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Magnetite Black Friday deal: 61% off at $19 until Nov 22, 2026, on Black Rooster Audio's tape emulation plugin, which the maker calls its homage to the sound of magnetic tape recorders.
The Magnetite plugin works from one main control. Turn up the recording gain knob and you get more saturation and warmth, the analog tape character added to whatever you feed it.
The maker points it at drums, distorted loops and vocals, and says it can give tracks new life.
Black Rooster Audio says it worked on every sonic aspect tied to analog tape. Magnetite models the whole tape chain: recording and playback amplifiers running in Class A, how tape responds and saturates, NAB equalization applied before recording and after playback, the way tape speed and bias settings change the sound, noise from hiss and hum, and a wow and flutter control. That control reproduces the pitch wobble produced when a motor's speed drifts.
The maker recommends putting Magnetite on the first insert of your chain, as if your signals had been recorded to tape.
You can move it to other spots in the chain if you are after creative effects.
The DSP code is pipe-lined with the SSE2 instruction set, which the maker says keeps performance high despite complex computations.
Oversampling adjusts itself to your session's sample rate. The maker says this saves CPU while keeping the sound as transparent as possible.
Aliasing artifacts are attenuated with a low latency, linear phase Dolph-Chebyshev poly-phase design.
High-DPI and Retina displays are supported on Mac and Windows. On Windows, your DAW's manual tells you whether the host itself handles high DPI.
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Yes, the Magnetite Black Friday deal takes 61% off, bringing it to $19, and it runs until Nov 22, 2026. It is Black Rooster Audio's tape emulation plugin, so the deal covers the saturation, tape speed and wow and flutter features described above.
Magnetite is a VST plugin, and the maker lists support for VST, VST3, AU and AAX hosts. On Mac that means a 64-bit host in any of those formats. On Windows, the formats are VST, VST3 and AAX.
According to Black Rooster Audio, Magnetite models Class A record and playback stages, saturation and the overall tape frequency response, NAB pre-emphasis and de-emphasis curves, adjustable speed and bias, plus noise in the form of hiss and hum. It adds an adjustable wow and flutter feature for motor speed fluctuations.
The maker recommends the first insert of your chain, as if your signal were recorded to tape. Dial in saturation and warmth with the recording gain knob. For creative effects, you can place it elsewhere in the chain.
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