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Tape Echo Black Friday pricing is 70% off, $29, with the deal ending Nov 26, 2026, on AIR Music Technology's tape delay plugin built on the Roland RE-501 Chorus Echo.
The maker calls it an authentic recreation of that unit. It covers classic tape delay textures with multi-head modes, plus BPM sync that carries natural variation instead of locking to a rigid grid.
A playhead you can jog sits at the center of the delay section. Alongside it, the plugin has a built-in chorus section and a dry/wet control.
The tone path starts at the input. A three-mode preamp offers Dirty, Clean and Warm settings that shape the sound before it reaches the echo.
The rest of the signal chain is built into the same plugin:
For the wobble of the original hardware, the maker includes motor drift, dropouts and tape noise. These put some unpredictability into the repeats, so they don't sit as perfectly even copies of the source.
If you want a tape delay, reverb and chorus in one plugin on a single insert or send, this covers all three.
Yes. The Tape Echo Black Friday deal is 70% off, bringing the AIR Music Technology plugin to $29. The offer ends Nov 26, 2026.
The maker describes Tape Echo as an authentic recreation of the Roland RE-501 Chorus Echo. Tape Echo recreates the warm, worn sound of vintage tape delays, offering several playback head combinations, tempo-locked timing that still drifts slightly like a real machine, and a playhead you can nudge by hand.
A three-mode preamp (Dirty, Clean, Warm), a chorus section, spring reverb in three sizes, bass and treble tone controls, stereo offset and dry/wet. Motor drift, dropout and tape noise add the character of the original hardware.
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