Cakewalk tape simulator plugin

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Re:Cakewalk tape simulator plugin 2012/10/13 01:11:28 (permalink)
Soooo I've been trying out the Cakewalk tape sim tonight, and while I'm loving the sound, is there any trick to stopping it crashing ma damn DAW every time I try to interact with it (X2 64 bit)? I have to kill Sonar via the task manager, and I notice the BitBridge process is still alive after it. 
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Re:Cakewalk tape simulator plugin 2012/10/13 06:51:59 (permalink)
2 low-cost good-sounding tape fx are toneboosters'reelbus, and sknote's roundtone... isn't tapesim dx? (ie, no bitbridge involved?)

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Re:Cakewalk tape simulator plugin 2012/10/13 07:51:28 (permalink)
Wow...forum love. LOL

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Re:Cakewalk tape simulator plugin 2012/10/13 11:50:04 (permalink)
+1 on Tape Sim. GUI not pretty but easy to use and sounds good.

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Re:Cakewalk tape simulator plugin 2012/10/13 15:11:19 (permalink)
FX Tape Sim produces a lot of aliasing. Check out the thread cecelius linked to above, where you can find some pictures. 

The importance of aliasing is often overstated when people are comparing plugins (if it's 60db or more down nobody's going to notice), but when I tested FX Tape Sim there were aliased components just 6db below the 10KHz test tone. That's loud enough to be audible.

Although FX Tape Sim was the worst of the tape sims we tested, it's certainly not alone when it comes to aliasing. All the cheap and free tape sims exhibited some aliasing. Among the freebies, Bootsie's TesslaPRO was one of the better ones in that regard. 


I should add that all of the tests were performed at 44.1KHz. Aliasing should be somewhat less of a problem at 96KHz.


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