Numerical Audio / Kai Aras brings us yet another highly capable audio unit for giving your iOS sound a distinctive and unique sound. Some of Numerical’s other audio units are pretty special. Some of my favourites include RF-1 and RP-1, Volt (an excellent synth) and Theremidi.
Now we get RE-1, a full featured virtual Tape Machine capable of delivering authentic tape based echo and chorus effects. It doesn’t stop there.RE-1 is an interactive tape player, sample, loop and overdub features it’s possible to use it like a virtual tape recorder, sample player, looper or simply as a master effect.
Overview:
- Virtual Tape deck including 3 individually controllable read heads, variable delay time and feedback
- Interactive user interface and realtime visualisation of various parameters related to the tape simulation
- Dedicated controls for Wow, Flutter, Color, Tape Hiss & saturation amount
- Tape Loop mode with overdub, tape reverse and time-stretching
- Sample/Loop library loads wave files onto the virtual tape loop
- Transport and Tempo Sync
- Stereo Spread & Stereo Panner
- Input processing: Highpass filter
- Output processing: 2 band eq
Tape Echo:
- Authentic tape echo emulation
- Multi-tap delay with 3 individually controllable read heads
- Color Control adjusts the echo’s tone from dark to bright
- Delay Time: 5ms – 1000ms (or 1/32th to 1/1)
- Wow & Flutter
- Tape Hiss and Saturation
- Stereo spread
- Stereo panner
Looper / Sample Player:
- Uses the tape like a traditional looper with unlimited overdubs
- Configurable Loop length with 1 – 8 bars and tempo sync and tape reverse
- Tape transport can be linked to the host’s transport controls
- Time stretching keeps loops in sync
- Samples/loops can be loaded onto the tape directly
- Samples can be created from the tape loop and stored in the sample library at any time
- Factory content includes a variety of loops grouped by style
- Samples/loops can be imported from and exported to other apps
Connectivity:
- Standalone
- AUv3
- InterApp-Audio
- Audiobus
- Ableton Link
- MIDI (Tempo, CC, Program Change)
RE-1 requires iOS 11+
RE-1 costs $4.99 on the app store now