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Pulsar Audio releases DigiTape, a free plugin modelled on 2000s tape emulations

10.26

Pulsar Audio’s newest plugin doesn’t try to recreate a vintage tape machine. Instead, DigiTape goes after the sound of the early tape emulation plugins that turned up in plenty of 2000s mixes, and…

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