RE-1 Tape Machine

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4.7
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App Age
7y 4m
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Last Update
Apr 29, 2024

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4.68
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RE-1 Tape Machine
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Virtual Tape Machine
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RE-1 - Tape Echo RE-1 is a full featured virtual Tape Machine capable of delivering authentic tape based echo and chorus effects but it doesn't stop there. With it's interactive tape player, sample, loop and overdub features it's possible to use it like a virtual tape recorder, sample player, looper or simply as a master effect. Overview: - Virtual Tape deck including 3 individually controllable read heads, variable delay time and feedback - Interactive user interface and realtime visualisation of various parameters related to the tape simulation - Dedicated controls for Wow, Flutter, Color, Tape Hiss & saturation amount - Tape Loop mode with overdub, tape reverse and time-stretching - Sample/Loop library loads wave files onto the virtual tape loop - Transport and Tempo Sync - Stereo Spread & Stereo Panner - Input processing: Highpass filter - Output processing: 2 band eq Tape Echo: - Authentic tape echo emulation - Multi-tap delay with 3 individually controllable read heads - Color Control adjusts the echo's tone from dark to bright - Delay Time: 5ms - 1000ms (or 1/32th to 1/1) - Wow & Flutter - Tape Hiss and Saturation - Stereo spread - Stereo panner Looper / Sample Player: - Uses the tape like a traditional looper with unlimited overdubs - Configurable Loop length with 1 - 8 bars and tempo sync and tape reverse - Tape transport can be linked to the host's transport controls - Time stretching keeps loops in sync - Samples/loops can be loaded onto the tape directly - Samples can be created from the tape loop and stored in the sample library at any time - Factory content includes a variety of loops grouped by style - Samples/loops can be imported from and exported to other apps Connectivity: - Standalone - AUv3 - InterApp-Audio - Audiobus - Ableton Link - MIDI (Tempo, CC, Program Change) - Requirements: - iOS 11+}
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4.7
274 voters

Some Latest Reviews

simlogue
22 Jul, 2025
4
The sound of this tape machine is very nice and warm. Plenty of controls to get the saturation just right, but one big let down: the delay goes down only to 5 ms, why? so I can’t really do flanging effects with it, only some mild chorusing. Also there’s some issue in Cubasis3 where it sometimes forgets settings and resets.
TheWightGuy
09 Jun, 2024
5
Occasionally, an app arrives that has so much right on release, it deserves 5 stars. Yes, friends, this is one such app. If the kind of FX this does compliments the kind of music you make, then do not hesitate. Within minutes I had something going with it that sounded like the afterlife of Bob Marley!
Eve Severe
25 May, 2024
1
I’ve been beta testing apps for over 13 years so I always contact the developer before I leave a poor review. I’ve contacted them twice and I didn’t even get a quote. We will get back with you email” or “we are busy working on the problem”email. I received nothing. I’m using a few different iPads and yes, the app actually shows the entire app on the iPad, but you can’t use it as a standalone whatsoever. They were supposed to address this in the last update, but it wasn’t. Then, I contacted them because when I use it on my 13 pro max, you can’t see the entire screen. You can’t scroll to the left or the right it’s just cut off. The wave files do not work in standalone app. The wave files that they have and the wave files that you import do not work. again, this was supposed to be addressed in the last update which I contacted them twice in a month and heard nothing. This actually was one of my favorite tape delay apps, but it’s gone into my ‘unsuable’ folder on both my iPhone and my five iPads. If the developer ever gets back with me, then I will most certainly change my review. I’m just a little disgusted at the moment.
yvesbajulaz
14 Jan, 2024
5
Super echo unit. Very responsive developper. Has now even included the ability to choose input and output in stand alone mode.
GadgetMojo
17 Jan, 2023
3
I got iPad Pro (2018 10.5 model), and when loading (opening the UI instance) the plugin is giving too many cracking noises to be able to adjust the parameters. If you close the UI (having plugin still active) the cracklings go away. But, this makes the plugin unusable. This happens under very minimal load, so I think the UI might have a bug of some sort. Tried it in Beatmaker 3, Cubasis, ApeMatrix, NanoStudio and AUM. If it worked - clear 5 star effect. As a possible fix, maybe remove that tape animation thingy or toggle it on/off in settings? If you make a “compact” (as in not full screen) version with just the knobs, I’m pretty sure that would fix this problem. Because the RE-1 itself running in background (without the active window) doesn’t eat up more CPU than other comparable plugins. That said, for those considering buying this plugin, if you’re someone who doesn’t mind freezing tracks or uses a handful of plugins/fx, this app is very good in terms of actual fx and sound quality. One of the best tape delays I’ve tried, in fact. The 3-star is for people like myself who like to use several plugins in their projects, and for that it’s very heavy so I stopped using it.
Phoopock
15 Feb, 2021
5
I’ve been making tape loops for a while now and this is the best I’ve come to that’s app based, super fun and thoughtfully made You should make a glitch to the beginning or end to a loops like it does when you make one of reel give it that organic sound GOONKNOX
Neumuzik
06 Feb, 2021
3
Not sure why, but this app tends to crash often and will inexplicably quit during sessions in GarageBand and a pop-up window will appear asking to Reload the app. It’s too bad, because the quality of the sound is outstanding when it works.
Grime Vid
22 Dec, 2020
3
Would be so much more creative if you could import or record you’re own samples! Or am I able to?
Yubffnufvjudd
17 Dec, 2020
2
This is still not working on 2017 iPad Pro running ios14. Crashes every time I load a sample into it then refuses to load at all.. delete and reinstall starts it working but load a sample and it crashes again..

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.69
Voted: 274
App Store Link:
Price: 9.99 $
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Categories: Music
Size: 103MB
App Age: 7 years 4 months
Release Date: Aug 22, 2018
Last Update: Apr 29, 2024
Version: 1.1.8
Version history
1.1.8
Apr 29, 2024
- Fixed an issue where the audio engine would fail to initialize when running the standalone app on iPhone
1.1.7
Jan 05, 2024
- Fixed an issue where the plugin would not work properly when running on iOS17 - Standalone: Added options for selecting Input/Output channels when using a multi channel audio interface - Standalone: Fixed an issue where microphone input would not work properly on some iPad models - Minor Visual Tweaks
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