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Echoes Of The Past
Crossgrade Note: This a crossgrade for owners of Mercury-4. The full version of Stardust 201 Tape Echo is also available.
Stardust 201 Tape Echo is a hot-rodded interpretation of the classic Roland "Space Echo" tape echo effects of the 70s and 80s. Compared to earlier tape echoes, they represented a giant leap in reliability and sound quality. With solidly built tape-transport mechanisms and the inclusion of a spring reverb and chorus effects in some models, the Space Echo was truly groundbreaking with its fantastic variety of sound colors.
Stardust precisely recreates the limited fidelity and stability of audio tape, providing a natural rolloff of bass and treble frequencies for super-warm tonality and minor speed variances, lending an organic chorusing quality to repeats. Cranking the intensity knob overloads the circuit, generating the other-worldly runaway echoes and feedback that only a tape echo can.
Cherry Audio's Stardust 201 Tape Echo includes features from the original RE-201 and RE-301 Space Echo units, and they've added some of their own to create a great-sounding, super-flexible, ideal tape echo effect that never breaks down and never needs demagnetizing, all for less than the price of a Space Echo replacement audio tape loop!
Features
- Authentically modeled vintage tape echo, including seven virtual tape head modes
- 4x extended echo time range
- LFO echo time mod section
- Sync to DAW master tempo
- Exclusive "motor kill" switch
- Lush, true-stereo modeled BBD chorus circuit
- Modeled input overdrive
- Independent stereo "tape head loops" for super-wide imaging
- Spring-style reverb
- Selectable mono/stereo modes
- Bass and treble EQ controls
- User-selectable color themes
System Requirements
Mac
- 10.13 or above (macOS 13 Ventura supported).
- 64-bit required.
- Native Apple M1 processor support, including Apple M1 Ultra.
- 3.4 GHz Quad-Core or M1 CPU with 8GB of RAM recommended.
- Available in AU, VST, VST3, AAX & Standalone formats
Windows
- Windows 7 or above (including Windows 11), 64-bit required.
- Quad-core computer with 8GB of RAM recommended.
- Available in VST, VST3, AAX & Standalone formats
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