UA’s groundbreaking tape emulation in an easy-to-use plug-in.
The Universal Audio Oxide Tape Recorder plug-in gives you the musical, mixable sound of tape, letting you quickly add clarity, punch, and warmth to vocals, guitars, drums and more, so every track sounds like a record. Whether you’re tracking in realtime using an Apollo interface or mixing in your DAW, Oxide’s intuitive controls deliver musical results for beginners and pros alike. Just select IPS (inches per second), EQ, and noise reduction settings, and tweak input and output controls to taste. By emulating fat tape compression and colorful circuit behaviors, Oxide gives your tracks the cohesive glue that only analog tape can provide.
Specifications
UAD Spark and Native UAD System Requirements
- Mac: macOS 10.15 Catalina, 11 Big Sur, 12 Monterey or 13 Ventura
- Windows: 10 or 11 (64-bit editions)
- Processor: Intel, AMD or Apple silicon
- Internet connection to download software and authorize native UAD plug-ins
- Free iLok account with iLok Cloud or iLok USB (2nd generation or higher)
- Free UA Connect application for managing native UAD plug-ins
- Compatible Apollo or UAD-2 hardware
- Windows: 10 or 11 (64-bit editions)
- macOS: 10.15 Catalina, 11 Big Sur, 12 Monterey or 13 Ventura
- Internet connection to download software and authorize UAD plug-ins
- Compatible plug-in DAW host software
- 10GB available storage
Features
- Inject the warm color and punchy low-end response of analog tape to your tracks
- Apply tape saturation and circuit overdrive via simple Input/Output controls and Repro or Input paths
- Choose among 7.5 and 15 IPS Tape Speeds and two emphasis curves for colorful tape textures
- Experience in-the-box recording "through" tape in real time using Apollo interfaces