Soundiron Tape: Percussion and Effects Library for Kontakt

Tape is built around degraded tape sound. The developer describes the source material as recordings from destroyed cassette and microcassette tapes, processed into a dark, dusty character.

The library contains 19 percussion kits, 126 snares in two style categories, 46 toms, 28 kick and bass sounds, and 47 splashes, crashes, clicks and snaps. It also includes 238 strikes, stingers and stabs in four style categories, plus 243 multisamples of tape recorder mechanics such as buttons, ejection, tape handling and motor running. Ambient and pad content is covered by 24 presets.

The sounds are designed to work together, so layers and sequences built from different parts of the library tend to blend.

Each instrument preset offers selectable articulations along with performance controls for attack, release, filter and vibrato or ring modulation. A multi-mode arpeggiator with a step sequencer adds rhythmic options.

The built-in effects rack includes EQ, filter, phaser, flanger, delay, distortion and amp and speaker simulation. Convolution reverb provides 70 impulses covering cathedrals, churches, chambers, rooms, halls and special effect spaces.

Kontakt presets and WAV samples are unlocked, so you can edit the instruments or use the raw audio in other samplers and editors.