https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oxhWPJ3uhblczv6parYDT1M-gscoPojF

TAPE-24 has arrived! It will be updated alongside TAPE-16 each week! It's not a replacement of T16, it's just a different 'machine', with a whole different feeling about it. There are so many interesting limitations that a lot of folk love about T16, I felt if we kept adding features it would turn into something it is not. It will always receive future native plugins, bug fixes, UI improvements, DAW controller fixes and so on.

The types of new features it will receive will be a different pathway. After seeing the post about a TAPE-8, I thought something like that could be built into T16, along with deepening the limitations further with something like generation loss from over listening, making it a truly heart racing experience (completely optional of course). Always happy to implement features that make the experience more immersive. Once they're turned on they should be quite hard to turn off. Keeping with the commit ethos alive and true.

On the other hand TAPE-24 will head in the other direction of being a little more feature rich, already it's a much busier workstation with channel strips and automation. In the future I see it having something like an optional HDD Recorder Mode. With that mode having more forgiving options like a 3 step UNDO/REDO for those who don't enjoy the horrors of recording without it at all.

However it's really up to the crowd though at this point so be vocal about what you want to see in either one.

In other news Mackie Controllers are working this time (seriously!) It's been an absolute struggle over the last few months but after a lot of back and forth emails between a few legends we managed to get everything up and running. This will truly set a lot of people free from the mouse and keys which I'm very happy about! I'm going to include a hotkey editor in the near future so you can change the buttons to whatever you want.

Linux release will be later this week too.

All the best!

JB

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oxhWPJ3uhblczv6parYDT1M-gscoPojF

To celebrate this beautiful number, it's time to unveil the visualiser. It's been in the app for a little over a month, however I don't think anyone has found it yet so I'm putting the quest out.

>* Double click is the clue

Big improvements to the Notes/Markers, with a fullscreen text editor for anyone that wants to write lyrics in a clean distraction free way (pair with focus mode for extra power). It has a transport so you can playback easily. You can also click on a marker to locate to its position automatically.

Mackie Controllers now have more buttons to press if you have them on your machine, and also have MIDI traffic improvements which have been causing faders fighting/lagging.

• JOG wheel will now scrub if the playback is paused.
• SAVE saves the tape.
• MARKER sets or removes a marker.
• Global SOLO clears all solos, and it lights while any track is soloed.
• DROP / REPLACE set the punch in and punch out points.
• CYCLE toggles punch on and off, and it lights when punch is on.
• SHIFT + REC toggles record safe.
• CANCEL closes the side panel.
• PLUG-IN opens the plug-in window.
• SEND / PAN switch the V-Pots between sends 1 to 4 and pan, and light to show which one is active.
• ZOOM toggles the rack view.
• LEFT / RIGHT arrows select the previous or next track, and the bank scrolls one channel at a time to keep the selected track on the surface.

Also patched up some handling in the Calibration menu which was causing pops/cracks in some rare cases. Hopefully got to the bottom of the issue with it!

iOS release should've been released by now, but it's still in review by Apple, been over a week now, some saying it may take 2-3 weeks which is painful.

Anyhow enjoy the rest of the week + weekend!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1erOC4PoHg_Xu1s5wnVuBEvsgC80yUQ4m

In a world full of distractions I thought it would be fun to implement a way to turn your Mac (for now) into a dedicated tape machine without easily cmd-tabbing away to social media for a sly browse. Also there has been an uproar for the Sends to be easier to use and I completely agree, so it is finally sorted! So much better now thank you for all your suggestions.

If anyone has any wishlist ideas for Tape 24 send them through!

Alrighty we're back in business. A lot of folks were asking for notes + marker lists so here they are. Along with some other neat but not overwhelming additions/improvements.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1erOC4PoHg_Xu1s5wnVuBEvsgC80yUQ4m

Stuck on loading screen?

- Move TapeDAW folder from Library (MacOS) or APPDATA (Windows) and restart. This is the manual way to hard reset preferences for now. If still failing, rename Tape Save folder temporarily.

TAPE 16 won't update?

- Download from emrmusicgroup.com/tape16 for latest version if auto updater isn't working. It will automatically replace the older version when installed.

Latest update of TAPE 16 not working well?

- Sometimes we make mistakes and miss something. If an update broke your workflow, download the previous version you were using from here and let us know in the bug reports and we'll have it sorted ASAP with a patch.

https://github.com/jackpaterson1/TAPE-16-Public-Releases/releases

MIDI Keyboard not working?

- Check the keyboard is not active in the DAW controllers tab of the MIDI window and only active within main Musical MIDI list.

Quick fix to repair the great MIDI fails of 0.9.370. All should be back to normal now, along with some other neat fixes.

Will be leaving this one here with you all, I am about to welcome my first child into the world in a couple of days so I'm going to take a break from the updates for a few weeks and enjoy family time. Have yourselves a good time and sync up all your tapes to all the computers/ipad's/iphones in the meantime!

iPhone release is coming to Testflight when it's approved in a day or two along with the iPad update to get everything up to 0.9.370. iPhone + iPad share the same app.

PRE-RELEASE

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1erOC4PoHg_Xu1s5wnVuBEvsgC80yUQ4m

TESTFLIGHT (iPad + iPhone) OUT IN 1-2 Days

https://testflight.apple.com/join/eRPvmReg

JB

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1erOC4PoHg_Xu1s5wnVuBEvsgC80yUQ4m

This one is a good one, clears up a lot of plugin dramas, whilst adding one small feature which was a request to add MIDI learn on plugins. And the really simple but awesome idea for New Tape from IN + OUT feature request by u/Upper_Stage3546.

I noticed the patch on Sunday made the bug report line go very quiet as 90% of the bugs reported are usually plugin related. Hopefully heading into more stable territory from here so we can build some DAW controller profiles. But again please let me know if anything goes wrong!

Cheers!
JB

Quick patch to clear up AU plugins + tape loading issues - available on Mac + Windows

https://github.com/jackpaterson1/TAPE-16-Public-Releases/releases/tag/0.9.352

• Fixed crashes on tape loading due to Remote Host failing which is required for AU plugins.
• Persistent remote control handling, (less rescanning)

WINDOWS

• improved tape loading safety

Thanks again for all the bug reports and feature requests they truly help more than you can imagine. Coming in hot with the session exported which opens Tape-16 to being used as a tracking tool, if you want to mix like its 2026 at least you can get the files out now with ease.

Autosaving on plugins has been improved so it is far less likely that you will ever lose any settings. I did a 2 day recording session test with a duo. We recorded 7 songs and none had lost any plugin states between the frequent swaps, within that I found a couple of small nuances too like bounce folder persistence and a strange 0 sample recording bug. Was such a great time though finally putting it through it's paces in a studio environment, the band didn't even really notice, and they said it felt super easy and enjoyable. There were times we needed to make decisions if they were going to play a part better which was a nice fun gamble for us all. We did a live mixdown of the 7 tunes as well with 2 of us riding the faders.

Tape swapping is now smoother and quicker!

Relaxed a lot of the early plugin blocking mechanisms, (was a bit annoying) now that we're narrowing down what plugins are and aren't working. Hopefully it will make for a smoother experience.

There was a pretty nasty bug that introduced stutters if you recorded longer takes with varispeed set to anything but 1.00x which has now been patched. (Good find Charlie!)

Plugin windows, on Windows are now far less buggy and don't go missing behind the main window anymore too. And their menus shouldn't flicker when clicked.

Have a great weekend!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1erOC4PoHg_Xu1s5wnVuBEvsgC80yUQ4m

Bringing forth more QOL for everyone, there's a lot of updates around plugins including preset saving, window options and a seriously improved plugin manager. You can also press TAB now to access slots from the main screen quickly. You can also drag and duplicate from the rack view.

- Also our Windows friends can now properly enjoy the DAW controllers which were relatively unusable until now. It will require further testing as Windows is unrelenting with bugs surrounding MIDI and plugins.

- Importer can now find external hard drives!

- Reels now look a lot better when in FF or RW, especially those in the themes with writing or non-smoothed textures on them.

Let me know if you have any dramas and we'll hopefully have them sorted by Friday if they're easy enough.

PRE-RELEASE is for Mac and Windows only for now, Linux will drop on Friday.

Cheers

JB

edit:

WINDOWS PATCH* to fix scanner.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11stvfyfNa8rPASNtEC-AlanCcn1B7emq/view?usp=drive_link

HAPPY FRIDAY - This is a big one with our experimental control surface editor, so there is now a possibility to bring fairly old DAW controllers to life. So now users can create controller profiles and upload them to the community mods page if they wish to share. This update also includes a greatly improved IMPORT option.

https://emrmusicgroup.com/tape16/community-mods

TAPE-16 DOWNLOAD
https://emrmusicgroup.com/tape16/

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1oxhWPJ3uhblczv6parYDT1M-gscoPojF

Thanks everyone for posting bugs this week! Super super helpful for us all. Have got a test for Mac and Windows here, will get Linux up as soon as we can. Official will drop on Friday as always. Biggest things to test right now are the:

• scaling on 4K and/or smaller than 1080p screens.
• plugin delay compensation
• sequencer plugins like EZdrummer + Addictive drums

Cheers!

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1oxhWPJ3uhblczv6parYDT1M-gscoPojF

Let me know how it goes! If all is smooth this will be the Friday release.

• Released Linux version
• Added remove button to theme manager
• Added ability to drag plugins in plugin manager + duplicate with ctrl
• Added scroll to preferences sidebar
• Added Unblock Plugins button so no re-scan is required
• Changed reverse button to Z also added to shortcuts
• Fixed Windows version from sleeping mid-take
• Moved Varispeed to slider left side of reels for more space in transport (for smaller 11” screens)
• Greatly improved Mackie Control (track names, scrub, flip mode, send mode)
• Improved Waves scanning
• Improved TAPE 16 Icon for MacOS
• Improved plugin manager + watchdog windows
• Improved 96khz handling
• Improved plugin restoration on load
• Improved Softube Console 1 plugin integration.
• Fixed Scrub hitbox for MIDI learn so it doesn’t select R reel.
• Fixed Windows startup with Unicode Documents paths
• Removed 16 buffer size as it was too unstable

Alrighty! We're back with another Friday update, making the machine smoother than ever before. Get it in ya! Trial extended for 48 hrs from now!