Traverse: Lo-Fi Tape Effect and Stereo Delay by Audio Damage Free Download

The cassette engine uses a magnetic-hysteresis model that responds to signal history, so saturation changes with what came before it rather than following a fixed curve. Drive moves the tape from clean to fully saturated, and internal gain compensation keeps the output level steady across the sweep.

Wow and Flutter each have their own depth control and LFO, with a noise component layered in. Wow handles slow pitch drift and Flutter handles faster jitter, and the modulation is applied per channel, which gives the stereo image a cassette-like wobble.

With Post-Delay off, the signal runs cassette first and delay second, and feedback passes back through the full tape chain. Turning it on makes the cassette process only the delay tail, which gives a cleaner input path.

The splice system is a procedural dropout simulator. Its Time control sets the event rate from about half a second to one minute between events, Depth sets the amount, and the Pitch and Amp toggles add pitch-chirp and amplitude-dip components to each dropout.

The noise generator offers nine voices, including Hiss, Crackle, Dust, Fan Rumble, 60Hz Hum, 50Hz Hum, White, Pink and the Califone Card Reader. Noise feeds into the tape path, so it is shaped on every repeat. The gate option lowers the noise floor 20 dB below the Noise setting whenever the input is silent.

Feedback is ceiling-limited, so the loop cannot run away even with Drive at maximum. Higher settings build a self-saturating wash, while lower settings give two or three colored echoes.