Audiopunks released Tape Eater, a dual-engine tape modulation and cassette-depth plug-in built with producer Tchad Blake. The software blends a physically modeled cassette path with a chew section that mimics a swallowed tape, adding pitch drops, magnetic drift, warble, and a lo-fi speaker character. One engine models depth, bias, tone shaping, azimuth drift, and natural compression for use on transients and melodies. The second engine generates organic instability and random dropouts through physically driven algorithms, with controls for randomness, stereo drift, and amplitude modulation.
Tape Eater also offers a speaker simulator and input and output drives to push signals like hardware. It runs on macOS and Windows in VST3, AU, and AAX formats. The introductory price is $78, reduced from $99.
Tape Eater also offers a speaker simulator and input and output drives to push signals like hardware. It runs on macOS and Windows in VST3, AU, and AAX formats. The introductory price is $78, reduced from $99.
