In this week's Free Plug-in, we are featuring Chow Tape Model from ChowDSP. Based on a Sony TC-260 reel to reel this plugin offers more flexibility than most tape plugins. Want to run chewed up tape at 50ips? Not a problem with Chow Tape model…

What Is Chow Tape Model?

Chow Tape Model is a digital emulation of a reel-to-reel analog tape machine. The original algorithm was developed to emulate the Sony TC-260, but has since been expanded to be able to model a wide variety of tape machines.

Chow Tape was originally developed as part of the Music 420 class at Stanford University. The project led to an academic paper, "Real-Time Physical Modelling for Analog Tape Machines which was presented at the 2019 DAFx Conference.

If you watch the demo video below you’ll see how flexible Chow Tape Model is. For example we used the wow and flutter in combination with the mix control to create rich chorusing on clean guitars. There’s more to this plugin than just making drums a bit crunchy!

How Do I Get This Plug-in?

Use the button below to go to the Chowdhury DSP website and download the appropriate installer. That’s it!

Chow Tape Model is currently available for Windows, Linux, Mac, and iOS in the following formats: VST/VST3, AU, LV2, AAX, AUv3, CLAP and Standalone. No iLok required.