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 2.0.4::
- Latency compensation for FFT effects CHROMA, CONTRAST, FORMANT SHIFT, LOSSY, MAGNET, SEPARATE, SIEVE, SMEAR and WARP process audio in blocks, which delays it by up to about 85 ms. Tape Fiasco 2 now reports this delay to your host, so it stays in time with your other tracks, and muting one of these effects no longer shifts the timing. Your host’s own latency compensation needs to be on.
- New LATENCY COMP setting in the plugin’s settings menu (AUv3). It’s on by default. Switch it off if playing live through the plugin feels sluggish. Changes take effect when the transport stops.
- A short notice explains the delay when you add an FFT effect.
- XY pad: tap anywhere on the pad and keep dragging, and the handle now follows your finger.
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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