Taipei Studio Tape Recorder from London Acoustics - Official Acqua N4 plugin

[London Acoustics]

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OUT NOW: Save 50% on our brand new TAIPEI STUDIO TAPE RECORDER.

TAIPEI STUDIO TAPE RECORDER is the start of our journey to what could be the most true and dynamic tape-in-the-box effect for the masses.

TAIPEI is a plugin made to deliver strong analogue character, in the form of a 16 track 2” tape machine for the tracks, and a stereo track 1/4” tape machine for the master buss.
The long process of sampling, listening, testing and studying, helped the London Acoustics team to isolate all their preferred sections of each different tape machine and compose them back into a single plugin.

Check out the manual, at this link: https://www.londonacoustics.com/product ... -recorder/

What is it and what makes Taipei Studio Tape Recorder so special?

In the making of TAIPEI STUDIO TAPE RECORDER we have strongly focused on the recreation of that awesome original ‘tapey’ sound in order to get rid of the digital “coolness”. We mean those unique magnetic (non-linear) dynamics, enriched with that fluid-but-never-harsh variable saturation, with some light distortion that usually comes through from the repro head. Everything mutually dependant on the frequencies and dynamics of the source. We started sampling a single machine, but due to having a little more time on our hands than usual, we decided to go ‘beyond’, creating instead the sound we had always dreamed of; the sound that was missing from our arsenal. Of course, we highly respected the nature of the original machine, but we found that the possibility to sculpt and personalise each single characteristic of the tape sound might be a novel and welcome feature.
We also added a noise reduction stage into the mix.

What is it best used for?

The plugin is designed for everything you want to make like coming from-a-tape, for single tracks, to the master-buss, and even for mastering purpose.

Price (MSRP): €115.00 [now with the introductory price of €58 (50% off) until the 25th of September (11:59pm UTC+2]

The trial version is fully functional for a duration of four weeks.
Trial license allows the activation of two computers per license.
The trial version is available in your Aquarius account.

Taipei Studio Tape Recorder is a bundle consisting of:
• TAIPEI – The full version
• TAIPEI LITE – A cutting down version that uses around the 50% of the full version CPU resources

Taipei Studio Tape Recorder features:
• 30, 15, 7½ IPS speeds.
• Tape saturation and distortion: 2 different brands by the choice of 2 kinds of tape formulas.
• Low and High response fine-tuning controls.
• BIAS calibration control.
• Unique saturation-character and bass-quality calibration controls.
• IN/OUT peak VU meter leds and +6/-30dB level VU meters.

Compatibility
Available in VST2/3, AU, AAX – 64 bit formats.
Available native working-frequencies: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 kHz

A little bit about London Acoustics:
We are a group of very passionate producers and musicians who met in London with a passion for recording gear and years of experience working in the pro-audio industry. Our mission is to offer cool new sound palettes for Acustica Audio Nebula users and, of course, for ourselves!

London Acoustics Plugin Installation tutorial: https://acusticaudio.freshdesk.com/supp ... h-aquarius

We hope you like our vision for this pretty unique plugin.
Don't miss it.

[HcDoom]

Cpu hit on a modern (2020/2021) cpu?

[Frankie.T]

Cpu hit on a modern (2020/2021) cpu?

There is a trial, i was very curious and i give it a try, it sound awesome, but on my i7 10700k overclocked at 5.1ghz hit 14% usage on my DAW that's the only reason i didn't buy it.

[London Acoustics]

Please read carefully the manual, and use extensively the freeze/bounce features in your DAW.
Having anyway a tape in real time, consumption CPU, has very little sense.
Also with a real R2R is preferable bounce to digital before mixing...
We chose tha audio quality over the CPU consumption, as always. A recent (after 8th gen Intel CPU) system can load al tleast more than 10-12 taipei full instances realtime. And also we provided TAIPEI LITE that uses 50% less of resoures.

The manual: https://www.londonacoustics.com/manuals ... manual.pdf

[London Acoustics]

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Our TAIPEI launch offer 50% OFF has been EXTENDED until the announced update will be released!

[London Acoustics]

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TAIPEI has been updated, in Aquarius you'll find the [A007 - 1 October 2021] version.

The intro offer 50%OFF will end on Sunday 10th of October 23:59 CET

https://www.londonacoustics.com/product ... -recorder/

CHANGELOG:

TAIPEI CHANGELOG:
- slightly lowered the internal gain stage -1.6dB for an easier setup
- ENC and DEC vector fixed (but the experimental NOISE REDUCTION is still very sensitive to gain over -18dBFS)
- new skin with new name and details
- LEDs and VU meters fixed and "GUIRATED" to 6500 in order to make them slightly smoother.

TAIPEI LITE CHANGELOG:
- PLAYBK. LEVEL fixed (before it was not in the center at the start)
- new skin with new name and details
- LEDs and VU meters fixed and "GUIRATED" to 6500 in order to make them slightly smoother.

MANUAL CHANGELOG:
- updated and implemented some new info
- added a technical addendum

Here the new manual: https://londonacoustics.com/manuals/...R%20manual.pdf

The setting tutorial about gain staging and tips is already available here:



Of course, if you have open projects with the previous TAIPEI version, just bounce the tracks or wait to finish them before update! The sound has remained unchanged, just the REC. LEVEL should be raised a little to match the previous settings, in case.

[Hettoblaster]

This thing sounds fantastic; getting it before the 10th!

[Ssamson]

Agreed this thing is killer. I think it might be the new king of the tapes ITB.

[London Acoustics]

FYI TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF 50% OFF INTRO OFFER!

[wholetthedogsout]

It for sure is the best sounding tape plugin out there imo, just wish it could be used with my MP MIDI controller, but unfortunately it can't due to older JUCE version.

[6ft.koala]

FYI TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF 50% OFF INTRO OFFER!

Thanks for the reminder. instant buy.

[Erik_Lucas]

I can't recommend this product enough.

[London Acoustics]

Taipei Studio Tape Recorder Rev.B from London Acoustics - Official Acqua N4 plugin

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OUT NOW: Save 50% on our updated TAIPEI STUDIO TAPE RECORDER Rev.B.

CHANGELOG:
- Fully compatible with ARM M1
- Output volume increased back to +24dB
- Improved input LED VU meter
- Improved VU meters reaction
- Fixed NOISE REDUCTION circuitry
- Fixed random volume fluctuations on ATR tape
- Oversampling
- Improved sound
- Improved CPU usage

Price (MSRP): €115.00 [now with the introductory price of €58 (50% off) until the 22th of September (11:59pm UTC+2]

The trial version is fully functional for a duration of four weeks.
Trial license allows the activation of two computers per license.
The trial version is available in your Aquarius account.

IMPORTANT ADVICE: Taipei Rev.B is not backward compatible with the previous version, so the suggestion is to print or finish current projects and then upgrade to this Rev.B.
In any case, you will be able to upgrade and downgrade from Aquarius at any time and within minutes, depending on your needs.

DON'T FORGET TO READ THE UPDATED MANUAL

TAIPEI Rev.B in any way has the improved sound so if you recall an old project that has an instance of it on the master it's highly recommended to replace it with the new version.

[TBlake]

As a customer who bought this plugin over a year ago, I'm looking forward to Taipei finally working as it should have when it was originally released

[DCrown]

Can you keep old / previous versions?
Previous versions always should be downloadable imo or even better to
be able to keep or have two versions.
What about the rest of your plugins?