TAIP Black Friday Deal 2026: $29, 70% off

The TAIP Black Friday deal from Baby Audio takes 70% off this tape emulation plugin, which brings it to $29 until Dec 9, 2026.

TAIP is a tape plugin that adds analogue heat and glue to tracks without routing audio out of your DAW. It works as a subtle warmer or as a heavy distortion, depending on how hard you push it.

Baby Audio says tape recordings have a musical quality digital mixes often lack, and TAIP is built to bring that quality in the box.

How does TAIP work?

Instead of traditional DSP, Baby Audio built TAIP around an AI algorithm. The maker says it is meant to pick up the small details of analogue circuits that conventional emulations only estimate.

The algorithm was trained on pairs of dry and processed audio and learned what separates them. TAIP then applies those learned differences to new audio.

Baby Audio's argument is that this lets the plugin solve the problem the way a machine would, rather than imitating an analogue signal path in code.

What can you do with it?

The maker pitches TAIP for saturation and glue on drums, instruments and vocals. It also suggests turning DRIVE up hard and using it in place of a distortion plugin.

The controls:

• DRIVE: from a light touch of heat to heavy distortion.
• MODEL: SINGLE is a regular tape emulation. DUAL chains two tape emulations, each taking half the DRIVE value, for a little more weight. Baby Audio's example is warming a drum bus without distorting the lows.
• GLUE: the compression-like behaviour of tape, from subtle cohesion up to working as an actual compressor.
• MIX: runs the tape in parallel. Combine it with WEAR for a classic tape flanging effect, caused by wow and flutter against the dry track.
• WEAR: wow, flutter and an altered frequency response, like a worn-out machine. PRESENCE sets how much of the lost brightness comes back.
• NOISE: add tape noise to taste, or leave it out.
• INPUT: NORMAL or HOT, the hotter setting being more distorted, with no change to output volume.
• AUTO GAIN: lets you add DRIVE while the output level stays consistent.

Presets, display and requirements

TAIP ships with 135 presets made by friends of Baby Audio, including Mark Needham, Max Jaeger, Eestbound, Rob Kleiner and Cesar Sogbe.

The window is fully resizable, with a choice of Black, Gray or White backgrounds.

On Mac, TAIP needs Mac OS X 10.7 or later (64-bit only) and runs natively on Intel and M1 Apple Silicon. Formats are AU, VST, VST3 and AAX.

On Windows, it needs Windows 7 or later (32 or 64-bit) and comes as VST, VST3 and AAX. An internet connection is required to authorise the software.