Affiliate disclosure: the "Get this deal" button is an affiliate link to the store. If you buy through it we earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Full policy
SketchCassette II Black Friday pricing from Aberrant DSP is 33% off, which puts this tape emulation plugin at $24 until Nov 30, 2026.
SketchCassette II is a lo-fi degradation plugin inspired by 4-track cassette recorders. It adds a wide range of cheap-tape artifacts to a mix, from a light warble to sounds that seem pulled out of an attic box.
The maker says it covers the full range of cheap tape sounds while leaving you room to push further into total lo-fi weirdness.
It works as a degradation processor you can place on a track, a bus or a send. You choose a tape type, set how worn it is, then layer saturation, noise and pitch instability on top.
The controls are grouped by the kind of damage they create, so you can dial in one flaw at a time or stack several.
The Wow & Flutter section is highly adjustable. It can sync to your DAW's tempo, and it includes flanging.
It also has an FM Mode, which lets the Wow controls modulate the Flutter Rate. That turns slow pitch drift into something much stranger than standard tape wobble.
The plugin ships with a custom preset system and 61 factory presets that show how far the controls stretch.
On Mac it runs on macOS 10.10 Yosemite through macOS 13 Ventura, on both Intel and Apple Silicon, in 64-bit only. Formats are AU, VST3 and AAX.
On Windows it needs Windows 7 or later, 64-bit only, in VST3 and AAX formats.
If your DAW only loads AU, that format is Mac-only. Windows users load it as VST3 or AAX.
Yes. The SketchCassette II Black Friday deal takes 33% off, bringing the plugin to $24. The offer ends Nov 30, 2026. It is a tape emulation effect from Aberrant DSP, inspired by 4-track cassette recorders.
On Mac, SketchCassette II comes as AU, VST3 and AAX, with Intel and Apple Silicon supported on macOS 10.10 Yosemite through macOS 13 Ventura. On Windows 7 or later it comes as VST3 and AAX. Both are 64-bit only.
SketchCassette II includes 12 tape type and quality profiles, age modelling, two saturation models, tape hiss, dropouts, a Wow & Flutter section, noise-reduction encoding compression, filtering and compression mix controls, and 61 factory presets.
Yes. The Wow & Flutter section can sync to your DAW's tempo. It also has an FM Mode, which lets the Wow controls modulate the Flutter Rate, and a flanging option for more extreme pitch movement.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.