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Mighty Tape (Mac Only)

Mighty Tape (Mac Only)

Note: currently Mac (AU) only.

Warmer and more alive tracks without needing a degree in audio engineering.

Drive adds subtle warmth at low settings, full saturation at high. Motion is the magic giving your tracks subtle feel and making them alive.

Built for producers who make music, not engineer it.

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Two knobs give you wide warmth and motion. All the technical details stay under the hood.

Poetry In Motion

Most saturation plugins are static. Motion gives that subtle vintage tape feel making your music sound more analog, human, and vibey.

Add drive for subtle warmth at low settings to a full on saturated character at high ends.

Always musical. Never harsh.

Four Modes

Tape
Warm, classic, the bread and butter.
Put it on anything.

Air
Bright, open and perfect for vocals. Adds presence without making things harsh.

Grit
Punchy, aggressive, attitude.
Best on drums & 808s.

Glue
Holds full mixes together. Use it on drum busses and master busses to make everything sound cohesive.

Feelings not frequencies

Mighty Tape is built for producers who make music, not engineer it.

  • Motion

    Mighty Tape has a real motion engine. The same subtle pitch drift and breathing character that makes vintage tape recordings sound expensive.

  • Simply Powerful

    It does a lot underneath two knobs. Real multiband bass shaping, tape motion, bus compression, pro-grade processing. You just don't have to think about any of it.

  • You Don't Engineer

    You make music, not engineer it. You want plugins that sound great and get out of your way. without spending the next two hours learning about "harmonic density".

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Key Features

Drive macro
One knob simultaneously drives input gain, saturation curve, parallel compression, harmonic density, and auto gain compensation. The sweet spot is 35–50%. Everything above is intentional.

Motion macro
Drives the entire tape-mechanics engine: wow, flutter, organic drift, envelope-driven saturation modulation, and stereo decorrelation. The differentiator. Most saturators don't have this.

Four mode personalities
Tape, Air, Grit, Glue. Each one is a fundamentally different engine voicing, not just an EQ preset. Switch modes to switch the plugin's character.

Six source-aware modes
Vocal, Bass, Drums, Drum Bus, Synth, Master Bus. The plugin reshapes its internal voicing based on the source you select.

17 factory presets
Tuned starting points for the most common production scenarios. Glance, click, ready to go.

Pro-grade DSP
Multiband low-end shaper, mode-dependent pre/de-emphasis EQ pairs, parallel compressor, 4× oversampled saturation core, K-weighted gain compensation, safety limiter.

Mac AU and VST3
Runs in Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, and any other compatible host. Apple Silicon native.

Unbreakable. The saturation core is hard-clamped at the math level. No matter what you do, the plugin can't clip, NaN, or self-destruct. Push it as far as you want.

Tech Specs

Plugin Formats: AU

Platform Supported:
macOS (Apple Silicon native, also runs on Intel)

DSP:
4× oversampled saturation core, Linkwitz-Riley multiband split at 120 Hz, mode-dependent biquad voicing, K-weighted gain compensation, brick-wall safety limiter

Latency: ~3 ms (reported to host for delay compensation)

CPU: Efficient — 20+ instances at 44.1 kHz on Apple Silicon

Changelog

v1.0: Released May 2026