"Outer Space is a must have – bringing your creativity to a new level. Being a mixer, the importance of having a collection of plugins and analog gear at my disposal is paramount".

Matthew Sims. Audio Engineer / Producer who has worked with artists Pusha T, Usher, Frank Ocean, J Cole, Bon Jovi, Kai, Jennifer Lopez, Pentatonix, Lewis Hamilton, Craig David, Elle King, Post Malone, Lauryn Hill, Mike Posner, Keith Richards and more.

"An amazing tape delay emulation that demands to be tried – and, at this crazy price, almost certainly bought– by any producer or guitarist - 10/10".

Computer Music Magazine. The world’s best selling magazine dedicated to making great music with your Mac or PC.

“AudioThing once again proves that excellent-sounding plug-ins don’t need to be expensive - 6/6 Stars”

Beat Magazine. German specialist magazine for music, production and DJing.

Vintage Tape Echo

Outer Space 2 is a faithful emulation plugin of a famous vintage tape echo made in the early seventies. As the original unit, Outer Space features an echo section with three playback heads and a spring reverb tank. Audiothing have modelled three different tape frequency responses and saturations, along with all the analog imperfections of tape recording/playback. They’ve also modelled the ballistic response of the delay rate (repeat rate) which can create eerie pitch shifts (due to the Doppler effect), one of the classic tape echo-based sound effects.

Space Echo

Roland Space Echo RE-201 (Tape Echo)

Introduced in 1974, the Roland Space Echo RE-201 was an instant hit among engineers, guitar players, and dub pioneers. A real analog system providing both tape echo and spring reverb for a rich and organic sound.

Tape Modelling

Audiothing have modelled three different tape types. The original RT-1L, a more modern replacement, and an older worn out tape. Each tape will affect the sound in a subtle but different way, especially at higher feedback (Intensity) settings.

WOW/Flutter will also change according to the selected tape, creating different amount of pitch and volume nonlinearities.

Changing the speed of the repetitions (Repeat Rate) will also affect the tape frequency response.

Mode Selector

Outer Space Mode Selector Knob

Just like the original unit, with the Mode selector you can choose 12 different combinations of echo playback heads and reverb (4 Echo only, 7 Echo+Reverb, 1 Reverb only).

Features

Vintage Tape Echo
3 Tape modes: Original, Modern, Old
Spring Reverb (Dark/Bright and Short/Long)
Background Noise with Envelope
Oversample up to 16x
Resizable Window
Preset system with randomizer

System Requirements

Windows

Windows 7-11
2GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM
VST2, VST3, AAX, CLAP (64-bit)

Mac

OS X 10.13 – macOS 14
2GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM
VST2, VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP (64-bit)
Universal 2 Binary