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TM700 V3 Black Friday pricing from Tone Empire is $29, 70% off, until Nov 25, 2026, for a tape machine plugin built on NCM (Neural Component Modeling) technology.
The maker says it captures the warmth and character of a legendary American 2-track tape machine. The neural model was trained on a 1/4" machine with SM9 tape formulation, and it runs at 96kHz.
The range goes from light tape warmth to driven vintage saturation. Wow & flutter, tape hiss and dropout sit alongside a tone-shaping set, all in one interface.
Everything central to the saturation and dynamics lives on the main panel:
The same panel also shows a live spectrum analyzer and a phase correlation meter. The correlation meter lets you watch stereo phase alignment while you drive the tape.
The Advanced panel covers tape character, tone shaping and signal routing.
So you can keep the tape clean and wide for a mix bus, or lean on the hiss and dropout for a worn, lo-fi feel.
The maker says traditional tape emulations rely on mathematical approximations of analog behavior. NCM trains neural networks directly on real hardware at 96kHz instead.
According to Tone Empire, that lets the model learn the actual nonlinear behavior, harmonic interactions and frequency-dependent responses of the machine. It also keeps tape saturation, head bump and compression, and it reacts dynamically to the signal you feed it.
Auto 2x oversampling is built in.
There are 126 factory presets across 11 categories, from gentle tape warmth to aggressive saturation. You can save your own presets and mark favorites for quick recall.
Built-in A/B comparison lets you flip between two settings. A tape reel animation, the spectrum analyzer and the phase correlation meter give visual feedback.
You get an instant download after purchase, and the license covers up to 3 activations across machines like a studio rig, a laptop and a home setup.
Yes. The TM700 V3 Black Friday deal from Tone Empire is 70% off, which brings the plugin to $29 until Nov 25, 2026. It is a neural tape machine plugin with 126 factory presets.
TM700 V3 includes the neural tape saturation engine, wow & flutter, tape hiss, dropout, a 2-band parametric EQ, spatial width, LP/HP filters and 126 factory presets across 11 categories, plus A/B compare and a spectrum analyzer.
It uses NCM (Neural Component Modeling). The maker says its neural networks were trained on a real American 2-track 1/4" tape machine with SM9 tape at 96kHz, learning the machine's nonlinear behavior instead of approximating it with equations.
The license allows up to 3 activations at the same time, so you can use it in a studio, on a laptop and at home. The plugin is an instant download right after purchase.
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