Echomatic — Stereo Tape Echo · AU + VST3 · Mac. The warmth of analog. The flexibility of today.

The warmth of analog.
The flexibility of today.

Echomatic — stereo tape echo
macOS 10.13+· Apple Silicon + Intel· AU · VST3

Built like hardware.

Iconic Tape Delay
Magnetic-tape saturation, drift, and headroom — modelled from the real thing.
Sync & Ping-Pong
Lock to host tempo. Bounce delays between L and R for stereo width that breathes.
Wow, Flutter & Noise
Dial in tape age. From clean studio reel to lived-in cassette warmth.
Pitch Modulation
±12 semitones of pitch on the delay line. Subtle chorus, or full-on dub.
Intuitive Interface
Nine knobs. Two reels. Everything you need, nothing you don't.
Made for Mac
Native Apple Silicon. Universal Binary. Logic, Live, Pro Tools — drop it in and go.
Wow, Flutter and Noise knobs

A delay that breathes.

Echomatic doesn't just repeat your signal — it ages it. Tape saturation curves into harmonic warmth. Wow and flutter add the gentle drift of a vintage reel-to-reel. Noise rolls in like the room around the tape head.

Drop it on a vocal bus and hear it breathe. Slap it on a snare and feel the room move. Push the feedback past unity and let it sing.

"It sits in the mix like a piece of outboard. I've stopped reaching for my hardware."
— First-listen feedback, beta cycle

Tape drift, on tap.

Twelve semitones up. Twelve semitones down. Right of centre and your delay rises into shimmer. Left and it dives into dub. Used in isolation and it will transpose only the dry signal.

Modelled on real tape. Speed changes pitch. No digital pitch-shift algorithm. No artefacts and no formant smearing. Just the natural sound of a reel speeding up or slowing down.

Pitch knob detail

Modelled from a real circuit.

Four op-amps. A pre-emphasis stage, a bias oscillator, a feedback loop, and an output drive — the analog signal path that Echomatic emulates, component for component.

Echomatic analog signal-path schematic: four op-amps with input, feedback, echo volume, and tape-output stages
Echomatic signal path · op1 input · op2 bias · op3 mix · op4 tape drive
Hear it in use

Examples render at 24-bit / 48 kHz. Headphones recommended.

01
Lead vocal
Slap · 15% feedback
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02
Guitar and Bass
Double stacked · slap · 1/8 · feedback automated · 20% noise
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03
Rhodes
Pitch +3¢ drift · 1/4 · 45% feedback
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04
Acoustic guitar
Driven · 15% wow · 1/2 · 22% feedback · 10% noise
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05
Drum bus
Slap · 15% feedback · 18% noise
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06
Dark cinematic
Free reign · feedback automated · pitch automated · 45% noise
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Specifications

For working studios.

Formats
AU · VST3
Platforms
macOS 10.13 or later
Architecture
Universal Binary · Apple Silicon + Intel
Channels
Stereo in / stereo out
Latency
Zero-latency. Linear-phase optional.
License
Lifetime · 2 activations · free updates
Echomatic · Lifetime license
£29 one-time · no subscription

Buy once, install on two Macs, get every future update free.

  • Full AU + VST3 install for Mac
  • Two activations · one user
  • Free updates for the life of the product
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