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Developer Jonas Eriksson has introduced Tape Fiasco – one of the most creative audio effect plugin.

Tape Fiasco combines together three time-based effects in a single plugin: a granular time-stretcher, a glitchy, rhythmic stutter effect and a tape-style varispeed function. Each of these modules can be used independently or chained up with the others via configurable signal routing. It is designed for real-time performance and sound design, offering tempo-synced operation, envelope follower modulation, and extensive parameter control for each effect section.

It’s Stretch effect records incoming audio into a buffer and plays it back using overlapping grains, offering control over playback speed, grain size, pitch, tempo and stereo spread, with options for randomization and reversing, so there’s a whole lot of flexibility here for creating granular soundscapes.

Tape Fiasco’s tempo-synced Stutter module captures slices of audio and repeats them rhythmically – it’s a classic effect that you’ll have heard before in glitch and IDM, but there’s a huge amount of control available over timing, pitch and dynamics, along with rhythmic and probability-based variation. There’s also a multimode filter built into the Stutter module with with formant and comb modes alongside the conventional resonant low- and high-pass.

Lastly we have the Varispeed effect, which simulates the sound of a tape machine varying in playback speed. Once again, there’s a lot more versatility on offer here than you might expect: tape-modelled wow/flutter, a DJ-style scratch effect, two flavours of distortion and a compressor thrown in for good measure.

All of that adds up to a powerful effects processor that can be utilized across multiple contexts, whether you’re adventuring into experimental sound design or just looking for a way to add a little sonic flavour to a vocal line or guitar riff.

Tape Fiasco is available in VST3/AU formats for macOS and VST3 for Windows, but it’s only been tested on Ableton Live 12.2 with macOS Sequoia 15.1.

Head over to Jonas Eriksson website to download Tape Fiasco.

The video, via Elektronick Musick, offers a preview of LaunchCodes, a free virtual instrument for Mac & Windows that’s built for synthesizing explosive hits and basses.

LaunchCodes offers highly automatable wave and noise generators, a fully re-orderable and customizable effects rack, and two LFOs that can modulate nearly anything.

Features:

• Wave generator—with four basic wave types, push the oscillator to its limits with fully automatable amplitude & pitch envelopes and four pitch parameters. Craft punishing basses, psychedelic patterns, or whimsical keys quickly
• Noise generator—low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass modes with adjustable Q and Coarse on the filter envelope give you a wide palette for expressive percussion hits, mysterious sweeps, and screaming noise
• Re-orderable effects rack—a delay unit for creative feedback and foreboding echoes, a reverb unit for huge clouds of fallout, a filter unit for sculpted resonances and bass-boosting, and a fully-editable waveshaper function for your own personal brand of distortion
• Double LFO unit—for maximum expression, modulate almost any parameter in LaunchCodes with the four basic waveforms, and control the modulation range and direction on each parameter individually
• A big red button—a big red button
• Built-in presets to get you going right away, and an easy way to save and browse your favorite patches

LaunchCodes is available now as a free download.

Frostmod Audio has introduced Riffosc, a free Logue SDK oscillator for the Korg microKORG2 that offers two supersaw style oscillators per voice.

Here’s what they have to say about it:

“Riffosc is an OSC slot plugin for the Korg Microkorg2. It supports up to 8 voice polyphony, and has 2 individually tunable supersaw oscillators consisting of 7 individual saw oscillators per voice.

There are 3 modulation targets, oscillators 1 & 2 pitch, and oscillator mix.”

Riffosc is available now as a free/pay-what-you-want download.