Cosmic Parrot Echo by Safari Audio tape delay plugin interface

Cosmic Parrot Echo: Vintage Tape Delay Plugin by Safari Audio

Cosmic Parrot Echo is a vintage-style tape delay plugin by Safari Audio. It combines tape echo repeats, a Wobble control for worn-tape movement and an onboard Spring reverb in one effect.

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01Overview

Cosmic Parrot Echo from Safari Audio is an effects plugin in the echo category. Its tape delay engine offers two modes, America for a warmer, looser voice and Japan for a tighter, cleaner one. Delay time can run free or lock to tempo with Sync, and Feedback and Width let you move from tight mono slapbacks to wide stereo trails. It is built for guitars, synths, vocals and drums.

Best for

Tight slapback delays
Dreamy stereo echoes
Psychedelic wobble trails
Vintage guitar delay
Vocal echo effects
Drum tape delay

Developer: Safari Audio
Category: Echo
Store: Plugin Boutique

02Key features

What you get

Tape delay engine with America and Japan modes
Delay time with tempo sync
Independent Feedback and Width controls
Dedicated Wobble control for worn-tape movement
Onboard Spring reverb
Low and High cut filters on the repeats
Battery emulation for worn, gritty voltage drain
Blend control for parallel processing
Smart Gain and Link Gain for level matching
A/B compare, short-term LUFS readout and new oversampling

03In depth

Tape character, wobble and spring ambience

The plugin pairs a tape delay engine with a dedicated Wobble control for worn-tape movement. Wobble adds drifting, unstable pitch motion to the repeats, which suits psychedelic and lo-fi textures.

An onboard Spring reverb adds splash on top of the echoes. Battery emulation drains the voltage for extra grit, giving the repeats a worn, unstable quality when you want it.

Controls for mixing and level matching

Independent Feedback and Width controls let you shape the echo trail separately. Low and High cut filters keep the repeats sitting under the source rather than competing with it.

The Blend control provides instant parallel processing, so you can mix the effect in without losing the dry signal. Smart Gain and Link Gain help match levels quickly. A/B compare, a short-term LUFS readout and a new oversampling algorithm round out the feature set.

04Specs

Will it run?

Formats, systems and requirements as listed by Plugin Boutique. Missing details are left out, not guessed.

Developer	Safari Audio
Type	Plugin
Category	Echo
Formats	VST3, AU, AAX
Operating systems	Windows, macOS
Architecture	64-bit

05FAQ

Questions, answered

What formats does Cosmic Parrot Echo support?

Cosmic Parrot Echo is available in VST3, AU and AAX formats. It runs on Windows and macOS.

What are the system requirements?

The listed requirements are a 2 GHz Intel Dual Core or AMD equivalent processor and 8GB of RAM, with 16GB recommended. macOS 10.15 or later and Windows 8 or later are supported, and the plugin is 64-bit.