these on single tracks or on the master. I would suggest trying these great tape machines out as we offer a generous demo period. www.ikmultimedia.com/tascam
@@ikmultimedia So no.
yeah just make a bus for what you want to "sum" like if you have 10 guitar tracks, each with a copy of the tape emulator you can say each one was recorded on tape, and the bus with another copy would be the "bounce" of all the guitar tracks, make a new bus for each "bounce" it'll sound like what you're thinking but it'll probably be a shit ton of CPU without actually bouncing some tracks once you're done, but yeah just think about using the plugin like every time you'd of made a recording, like adding EQ to a bus or whatever, that'd be another print to tape, just a lot of planning
Will you guys release a boxed version of this? I love the box arts though!
Would be nice to have the box as a display next to my desk!
It’s digital so definitely no 😢
Is this more accurate tape simulation than Ik Tape Machine Collection?
These are completely different tape machines, not more or less accurate but for different purposes.
Looks great, in IK we trust :)
Are these plugins even anything like these beautiful sounding machines? I'm tired of getting my hopes up and then being dashed on the rocks
TASCAM is directly and officially involved so they think so. But note you can also demo them on your own material and judge for yourself. www.ikmultimedia.com/tascam Thanks!
@@ikmultimedia thank you. Much appreciated
@@whitehair8824 there are some side by side reviews out now. This plug in failed. I waited just for this reason. No way can digital do what analog tape can do. Not now at least. Not in this plug in. Money grab for those who don't know or aren't experienced with real tape.
@@BIZARBIES Trick is to demo it and think does it make my mix sound better or do I want to buy studio tape and a machine.
@@BIZARBIESI strongly disagree. The 388 does one hell of a job
I own all of these real tape machines for a very long time, so I know how they sound. I bought the collection and I didn't really believe that the plugins could hold a candle to the real machines. But hard to believe, the damn digital things sound incredible! I've heard a lot of emulations and they never sounded like the real tape machines, but these things are a blast.
I just watched a few side by side reviews, and wasn't impressed. You think it's just as good as analog tape?
Is this in Total Studio 3 or no?
Total Studio bundles contain what was available upon release, so this is not part of Total Studio 3
do any of these have pitch control?
nope.
Very very nice
Just remake the damn thing already....jeeeeez
Good stuff.hope we get some iOS add ons
Can I get this with Jam Points?
You can use JamPoints to get an additional up to 30% off: www.ikmultimedia.com/jampoints/
It will be nice to design a USB device with tape head inputs and outputs connectors that comunicates directly with this software to drive the heads of a tape recorder bypassing the decks' electronics all together, The ideas is that electronics of old tape decks are aging and re-calibrating them requires test tapes and expensive meters and test devices, Yes it's a digital process but has more precision and acuracy than an aging analog circuit board.
Get to it my guy, that’s a super cool idea, there’s already some delays using tapes
etc.
Asmuth is manual on all tascams of this price point. You would be suprised how easy and simple the adjustment is. Don't pretend it's harder than it is to work with tape.
@@nobodynoone2500 I was talking about electronic calibration of the boards not the mechanical adjustment which has nothing to do with my idea.
are these modeled with DBX on or off?
DBX is off, this was a decision made with TASCAM directly during the development of this plugin and it is complying with their standards.
Not available as group buy reward I guess? It's not in the list.
I was about to ask the same
Let's hope they'll include these ones as they've done with the X-Pedals. I wouldn't mind it (even tho I already got what seems to be one of the best tape sims out there - Taipei).
This is brand new so no it will not be in the group buy.
Would definitely be nice, but I wouldn't get your hopes up. They didn't include The Resonator in the group buy, which is the other latest new product. It would be kind of silly to give it away for free right away. Plus, due to the Tascam partnership, Tascam will surely be taking a cut of the sales, making it even more unlikely they'll include it.
@@ikmultimedia Kinda leaves a sour taste in the mouth, knowing that I could have bought this instead of the Modo Drum a few weeks ago...
Funny how some desire the imperfections of the old days. Not I.
Why?
iOS version coming?
IK are trying to bankrupt me!
They have already bankrupt me. I have to borrow to take part in the group buy. I don't know when next we'll have this kind of opportunity
@@jebb. That group buy is bonkers, I've picked up stuff I couldn't normally justify buying. Bought the Hammond and Alternate Keys to give me double the amount of freebies! Cheers IK, you loonatics!
@@leopoldbluesky SAME. I've maxed out amplitube and most of T-Racks and now I'm getting sample tank stuff that I don't even know what I'm doing with. haha
@@leopoldbluesky That Hammond is crazy good! Now I just need to learn how to play it (I'm primarily a guitarist)!
This is a very great addition. And there is much potential to ramify this type of rack with more settings. Such as:
-Wow
-Flutter
-Lofti-Type
-Compression
-Limiter
-Tape Reverb
-Tape Delay
-Tape Multi-Tap
-Convolution
-Degradation
-Pan Shimmering
-Tape Reverse Section
-Invertion
-Tape Pitch
-Tape Looper
lol
what is tape reverb, lol?
I didn't hear any mention of wow or flutter. I'm interested but this has got to have that at least.
wow and flutter would be included in the transport emulation, its just very low as the original machines would be. 'lo-fi type' would just constitute a misalignment, and thus just lowpass the signal before it goes into the machine and turn the gain up, even underbias it. tape compression isn't actually compression or limiting, its distortion, thus this would be adding an arbitrary control that isn't actually emulating any tape, compression is limiting designed to eliminate distortion and limiting is clipping designed to reduce distortion. "tape reverb" is not really a thing, unless you're thinking of like frippertronics or something. If you want to use this plugin to create "tape delay" sounds you'd just put a standard mono delay in front of it. I don't know what you mean by convolution in regards to tape? degradation of tape is an incredibly random process that sheds particles from the tape and can leave them on the heads, blocking signal, this response would be dependent on the machine and its entirely mechanical, thus very hard to simulate, its the kind of thing you could creatively apply with a volume automation instead of hoping it randomly spits out something that works. again im not sure what you mean with regards to shimmering, or panning? in regards to tape. Tape reverse would imply the plugin can see into the future, record normally, copy to another track, then reverse it and add the plugin. again, I really have no idea what you mean with regards to inversion of tape, backwards yeah but audio isn't upside down or rightside up, phase reverse isn't a thing you do with a tape machine if you mean that. a real time pitch shift wouldn't sound like an actual tape shift because when you shift pitch with tape it changes the length of the recording, with a real time-audio processing plugin this would mean it would need an audio buffer of lossless wav that would just get bigger and bigger, assume you left the plugin on for an hour with mic noise it'd be slowing down all that audio until you hit stop, and having to store it somewhere. If you wanted to pitch up then it would again, be seeing into the future to play the audio that is about to happen before it does. tape looping would assume the plugin is the one storing the audio. you have to remember that this isn't a /DAW/ its not emulating a /recorder/ its emulating the sonic characteristics of what audio passing through the electronics, and off of the tape would sound like, you have to get creative and put time into working solutions for sound design out based on the limitations of digital audio
@@rt-uh6mt "transport emulation" these machines usually had wow and flutter less than .05%, even my fostex, the poor man's tascam does
no way.. i just bought a Teac A2440SX which is the 7 inch version of the 3440s...
say what 😀👍👍👍👌
need this for IOS