Chow Tape Model is a digital emulation of a reel-to-reel analog tape machine.
The original algorithm was developed to emulate the Sony TC-260, but has since been expanded to be able to model a wide variety of tape machines.
Chow Tape was originally developed as part of the Music 420 class at Stanford University. The project led to an academic paper, „Real-Time Physical Modelling for Analog Tape Machines which was presented at the 2019 DAFx Conference.
The plugin is currently available for Windows, Linux, MacOS, and iOS in the following formats: VST/VST3, AU, CLAP, LV2, AAX, AUv3, and Standalone.