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Classic Cassette Character

Add a vintage vibe to your productions with retro sonic textures and colorful saturation on the fly. Fly Tape II is a new adaptation of the popular tape cassette FX iOS app originally created by our friends at MSXII Sound Design. With their collaboration and sound design expertise, we’ve developed Fly Tape II to bring that classic tape emulation sound to your DAW or MPC standalone workflow.

Subtle Inflections, Perfect Imperfections

Fly Tape II introduces an intuitive, easy-to-explore user interface that features retro button controls and eight independent tape-style modes—with additional sub controls per mode to mangle, stretch, lo-fi, and retro-fly your sound.

Built for dynamic change-ups and expressive shifts, Fly Tape II invites you to add movement with special sonic moments you can automate or play live.

Crunch your drums, reverse and saturate your mix bus, tape stop your breaks, put your string pads into the vintage realm, or warble and stretch your electric pianos into a perfect fit for your mix. With the addition of an independent NOISE slider, you can bring just the right amount of tape hiss and noise into the overall blend.

Fly Tape Il opens a world of creativity with limitless possibilities—all in a performance-ready, studio-grade interface.

Timeless Tone for Any Production Style

Michael Simpson

Founder & CEO of MSXII Sound Design

Tone Jonez

Musician & Producer

OKTOBER1ST

Producer

Daniel Steele

Musician & Producer

Now available for MPC users or as a DAW plugin, Fly Tape II brings vintage character into modern workflows to elevate any production. Balance your mix and find inspiration in the distinctive warmth and sound of analog tape.

“It's an honor to bring Fly Tape II, one of our favorite performance apps, over to MPC and desktop for music producers worldwide. Fly Tape II embodies so many of the things we love about mangling audio.

Whether that's glitchy stutters, half-speed vibes, tape warble, saturation, or tape stop variations, Fly Tape II has it all! We're excited for everyone to get their hands on this one!”

Michael Simpson,
Founder & CEO of MSXII Sound Design

8 Specialized

Character Modes

An essential tool for any beatmaker or producer looking to bring a sense of nostalgia to their sound, Fly Tape II has eight distinct modes for dialing in your preferred amount of warmth and texture—each adding a unique tape-style sonic footprint to your sound.

Speed

Select from four variable tape speeds to dial in the classic ½, ¼, and additional cassette-style speeds. These variations allow you to create unique time-stretching artifacts and tonal coloration—perfect for crafting a dreamy, nostalgic tone in your tracks.

Saturation

Explore one of three powerful overdrive modes: Boost, Amp, and Drive. From subtle harmonic enhancement to tube-style distortion, each option is carefully modeled to deliver the warmth and color of a true analog emulation.

Mute & Reverse

Chop, pause, or flip your audio on the fly. Fly Tape II’s dedicated Mute and Reverse buttons make transitions seamless, allowing you to incorporate elements of suspense, spontaneous breaks, and rhythmic reversals with precision.

Warble

Add movement to your mix with seven expressive variations of wow and flutter. Simulating the gentle imperfections of retro cassette tape, these warble effects bring your sounds to life with randomized amounts of pitch modulation—ideal for vintage synth leads, pads, or lo-fi melodies.

Lo-fi

Choose from eight preset variations, each offering a level of intentionally imperfect and unpolished audio. From dusty cassette hiss to bit reduction, the mellow mood and sounds you craft in this mode will transport you to a simpler time.

Brake

Recreate the sound of tape coming to a physical stop with four variations of tape brake duration. These slowing effects mimic the feel of analog playback halting in real time, making this mode valuable for transitions, breakdowns, DJ-style fades, and any type of dramatic flourish.

Stutter

Slice your audio into rhythmic fragments with options for eight distinct timing functions. This mode encourages experimental chopping to create new sounds, using segmentation to add texture, energy, or syncopation into any loop or track.

Now available for MPC users or as a DAW plugin

What They're

Saying

Snipe Young

"Fly Tape II is a powerhouse in a small package. I can easily see this plugin becoming a regular part of my production and post-production workflow. This multi-effects unit does just that — effortlessly. The simplicity of Fly Tape II allows me to stay in the creative flow, all while adding sauce to whatever I’m working on."

Grammy Award Winning Producer/Songwriter/Engineer

Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, Sofia Reyes, Chris Brown & YG

Terence Brandt

"If I can add texture with just three clicks, I'm in. Fly Tape II gives me wow/flutter, tape stop, and tone shaping all in one plug-in. It allows me to sculpt a sound in a unique way without even touching an EQ. It's a fast, creative tool that saves me time and DSP. Fly Tape II is definitely staying in my FX chain."

Grammy-Nominated Recording Engineer

GloRilla, Divinity Roxx, Dreamville

Dustin Ragland

"Fly Tape II is a perfect sonic tool: just enough customization to dial in chewy vintage textures, without tempting you to get lost in too many dials and sliders. It has become an essential part of de-digitalizing my sound by dialing in “digital vintage” with lo-fi, saturation and warble!"

Producer, Mix Engineer & Multi-Instrumentalist

Beau Jennings & The Tigers, Charlie Hall, Young Weather, DM Stith

Steven “Big Steve” Le Noc'h

"Fly Tape II stands somewhere between a creative effects unit and a texture designer, it lets you reshape the mood of a sound with just a few clicks. I can quickly add character, whether it's saturation, Lo-Fi grit, stuttered chops or inverted moments. It's a powerful FX tool, without the usual complexity."

Mix Engineer & Producer

Les Alchimistes Du Son, The B.E.P, Buena Vista Social Club, Gazo & Tiakola

Tone Jonez

"Fly Tape II makes adding creative sonic textures and time-based effects on the fly super easy! No need to mess up the vibe doing a bunch of menu diving. Just throw on Fly Tape II and you'll have a plethora of creative tools at your fingertips that you can tweak and automate seamlessly! This takes the standalone MPC experience to a whole new level."

Tone Jonez, Musician & Producer

Kirk Franklin, Lecrae, Wale

Snipe Young

"Fly Tape II is a powerhouse in a small package. I can easily see this plugin becoming a regular part of my production and post-production workflow. This multi-effects unit does just that — effortlessly. The simplicity of Fly Tape II allows me to stay in the creative flow, all while adding sauce to whatever I’m working on."

Grammy Award Winning Producer/Songwriter/Engineer

Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, Sofia Reyes, Chris Brown & YG

Terence Brandt

"If I can add texture with just three clicks, I'm in. Fly Tape II gives me wow/flutter, tape stop, and tone shaping all in one plug-in. It allows me to sculpt a sound in a unique way without even touching an EQ. It's a fast, creative tool that saves me time and DSP. Fly Tape II is definitely staying in my FX chain."

Grammy-Nominated Recording Engineer

GloRilla, Divinity Roxx, Dreamville

Dustin Ragland

"Fly Tape II is a perfect sonic tool: just enough customization to dial in chewy vintage textures, without tempting you to get lost in too many dials and sliders. It has become an essential part of de-digitalizing my sound by dialing in “digital vintage” with lo-fi, saturation and warble!"

Producer, Mix Engineer & Multi-Instrumentalist

Beau Jennings & The Tigers, Charlie Hall, Young Weather, DM Stith

Steven “Big Steve” Le Noc'h

"Fly Tape II stands somewhere between a creative effects unit and a texture designer, it lets you reshape the mood of a sound with just a few clicks. I can quickly add character, whether it's saturation, Lo-Fi grit, stuttered chops or inverted moments. It's a powerful FX tool, without the usual complexity."

Mix Engineer & Producer

Les Alchimistes Du Son, The B.E.P, Buena Vista Social Club, Gazo & Tiakola

Tone Jonez

"Fly Tape II makes adding creative sonic textures and time-based effects on the fly super easy! No need to mess up the vibe doing a bunch of menu diving. Just throw on Fly Tape II and you'll have a plethora of creative tools at your fingertips that you can tweak and automate seamlessly! This takes the standalone MPC experience to a whole new level."

Tone Jonez, Musician & Producer

Kirk Franklin, Lecrae, Wale

Walkthrough Video

Whether that's glitchy stutters, half-speed vibes, tape warble, saturation, or tape stop variations, Fly Tape II has it all! We're excited for everyone to get their hands on this one!”

Michael Simpson,
Founder & CEO of MSXII Sound Design

HEAR FLY TAPE II IN ACTION

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System Requirements

Fly Tape II is designed to support VST 2 and VST3 Plugin hosts as well as full support for MPC standalone and desktop systems running version 2.15.1 (or later). This software requires an internet connection for authorization. You will need to install Akai's MPC desktop software version 2.15.1 or higher to use desktop versions of the plugins.

Windows

MAC

MPC/Force Standalone
Compatibility

Windows 10, 11

macOS 13-15

Fly Tape II is designed to run on standalone MPC systems running 2.15.1 and MPC / Force standalone systems running 3.5 (or newer) including:

166 MB approx free disk space

347 MB approx free disk space

MPC One

4GB RAM
(8GB recommended)

MPC Live

Dual Core 2.5GHz CPU

MPC Live II

VST 2/3 compatible host

MPC X

AU plugin compatible host

MPC Key 61

MPC One +

MPC Key 37

FORCE

MPC Live III