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Taupe
Sept 24, 2020 8:26:14 GMT -6
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Post by kcatthedog on Sept 24, 2020 8:26:14 GMT -6
Anybody using it: thoughts?
Do they do Black Friday sales ?
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Post by Ward on Sept 24, 2020 8:49:17 GMT -6
Isn't that a color like beige?
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Sept 24, 2020 8:57:32 GMT -6
It's a great plugin. The tape emulations are very good, and the MCI console emulation awesome as well. It has lots of tape machines models, a really nice collection. The tape compression is there if you push the input knob. What it lacks compared to other good tape plugins like IK or magnetite is all the distortion, wow/flutter. It does lack an ATR-102 as well, but Acustica is known to develop free upgrades completing the collections. So it should appear one day, and the distortion as well I guess. But the Eq models are very nice, colored and musical. They should not be overlooked. Finally, you can bypass the tape sound and just have the head sound of the machine, which is awesome, but can yield to phase issues if you wanna make a mix between both stages, as it would on a hardware tape machine. They do black friday sales, and have discounts from time to time.
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Post by bricejchandler on Sept 24, 2020 10:21:07 GMT -6
it's cool but is a bit of a CPU hog. On my system at least ( not the most powerful )
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Taupe
Sept 24, 2020 12:44:11 GMT -6
Post by the other mark williams on Sept 24, 2020 12:44:11 GMT -6
Anybody using it: thoughts? Do they do Black Friday sales ? They definitely do big sales from time to time. If you're not in any particular hurry, I'd wait until they have one going. It was on sale at some point over the summer, IIRC.
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Post by seawell on Sept 24, 2020 12:47:59 GMT -6
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Post by bricejchandler on Sept 25, 2020 2:43:33 GMT -6
I haven't been using it much either. I've found at least in my experience that a lot of times, I demo emulation plug ins like this and go WOW I must own this and then don't end up using them that much. Recently I've been using way less plug ins and I actually feel like I'm getting much better results and I'm mixing substantially faster.
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Post by Ward on Sept 25, 2020 8:13:13 GMT -6
I haven't been using it much either. I've found at least in my experience that a lot of times, I demo emulation plug ins like this and go WOW I must own this and then don't end up using them that much. Recently I've been using way less plug ins and I actually feel like I'm getting much better results and I'm mixing substantially faster. Putting finished tracks to 'tape' (disk) is the way to go. Getting them as close to what you know to be ideal makes everything easier.
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Post by Johnkenn on Sept 25, 2020 10:54:14 GMT -6
Tape plugs in general can be kind of a rabbit hole that often doesn’t make things better, just different. I haven’t used any (excluding for effect) in a couple years...but I did use the ATR on the last mix I did in Luna. Thought it made a positive difference in the bottom end on the drum bus and bass...but it was subtle.
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Taupe
Sept 25, 2020 11:19:48 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2020 11:19:48 GMT -6
How is this versus legendary U-he Satin?
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Taupe
Sept 25, 2020 12:58:32 GMT -6
Post by bricejchandler on Sept 25, 2020 12:58:32 GMT -6
Tape plugs in general can be kind of a rabbit hole that often doesn’t make things better, just different. I haven’t used any (excluding for effect) in a couple years...but I did use the ATR on the last mix I did in Luna. Thought it made a positive difference in the bottom end on the drum bus and bass...but it was subtle. Same here! I've bounced a couple final mixes to a Studer 2 track but recently my most used plug ins have been the fabfilters which are super cool but definitely not color plugs.
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Post by johneppstein on Sept 25, 2020 13:40:45 GMT -6
It's a great plugin. The tape emulations are very good, and the MCI console emulation awesome as well. It has lots of tape machines models, a really nice collection. The tape compression is there if you push the input knob. What it lacks compared to other good tape plugins like IK or magnetite is all the distortion, wow/flutter. It does lack an ATR-102 as well, but Acustica is known to develop free upgrades completing the collections. So it should appear one day, and the distortion as well I guess. But the Eq models are very nice, colored and musical. They should not be overlooked. Finally, you can bypass the tape sound and just have the head sound of the machine, which is awesome, but can yield to phase issues if you wanna make a mix between both stages, as it would on a hardware tape machine. They do black friday sales, and have discounts from time to time. It's nice that someone is making a "tape sim" that skips the "emulation" of a broken machine. By which I mean wow/flutter and distortion. If my machine did that I'd either be pulling and repairing the bad cards or calling my Studer mechanic for the broken transport.
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Post by johneppstein on Sept 25, 2020 13:44:23 GMT -6
Tape plugs in general can be kind of a rabbit hole that often doesn’t make things better, just different. I haven’t used any (excluding for effect) in a couple years...but I did use the ATR on the last mix I did in Luna. Thought it made a positive difference in the bottom end on the drum bus and bass...but it was subtle. Same here! I've bounced a couple final mixes to a Studer 2 track but recently my most used plug ins have been the fabfilters which are super cool but definitely not color plugs. Tape should be used on the front end. I track to the Studer and then dump to the DAW. For some reason doing it the other way loses most of the effect.
Of course you need a multitrack machine for that...
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Taupe
Sept 26, 2020 7:47:38 GMT -6
Post by avgatzeblouz on Sept 26, 2020 7:47:38 GMT -6
It's a great plugin. The tape emulations are very good, and the MCI console emulation awesome as well. It has lots of tape machines models, a really nice collection. The tape compression is there if you push the input knob. What it lacks compared to other good tape plugins like IK or magnetite is all the distortion, wow/flutter. It does lack an ATR-102 as well, but Acustica is known to develop free upgrades completing the collections. So it should appear one day, and the distortion as well I guess. But the Eq models are very nice, colored and musical. They should not be overlooked. Finally, you can bypass the tape sound and just have the head sound of the machine, which is awesome, but can yield to phase issues if you wanna make a mix between both stages, as it would on a hardware tape machine. They do black friday sales, and have discounts from time to time. It's nice that someone is making a "tape sim" that skips the "emulation" of a broken machine. By which I mean wow/flutter and distortion. If my machine did that I'd either be pulling and repairing the bad cards or calling my Studer mechanic for the broken transport. Absolutely. That's what AA answered to the people complaining about the lack of these "features"... I like a lot that you can skip the tape itself as well, and just have the sound of the electronics.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Sept 26, 2020 8:55:25 GMT -6
If you have the ATR-102, keep using it. It makes every mix of mine better. I could do an entire project with only the ATR-102 on the 2 bus and not really miss anything.
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Post by skav on Sept 29, 2020 16:51:05 GMT -6
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Taupe
Oct 4, 2020 16:42:31 GMT -6
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Post by Guitar on Oct 4, 2020 16:42:31 GMT -6
Can't do Acustica, just can't go there. I wrote off the brand. But I do love tape simulation, haha.
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Taupe
Oct 4, 2020 21:46:01 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2020 21:46:01 GMT -6
Tried it. Bleh. U-he Satin is still #1. Sascha Eversmeier is a DSP god.
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Taupe
Jun 24, 2022 17:26:19 GMT -6
Post by bossanova on Jun 24, 2022 17:26:19 GMT -6
Taupe is under $45 for the first time in a while with sale + discount code. I have Softube, Satin, and Nebula CupReels already. Yay or nay?
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Taupe
Jun 24, 2022 18:14:56 GMT -6
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Post by the other mark williams on Jun 24, 2022 18:14:56 GMT -6
Taupe is under $45 for the first time in a while with sale + discount code. I have Softube, Satin, and Nebula CupReels already. Yay or nay? you’ve already got 3 good ones. I’d probably say nay.
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Taupe
Jun 24, 2022 19:42:29 GMT -6
Post by seawell on Jun 24, 2022 19:42:29 GMT -6
Taupe is under $45 for the first time in a while with sale + discount code. I have Softube, Satin, and Nebula CupReels already. Yay or nay? you’ve already got 3 good ones. I’d probably say nay. I agree with Mark. With that lineup you already have, if anything, I'd add Flywheel from Fuse.
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Taupe
Jun 24, 2022 22:27:24 GMT -6
Post by smashlord on Jun 24, 2022 22:27:24 GMT -6
Taupe is under $45 for the first time in a while with sale + discount code. I have Softube, Satin, and Nebula CupReels already. Yay or nay? You already have Satin, which IMO is the best, so nay?
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Taupe
Jun 26, 2022 16:35:14 GMT -6
Post by bossanova on Jun 26, 2022 16:35:14 GMT -6
Y’all aren’t wrong. I like the sound of Taupe from the demo but I’m hard pressed to really say that it can’t be matched “close enough” from the other VSTs.
I also tracked some parts for a remix/rearrangement collaboration that I’m working on yesterday, and those sounded great because of the music, not because of any tape sim. It reminds me how that process doesn’t work the other way around 😁
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