A guitar DI, a knackered cassette 4-track and a room with no walls — in one window.
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Tape & Void is built for the sound of a guitar going straight into an interface with nothing in front of it. Four stages run in series: tape, an ambient swell, a reverb that listens to your playing, and a double-track. Nothing to patch, nothing to balance.
Every character knob crossfades its own stage, so anything left at zero is genuinely out of the way — and with MIX at zero the plugin is bit-transparent.
Two presets, each played dry and then swept in, so you can hear what it does rather than watch knobs move. The actual plugin window — not a mock-up, not a slideshow.
Input gain → the four stages → dry/wet mix → output gain → safety clip.
Asymmetric tape drive into roughly 2:1 tape compression, with a head bump, drive-dependent top-end roll-off and wow & flutter.
The ambient half — an auto-swell that blooms picked notes in from nothing, a three-voice detuned ensemble, and a breathing bandpass formant.
An eight-comb, four-allpass reverb whose wet tail is gated by how hard you're playing, so tails cut off cleanly instead of washing over the next phrase.
Double-tracked voices plus mid/side width, with the sides high-passed so the low end stays mono and centred.
Tape, drive, mod, breathe, reverb, decay and gate as amounts; double, width, input, output and mix. That's the whole plugin.
Five icon tiles with a search overlay, so you're picking a sound rather than reading a list of parameter names.
Vertical input and output meters, because a DI running into tape saturation lives or dies on gain-staging.
The same take, before and after. Hit play, then flip between the raw signal and the plugin doing its thing — no reload, no gap.
Ten per tile, so every category is a real place to start rather than a token entry.
Save your own alongside them — they land in your user folder and survive updates.
On Mac, unzip and drop the .component into
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and the .vst3 into
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3. On Windows, copy the .vst3 into
C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3. Then rescan in your DAW and it appears
under Award Audio Tools. A step-by-step INSTALL.txt is in the zip.
Yes — Tape & Void installs as a VST3 on both Mac and Windows. On Mac you also get an Audio Unit (AU) and a Standalone app in the same download. There is no VST2 build and no AAX build, so Tape & Void does not load in Pro Tools.
Anything that hosts VST3 or Audio Units — Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, Bitwig, GarageBand and Luna are all covered. Logic and GarageBand use the AU; the rest use the VST3. There's also a Standalone app on Mac if you just want to plug in and play without opening a DAW.
Both. The Mac build is a Universal binary that runs natively on Apple Silicon (M1 through M4) and Intel, on macOS 10.15 or newer, and it's Developer-ID signed and notarised by Apple, so there's no Gatekeeper warning. The Windows build is 64-bit VST3 for Windows 10 or newer. One purchase covers both — the zip contains the Mac and Windows builds together.
Tape & Void ships with 50 factory presets, grouped into 5 categories. You can save your own alongside them, and they travel with the project the same way any other plugin state does.
No. $49 a one-off purchase with no subscription, no iLok and no dongle — you download it straight after checkout, updates are free, and the licence covers the computers you own. Whatever you make with it is entirely yours.
On Mac, unzip and drop the .component into ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and the .vst3 into ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3. On Windows, copy the .vst3 into C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3. Rescan in your DAW and it appears under Award Audio Tools. A step-by-step INSTALL.txt is in the zip.
Guitar-DI tape saturation into an ambient void.
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