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Pulsar Audio releases DigiTape, a FREE tape saturation plugin for macOS and Windows

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Pulsar Audio has released DigiTape, a free saturation plugin inspired by the early tape-emulation plugins of the 2000s. I’ve probably tested close to a hundred tape saturation plugins on BPB.

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