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Enjoy a limited-time discount on Tape J-37 or bundled with FX Collection for an exclusive price - discover the ultimate tool for adding some tube-driven depth and character to your sound.
Valid until the 9th of january 2025.
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Discover a spectrum of studio tools used by the pros that continue to write music history - from legendary recreations to out-of-this-world sound design.
Enhance your mix
with thermionic warmth
When we say thermionic, we mean the rich, harmonically pleasing incandescence of vacuum tube technology. When we say Studer, we mean uncompromising Swiss engineering.
Tape J-37 lets you experience both like never before. With an intuitive design, four easy-access tape modes and advanced controls - give your sound that high-end analog edge.
Unrivalled sound quality
Whether you're adding subtle harmonic richness, dialling in bold tape coloration or elevating clarity with Modern Mode, the Tape J-37’s precision and neural-based modelling set it apart from lo-fi tape effects, delivering the legendary sonic depth you’d expect from the original.
The most faithful recreation of the Studer J37
Experience the most authentic recreation of the meticulously engineered Studer J37 tape machine. We combined our expertise in virtual analog with machine learning to capture the J37’s lauded non-linearities, tape magnetisation textures and impressively rich sound signature.
Intuitive design for instant results
Achieve your desired sound in seconds with Tape J-37's user-friendly interface. With essential controls at your fingertips encased in a stunning animated skeuomorphic design - dial in the perfect amount of analog saturation on your insert, bus or master tracks.
Get creative with advanced controls
Further manipulate your sound with features like Delay, EQ, and Stability Control. Introduce discreet phasing and flanging effects, or simulate tape wear-and-tear to add unique textures to your music. These powerful yet easy-to-use tools offer flexibility that expands upon the original design.
Interactive
player
Try Tape J-37 for yourself and experiment with its 4 distinct tape color profiles and calibration settings and adjust the sound to your taste.
- Color 1 maintains clarity using fresh SM911 tape and European calibration
- Color 2 enhances warmth with SM911 tape and american calibration
- Color 3 utilizes decade-old SM468 tape for a grittier, vintage feel
- Color 4 intensifies saturation and texture with over-biased SM468
- Modern Mode removes natural high and low filtering for a less adulterated sound.
Closer
look
Whether refining a home studio project or producing a major release, Tape J-37 is your secret weapon for adding some golden era glow
The advanced
panel
Bring even more character to your sound with custom calibration
Add authentic, tape-like imperfections to your sound with adjustable stability, noise, and delay settings. A touch of movement or delayed-phasing can add life to hi-hats, while full noise and instability can give your piano that degraded charm.
EQ
Shape each element of your mix with pre/post tape EQ options. Boost lows before tape for extra saturation or roll-off highs after tape for a vintage, softened feel.
Calibration
Use Noise and Instability Control to introduce authentic tape characteristics. Add tape noise for vintage realism and simulate mechanical wear for some wow and flutter.
Delay Loop
Add space and movement to any sound with built-in delay feedback. Introduce subtle phasing and flanging effects or create a slapback delay to bring life to recorded instruments.
The holy grail
of tape recording
The Studer J37 is part of a lineage of iconic recording equipment that shaped the sound of the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
It isn’t just another tape machine - it’s an icon of audio craftsmanship and music history. Hailed for its exacting Swiss engineering, the Studer J37 was adopted by legendary artists like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Jimi Hendrix. As a result, its trademark warmth and clarity wove its way into some of the most influential albums in recorded history, cementing its position as the gold standard for mid-20th century multi-track tape recording.
A machine with
a storied past
The unit we modeled isn’t just any J37, it was once housed in Studio Barclay: the “Abbey Road of French music” that hosted iconic artists Édith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, and Jacques Brel.
Decades of recording sessions imparted this model with a unique musical patina and spirit, carrying the echoes of countless performances. Now housed at Studio D.E.S under the care and maintenance of Poussin Kechit, we got to go under the hood of this audio engineering marvel to gather key internal measurements and reproduce its tape states and calibration settings.
Tube-driven
precision
Beneath its robust metal frame, the J37’s greatest secret was its array of more than 50 vacuum tubes, each working in harmony and giving recordings a warm and distinct color.
The glowing triode filaments offer a manageable signal-to-noise ratio as well as producing a sound with natural compression. Combined with the machine’s impeccable design and studio performance, engineers were able to push recordings to their creative limits without compromising clarity. Using state-of-the-art modeling techniques, we’ve made sure to accurately reproduce the J37’s thermionic essence, preserving its rich tone and remarkable sound.
Recreated
like never before
By employing a neural-based modeling framework and conducting painstaking multi-stage measurements, we’ve methodically mapped the exact interactions, harmonics, and tape states that define the Studer J37’s distinctive sound.
The result is a truly authentic recreation brought to life with state-of-the-art digital signal processing, enabling us to capture every detail and idiosyncrasy of this legendary machine. Tape J-37 infuses any input with an analog sheen that is indistinguishable from the real thing.
Instant
results
Tape J-37 comes loaded with 25 specialized presets, from classic tape enhancement to drum bus coloration.
Drums Color
Designed to make your drum bus warmer and more cohesive.
Bass Emphasis
Adds harmonic content to your basses by pushing the low-mid range through the tape distortion.
Gentle Nostalgia
Wrap your instrumental tracks or vocals with this nostalgia-inducing tone.
Worn Piano
Chorus-like effect based on stereo offset, tape instability and slight delay. Great if you want to age your sound for a retro vibe.
Chorused Delay Keys
Unstable calibration settings and a sweet dotted delay effect in the mid-range to make your keys warm and endearing.
Old Master
Bad tape calibration creates a lo-fi master.
Make your
music glow
Whether you're making indie rock or working across genres as an audio engineer, Tape J-37 goes beyond simple tape emulation.
From adding cohesion to full mixes, to upping the grit and wear on individual sounds - have a 1960’s studio legend at your fingertips.
Master bus saturation
Transform your entire mix with a cohesive tape glow. Use Tape J-37 on the master bus to add richness and depth, subtly enhancing each element and giving your track a gorgeous reel-to-reel feel.
Elevated drums
Add punch and character to your drum bus, intensifying each hit with authentic tube-driven saturation. Tape J-37 enhances transients, adding body and grit, perfect for giving your rhythm section a warm, analog edge.
Textured leads
Infuse your vocals, guitars, and synths with some tube spirit. Use the Advanced Panel to age your sound or take it into more experimental terrain with added noise, tape flutter and delay.
Artistscorner
PressClippings
Gearspace
On Tape J37
“Tape J-37 is an excellent recreation of the STUDER J37 tape deck that can display all the defects and non-linearities that made such equipment a pain to use and maintain, but without the pain.”
Bonedo
On Tape J37
“The plugin allows for really creative sound design possibilities. And all this without maintenance stress and tube changes!”
Future Music ES
On Tape J37
“Arturia Tape J-37 is fast and intuitive to use, and offers what you expect from this kind of plugins”
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Developed with
machine learning
We combined our expertise in virtual analog with machine learning techniques to perfectly emulate the J37’s complex architecture and non-linearities
The Studer J37, with its 50+ vacuum tubes, is a complex machine to handle directly. Therefore we combined detailed measurements of units that were used in the Studio Barclay with our virtual analog expertise and state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. This allowed us to replicate the intricate non-linearities of the device, including the tube-based distortions, magnetic tape behavior, and the tape magnetization process.
TAE® Powered
The exclusive analog modeling technology that makes our emulations indistinguishable from the originals.
By accurately mimicking the characteristics of analog oscillators, filters, and soft clipping, we can provide astonishing component-accurate detail and authentic analog charm in equal measure.
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Main Features
A recreation of the holy grail of analog tape machines.
Color control with a range of tones from clean to gritty.
Modern Mode retains bright highs while adding analog warmth—perfect for crisp, punchy sounds.
Drive knob controls input level with saturation and distortion, with auto gain compensation.
Speed Control to switch between high-speed clarity and low-speed warmth.
Authentic VU meter for monitoring input levels and Total Harmonic Distortion (THD).
Play / Stop to add tape-stop effects for realistic playback control.
Stereo Offset adds natural stereo width with subtle channel dispersion for extra depth.
Advanced Panel to adjust EQ, delay, noise, and instability for additional sound shaping.
25 Quality Presets: Designed to help with various source material, from vocals and guitars to bass and master mix enhancement.
Platforms specifications
Windows
- Win 10+ (64bit)
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
- 1GB free hard disk space
- OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
- ARM processors not supported on Windows
Required configuration
- VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).
Apple
- Mac OS 11+
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or M1 CPU
- 1GB free hard disk space
- OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
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