{"id":2557,"date":"2019-11-08T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2019-11-08T07:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:45:04","slug":"wavesfactory-releases-cassette-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/08\/wavesfactory-releases-cassette-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Wavesfactory Releases Cassette Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2019m in love with. This is not a tape machine, this is a time machine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Cassette is an audio plugin that emulates the sound of vintage cassette tapes and decks. It has been carefully modelled after exhaustive analysis<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

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.
\nReproduction systems will also induce their fingerprint: wow, flutter, random high-frequency loss, crosstalk between channels, stereo unbalances and other.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Cassette has been designed to be fun, pleasant to the ear and true to the medium.<\/h4>\n

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There\u2019s much more power under the hood than what you see at a first glance.
\nWe can find 4 sections:<\/p>\n

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  • Tape<\/strong>: I always wanted to have a modular tape plugin in which I could enable or disable each step of the processing.<\/li>\n
  • Stability<\/strong>: Control how the Stability parameter in the front panel works internally. Includes \u201crandomness\u201d in order to make things unpredictable and analog.<\/li>\n
  • Extra<\/strong>: More of what makes a cassette sound like a cassette. Including the innovative \u201cRe-Cassette\u201d parameter.<\/li>\n
  • Artifacts<\/strong>: Control how the Artifacts parameter in the front panel works internally. Includes \u201cRandom Snap\u201d for simulating the tape being caught momentarily causing pitch instability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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

    We modelled the four cassettes types available. Each one delivers different sonic characteristics.<\/p>\n

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    • I<\/strong>: was the standard and most compatible tape format. Featured a ferric-oxide coating (Fe2<\/sub>O3<\/sub>). First appeared in the 1960s.<\/li>\n
    • II<\/strong>: with a chromium dioxide (CrO2<\/sub>) formulation was introduced at the dawn of the 1970s featuring an undeniable increase in high frequency response.<\/li>\n
    • III<\/strong>: living a short period between the mid 70s and early 80s, the ferro-chrome (FeCr) never made it into the golden era.<\/li>\n
    • IV<\/strong>: metal-formulated hit the scene at the end of the 70s. Features firmer bass as well as louder high frequencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Changing tapes will have an effect in the frequency response of the plugin but also in the saturation, compression, static noise (hiss) and dynamic noise (asperity noise).<\/p>\n