u-he Satin

u-he Satin

A world of non-linear behaviours, distortion, saturation and much more arises during tape recording and playback. Bringing these coveted characteristics of magnetic tape into the digital realm, in unprecedented quality this is what u-he Satin is all about.

Electronic Delivery

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Magnatic Tape Emulation Software

Nothing else quite sounds like tape. u-he Satin puts the legacy of tape recording in your hands: from top-of-the-line multi-track consoles to humble cassette decks. All the good (saturation, transient smoothing, compression) as well as the bad (noise modulation, flutter, hiss) qualities are under your control. Construct your (im)perfect tape machine.

Luscious Tape Machine

That tape sound depends on interaction between the various parts of a tape machine. Each contributes in one way or another enhancing, reducing, combining to generate the final sound.

The Sound

Satin models individual components and lets them interact in the same way. For maximum flexibility in sound shaping, u-he Satin is a toolkit of alternative parts, not an emulation of a single machine. Build your own custom tape unit. The perfect final sheen for your mixdown, or “glue” multiple drum tracks together, decode old NR-encoded cassette tape, or misuse Satin for extreme effects.

Delay And Flange

After developing the components for a tape machine toolkit, our minds turned other popular tape-based machines. Delay and flange immediately jumped to mind.

u-he Satin In Service

The Circuit section lets you change the inner EQ circuitry. Included are various industry standard EQ curves, should you want to mimic specific machines. But Satin goes a step further by allowing independent selection of the recording and reproduction EQ curves. Which you can abuse for weird processing effects, or to correct EQ errors in old recordings (see below).

Decoding

Selectable Compander and Circuit settings make Satin useful as a format converter.

If you have a tape recording with an unsuitable EQ, using Circuit’s independent RecEQ and ReproEQ selectors you can set a new target EQ curve and make changes. Similarly, Compander can handle audio recorded with specific noise reduction (NR) encodings. Just run it through Satin with Decoder set to match the known NR encoding type.

Satin is not a standalone product, it requires host software. Satin is compatible with nearly all DAWs.

u-he Satin Features

• Lush analogue tape sound
• Includes historical developments in tape technology
• Control up to 8 instances of Satin at once using the Group panel
• 5 popular noise reduction encoder / decoder models
• Service panel: Controls for hiss, wow and flutter, bias, head gap, azimuth, saturation, high frequency compression and more
• Modern or vintage tape material
• Internal sample rate up to 384kHz
• 5 circuit models for recording and reproduction EQs

Key Features

• Stereo delay mode (2 or 4 heads) with multiple-mono, cross or ping-pong routing
• Tape flange mode with classic through-zero flanging
• Adjustable tape speed from 1.87 to 30ips
• Pre-emphasis and soft clipping options
• Preset browser with search functions
• NKS FX compatible
• Resizable UI from 70% to 200%
• Skinnable UI
• 120+ factory presets

u-he Satin Tech Specs

MAC

OS X Mac OS X 10.10 or newer

Memory: 1 GB

CPU: Intel Nehalem or newer, Apple M1

Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AU

WINDOWS

Windows Windows 7 or newer

Memory: 1 GB

CPU: Intel Nehalem or newer, AMD Bulldozer or newer

Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX

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