IK Mulitmedia T-RackS TASCAM Tape Collection available now

[Krakatau]

I demoed it today, this seems IMO a very attractive bundle and likely very accurate modelings of these peculiar tape machine as far as i could judge, but i have to deplore the heavy CPU weight ...even on my M1/Big sur Macmini !!!



...too bad because it could quickly turn unusuable if you intend to place them in numerous track insert in a project (like the tascam388 and its semi-parametric equalizer as a owned one by the past), and i sincerely hope the next apple silicon native support might light the problem a bit

[plexuss]

I demoed it today, this seems IMO a very attractive bundle and likely very accurate modelings of these peculiar tape machine as far as i could judge, but i have to deplore the heavy CPU weight ...even on my M1/Big sur Macmini !!!



...too bad because it could quickly turn unusuable if you intend to place them in numerous track insert in a project (like the tascam388 and its semi-parametric equalizer as a owned one by the past), and i sincerely hope the next apple silicon native support might light the problem a bit

It's the same with the other IK Tape products and IK doesn't seem to want to give us an option to reduce quality to get CPU back. I love plugins that give me a lower quality for mixing and a higher quality for rendering. With IK I sometimes end up having to repalce them with other tape emus because I need to keep working and their unadjustable high CPU usage makes them unusable.

[Krakatau]

pity...

[jamcat]

I demoed it today, this seems IMO a very attractive bundle and likely very accurate modelings of these peculiar tape machine as far as i could judge, but i have to deplore the heavy CPU weight ...even on my M1/Big sur Macmini !!!

How much CPU is one instance taking on the M1? (Your DAW should be able to show you a percentage in its performance meter.)

...too bad because it could quickly turn unusuable if you intend to place them in numerous track insert in a project (like the tascam388 and its semi-parametric equalizer as a owned one by the past), and i sincerely hope the next apple silicon native support might light the problem a bit

Additional instances shouldn’t really impact your CPU performance too much until you max out your cores, which on the M1 is 4 high performance cores. So you should be able to do 4 tracks with tape on each.

[Krakatau]

to be fair it's likely inherent to the latest technologies (using AI) because TAIP from baby audio for instance is also quite CPU consuming

[Scotty]

I'd love to see IK do a creative tape emulation with adjustable wow and flutter, tape speed adjust, some random tape drop-outs and crosstalk associated with more "lo fi" efforts and machines in a bad state of alignment/repair.

[teacue]

I'd love to see IK do a creative tape emulation with adjustable wow and flutter, tape speed adjust, some random tape drop-outs and crosstalk associated with more "lo fi" efforts and machines in a bad state of alignment/repair.

There is a nice little gem in Amplitube called "Tape Cassette".
It has some of the features you mention: Wow, Flutter, Saturation, Tapesnaps, Erosion and Noise.

BTW it is also to find in a reduced form as one of the main effects in Sampletron 2.
I discovered "Tape Cassette" months ago through Sampletron 2 and even bought it as effect for Amplitube because it has a nice flavour I could not find in other LoFi Cassette effects.

But of course as the name implies it is about cassette and not about bigger tape machines.

[Krakatau]

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as you can notice, CPU inprint is about 45% on Macmini M1/big sur ...either on 8 core or "optimized as recommended" (4 core)

[Aloysius]

Would this qualify for the group buy?

[Daimonicon]

Would this qualify for the group buy?

No.

[kmonkey]

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as you can notice, CPU inprint is about 45% on Macmini M1/big sur ...either on 8 core or "optimized as recommended" (4 core)

Well that's weird then. On my Ryzen 5900 it's around 7%-8%. Perhaps it's because this isn't native to M1 or there is a bug or something. You should report a ticket.Anyway I would expect better CPU utilization I mean not 45%.

[Aloysius]

Would this qualify for the group buy?

No.

Thank you

[Krakatau]

On my Ryzen 5900 it's around 7%-8%. Perhaps it's because this isn't native to M1 or there is a bug or something.

very likely

[jamcat]

as you can notice, CPU inprint is about 45% on Macmini M1/big sur ...either on 8 core or "optimized as recommended" (4 core)

That's identical to my 2016 MacBook Pro.

[sidrat]

There is a nice little gem in Amplitube called "Tape Cassette".
It has some of the features you mention: Wow, Flutter, Saturation, Tapesnaps, Erosion and Noise.

BTW it is also to find in a reduced form as one of the main effects in Sampletron 2.
I discovered "Tape Cassette" months ago through Sampletron 2 and even bought it as effect for Amplitube because it has a nice flavour I could not find in other LoFi Cassette effects.

I believe this in MixBox, too. I wonder if these are all the same algos?