ReelTapeSaturation
Universal version latest seen at v22.12.0.7 · Reported by 6 Macs in the community.
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ReelTapeSaturation is an AAX audio plugin from Avid that emulates analog tape saturation and coloration effects. It runs as a plug-in within Avid Pro Tools and other AAX-compatible digital audio workstations, allowing engineers and producers to add warmth, harmonic distortion, and vintage tape character to individual tracks or the mix bus. A native Apple Silicon build has been confirmed running on Macs in the Rosetta Check community.
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1 suggestionReelTapeSaturation is an AAX plug-in that ships as part of Avid Pro Tools, not as a standalone download. To get the native Apple Silicon version, you must ensure Pro Tools itself is updated to a recent native build — Avid began shipping Pro Tools as a Universal Binary from version 2023.6 onwards. Launch Pro Tools and go to Help → About Pro Tools to check your current version. If you are on version 2023.6 or later, the native AAX version of ReelTapeSaturation is already available to you; if you are running an older Pro Tools build, update Pro Tools via Avid's Application Manager (available at avid.com) to pull the latest native version, which will include the native AAX build of this plug-in. After Pro Tools finishes updating and relaunching, ReelTapeSaturation will load as a native arm64 plug-in inside your DAW.
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