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The rc 20 Black Friday deal takes 23% off XLN Audio's RC-20 Retro Color v2, bringing it to $99 until Jan 12, 2027.
RC-20 Retro Color is a saturation plugin that recreates the sound and imperfections of vintage recording gear. RC-20 Retro Color can be pushed gently for a faint aged glow or taken much further into twisted, strange sounds that give a track more life and a distinct personality.
A discounted upgrade path is available for owners of RC-20 v1.
The headline addition is the Echo module. It is a feedback delay with RC-20's effects inside the loop, so every repeat wobbles, distorts and degrades a little more than the last.
Wobble, Distort, Digital, Space and Loss can all feed the Echo loop. Push the feedback into self-oscillation for cascading swells, or add pitched or reversed Grains for shimmer and ambient texture.
Noise adds vinyl crackle, tape hiss, dial-up chatter and crowds. You can blend it pre- or post-effects, shape it with a Cut filter, and set it to follow your track or duck under it.
Wobble simulates the pitch instability and speed fluctuation of analog playback. It locks to BPM, morphs between sine and square shapes, and spreads wide for a chorus effect.
Distort runs from gentle warmth to heavy saturation. Overload pushes it to its choking point, and Focus/Cut lets you mangle only the frequency range you pick.
Digital lowers sample rate and bit depth for retro bitcrushing. Sputter gives a choked, gated "dying battery" sound, and Smooth rounds off harsh edges.
Space covers the reverbs. It has responsive ducking to keep busy mixes clear, Stretch to reshape reverb length and timbre, and Pan/Width to place the reverb in the stereo field.
Loss covers Codec and Magnetic. Packet dropouts, repeating or freezing glitches via FFT Freeze, and Blur to smear the artifacts.
You can drag Wobble, Distort, Digital, Space and Loss into any order to find unexpected interactions. Tempo Sync locks modulation, tape flutter and Echo times to your project.
Loudness Match levels the processed signal to the dry one, so you can audition changes without volume bias. The maker also lists full undo history, module locking, snapshot comparisons, oversampling and master compression.
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v2 installs alongside the original, so existing projects open as they did before. All v1 factory and artist presets are included, and you can import your own v1 presets in a few clicks.
Yes. XLN Audio's RC-20 Retro Color v2 is 23% off at $99, and the deal ends Jan 12, 2027. Owners of RC-20 v1 also have a discounted upgrade purchase path.
The additions are the Echo module, Grains, a Codec mode, new Tape, Classic Pre and Porta distortions with Overload, and 32 new reverb types. It also adds Focus/Cut filters, Tempo Sync and Loudness Match.
Yes. v2 installs alongside the original, so existing projects open just as they did before. All v1 factory and artist presets are included in v2, and you can import your own v1 presets in a few clicks.
Echo is a feedback delay with RC-20 inside the loop. Wobble, Distort, Digital, Space and Loss can all act on the repeats, so each pass adds more color. You can push feedback into self-oscillation or add Grains.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.