Spool v0.1.0

Spool v0.1.0

First release of Spool, a tape machine for Linux (CLAP and VST3). Keep it subtle for a touch of glue on your master, or push it for all-out lofi wonkiness.

Sound

• Tape saturation with record pre-emphasis, so highs saturate first, at 4x oversampling
• Drive (0-24 dB), level-compensated: quiet material keeps its level, peaks get squashed
• Colour: head bump (up to +4 dB at 90 Hz) and top-end roll-off (20 kHz to 5 kHz)
• Wear: wow and flutter, hiss, dropouts and further loss of highs. Low settings stay near-inaudible, the top end gets wonky
• Output make-up gain (-12 to +12 dB)
• Bypass on the pilot lamp, with a click-free crossfade and Bitwig/host bypass integration
• Reports 7 ms of latency (the wow/flutter delay line); bypass stays time-aligned

GUI

• Hand-drawn reel-to-reel faceplate with knurled knobs and an amber pilot lamp
• Knobs: drag or scroll to turn, hold Shift for fine control, double-click to reset
• Resizable window, saved with your project

Install
Unzip, copy Spool.clap to ~/.clap/ (or Spool.vst3 to ~/.vst3/), and rescan plug-ins in your DAW.