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Key Features
The Arturia Tape Mello-Fi is a stunning recreation of a tape machine, inspired by the classic Mellotron, enhanced for modern producers. Simple, easy and authentically analog, Mello-Fi is the easiest way to add vintage flavour and colour to sterile modern recordings. Divided into two main sections, Mello-Fi features an analog-modelled Preamp with controls for Drive, Tone and Noise to increase the distortion, flatten and smoothen the top-end and add authentic noise and artefacts to your signal. The Tape section includes Flutter and Wow controls to adjust the pitch deviations at varying speeds along with Wear and Mechanics controls to digitally age your tape and add the noise of the tape motor back into your signal.
Just like what would be possible on a real tape machine, Tape Mello-Fi includes a Tape Stop function to slow down your recordings to a stop and can sync to the tempo of your host with a range of between 1/4 bar to 8 bars. Pitchy flutters, subtle distortion, warm saturation, velvety smooth filtered sounds; Tape MELLO-FI captures the uniquely imperfect behaviour of tape in perfect detail, distilled into a single plugin that you'll always come back to.
Product Ref: 254404
Packed into a streamlined interface, Tape Mello-Fi provides you with all you need to inject modern, sterile records with analog-modelled, authentic tape sounds in seconds. It encompasses the tones you'd expect from hardware tape machines with a crunchy and gritty preamp, lush modulation and chorusing with Wow and Flutter and noisy, crunchy textures when simulating the virtual wear of the tape.
Traditionally, tape was used to record every instrument in a mix. Now, you can use it as a creative tool for vibe and feel. Of course, you still have the option to run entire groups, mixes or masters through it for an instant vintage feel but Mello-Fi can be used to add movement and excitement to anything from synthesizers, piano, vocals, guitars, sound design and more.
Bringing the tape machine up to date with modern producers, Mello-Fi includes a host of new features to meet modern demands. Enhanced stereo width, gain-compensated preamp drive, host tempo-synced tape stop features and much more make this a highly-playable and interactive plug-in for your productions.
Divided into two sections, Mello-Fi contains a Preamp and Tape section. Each with its own independent range of controls, you are in control of dialling in a sound which matches your instrument, unlike traditional static hardware tape machines.
The Preamp section lets you add the distinct sound of overdriven tape machines and includes a Drive, Tone and Noise control. Apply distortion with the Drive control, increasing the signal level going into the preamp for authentic clipping sounds which can be taken even further when the Boost control for even more saturation. The Drive control is gain-compensated, meaning you won't need to adjust your output level at higher values. Change the timbre of your preamp drive and colour with the Tone control, shaping your sound by dampening the high-end for a more vintage feel. Lastly, Noise adds classic analog texture as an extra layer in your sound, perfect for voices, pads or synths to get a more old-school tone.
The Tape section is where the magic happens. This is what gives the Tape Mello-Fi the sound. Flutter alters the pitch of the original sound by mimicking the rotations of the tape motor that aren't perfectly consistent, creating a unique modulating, swirling effect. Wow follows a similar process but at a much slower rate than the Flutter control and so is perfect for use when thickening bass guitar, backing vocals or drum loops. Both of these controls can be used in tandem to create spaced-out sounds that take you to the core of '70s experimental prog rock. Virtually age your tape with the Wear control, adding more crunch and grit to your sound. The last control is the Mechanics control, adding the tape motor noise into your signal, perfect for making your tracks sound like they were recorded on tape.
Not just there for aesthetics, the visual rotating tape offers a unique feature in letting you simulate tape-stop sounds. This interactive design lets you click on the tape and sync to your tempo with a range between 1/4 bars and 8 bars.
Using proprietary modelling algorithms, Tape Mello-Fi can recreate the iconic instruments down to the component parts to create unrivalled realism and immersion. Unmatched in analog emulation, Tape Mello-Fi is powered by TAE and Phi technologies. TAE offers component-level modelling to accurately present the characteristics and behaviour of the instrument, whilst Phi's state-of-the-art physical modelling brings the acoustic properties into the virtual world for hyper-realism. The result is truly a next-level sound that is indistinguishable from the original to add to your productions.
"Love this! You can give anything that same classic character as a mellotron! Great on vocal pads." - Stephen Kozmeniuk (Dua Lipa / Kendrick Lamar)
"Tape Mello-Fi lets you put anything into the mellotron world as subtly or aggressively as you'd like. The Drive and Tone controls are fantastic, the tape controls are as soothing or as seasick sounding as possible. Tape Mello-Fi is simple and perfect." - Ilan Rubin (Drummer / Nine Inch Nails)
"A stunning lo-fi effect can be achieved with this lovely plug-in. The Mellotron effect gets the classic "wow" sound and tape saturation sound." - Steve Levine (Producer - Culture Club, Beach Boys)
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