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TAIP

AI-Powered Tape Saturator

TAIP by Baby Audio plugin UI

TAIP

AI-Powered Tape Saturator

Warm up your sound

  • We harnessed AI technology to create the most faithful tape emulation to date
  • Add silky warmth and saturation with the organic feel of analog tape
  • Versatile feature set lets you customize any tape flavor for any creative need
Praise for our plugins
Baby Audio selected a Winner in the 2025 Sound on Sound AwardsKVR Reader's Choice Award for Most Innovative Plugin awarded to Baby Audio in 2023Music Radar Awards 2022 winner Baby AudioBaby Audio selected for the Computer Music Editor's Choice AwardBaby Audio's Music Tech 10/10 Excellence AwardPlugin Boutique Awards 2024 Multi-Effect title awarded to Baby AudioMagnetic Mag Editor's Choice Award 2025 awarded to Baby Audio

AI-modeled tape plugin

We used AI to faithfully model the warm sound and non-linear behaviors of analog tape. We then deconstructed these characteristics into separate features that can be combined in new ways to create custom tape flavors.

Synth Pad - Dry → Wet
Kick 808 - Dry → Wet
Lo-fi Beat - Dry → Wet
Drum Loop - Dry → Wet

Sounds exactly like the reel thing

Tape recordings have a natural thickness and glue to their sound that digital mixes often lack. TAIP brings you these characteristics without sonic compromises, utilizing AI for the most reliable tape emulation to date*.

Unless you want to maintain a 600-pound hardware device in your studio, TAIP brings you the closest you can get to the reel thing.

* Our AI model is ethically developed and trained on generic material such as sine sweeps and white noise.

Go beyond ordinary tape

TAIP allows you to go beyond what is normally possible with tape emulation plugins.

Drive it hard for saturation and distortion effects. Exaggerate the 'glue' behavior to turn TAIP into a de-facto compressor. Add wear, noise, and warble for lo-fi effects. Or get a more hi-fi sound with the low and high preservation filters.

We made TAIP flexible enough that you can dial in any tape flavor for any need and use the plugin creatively.

Professionally curated presets

TAIP comes with 135 presets to instantly warm up your digital recordings. Preset creators include:

Mark Needham (Fleetwood Mac, The Killers, Bloc Party, Elton John)
Max Jaeger (Major Lazer, Big Sean, Ariana Grande)
Eestbound (Young Thug, Travis Scott, Jazz Cartier)
Rob Kleiner (Sia, James Blake, Billie Eilish, Britney Spears, David Guetta)
Cesar Sogbe (Prince, David Byrne, Jennifer Lopez)

What people are saying

Greg Wells on TAIP by Baby Audio

“TAIP is absolutely wonderful. I am loving, loving, loving using it. It’s like my favorite elements of every other tape plugin, but much easier and faster to use, and…. sounds better.”

Greg Wells

Grammy Award-Winning Producer, Songwriter, and Mixer - Adele, Taylor Swift, Quincy Jones, Sir George Martin

Dacota G on TAIP by Baby Audio

“TAIP is a great tool to add weight, dimension and character to any sound.”

Dacota G

Grammy Award-Winning Mixing and Mastering Engineer - Childish Gambino, Usher, Diplo

Cesar Sogbe shares praise for TAIP

“I’ve been kidnapped by this Plugin! It can be subtle when adding color and depth and I totally love the fact that I can severely mutilate, disfigure and mangle a sound if I choose to. I’m a big fan!”

Cesar Sogbe

Grammy Award-Winning Engineer and Mixer - Prince, David Byrne, Jennifer Lopez

Max Jaeger on TAIP

“TAIP does wonders on drums and masters.”

Max Jaeger

Grammy-Nominated Engineer, Mixer, and Producer - Major Lazer, Big Sean, Joji, Ariana Grande

Eestbound on how TAIP changes the game

“I love the sound of TAIP. It’s one of those things that can breathe life into any source. TAIP is an amazing option, but the lo-shape slider on the plugin makes this a game changer for me. The bass response of tape is a desirable sound but it’s tough to find the sweet spot. The Lo-shape function makes this a breeze.”

Eestbound

Producer and Engineer - Young Thug, Travis Scott, Jazz Cartier

Nick Lee shares praise for TAIP by Baby Audio

“I’m obsessed with TAIP. It adds effortless color to my tracks. The interface is super easy to use, and the Drive knob distortion sounds incredible: smooth, no harshness, and rich with overtones.”

Nick Lee

Grammy-Nominated Producer, Composer, and Musician - Ariana Grande, SZA, Lil Nas X, Megan Thee Stallion

Explore the features

TAIP by Baby Audio plugin UI

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More details

✱ Plugin formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX (64-bit).

✱ Platforms supported: macOS 10.11 and up (including native Apple Silicon M-Chip Compatibility). PC Windows 10 and newer.

✱ DAWs supported: All major DAWs, including Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, Reaper, Reason, etc.

Download User Manual

Download a free trial of TAIP here.

For a hardware emulation project like TAIP, AI offers a more faithful approach than the traditional DSP method. Where a normal DSP emulation would entail guesstimating the effect of various analog components and their mutual dependencies, we can use AI/neural networks to accurately decipher the sonic characteristics that make a tape machine sound and behave in the way it does. This happens by feeding an algorithm various training data* and teaching it to identify the exact characteristics of the hardware.

The result is an emulation that accurately captures all the quirks and nuances of analog tape without guesses or approximations.

* No unlicensed (third-party) audio content was studied or copied to develop TAIP. The training data consisted of white noise, sine sweeps, and similar sources developed entirely in-house.

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AI-Powered Tape Saturator

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* Legal Disclaimer: TAIP was developed by Baby Audio using artificial intelligence technologies and neural networks in order to learn from and emulate the characteristics of certain hardware products (specifically tape machines). No unlicensed (third-party) audio content was studied or copied to develop TAIP.