Black Rooster Audio Magnetite

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Immerse your music in the classic warmth and character of analog tape with the Black Rooster Audio Magnetite. This plugin masterfully emulates the beloved sound of magnetic tape recorders, effortlessly injecting your tracks with an authentic analog warmth. With its intuitive recording gain knob, you can easily dial in the perfect level of saturation, breathing life and depth into everything from thundering drums to silky vocals.

Designed to emulate all facets of vintage tape machines, Magnetite covers everything from Class A recording and playback amplifiers to tape response and saturation. Its adjustable wow and flutter feature adds a touch of unpredictability akin to the frequency modulation from motor speed fluctuations, giving your mixes a unique character.

Built for efficiency, Magnetite uses SSE2 optimized code, ensuring high performance without sacrificing quality, even during complex computations. Its auto-adjusted oversampling feature efficiently attenuates aliasing artifacts, maintaining maximum audio transparency. Whether you're on Mac or Windows, enjoy high pixel density displays with Highdpi/Retina support for a seamless user experience.

Elevate your music with the warm embrace of analog nostalgia, and let Magnetite redefine your sonic landscape.

Key Features:

Emulates Class A recording and playback amplifiers
Adjustable wow and flutter for unique tape effects
SSE2 optimized code for high performance
Auto-adjusted oversampling for minimized aliasing
Highdpi/Retina support for Mac OSX and Windows
Compatible with VST, AU, and AAX hosts
Requires Mac OSX 10.9 or newer, Windows 7 or newer
1GB of RAM and 1280x1024 display resolution or higher

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Magnetite is considered one of the most authentic tape plugins but has a strong transient smear compared to others like UAD's magnetic tape emulator.
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The BlueAsh/BlackAsh SC5 are praised as very accurate emulations of the 70s Ashly SC-50 hardware compressor, with Blue featuring a discrete VCA and Black a DBX chip VCA.
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Magnetite and other Black Rooster plugins can significantly impact CPU usage, making them less ideal for large projects with multiple instances.
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Black Rooster's VLA-2A and 3A compressors are praised for being superior to Waves CLA versions, while the VLA FET is seen as less effective than the Waves CLA 76.
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Magnetite is used more frequently on busses rather than on the master, offering a grungier and less subtle tape saturation compared to Softube's Tape.
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The current 70% sale makes Black Rooster plugins a great bargain, though some users feel they aren't essential compared to stock or more recognized plugins.
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Magnetite is noted to add a grungy texture that can "gunge up" a mix if overused, making it ideal for specific textural applications.
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Black Rooster's Ashly compressor emulations are especially effective on drums and electric guitars, capturing the essence of the original hardware.
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The Black Rooster plugin interface offers multiple resize options, enhancing user experience by allowing customization to preferred screen sizes.
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carbinax

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over 5 years ago

Super-glue

Got this free with Focusrite Plugin Collective, and I hadn't heard of Black Rooster before ( the name makes me think of an exotic beer ). I used it in a similar way to a limiter, by creating almost a ceiling, and driving the signal into that, and it just glues things together really nicely. I tried waves kramer tape for the same thing, but the Black Rooster rules the roost in this test. They seem like a great company too, so maybe give them a try instead of the bigger companies =)

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