TD-201 Black Friday Deal 2026: $19, 61% off

The td 201 Black Friday deal is 61% off at $19 until Nov 22, 2026, on Black Rooster Audio's TD-201 tape echo plugin, a vintage-style delay built to run in the box.

The TD-201 is a tape echo plugin from the Echo Plugins range. The maker says it brings the sound of the classic analog tape delay into the DAW, with a wide set of detailed parameters that stay simple to operate.

It follows the line of multi-head tape echo units. The Roland Space Echo RE-201 grew out of late 1960s experiments by Ikutaro Kakehashi and Hammond with multi-head tape echoes, and its delay sound has stayed consistent since.

What does the TD-201 tape echo plugin do?

Black Rooster Audio says it built the TD-201 for people who love vintage tape delay but struggle with the unpredictability and access problems of the original hardware. The plugin keeps the character and adds customization.

The main features:

• Multi-Head Mode Selector: switch between the playback heads and blend reverberation and delay, as on the vintage original
• Per Head Fine Tuning: depth, volume and stereo position for each playback head, nine parameters in the lower panel
• Tap & Sync: the sync control locks the tape speed to your rhythm, and the echo follows the impulse from the tap knob
• Randomness controls: motor, flutter, headroom, dropouts and noise, all taken from hardware tape machine behaviour

Can it do a lo-fi cassette sound?

Yes, and the maker gives a recipe for it. Set the echo to 0ms by choosing Mode Selector 1 in HEAD 1 ONLY and HD1 Pos at 0.

Then shape the sound with only the motor, flutter, headroom, dropouts and noise controls in the mid panel. That gives you a cassette-style effect with no audible echo.

Formats and system requirements

The plugin runs as VST, VST3, AU or AAX, in a 64-bit host on Mac. On Windows the formats are VST, VST3 or AAX. Both platforms need 1GB of RAM and a display of 1280x1024 pixels or more.

On Mac you need OSX 10.9 or newer, with an Intel Core CPU or an Apple Silicon M1/M2 processor. On Windows you need Windows 7 or newer and an SSE2 compatible processor, with Intel Core recommended.

The code is optimized for Apple Silicon and SSE2 instruction sets, which the maker says keeps performance high despite the complex computations. The interface supports high pixel density on Windows and Mac, and on Windows your DAW must be HighDPI compatible for it to apply.

If you want a tape delay plugin with head-by-head control and hardware-style instability you can dial in or out, the TD-201 Black Friday deal covers it.