Playtime

LoFi Playtime showcase

Time-Bending Tape Delay

Time twister full

of character

Two tapeheads that can modulate
playback pitch, time and direction.

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Features

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Features

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Each tape can read out with slow, normal, or fast speed. The slow speed will read slower through your signal and play back the audio an octave lower. The fast speed will read out with a higher rate and play back the audio an octave higher.

Add Character

Each tape head has an age dial which allows you to set how long the virtual tape has been in use for. When it is set to 0%, the tape is of pristine quality and will have no pitch fluctuation. When the values are higher, more dropouts plus warble will happen and artifacts will be added to the signal character.

Delicious Textures

The freeze control allows you to create a very interesting looping texture from your input signal. The best thing about it: you can change the tape speed, age, brightness, and also reverse the tape even when the tape is frozen. This means that you can freeze your signal at any point in time and create amazing textures.

Characterful and unique effect to spice up any sound

Playtime is a magical, unique plugin that allows you to literally play with time.

We took our virtual tape circuits and used them in a way that would be quite complex to re-create on an analog device.

The result is a very characterful and unique effect that you can use to pitch, reverse, or add delays and space to your audio.

This plugin is only one
of our growing LoFi Series

This series allows you to combine a variety of LoFi characteristics,
which add life and texture to your productions.

Look out for our upcoming LoFi Series products, we have a whole lineup
of spices that will be ready for you soon - blend to your own taste!

Key Features

  • Unique new approach to time and pitch
  • Two virtual tapes with different playback speeds, instantly change the played back pitch of your input signal
  • Create textures out of anything and freeze your audio in time
  • Change the sound of your frozen signal on the fly
  • Use Tape Age to create characterful pitch fluctuations and chorusing effects
  • Use delay to create warbling delay lines and mix them with the dry signal
  • Works in Sync with your Session or in free time based mode

System Requirements

AAX, VST3, AU versions included

64-bit only (Mac / PC)

Mac OS X 10.13 or higher (Intel native | ARM native)

Windows 10

At least 4GB of RAM, 16GB is recommended

At least 200MB of free drive space (OS drive)

DAW Support

AAX, AU, VST3 versions

64-bit only

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Presonus Studio One 4+ (Mac & PC: AU, VST3)

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Cakewalk by BandLab (PC: VST3)

AAX is a trademark and
software of Avid Technology.
Audio Units is a trademark
and software of Apple Inc.
VST3 is a trademark and software of
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.

Product Manual

Download the product manual for Playtime here.

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Playtime

Download for macOS
64-bit AU, VST3 and AAX plug-ins
we recommend this version for your current system
Download for Windows
64-bit VST3 and AAX plug-ins
we recommend this version for your current system
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