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Effects

Baby Audio

Taip

$99.00

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Taip
Taip
Taip

A unique, truly faithful, tape emulation - add some authentic analog heat to your mixes

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Plugin

Effects

Baby Audio

Taip

$99.00

Earn 219

A unique, truly faithful, tape emulation - add some authentic analog heat to your mixes

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Warm Up Your Sound Tape recordings have a musical quality that digital mixes often lack. TAIP brings this quality into your DAW. It will add some authentic analog heat to your tracks, without the need to route anyaudio outside the box. Tape plugins are not a new concept. However, our emulation method is. Instead of using traditional DSP, we've developed TAIP around an AI algorithm designed to decipher the invisible nuances of analog circuits. The result is a truly faithful tape emulation that’s intuitive and creative in use – with some added features to accomodate a modern workflow. Use TAIP to bring a touch of warmth and glue toyour tracks, or ‘drive it like you hate it’ as an alternative to your distortion plugins.

Product Overview

Warm Up Your Sound

Tape recordings have a musical quality that digital mixes often lack. TAIP brings this quality into your DAW. It will add some authentic analog heat to your tracks, without the need to route any
audio outside the box.

Tape plugins are not a new concept. However, our emulation method is. Instead of using traditional DSP, we've developed TAIP around an AI algorithm designed to decipher the invisible nuances of analog circuits.

The result is a truly faithful tape emulation that’s intuitive and creative in use – with some added features to accomodate a modern workflow. Use TAIP to bring a touch of warmth and glue to
your tracks, or ‘drive it like you hate it’ as an alternative to your distortion plugins.

Features

TAIP is our attempt at creating the ideal ‘Tape Machine’ for the DAW-era, combining an authentic vintage sound with a modern feature set. Its parameters will let you customize the right tape flavor for any need.

  • DRIVE: Traditionally, tape machines were designed to color the sound as little as possible.
    TAIP is not. You can use the DRIVE knob to add just as much color as you need - from a subtle
    touch of heat to heavy distortion.
  • MIX/TAPE FLANGING: MIX lets you run your tape in parallel. You can combine MIX and
    WEAR to get a classic ‘tape flanging’ effect. This is caused by the wow and flutter of WEAR
    running in parallel with the dry track.
  • MODEL: While SINGLE is a regular tape emulation, DUAL creates a series of two tape
    emulations chained together under the hood, each applying half of the DRIVE value. This will
    add slightly more weight to your signal.
  • LO-SHAPE / HI-SHAPE: These sliders let you saturate the low/high end more or less than the
    rest of the frequency spectrum. (Example: Warm up a drum buss without distorting the low
    frequencies).
  • GLUE: Tape machines are known to introduce a pleasing compression-like effect due to their
    low dynamic range. TAIP lets you add this effect – or even exaggerate it. Use GLUE for subtle
    cohesion or as an actual compressor.
  • NOISE: Lets you add tape noise to taste – or avoid it altogether.
  • WEAR: Combines wow, flutter and an altered frequency response curve to emulate a worn-
    out tape machine.
  • PRESENCE: Part of the tape warmth comes from an attenuated high-end. PRESENCE allows
    you to decide how much of that attenuation you want. It can bring back the brightness that is
    sometimes lost on tape.
  • INPUT: Choose between NORMAL or HOT (more distorted) input levels without affecting the
    output volume.
  • AUTO GAIN: Allows you to add more DRIVE while keeping a consistent plugin output level.

What's Included?

  • AI-powered algorithm, giving you the true behavior of analog tape.
  • Flexible feature set, allowing you to create your own ‘tape flavor’ for any need.
  • Use TAIP to add heat and glue to drums, instruments, vocals and beyond.
  • Read more about our AI emulation approach further below.

Putting the ‘AI’ in TAIP.

‘AI’ is an overused - and often misused - term. But we believe it’s the future of music technology. It just needs to be used genuinely and with a legitimate purpose.

For a hardware emulation project like TAIP, AI offers an alternative - and in our opinion more faithful - approach over the traditional DSP method. Where a normal DSP emulation would entail ‘guesstimating’ the effect of various analog components and their mutual dependencies, we can use AI / neural networks to accurately decipher the sonic qualities that make a tape machine sound and behave in the way it does. This happens by feeding an algorithm various training data of dry vs. processed audio and teaching it to identify the exact characteristics that make up the difference. Once these differences have been learned by the AI, we can apply them to new audio.

This process may sound overly digital for a plugin that brings an analog sound. But the reality is that ‘analog’ and ‘digital’ are two fundamentally different domains. To get a computer to behave (or sound!) in a certain way, it helps to think like it does. Re-creating an ‘analog-style’ signal path in DSP is thinking about the problem like a human. The AI approach helps us solve the problem like a machine would – for a more faithful emulation.

Presets

TAIP comes loaded with 135 presets created by friends of BABY Audio - including:

  • Mark Needham (Fleetwood Mac, The Killers, Bloc Party, Elton John)
  • Max Jaeger (Ariana Grande, Kanye West, Drake, Calvin Harris)
  • Eestbound (Travis Scott, Young Thug, Jazz Cartier)
  • Rob Kleiner (Sia, Britney Spears, David Guetta, Cee Lo)
  • Cesar Sogbe (Prince, David Byrne, Jennifer Lopez)

Display options

  • Switch between three backgrounds (Black / Gray / White)
  • Plugin window fully resizable

Additional Information

Plugin formats:

  • VST, VST3, AU, AAX.

Platforms supported:

  • Mac OS 10.7 and up (including Native M1 Compatibility). PC Windows 7 and up.

DAWs supported:

  • Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.

Categories:

Effects VST | AU | Plugins Tape

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Effects Plugin Tape

Changelog

V1.0.1

22/07/24

1 - Some users reported that the plugin would not always save their settings correctly between sessions. This has now been fixed.
2 - An internal HPF was not bypassed when the plugin was in bypass mode (causing the filter to be applied to the bypassed signal). This has also been fixed.

1.0.2

22/07/24

Updated to version 1.1.2

  • M1 Apple Silicon supported
  • Minor performance improvements

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