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Update

Tape Sway 1.1 is released

More tape, more sway. Tape Sway 1.1 adds Rec, Spring, Drag and Drop, Destroy and a bigger echo. It's free if you own Tape Sway.

Tape Sway 1.1 is a free update if you own Tape Sway, and trials are reset. Install it over 1.0 and your sessions open sounding the same.

What's new

  • Rec. Hit the tape hard or barely touch it. Push it and it saturates. Pull it back and the hiss comes up.
  • Spring. A spring reverb behind the echo. Drip, splash and a little boing.
  • Drag and Drop. Hold Drag and the tape slows, let go and it springs back. Drop plays a tape stop, spin or rewind on the beat. Draw a pattern and it plays them every bar.
  • Destroy. For when clean is the problem: a failing amp, creased tape, a clogged head.
  • Duck, Auto Gain and Delta. Let the effect swell in the gaps, keep the level where it went in, and hear only what the tape adds.
  • A bigger echo. Multi-head, Worn wears each repeat a little more, and Freeze holds the loop.
  • Bands on every module. Keep the low end still while everything above it sways.
  • Five kinds of noise and eleven more presets. Hiss, grain, crackle, hum and ghost.

Five of the modules standing side by side: Pitch, Age, Rec, Echo and Spring.

Coming from 1.0?

It looks a bit different. Wear, Echo and Pitch moved onto the panel, and Age is now a module. The presets sit on the left spine, and your account opens from the Marlow logo. The manual has the full list of what moved.

Try this first

Put it on a kick. Turn Indep down to 0 so the kick stays in the middle, click Tight in the Output panel, and push up Destroy for some hard-hitting drive.

Getting it

Own Tape Sway? Sign in and download 1.1 from your account.

Trying it? Your trial key works in 1.1. 14 days.

The intro price is $29 until October 31. Then it's $49.