Creative Pafade AB have updated Tape Fiasco 2, available for $19.99 (iPadOS) and $29.00 (desktop). The update is free to existing users.
What’s new in version 2.0.2::
- Added SERIAL/PARALLEL FX routing and Pitch/Frequency/Ring modes to Pitch Shifter.
- Added LINKED/INDEPENDENT Stretch speed/pitch control,
- Added +12 dB gain per effect.
- Improved DRIP reverb decay.
- Fixed overlay drawing and touch interference.
- Added an expanded Main Menu and double-tap modulation assignment option.
- Sample selection now resets timing and starts playback; fixed tempo drift.
- Added sample removal buttons.
- Modulation targets now display numeric ranges.
- Improved target-list sizing and scrollbar access.
- Fixed stuck FX highlights and accidenta modulation assignment through preset menus.
The full time-manglingand sound-design workstation now runs on iPadOS, as both a standalone app and an Audio Unit (AUv3) plugin. Same engine, same sound, rebuilt for touch.
This is not a stripped-down companion app. It is the same Tape Fiasco 2 that runs on macOS and Windows, with every engine, effect, and modulation destination intact:
- Four time engines — Stretch (dual-grain freeze and scrub), Varispeed (tape machine with wow, flutter, tape-stop, and scratch), Stutter (beat-aligned capture-and-repeat slicer), and BendIt (circuit-bent buffer mangler).
- A 30+ effect chain — drag to reorder across distortion, filter, resonate, modulate, delay, and reverb, plus a permanent master row with gain, 3-band EQ, pan, compressor, and soft limiter. Effects not in the chain cost zero CPU.
- 72 modulation destinations — four modulator columns, three free-draw bezier graphs, four macro knobs, and an X/Y pad. Every parameter in the plugin is a valid target.
Everything runs at zero added latency and stays locked to the host transport, so it plays like an instrument, not a chain of processors you’re babysitting.
Bringing it to iPad meant more than shrinking the window:
- Standalone app or AUv3 plugin. Run it on its own, or drop it into your favourite host — AUM, Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cubasis, Loopy Pro, Drambo, and other AUv3 hosts.
- Load your own audio. Bring in a loop or sample as the sound source, or start from the built-in factory loop library.
- Record and share. Capture the output, stop, and share or save a WAV straight from the app.
- Ableton Link. Sync tempo and phase with everything else on your network.
- MIDI Learn. Map a hardware controller to the performance targets, with mappings that persist across relaunches.
- Touch-first UI. Two-finger scrolling, resizable and rotatable layouts, and touch targets tuned for fingers instead of a mouse.
- Background audio so it keeps running when you switch apps.
Watch the intro video HERE
Watch Doug’s overview video HERE.
Tape Fiasco 2 is available to PC, Mac, Linux and iPadOS (VST3, AU, AUv3.and standalone).
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