Abletunes is giving away Retrotape, RVRB, and FX Mate plugins to three lucky BPB readers (one plugin per winner).
If you’re an Ableton user, you might already be familiar with Abletunes, a brand specializing in creating Ableton Live templates.
Abletunes has over 250 templates in its collection, intending to help producers of all levels better understand professional techniques and musical production trends.
As well as creating educational content, Abletunes makes sample packs, presets, and plugins.
Let’s examine the three Abletunes plugins included in the giveaway: Retrotape, RVRB, and FX Mate.
Before I get into those, don’t forget Universal Audio’s Poly MAX synth is free with any purchase at Plugin Boutique throughout February 2024.
Abletunes Retrotape
Retrotape (€59,00) takes you back to the 1980s by accurately emulating a vintage cassette recorder (no actual time travel occurs, not that I had my hopes up or anything).
The plugin has an Age slider that gradually introduces more of the signature character of an old tape head. The Noise section provides three distinct noise profiles: Type One (standard cassette noise), Type Two (filtered noise), and Type Three (ambient sound of a professional cassette player).
Retrotape offers an authentic recreation of a much-loved retro sound, or you can use it to create more unusual, beautifully-textured soundscapes.
Abletunes RVRB
RVRB (€71,00 current sale price) is a modern algorithmic reverb plugin with over 60 built-in presets to suit the most common instruments/sounds. Like Retrotape, RVRB is also capable of generating either authentic or experimental results.
RVRB features twelve algorithms, including basic rooms, halls, and plates. This plugin has a Soft Attack knob that smooths the input signal’s initial transient, allowing you to pick up the reverb from the body of the sound, reducing any unwanted harshness in the reverb tail.
You can also boost the reverb tail with the built-in compressor. RVRB features a four-band damping EQ with a real-time spectrum analyzer. The slick GUI helps get the best out of RVRB’s loaded features set.
Abletunes FX Mate
FX Mate (€59,00) is exactly what the name suggests; it’s a multi-effect plugin that includes a selection of toolkit essentials.
The plugin makes it easy to add common effects like compression, reverb, distortion, delay, adjust the stereo width, and boost the low and mid-high frequency ranges.
As well as providing a range of go-to effects, FX Mate aims to make the application of those effects as straightforward as possible.
To make things easier, Abletunes has mapped multiple parameters of each effect to a single knob, so with one turn, there’s plenty more going on under the hood.
FX Mate is a handy plugin at any level; it helps beginners get better results stress-free, and it could help any user save some valuable time.
Free Abletunes Infinite Keys
As we launch this giveaway, Abletunes released a free Instruments Rack for Ableton Live called Infinite Keys.
The rack offers a variety of unique keyboard and synth sounds for use in sound design and music production. Its dual-layer engine blends 128 instruments and waveforms sourced from over 30 vintage and modern analog synthesizers and acoustic instruments.
The free Infinite Keys collection contains diverse sounds, from grand and upright pianos to unique instruments like kalimba and xylophone. It includes 3.5 GB of audio content and features two effect selectors, each loaded with 40 pre-designed effects.
Another helpful feature is the randomization button, which lets you randomly generate new instrument combinations with unique filter settings and effects.
Infinite Keys is free for use in Ableton Live, requiring version 11.0.12 Standard or Suite.
The Giveaway
Abletunes kindly provided free copies of Retrotape, RVRB, and FX Mate plugins for three lucky BPB readers (one plugin per winner).
To enter the giveaway, answer the following question in the comments section below: Which of these three plugins would you like to win?
Only one entry per reader is allowed. Duplicate entries will be deleted. If possible, the winner will receive the prize stated in the comment. If two (or more) winners picked the same plugin, the prizes will be issued randomly.
We will pick three random comments and announce the lucky winners on February 15th.
Good luck, and thank you for reading BPB! :)
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400 Comments
MrJimX
onAbletunes Retrotape ( To choose just one ) !
Nikita
onI’ve always loved the sound of cassette tape. I even rewrote recordings from CD to tape and listened to them in the player. I want to plunge into these moments and get the retrotape plugin
Sebastian
onRetrotape!
Mike
onRetrotape)))
Manuel
onAbletunes Retrotape
Andrzej
onRetrotape – cause overcoming the limits of analogue audio brings you to the point that unperfect sound sounds best on sharp-as-aliasing digital recordings.
Composer
onRetrotape because it can bring back the nostalgia of the times past.
Jason Stokes
onAbletunes Retrotape; I apparently have a fetish. I don’t believe it’s unhealthy, yet.
Ariana
onRetrotape pls pls pls!!! It seems so interesting!! The video quickly pushed my mind to develop ideas o_O
Matus
onI would be honored to get any of the plugins offered. I’m learning sound design. Sound is magic 🙂
Dimaslavsky
onI would take any of these three, or better yet three at once. Better yet, some cash and a trip to a sanatorium
Mia
onI would like to win the infinite keys plugin, that sounds super fun and useful!
Roy Taylor
onRetrotape please :)
Michael Alves
onAbletunes Retrotape
Florent Guerenneur
onLe rétro tape pour me rappeler le son des années 80
Eric Luszcz
onRETROTAPE 100%! Love the UI, looks just like my old cassette player.
DaviddB
onRetrotape forcément :-)
Oper-8
onI’ll take Abletunes Retrotape !
Med
onNever enough tape emulations so…Retrotape.
F.R.
onRetrotape @—–@
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Andrew
onRvvvvrrrrrbb!!!
Fabio
onAbletunes RVRB
amin
onRVRB
Attaman
onRetrotape looks great!!!
Gal K
onRVRB looks like a very cool option for a new go-to reverb!
Lyu
onI’d like to wn FX Mate!
Alex
onI would love to win Retrotape or Infinite Keys. :)
ASEAS
onAbletunes RVRB looks yum..
had entered on 100 give away but never won yet never lost hope
winning these would means alot..
GOOD WISHES FROM NEPALl …
Zoran Vrastanovic
onI would be very happy about Retrotape! :)
LVF
onLove FX MATE! Great set of sculpting options in just one plugin. Ace!
Balam
onI would like to win the RetroTape plugin! :)
otaku
onRVRB
wunschmaschine
onWell, most people seem to prefer the retro machine. Since I already got some tape emulations and to boost my chances I’m going for RVRB!
Also still got no modern (in terms of looks and functionality) goto-reverb, only some proper old-gear-simaltions…
So, RVRB it is! :)
Konstantin K
onRetrotape or RVRB. Both are cool. (Just now I saw that RVRB has been in existence for 4 years, wow)
pepe rodriguez
onRetrotape lo maximo👍
Jael Alesander
onAbletunes Retrotape
Luis
onAbletunes RVRB looks good ;-)
Scott
onI can’t decide between Retrotape or RVRB! I want both! I’m obsessed with tape and reverb. Let’s say RVRB :-)
Richard Cotterill
onAbletunes RVRB would be great.
Dennis
onRVRB.
jeyz1176
onRetrotape team !!
I grew up with cassettes and I prefer the emulations of small tape recorders to those of large studio tape machines.
I’m curious to hear this one.
Alex F
onLet’s go for Retrotape !
Moise
onL’un des 3 cela ira.
Merci d’avance
Karl
onAbsolutely the RVRB. It looks really slick and I don’t have Standard or suite (yet) so I have no use for the rack at the moment
Mafi
onI would love to have Retrotape.
Thanapatsachot Intaranivas
onAbletunes Retrotape
m
onRetrotape!
Odi Dara
onRetrotape-It looks and sounds niiice.
Joseph Wilk
onI have too many tape emulations, but I don’t have enough reverb. Abletunes RVRB has a nice sound, and I would be grateful to receive it.
Rafael Oliveira
onI would love to get the Abletunes Retrotape!
BB
onRetrotape!
Francesco LM
onRVRB thanks
Ivan Grigorov
onRetrotape please
Jordan O
onRetrotape – Thanks for the opportunity!
Mibrilane
onTo join with most of the folks posting comments so far, I too would like to win Retrotape.
xchak
onRetrotape
Davias
onFX Mate seems to be the one for me
Andy Girotto
onRVRB, please.
Shannon McDowell
onWhile they all look great, I would like to win Abletunes FX Mate most of all. Thanks for the giveaway!
Cory
onRVRB would be sweet!
Conor Duey
onI’d like to win FX Mate.
Wing Yee
onFX Mate
prismatic brain
onAbletunes Restrotape
Lionel
onRVRB for sure. Can’t get enough reverbs!
Jaden
onAbletunes Retrotape—-thank you so much!!
Leonardo
onLet’s go! Retrotape.
Minha
onAbletunes Retrotape
Can’t say no to a good tape emulation plugin.
Bryan Robledo
onRVRB will be sweet
Nicolas
onAbletunes Retrotape
Derrick
onCualquiera de los 3 es bien recibido :)
Pero pues Abletunes RVRB se ve muy buena reverb.
dhikdan
onLove RVRB :)
Johnny Yesno
onRVRB
Michael Weimer
onFX mate after much deliberation
Jorge
onAbletunes Retrotape please.
Hugo
onAbletunes RVRB thank you :)
alekzs
onFX Mate for sure
Mike
onRetrotape
pedro
onRetrotape
Jani
onWhich of these three plugins would you like to win?
-All of them of course! I’m a sucker for new plugins all the time 😁
Aleksandar
onRetrotape bre! :)
Asdrubal Castañeda
onI’d like to win the Retrotape. It’s something that I need in my Workflow.
Hettoblaster
onAbletunes Retrotape FTW :-)
skillowski
onretrotape of course=)
Andy
onAbletunes Retrotape
Arnold Robles
onRetrotape
Andy
onI’ll choose Abletunes Retrotape
yiquoc
onAbletunes RVRB
Peter Krejcik
onAbletunes Retrotape, as I grew up listening to casettes.
GBrown44
onAs a soon to be 51 year old man (two16) it’s Retrotape for the win for me. I still own about a few hundred or more cassette tapes that still play, some of which are recordings from various radio shows. My most fondest gift as kid were all surrounding music. That first cassette recorder with the big red button on it… the upgraded double cassette recorder with detachable 3-way speakers. It had three 3 inch mid speakers on each speakers. A speaker on the top, the front, and on the side. You couldn’t tell me nothing.
The cassette Walkman I got in XMas 84… I remember having daisy chained about 8 speakers (taken from out old TVs) going around my bedroom, all connected to the heaphone jack of that Walkman. The Discman I got for my 16th birthday in 1989… such great memories.
The allure of that tape sound now, I get it. Being able to connect back to what we more often than not, disliked at the time is amazingly charming!
Izaiah Valenzuela
onretrotape 100%
Wojtek Połeć
onRetrotape :)
Adit
onidk why but i like retro tape effects so much, so Retrotape!
Gav
onTaped.
Rem
onRetrotape
Luis Parra
onI would love to win Abletunes Retrotape
Marco
onAbletunes RVRB
L
onI like to get the Abletunes RVRB
dera
onretrotape for sure
Luís Molan
onAbletunes Retrotape
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onRVRB
Dave Younger
onWVRB looks good to me
Juan Manuel
onI’d like to win the retrotape, you’ll never get enough lo fi plugins lol
Jeff
onBury me in RVRB, thanks.
Max
onAbletunes Retrotape
Anastasiya
onRetrotape)
Zzz
onI would want RVRB
Odie
onRetrotape’s sound is good…
Odie
onRetrotape’s sound is good…
I like that…
Gil Monteiro
onAbletunes RVRB to create another worlds.
IVAN
onI’d really want to get my hands on Retrotape, damn plugin sounds rad!
Christian
onRetrotape!!
Dan Corkery
onRVRB..can never have too much reverb. 😉
Derek Rooney
onAbletunes FX Mate
Dani
onRetrotape!
Chris
onRVRB – it’s awesome!
Lou
onRetrotape please.
Matthias
onRVRB would bea great addition!
Momo
onDespite I loved Retrotape, I’d chose Abletunes RVRB, what I heard in the video sent me far far away and beyond…
Gregory Grant
onWould love to win retrotape
JT
onRetro tape is my choice.
Mario
onLove Reverbs, so for me I’d choose RVRB
Marcusique
onI‘d go for FX Mate because of Workflow (even though i already laid eyes on retrotape.. it even looks beautiful 😍)
Dmitry M
onRetrotape
Egons Kronbergs
onFX Mate
rosqa
onI would love to win Retrotape
Marco
onI would love if I won the Abletunes RVRB. I have yet to “fall in love” with a reverb plugin and I’m hoping that this one could be it!
samuel
onAbletunes Retrotape
Matthew Flook
onLove the look and sound of that RVRB, and has some clever features that my other reverbs are lacking
George
onAbletunes RVRB would be a good vst in my daw) Peace)
Sviataslau
onRVRB very nice!
Adam
onAbletunes RVRB
Yan
onAbletunes RVRB
Kayenka
onRetrotape 📼
Tom D
onFX mate would be nice! It gives me fast and great results!
Michael W.
onAbletunes RVRB
Manuel
onAbletunes Retrotape
Matus
onI would be honored to get any of the plugins offered. I’m learning sound design. Sound is magic 🙂
Quet0
onRVRB
Tristan G.
onHello,
Abletunes RVRB for sure !
Thanks for the giveaway :)
Visnu Espiritu
onRetrotapeeeee!
DoberMan
onRetrotape
Looks like that is the fan favorite as well!
Agustin
onAbletunes RVRB!
Agustin
onAbletunes RVRB is my selected plugin,
Thanks
Silvio Justo
onRVRB
GLOW
onI’m a reverb addict so it’s RVRB for me.
Evgeny
onRVRB
XRG
onRetrotape
Luis Aguilera
onFX Mate would be a must for me
aClub soul
onAbletunes Retrotape
JS Pantu
onRetrotape!
JL
onRetrotape :)
Mori Frik
onI would like to win a FX Mate, but other plugins are seems to be good too.
itsme
onRetrotape
Al Felton
onThe Retrotape
I love the 80s vintage vibe
Ipin Dalie
onRetrotape, Please ;)
Juan
onRBRB definitely
micro
onAbletunes Retrotape!
Fiona
onAbletunes RVRB please!
Gergely Pal
onAbletunes Retrotape would be nice to use.
Geri
SeaReady
onThe retro thingy
JohannGeorgFaust
onRetrotape
Thomas
onAbletunes Retrotape
Dhruv Negi
onAbletunes Retrotape
Sleep Allday
onRetrotape please nice plugin!!
Burak
onRetrotape that I need!
Lee Morgan
onRetrota,thx!
Mark Sotelo
onRetrotape, brotha!
Aaron
onI’d love to win Retrotape. Looks like a lot of fun and it would be great to add to my go-to plugin list. Cheers!
Maurizio
onRVRB!
Gresh
onRVRB, you can never have enough reverbs!
SC
onTough choice but I gotta say RVRB
fraz
onRetrotape for me! I like those X Y controls. Unusual.
David D
onRetrotape!!! :D
T.ROCKS
onRVRB sounds sweet, I’d love to win that one!
Real Trepanier
onRetrotape
Brian
onRVRB :)
Michal
onRetrotape definately
Alejandro
onI would love to try Abletunes RVRB. It seems like it can be used anywhere and it sounds nice :)
Andrew Hardy-Lark III
onAbletunes Retrotape
Deni
onAbletunes FX Mate. Good luck everyone!
Paul
onRVRB would be amazing :)
Will Clay
onAll 3 plugins would be great, but if I have to pick it’s Retrotape. The demos sound fantastic!