Beef up your mixes and add that elusive magnetic vibe to your live sound

Avid brings the unmistakable warmth and punch of analog tape into the digital domain with Reel Tape Suite™. This powerful collection of three plug-ins — Reel Tape™ Saturation, Reel Tape™ Delay, and Reel Tape™ Flanger — is designed to beef up your mixes and add that elusive magnetic vibe to your live sound, without the hassle of actually owning and operating a reel-to-reel tape machine.

Reel Tape Saturation models the inherent warmth of classic analog tape machines and tape formulations with astounding accuracy, instantly infusing your music with an authoritative “old-school” feel. Reel Tape Delay and Reel Tape Flanger duplicate electro-mechanical delay and flanging effects without cluttering your control room with large tape machines (or having to keep rewinding your echo tape), and give you real-time control over every nuance of these classic techniques.

These incredibly useful and easy-to-use plug-ins work with Pro Tools|HD Accel, Pro Tools LE, Pro Tools M-Powered, Avid Xpress, Avid Xpress DV, Avid DNA, and VENUE systems, and will become indispensable elements in your audio arsenal, whether you’re mixing digital recordings or live sound.

REEL TAPE SATURATION

• Bring the warmth and punch of analog tape color and saturation into the digital domain
• Phase and frequency response characteristics modeled from three types of analog tape machines
• Saturation effects modeled from two popular tape formulations
• Control the tape speed effect from 7.5 to 30 ips (inches per second)
• Noise controls adjust the amount of tape hiss
• Bias controls simulate the effect of under- or over-biasing the tape machine
• Cal Adjust control simulates the effect of three common calibration levels

REEL TAPE DELAY

• Authentically modeled analog tape echo and delay effects
• Reproduce the fluctuations in tape speed
• Adjust delays from 93 ms to 1,486 ms (1-7/8 ips to 30 ips)
• Feedback control adjusts the amount of delayed output fed back into the input
• Wow & Flutter controls adjust tape speed fluctuation
• Bass and Treble controls in the echo/delay feedback loop allow for subtle to extreme feedback and saturation effects

REEL TAPE FLANGER

• Accurately reproduce analog tape machine flanging
• Adjustable speed control allows for manual flanging and artificial double-tracking effects
• Feedback control adjusts the amount of flanged output fed back into the input
• Wow & Flutter controls adjust tape speed fluctuation
• LFO Rate and Depth settings control the speed and depth of the flanging effect

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (WIN & MAC)

• Computer: Avid-qualified Windows XP-, Vista-, or Mac OS X-based computer
• Host software: Avid-qualified Pro Tools|HD Accel, Pro Tools LE, Pro Tools M-Powered running Pro Tools 7.2 or higher software; Avid Xpress, Avid Xpress DV, Avid DNA; and VENUE live sound environment systems
• Copy protection: iLok USB Smart Key (not included), Internet access, and a free iLok.com account

REEL TAPE SATURATION CONTROLS AND RANGES

• Drive: –12 dB to +12 dB
• Output: –12 dB to +1 2dB
• Tape Machine: US (3M M79 emulation), Swiss (StuderA800), Lo-Fi (limited-bandwidth tape devices such as tape echo)
• Tape Formula: Classic (Ampex 456 emulation), Hi Output (Quantegy GP9)
• Speed: 7.5, 15, 30 ips
• Noise: Off (-INF) to 024 dB
• Bias: -6 dB to +6 dB
• Cal Adjust: +3 dB (equivalent to 250nW/m), +6dB (equivalent to 370nW/m), +9dB (equivalent to 520nW/m)

PRESETS

• Bass Drum, Bass Gtr, Snare Drum

REEL TAPE DELAY CONTROLS AND RANGES

• Speed: 17/8 ips (1486 ms delay) to approximately 30 ips (93 ms delay)
• BMP Sync: On/Off, Tempo/Rate, Triplet, Delay Time
• Feedback: 0 to 100 percent
• Wow/Flutter: 0 to 1 percent
• Wow Speed (Plug-in Automation Playlist or Control Surface Access Only): 0 to 100 percent
• Bass: –10dB to +10dB
• Treble: –10dB to +10dB
• Mix: 0 to 100 percent
• Noise (Plug-in Automation Playlist or Control Surface Access Only): Off (-INF) to -24dB

PRESETS

• 3.75 ips, 3.75 ips Flutter, 7.5 ips, 7.5 ips Flutter, 30 ips Flutter, Rockabily, Rockabily Plus

REEL TAPE FLANGER CONTROLS AND RANGES

• Range: -20 ms to +20 ms
• ADT: -20 ms to +20 ms
• Feedback: 0 to 100 percent
• Wow/Flutter: 0 to 1 percent
• LFO Rate: 0.05 Hz to 5 Hz
• Depth: 0 to 100 percent
• Mix: -100 to +100 percent
• Invert (Plug-in Automation Playlist or Control Surface Access Only)
• Noise (Plug-in Automation Playlist or Control Surface Access Only): Off (-INF) to -24 dB
• BMP Sync: On/Off, Tempo/Rate, Triplet, Delay Time

PRESETS

• 12- String, Flutter Flange, Flutter, Manual Flange, Slow Flange, Vocal ADT, Vocal Walrus, Wobble

PLUG-IN FORMATS

• TDM, RTAS, AudioSuite

MAXIMUM SUPPORTED SAMPLE RATE

• 96 kHz