IK Multimedia Tape Echo, an authentic emulation of the Echoplex EP3 tape delay, is available for a limited time as a free download at APD.
Audio Plugin Deals currently has some great deals. Earlier this week, I reported on the $1 no-brainer deal on the Cubic Audio Ascension Synthesizer. Now they’re offering even better deals with another. Now, everyone is getting a free plugin without a hook.
For a limited time, Audio Plugin Deals offers the IK Multimedia Tape Echo plugin as a free download.
IK Multimedia Tape Echo
There’s not much you need to do to get the free IK Multimedia Tape Echo plugin. Most importantly, you don’t have to buy anything to benefit from the gift. It’s 100% free of charge. Go to the Audio Plugin Deals page, add the item to your cart, and proceed to checkout.
Tape Echo is an authentic emulation of the Echoplex EP3 tape delay, originally released in 1969. It quickly became a standard for delay effects among musicians and guitarists.
According to IK Multimedia, they have meticulously captured all the nuanced analog characteristics of the original unit. This includes the moderate headroom Class A electronics and the unique behaviors of magnetic tape.
These subtle “imperfections,” which contribute to the unit’s unique character, are put under your control, offering the flexibility and power of software.
Authentic Operation + Extras
Like the original hardware, the Tape Echo plugin operates like a traditional analog recording machine. An incoming signal is printed onto a virtual magnetic 1/4” tape by one tape head, while a second tape head plays back the recorded signal to generate the delay effect.
The delay time itself is precisely controlled by varying the distance between these two heads.
IK Multimedia Tape Echo offers a range of controls, enabling you to craft the perfect patch. You can set the input level, adjust the delay time with the BPM sync option, and manipulate features such as wow and flutter, tape wear, and more.
A significant advantage of the plugin over the original hardware is its stereo mode. This gives you two independent delay lines. In the hardware configuration, you need two devices that are equally well-maintained to get a perfect stereo sound. Further, you have complete automation control within your DAW.
If you don’t have a Tape Echo in your plugin arsenal, this is an opportunity not to be missed.
IK Multimedia Tape Echo is available now as a free download instead of $99,99 for the next two weeks. It runs as a VST, VST3, AU and AAX plugin on macOS (native Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows. Plus, you can integrate it into the T-RackS environment.
More information here: IK Multimedia
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The ADP site gives you a product key, but you have to download IK Product Manager to get Tape Echo, except IK Product Manager doesn’t offer Tape Echo. So there’s no deal to be had, near as I can tell.
you must put in the product key into Product Manager. Then, it appears in your user account. It worked fine for me. It appears under the T-RackS CS mixing/mastering plugin as it is part of it.
I won’t install ANOTHER product manager, I already have Arturia, NI, InMusic, Novation & UVI all wanting to send information about my PC, my browsing and anything they can get their hands on in the small print, back to their servers.
Shame, it looks like a nice plugin.
Please write a detailed report about the evidence you found and do not forget to put the raw data online so everyone can verify your results. This will then trigger some attention by „music software journalists“ and if not it will certainly get a lot of attention from people who buy their software. I recommend that you post this to some Reddit channel. That would hopefully create a change in the behaviour of software developers. Just writing a comment here will certainly not, but you can feel like Che Guevara now!
Put some real work into it and results will come.
On macOS deactivate their access after you installed their plugins. Additionally spend 30€ on Little Snitch by Obdev from Austria and deactivate any outgoing Server Connection for them, those pings mostly starts if your DAW is open.
And, of course, de-install what you’re not using. 🙂
Thanks mate I had the same problem
Yeah… Against my better judgment, because this looks like a great plugin, I decided to install an Ik product. I had some previous products but uninstalled them and now i remember why. After reinstalling the product manager the plugin got added to T-Racks CS along with 1 previous install (2 of 10) and I clicked download…. 2.8gb…. abort. stop. no more bullshit on my computer.
If it seems too good to be true it probably is. What happened to the days of downloading a vst, installing it and then using it. IK, NI, Arturia always come in with ‘free gifts’ so they can get your details and shove ad after ad in your face, never mind what they might do with your personal information.
IK are a particularly dubious company, overcharging for hardware synths knowing they’ll drop the price massively to sell off the end of their production run. Some companies actually care about making quality products, others only care about extracting money from consumers.
I grabbed this thinking it was a VST. Then I realized it was for T-Racks, which I have no interest in at all.