Phase Fiasco – Tape Fiasco 2 2.0.0.660 for WiN

Tape Fiasco 2 is a creative audio processing effect inspired by the characteristics of analog tape recorders and tape media. This plugin allows you to create everything from subtle vintage artifacts to extreme effects with playback speed changes, tape instability, drop-outs, stutters, granular processing, and digital glitches.

– Four independent time engines can work simultaneously: a dual-grain stretcher for slowing down, freezing, and scrubbing audio in real time; a tape machine emulation with wow, flutter, stop, and manual scratch effects; a rhythm slicer that repeats fragments in any rhythm grid; and BendIt, a module with a circuit bending effect that distorts the audio buffer using a seven-zone pitch macro controller—from a gentle sway to a full-fledged DJ scratch, synchronized to the project tempo. All modules can be chained in any order.

– After the time sliders, there are 25 more effects: spectral filters, modal resonators, various types of distortion, bit crushers, circuit bending, and much more. Completing the processing is the master section with a three-band EQ, compressor, soft limiter, and automatic gain compensation (Auto Gain).

The routing system is highly flexible. Any parameter can be animated using several modulation types: LFOs, random value generators, envelope detectors, and graphic editors based on Bézier curves. Sequencers allow you to stretch, modify, and stutter the sound.

The Perform section includes four macro controllers and an X/Y pad, each of which can simultaneously control five different parameters using three-point crossfade curves. All changes are recorded to the DAW’s automation. If a parameter can be changed on-screen, it can be automated, sequenced, or modulated.