Magnetronix – Tape Chorus, Flanger, Through-Zero & Echo with Tube and Transformer Saturation VST3

Magnetronix: is a tape machine for your mix bus and your instruments. It combines a swept tape delay, a tube and transformer front end and tape saturation in one plug-in, so a sound gets movement and weight at the same time.

Four tape modes

• Chorus: slow, lush ensemble thickening and stereo widening.
• Flanger: classic jet-plane sweeps, with feedback up to 95 % for resonant, metallic combs.
• Zero-Through: two tape taps whose spacing sweeps through zero for the dramatic through-zero swoosh. With Depth at 0 it becomes a pure tube, transformer and tape saturator.
• Tape Echo: 20–600 ms repeats that get darker with every pass, with a Phase control that turns them into ping-pong.

Warmth before motion. Your signal passes a tube stage, a transformer and tape saturation (turning into tape distortion at high Drive) before the tape delay. Wow & Flutter adds the slow and fast speed drift of a real machine, and HF Roll-Off darkens the top end the way worn tape does. The non-linear stages are anti-aliased without oversampling, so they add no oversampling latency.

140 factory presets in seven collections: Tape Chorus, Tape Flanger, Zero-Through, Tape Echo, Tape Character, Mastering and Saturation. Click the preset name to open the full-screen Preset Library, with instant search and a click to load.

A tape deck you can read at a glance. Turning reels, glowing tubes, two VU meters, a live LFO scope and a stereo phase-correlation meter all move with your audio, and the window resizes to fit your screen.

Designed and made in Greece by TSL Studio Equipment.

Key features and what’s included

Key features

• Four tape modes: Chorus, Flanger, Zero-Through and Tape Echo
• Tube, transformer and tape saturation chain with a dedicated Tape Drive control
• Eleven knobs plus mode switch and bypass: Rate, Depth, Feedback, Tape Drive, Phase, Mix, Wow & Flutter, HF Roll-Off, Tube & Xfmr, Echo Time, Output
• 140 factory presets, including 20 Mastering and 20 Saturation presets
• Full-screen Preset Library with seven collections and instant search
• Stereo Phase control and a live phase-correlation meter
• Mode changes and bypass are cross-faded, so switching does not click
• Resizable interface, from 768 × 512 up to 1920 × 1280
• Works offline: a personal unlock key tied to your computer, with no internet connection and no dongle

What’s included

• Magnetronix plug-in: VST3, AU and Standalone
• 140 factory presets
• 32-page PDF user manual
• Personal unlock key for one computer
• Free demo mode: the full plug-in runs with 2 seconds of white noise every 60 seconds until you activate

Technical details and activation

How activation works (for the FAQ on your product page)

1. Install Magnetronix and open it in your DAW. It runs in demo mode: 2 seconds of white noise every 60 seconds.
2. Click the key icon at the top right, press Copy Machine ID, and send the ID to us with your order number.
3. We reply with your personal unlock key. Paste it into the key field and press Activate. The demo restriction is removed, and the key works only on that computer.