Black Rooster Audio releases the TD-201 - Vintage Tape Echo

[BlackRooster]

The all new TD-201 - Vintage Tape Echo

The TD-201 vintage tape echo plug-in brings the unmistakable sound of the most beloved tape delay unit into the 21st century. This highly customizable piece of studio history effortlessly switches between old-school ping pong to a deep space odyssey, and everything in between - it’s all you’ve ever wanted from a tape delay!

Intro deal: only $29 instead of $99 for a limited time!

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Inspired by a true classic - The TD-201 offers vintage character galore! It was inspired by a true studio classic, with the added reliability of our signature state-of-the-art technology to give you the most complete tape echo plug-in for your toolkit.

Complex mode selection made simple - This feature allows for a seamless transition between the playback heads so that you can dial in your perfect room setup, and effortlessly mix your reverberation and delay just as you would with the vintage originals.

Per head fine-tuning - Fine-tune your perfect echo by adjusting the depth, volume, and stereo position per playback head in the lower panel. The nine parameters allow for surgical-level precision in your workflow.

[zfy]

demo'd it for 30 minutes, first impression: wow!
definitely feels more raw than other tape echo emulations i've tried.
i was never really happy with the spring reverbs in these tape echo emulations, i always added your RO-SPR instead. now i don't have to.
for sure the least "digital" sounding echo i've tried ITB.
suggestion: i see a lot of these individual head options in the 201 emulations, why not make it a multi-out plugin and have an output for each head? that way i can have way more mixing control. echofix is doing this with their new hardware tape echoes.
oh and please make a 501 emulation next!

[perpetual3]

Have you tried ik space delay?

demo'd it for 30 minutes, first impression: wow!
definitely feels more raw than other tape echo emulations i've tried.
i was never really happy with the spring reverbs in these tape echo emulations, i always added your RO-SPR instead. now i don't have to.
for sure the least "digital" sounding echo i've tried ITB.
suggestion: i see a lot of these individual head options in the 201 emulations, why not make it a multi-out plugin and have an output for each head? that way i can have way more mixing control. echofix is doing this with their new hardware tape echoes.
oh and please make a 501 emulation next!

[zfy]

Have you tried ik space delay?

yeah, actually i gave it a quick try again now after your comment. it's not a bad delay, i just prefer outer space/modnetic, and now TD-201 above it.
i never liked that the max delay times were so short. i know it's true to the real hardware unit, but it seems silly for a plugin to have that restriction, especially since Roland increased the max delay times in later tape echoes. the reverb also doesn't sound like a spring reverb.

[Unaspected]

$29 or £33.23?

Current exchange rate should put it at around £25.52

[Mr Arkadin]

$29 or £33.23?

Current exchange rate should put it at around £25.52

Yeah, that's kind of odd. I'll probably buy anyway.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

This falls into the category of "if I didn't have 3 [or more] other emulations of this, I'd almost certainly have bought it." Just some advice: if I were a company doing a "Space Echo" style plugin, instead of doing the RE-201, which has been done to death, I'd do the Echo Fix EF-X2 instead (in blue please):

https://echofix.com/products/echo-fix-ef-x2-tape-echo

...would love an Echo Fix! Or even an RE-301 just to change it up and get people who already own a few RE-201 plugins enticed.

[plexuss]

This falls into the category of "if I didn't have 3 [or more] other emulations of this, I'd almost certainly have bought it." Just some advice: if I were a company doing a "Space Echo" style plugin, instead of doing the RE-201, which has been done to death, I'd do the Echo Fix EF-X2 instead (in blue please):

https://echofix.com/products/echo-fix-ef-x2-tape-echo

...would love an Echo Fix! Or even an RE-301 just to change it up and get people who already own a few RE-201 plugins enticed.

^Agree. Another one to consider is the Fulltone based on the Maestro EchoPlex. EchoPlex was my favourite tape echo in the day, I had 3 of them. Now I have an early Fulltone TTE, not the latest...

https://store.fulltone.com/collections/ ... 7645673497

[agharta]

$29 or £33.23?

Current exchange rate should put it at around £25.52

They have clearly added VAT and the exchange rate used will usually be worse than the official market rate.
So taking that into account, the price seems about what I would expect.

[Unaspected]

$29 or £33.23?

Current exchange rate should put it at around £25.52

They have clearly added VAT and the exchange rate used will usually be worse than the official market rate.
So taking that into account, the price seems about what I would expect.

Not considering previous prices or sales prices from other vendors. I expect this was a clerical error, taking the value from Pounds to Dollars rather than the other way around: Which would make it £32.77.

For example: Fuse Audio Labs' latest product is on intro price at $29 yet the price in Pounds is set to £25 - which is what I would expect, considering the value of the Pound is currently quite low.

[BlackRooster]

$29 or £33.23?

Current exchange rate should put it at around £25.52

Yeah, that's kind of odd. I'll probably buy anyway.

Probably due to VAT and exchange rates. But I will contact FastSpring for further clarification.

[pough]

Are there any plans to have individual installers so that we don't have to download everything just to install one plugin?

[rezoneight]

So....the Mac version of a new plugin doesn't support the current version of macOS let along the previous version?

Minimum System Requirements (MAC)
SSE2 compatible processor (Intel Core CPU recommended)
1GB of RAM
Mac OSX 10.9 or newer (Big Sur 11.x not yet supported)
VST, AU or AAX compatible host (64bit)
Display resolution of 1280x1024 pixels or higher

[resynthesis]

^Agree. Another one to consider is the Fulltone based on the Maestro EchoPlex. EchoPlex was my favourite tape echo in the day, I had 3 of them. Now I have an early Fulltone TTE, not the latest...

https://store.fulltone.com/collections/ ... 7645673497

It'll be interesting to see how tape cartridge availability pans out now that Fulltone is closing down. I believe it's relatively easy to add new tape to a cartridge.

[agharta]

$29 or £33.23?

Current exchange rate should put it at around £25.52

They have clearly added VAT and the exchange rate used will usually be worse than the official market rate.
So taking that into account, the price seems about what I would expect.

Not considering previous prices or sales prices from other vendors. I expect this was a clerical error, taking the value from Pounds to Dollars rather than the other way around: Which would make it £32.77.

Based on PayPal's exchange rate from 3 days ago, $29 = £27.33.
Add VAT to that and you get £32.80.
As they are using FastSpring, they will have their own daily exchange rate and they will very likely add VAT, so this seems correct to me.

For example: Fuse Audio Labs' latest product is on intro price at $29 yet the price in Pounds is set to £25 - which is what I would expect, considering the value of the Pound is currently quite low.

Which probably means that they have manually set the price, rather than letting a payment company like FastSpring convert it using that day's rate.
$29/£25 is a rate of ~1.15 which is way more than the rate I had this week of 1.0611.
Lot's of companies do this, which makes them cheaper right now in £ as they are using an old rate.