Three-Body Tech Tape Vibe
Tape Emulator Plugin
Analog Character Made Simple
Tape Vibe is a mild-to-moderate saturator built with a simple goal: to add vintage tape character to modern productions.
It brings analog-inspired harmonic richness to your tracks while preserving transients and maintaining mix clarity.
Features
- Analog Soul for Digital Audio: Infuse sterile recordings with musical harmonic distortion and vintage warmth, removing digital harshness.
- Dead-Simple Operation: Drive, Tone, Thick, no complex parameters—just instant sound.
- Built-in Level Match: An internal level-matching algorithm automatically compensates for gain changes as Drive increases, allowing accurate tonal decisions without loudness bias.
- Up to 16x Oversampling: Engage up to 16x oversampling to effectively eliminate aliasing distortion.
- Zero Latency: Perfect for real-time tracking and live performance (when oversampling is disabled).
- Ultra-Light on CPU: Highly optimized CPU usage. Go ahead and drop it on every single track in your mix!
Latency
When oversampling is disabled, the latency is 0 ms.
When oversampling is enabled, the latency in minimum phase mode is about 0.1 ms.
In linear phase mode, the latency from 2x to 16x oversampling is about 1 ms to 1.5 ms.
System Requirements
- MacOS 11 Big Sur and above
- Windows 8 and above (64-bit only)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
- 4GB RAM or more
- 100MB free storage space
Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, VST2, and VST3
User Manual