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Feature

The sound changes with the machine

Pick the cassette deck and you hear tape. Pick the turntable and you hear vinyl. A native C++ chain renders it in real time and never restarts playback when you switch.

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MP95 cassette deck on iPhone, CHROME cassette shell: silver label with red and black diagonal stripes, TYPE II HIGH POSITION 90

What is in the chain

  • Drive and saturation: the soft compression and harmonics of tape pushed a little hot.
  • Wow and flutter: slow and fast pitch movement from an imperfect transport, the thing that makes sustained notes on cassette sound alive.
  • Hiss: the noise floor of tape, kept low.
  • Crackle and rumble: the surface noise and motor rumble of a record.
  • Width, sub, tone: stereo image, low-end weight and top-end tilt.
  • A five-band EQ, volume boost, slowed + reverb and 8D sit on the same desk.
The MP95 sound desk: EQ, speed and 8D readouts, eight knobs for drive, wow, flutter, crackle, rumble, width, sub and tone, and buttons for analog, EQ, 8D, slowed and program memory

Presets that know what they are

Each machine has its own preset: the cassette deck's is soft (a few dB of drive, gentle flutter, a whisper of hiss), the turntable adds crackle and rumble, the reel deck is cleaner and wider. Fourteen factory programmes cover the rest, from Flat and Vocal to Lo-Fi, Tape and Vinyl, and three memory slots hold your own. Hold PGM to store.

MP95 cassette deck on iPhone, CHROME cassette shell: silver label with red and black diagonal stripes, TYPE II HIGH POSITION 90

Or nothing at all

The analog switch bypasses the entire chain. Lossless stays lossless, and the machine is only a look. Your setting is remembered per machine.

MP95 click-wheel player on iPhone: a green LCD with album art, track info, what plays next and a bar equalizer above a brushed-metal wheel

Why native

The chain is written in C++ and fed decoded PCM with no copies in between, so it costs almost nothing in battery and adds no latency you can hear. Switching machines swaps the parameters without stopping the track.

MP95 cassette deck on iPhone, CHROME cassette shell: silver label with red and black diagonal stripes, TYPE II HIGH POSITION 90

Frequently asked questions

Is the tape sound a real effect or just a filter?

A real-time chain with saturation, wow and flutter, hiss and EQ, rendered natively. It is not a static filter.

Can I hear my files untouched?

Yes. The analog switch bypasses the chain.

Is the analog chain free?

The cassette and vinyl presets are part of the free machines. The full desk with every knob, 8D, slowed and the memory slots is part of MP95 Pro.

Hear it on your own music

MP95 is free to start. No account, no ads, no internet.

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