Tape and Saturation

The Softube Tape and Saturation Bundle brings together four characterful and versatile tape, distortion, echo and reverb effects from Softube, carefully adapted for use in Ableton Live.

Tape

After years of research, Softube has created a tape emulation that easily stands out among other tape emulations. They’ve modelled the characteristics of the tape machine circuits, tape head, the tape itself and took it even further in a versatile Tape device that can deliver a range of colors from subtle tape character to saturated warm tones.

Analog tape has a smoothing effect and adds weight and glue to a mix, helping to turn a recording from a collection of individual tracks into a cohesive and compelling piece of music.The Softube Tape Pack, with its component-level and physical modeling of three different tape machines, gives you all the vintage warmth you could want in one place. Plus, you’ll get control over a variety of additional features to fine-tune your sound, like the mastering-grade high shelf filter, stability control, and wet/dry mix knob.

Tape Echoes

From Elvis to Radiohead, the unique sound of tape echo can be heard on countless standout records over the past five decades. Analog tape delays are costly to own and maintain, but many plug-in delays come with an unwelcome cleanliness.

Not Tape Echoes. With the Drive and Dirt features, you can easily drench your track in wobbly, glitchy, distorted delay. And by setting the delay time to Just Dirt, you can achieve a classic old-school grit.

Harmonics

Ever tried to give a track attitude by adding distortion, but wound up with a washed out, lifeless sound? Harmonics, with its unique approach to dynamics in distortion, gives you the best of both worlds. By preserving the dynamics of the original signal, it gives you the freedom to control distortion without worrying about the knock-on effects.

Wasted Space

When you need extreme digital lo-fi character quickly, the reverb to reach for is Wasted Space. Explore retro ’80s aliasing artifacts currently in vogue in pop and electronic genres and take them to eleven. Put Wasted Space straight onto your track to bring elements to the front of the mix, or get a full low-fidelity sound by using it on your main track.