Prepare for orchestral time travel - go from intimate solo players to a full symphony — in an instant — resampled through 200 cassette players, all in the same virtual instrument.
We've gone back to the early days of tape sampling and taken inspiration from the sound world of the mellotron, and then blown that out of proportion - capturing strings, brass, woodwind and percussion and resampling through a custom built symphony of cassette players.
Delivered with the nostalgic warm tones that only cassette can deliver, featuring 100 articulations, Aperture Cassette Symphony allows you to control the dynamics and the number of players in an orchestra simultaneously, giving you incredible focus, texture, and magnitude allowing you to create all new and modern scores.
With tones that offer modern and beautiful tape warmth, through to the charming, warbling, worn sound of old cassettes, and the Aperture fader which spans size — from section leaders, to small orchestral sections, to full symphonic — Aperture Cassette Symphony is a library that not only takes your productions on a journey through time, but also space.
The largest tape orchestra ever created
- Over 800 Tapes of organic orchestral material
- 200 Custom cassette players (Warpman) - organised and played back in classic orchestral positioning
- 10 Custom made performance controllers
- 15 Speakers
- Recorded with a full Orchestral Microphone Setup
- 7 sections - Hi strings, Low Strings, High Woods, Low Woods, High Brass, Low Brass and Percussion
- Captured in a beautiful converted church
The Aperture
An imagined aperture in sound. At the bottom of the dynamic range, the library features single players recorded close, as you increase the dynamics, the size of the ensemble also increases, until you are playing a full symphonic orchestra.
What's Included
Aperture
Building from solo players through to symphonic
Strings
High Strings
- Sustain
- Sustain (Mono)
- Tape Loop
- Reels
- Scattered
- Hairpin
- Marcato
- Staccato
Low Strings
- Sustain
- Sustain (Mono)
- Tape Loop
- Reels
- Scattered
- Hairpin
- Marcato
- Staccato
Brass
High Brass
- Sustain
- Sustain (Mono)
- Tape Loop
- Reels
- Scattered
- Hairpin
- Marcato
- Staccato
Low Brass
- Sustain
- Sustain (Mono)
- Tape Loop
- Reels
- Scattered
- Hairpin
- Marcato
- Staccato
Woodwinds
High Winds
- Sustain
- Sustain (Mono)
- Tape Loop
- Reels
- Scattered
- Hairpin
- Marcato
- Staccato
Low Winds
- Sustain
- Sustain (Mono)
- Tape Loop
- Reels
- Scattered
- Hairpin
- Marcato
- Staccato
Percussion
Percussion
Worn
Building from solo players through to symphonic with beautiful and raw degraded tape artifacts, perfect for adding character
Strings
High Strings (Worn)
- Sustain
- Sustain (Mono)
- Tape Loop
- Reels
- Scattered
- Hairpin
- Marcato
- Staccato
Low Strings (Worn)
- Sustain
- Sustain (Mono)
- Tape Loop
- Reels
- Scattered
- Hairpin
- Marcato
- Staccato
Brass
High Brass (Worn)
- Sustain
- Sustain (Mono)
- Tape Loop
- Reels
- Scattered
- Hairpin
- Marcato
- Staccato
Low Brass (Worn)
- Sustain
- Sustain (Mono)
- Tape Loop
- Reels
- Scattered
- Hairpin
- Marcato
- Staccato
Woodwinds
High Winds (Worn)
- Sustain
- Sustain (Mono)
- Tape Loop
- Reels
- Scattered
- Hairpin
- Marcato
- Staccato
Low Winds (Worn)
- Sustain
- Sustain (Mono)
- Tape Loop
- Reels
- Scattered
- Hairpin
- Marcato
- Staccato
Percussion
Percussion (Worn)
Tech specs
macOS requirements
Mac OS X 10.15 to OS 13
Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 minimum (quad-core), 8GB RAM
Recommended: 2.8GHz I7 (six-core), 16GB RAM
Both Intel and Apple Silicon/ARM are supported
32-bit systems are not supported.
PC requirements
Windows 10 or Windows 11 - (Latest Service Pack, 64-bit)Minimum: Intel 2.8 GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM
Recommended: Intel Core i7 6th gen and later or AMD Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM
32-bit systems are not supported.
File size
23.28 GB download size
24 GB disk space required during install
