Deluxe Lo-Fi Bliss

Tape MELLO-FI is an easy-to-use effect plugin that brings instant chill atmosphere and vintage tape-aged warmth in a few clicks. Kick back and sprinkle sublime lo-fi vibes over your drum loops, vocals, mix bus, and anything in between.

Fun and straightforward to use, Tape MELLO-FI isn’t just a one-trick lo-fi pony. It comes as a feature-rich tool for all musicians and producers to use.

Before sampling, there was tape…

Tape MELLO-FI’s sound and behaviour are inspired by Mellotron V, Arturia's software recreation of the legendary Mellotron instrument.

The combination of tape reels, analog circuitry, and ageing over time gave the Mellotron a distinct sound. Fluttering, grainy, compressed; these qualities have become an endearing part of the ‘Tron sound.

Beauty in imperfection

Take any beat, sound, or project, and instantly inject beautiful nostalgic flavour and endless vibes.

Pitchy flutters, subtle distortion, warm saturation, velvety smooth filtered sounds; Tape MELLO-FI captures the uniquely imperfect behaviour of tape in perfect detail, distilled into a single plugin that you’ll always come back to.

Preset browser

Instantly find the sound that’s in your head with intelligent & streamlined preset browsing. Search with keywords, musical style, and more - you can even save your favourites to quickly recall later.

Resizable GUI

Whether you want the full visual immersion of our classic instrument emulations, or to save precious screen real estate, the interfaces for all of your Arturia plugins can be resized to a scale that suits you.

Features

Authentic tape emulator & lo-fi effect based on Mellotron V’s vintage sound & behaviour
Includes classic tape controls like Noise, Flutter, Wow, Wear, and Mechanics
Introduces useful features like Distortion and Boost
Interactive tape wheel with tempo-synchronized Tape Stop feature and optional Instant Tape Catch-up
12dB low-pass and high-pass filter section
Enhanced Stereo Width feature introduces offsets to Wow & Flutter from left to right for an extra-wide sound
Curated 25-preset library for instant-access to retro & lo-fi effects
Apple M1 compatible

System Requirements

VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).

Mac

Mac OS 10.13+
4 GB RAM
4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or Apple Silicon CPU
1GB free hard disk space
OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU

Windows

Win 10+ (64bit)
4 GB RAM
4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
1GB free hard disk space
OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
ARM processors not supported on Windows