Baby Audio TAIP AI-Powered Tape Saturator Plugin

Description

AI-POWERED TAPE PLUGIN

Warm Up Your Sound

• TAIP brings the true sound and behavior of analog tape into your DAW
• Use it to add organic saturation and life to sterile drums
• instruments and vocals
• Intuitive and versatile feature set: customize any tape flavor for any need

Tape recordings have a musical quality that digital mixes often lack. TAIP brings this quality into your DAW in the most uncompromising way.

Sonically, TAIP offers a faithful, AI-based, emulation of a 1971 European tape machine. Our plugin will add some harmonic richness and non-linear magic as the hardware. But feature-wise, we’ve taken the liberty to go one step further: TAIP comes packaged with a set of innovative sound-design parameters that let you go from just ‘tape’ to ‘beyond tape’.

The result is a happy marriage between classic sound and modern versatility. And we encourage you to drive it hard!

Putting the ‘AI’ in TAIP.

‘AI’ is an overused – and often misused – term. But we believe it’s the future of music technology. It just needs to be used genuinely and with a legitimate purpose.

For a hardware emulation project like TAIP, AI offers an alternative – and in our opinion more faithful – approach over the traditional DSP method. Where a normal DSP emulation would entail ‘guesstimating’ the effect of various analog components and their mutual dependencies, we can use AI / neural networks to accurately decipher the sonic qualities that make a tape machine sound and behave in the way it does. This happens by feeding an algorithm various training data of dry vs. processed audio and teaching it to identify the exact characteristics that make up the difference. Once these differences have been learned by the AI, we can apply them to new audio.

This process may sound overly digital for a plugin that brings an analog sound. But the reality is that ‘analog’ and ‘digital’ are two fundamentally different domains. To get a computer to behave (or sound!) in a certain way, it helps to think like it does. Re-creating an ‘analog-style’ signal path in DSP is thinking about the problem like a human. The AI approach helps us solve the problem like a machine would – for a more faithful emulation.

TAIP comes loaded with 135 presets created by friends of BABY Audio – including:

Mark Needham (Fleetwood Mac, The Killers, Bloc Party, Elton John)

Max Jaeger (Ariana Grande, Kanye West, Drake, Calvin Harris)

Eestbound (Travis Scott, Young Thug, Jazz Cartier)

Rob Kleiner (Sia, Britney Spears, David Guetta, Cee Lo)

Cesar Sogbe (Prince, David Byrne, Jennifer Lopez)

Top Features

AI-Powered Tape Emulation: Accurately replicates the behavior of real tape machines with artificial intelligence.

Drive & Mix Controls: Allows users to adjust from subtle warmth to intense saturation and distortion.

Wear & Lo-Fi Effects: Adds vintage elements like wow, flutter, and degradation for a nostalgic sound.

Glue Compression: Smoothens transients and provides a natural analog compression.

Auto-Gain & Oversampling: Ensures consistent levels and high-quality processing for superior audio clarity.

Additional Features

Drive – TAIP’s most important parameter – add a subtle touch of warmth or extreme saturation (or anything in between).

Mix – Run your tape sound in parallel. Or combine the “Wear” and “Mix” parameters to create tape flanging.

Model – “Single” brings you one tape emulation, while “Dual” combines two tape machines in a series under the hood.

Lo/Hi-Shape – Saturates the low/high end more or less than the rest of the frequency spectrum.

Glue – Exaggerates the compression effect that naturally occurs in tape recordings.

Noise – Adds more tape noise – or removes it entirely.

Presence – Brings back the brightness that gets lost on tape recordings.

Wear – Recreates the instabilities of a worn-out tape machine and subtly alters the tape speed.

Input – Lets you distort the signal more – or less – without affecting the output level.

Auto-Gain – Lets you add more drive while keeping a consistent plugin output.

Color Modes – Switch between black, gray and white background colors.

Resizability – Fully resizable plugin window.

Why You Need Baby Audio TAIP

The Baby Audio TAIP was created to provide an advanced tape emulation plugin that brings the warmth, character, and harmonic richness of classic analog tape machines into the digital realm. Traditional tape simulations can often fall short in replicating the true nonlinearities and unique behaviors of analog tape, but TAIP uses AI-powered algorithms to offer a more accurate and detailed emulation. The plugin was designed to serve music producers, mix engineers, sound designers, and anyone in need of analog warmth without the hassle of maintaining physical tape machines.

Who This is For

The target market for TAIP includes music producers, mix engineers, sound designers, and mastering engineers. Specifically, it appeals to electronic and hip-hop producers looking for lo-fi and gritty textures, rock and indie artists who need analog warmth for their recordings, and those in film composition and sound design who want vintage tape effects. It’s also a perfect tool for mastering engineers who need tape-style glue compression and harmonic richness for final mixes.

What This Package Competes With

TAIP competes with other tape emulation plugins like Waves J37 Tape, Softube Tape, and UAD Studer A800, each offering its own version of tape simulation. However, TAIP excels due to its AI-driven approach, providing a more adaptable and realistic emulation compared to competitors. Unlike the Waves J37 Tape, which lacks AI features and modern workflow, TAIP offers enhanced flexibility in drive and mix controls. The UAD Studer A800, though a high-quality plugin, requires expensive UAD hardware, whereas TAIP offers a similar quality without the added cost. Compared to iZotope Vinyl, which is free but lacks true tape warmth, TAIP provides a much richer and more authentic analog sound.

Baby Audio TAIP System Requirements

Mac

Version: Mac OS 10.7 and up (including Native M1 Compatibility)
Additional_requirements: DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
Internet_required: No
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AU, AAX

Windows

Version: Mac M1. PC Windows 7 and up
Additional_requirements: DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
Internet_required: No
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX

Baby Audio TAIP Demo Video