RetroLab

What it does

Twelve vintage effect modules, noise, glitch, wow and flutter, phaser, tape saturation, distortion, crusher, filter morph, air delay, atmosphere, tape transport and gate, in a reorderable chain. Three LFOs assign by holding the LFO and tapping a control, with range, phase offset, beat divider and bipolar options, and an intensity macro scales every module’s master dial.

In the demo

Jade runs it on every instrument in an AUM project driven by Fugue Machine, then walks through each module on a slow piano motif, Playbeat 4 and Hammerhead drums, a Super J8 pad and AudioThing noises. She finishes by building a sound from the noise module with no audio coming in.

Worth knowing

LFOs only move while the host transport runs, and presets show in the AUv3 only after the standalone has been opened once. Anyone after a one-knob tape or vinyl effect will find many more controls here.