Wavesfactory - Cassette v1.0.

0 WiN VST VST3 AAX x64

REWIND BACK IN TIME WITH CASSETTE

Cassette is an audio plugin that imparts the unique character and sonic imprint of
an often maligned recording medium. A one that offers a sound like nothing else and
that I’m in love with. This is not a tape machine, this is a time machine.

IT’S IN OUR DNA

An entire generation heard the music that shaped their lives on cassette tape.
I grew up listening to them at home, on the car or on a walkman.
They are not perfect, in fact, they are far from perfect.
That’s what I love about them.

A LOVE LETTER TO SIMPLE THINGS

This is my tribute to the sound that shaped my childhood.
I discovered the passion for music between quirks and random fluctuations.
Watching the meters move as I sung into an old microphone.
Red peaks and analog saturation. Rewind, listen again.

No pencil needed

Cassette is an audio plugin that emulates the sound of vintage cassette tapes and
decks. It has been carefully modelled after exhaustive analysis of a high number of
sound signals recorded into real tapes. As a result, we get the same sound and
behaviour of the original units.

Magnetic tape is not a sterile media. Because of that, it will impart its own sound
signature to signals recorded into it. These include a different frequency
response, frequency dependent saturation, high-frequency compression, hiss,
asperity noise and much more.
Reproduction systems will also induce their fingerprint: wow, flutter, random high-
frequency loss, crosstalk between channels, stereo unbalances and other.

All of these little quirks and random fluctuations have been modelled meticulously.
Cassette imprints instant nostalgia, movement and analog feel all around in its
path.

Cassette has been designed to be fun, pleasant to the ear and true to the medium.

Randomness under control

There’s much more power under the hood than what you see at a first glance.
We can find 4 sections:

Tape: I always wanted to have a modular tape plugin in which I could enable or
disable each step of the processing.
Stability: Control how the Stability parameter in the front panel works internally.
Includes “randomness” in order to make things unpredictable and analog.
Extra: More of what makes a cassette sound like a cassette. Including the
innovative “Re-Cassette” parameter.
Artifacts: Control how the Artifacts parameter in the front panel works internally.
Includes “Random Snap” for simulating the tape being caught momentarily causing
pitch instability.

As you can see in this panel, Cassette uses oversampling in order to get rid of
aliasing. The plugin always works at 192KHz sampling rate internally.