T-RackS Tape Echo

Summary

The Tape Echo is a faithful recreation of the highly sought after Echoplex EP3 tape delay. The original unit made its appearance in 1969 and was immediately adopted by musicians and guitar players as the standard for delay effects.

The principle behind it is a that of a traditional analog recording machine, where incoming signal is printed by a tape head onto magnetic 1/4” tape. A second tape head placed afterwards plays back the recorded signal creating the delay effect. Varying the distance between the two heads determines the delay time.

The IK Multimedia Tape Echo takes all of the analog “imperfections” of moderate headroom class A electronics coupled with magnetic tape into account and puts them under user control, with the advantage of software flexibility and power: BPM syncable delay times, stereo operation for two independent delay lines, complete automation.

Features

• Fully compatible with Mac OS X (Universal Binary), and Windows (XP / Vista / 7 / 8)
• Supported plug-in formats: VST, RTAS, AAX, and Audio Units
• Works within the T-RackS CS Standalone application
• High-quality oversampling
• High-precision and high-transparency digital processors
• Accurately analog-modeled vintage classic devices
• Full-latency compensation support
• Supports sampling rates up to 192 kHz
• DSM™ and SCC™ proprietary IK technologies for extremely accurate digital models of analog hardware devices
• Native compatibility with 64-bit applications and operating systems

Requirements

Mac® (64 bit CPU, 32 or 64 bit Mac OS)

• Minimal: 1.5 GHz Intel processor, 1 GB of RAM, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
• Supported Plug-in formats: Audio Units, VST, RTAS, AAX (32 and 64-bit).
• Note: on 64 bit systems, the plug-in also works in 32 bit compatibility mode.

Windows® (32 and 64 bit)

• Minimal: Intel® Pentium 4® 2.4 GHz or Intel® Core™ Duo or AMD Athlon™ 64,
• 1 GB of RAM, Windows® XP, Windows® Vista, Windows® 7 or Windows® 8.
• Supported Plug-in formats: VST, RTAS, AAX (32 and 64-bit).