Baby Audio TAIP

Product Description

The Baby Audio TAIP brings the true sound and behavior of analog tape into your DAW. Use it to add organic saturation and life to sterile drums, instruments and vocals. Intuitive and versatile feature set: customize any tape flavor for any need.

WARM UP YOUR SOUND

Tape recordings have a musical quality that digital mixes often lack. TAIP brings this quality into your DAW. It will add some authentic analogue heat to your tracks, without the need to route any audio outside the box.

Tape plug-ins are not a new concept. However, this emulation method is. Instead of using traditional DSP, Baby Audio has developed TAIP around an AI algorithm designed to decipher the invisible nuances of analogue circuits.

The result is a truly faithful tape emulation that’s intuitive and creative in use – with some added features to accommodate a modern workflow. Use TAIP to bring a touch of warmth and glue to your tracks, or ‘drive it like you hate it’ as an alternative to your distortion plug-ins.

HIGHLIGHTS

AI-powered algorithm, giving you the true warmth and behaviour of analogue tape. Flexible feature set, allowing you to create a custom ‘tape flavour’ for any need. Use TAIP to add musical saturation and glue to drums, instruments, vocals, and beyond. TAIP is Baby Audio's creation of the ideal ‘Tape Machine’ for the DAW-era, combining an authentic vintage sound with a modern feature set. Its parameters will let you customize the right tape flavour for any need.

PUTTING THE 'AI' IN TAIP

‘AI’ is an overused - and often misused - term. But Baby Audio believe it’s the future of music technology. It just needs to be used genuinely and with a legitimate purpose.

For a hardware emulation project like TAIP, AI offers an alternative - and in Baby Audio's opinion more faithful - approach over the traditional DSP method. Where a normal DSP emulation would entail ‘guesstimating’ the effect of various analogue components and their mutual dependencies, TAIP can use AI / neural networks to accurately decipher the sonic qualities that make a tape machine sound and behave in the way it does. This happens by feeding an algorithm various training data of dry vs. processed audio and teaching it to identify the exact characteristics that make up the difference. Once these differences have been learned by the AI, TAIP can apply them to new audio.

This process may sound overly digital for a plug-in that brings an analogue sound. But the reality is that ‘analogue’ and ‘digital’ are two fundamentally different domains. To get a computer to behave (or sound!) in a certain way, it helps to think like it does. Re-creating an ‘analogue-style’ signal path in DSP is thinking about the problem like a human. The AI approach helps to solve the problem like a machine would – for a more faithful emulation.

PRESETS

TAIP comes loaded with 135 presets created by friends of Baby Audio - including:

• Mark Needham (Fleetwood Mac, The Killers, Bloc Party, Elton John)
• Max Jaeger (Ariana Grande, Kanye West, Drake, Calvin Harris)
• Eestbound (Travis Scott, Young Thug, Jazz Cartier)
• Rob Kleiner (Sia, Britney Spears, David Guetta, Cee Lo)
• Cesar Sogbe (Prince, David Byrne, Jennifer Lopez)

DISPLAY OPTIONS

Switch between three backgrounds (Black / Gray / White) plug-in window fully resizable

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

macOS:

• macOS 10.7 and up (including Catalina & Big Sur)
• plug-in Formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX
• DAW's Supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more
• Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only

WINDOWS:

• Windows 7 and up
• plug-in formats: VST, VST3, AAX
• DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more
• Compatibility: 64-bit and 32-bit compatible