Waves have today announced Retro Fi, a plug-in that is said to offer Lofi analog magic to your tracks.
Retro Fi is a lofi FX chain, with everything you need to produce authentic loft textures, warm analog sounds, vintage cassette tones and vinyl grooves. Packed with a palette of lofi noises, spaces, devices, and textures, Retro Fi can breathe life into the dullest synth line, drum break, vocal adlib or instrumental track.
Retro Fi gives you four modules you can combine:
Device
Device is a complete analog coloring and tonal shaping engine, armed with newly designed impulse responses, an era-specific Styler for 50s/60s/70s/80s retro tones, a squasher, a colorful compressor to add life to instruments or vocals, and more.
Space
Space adds saturated echo and analog reverb (spring/plate) for colorful depth and bold spatial sounds.
Noise
Noise is library of over 60 unique textures, including diverse cassette and vinyl noises among many other surprises. Its noise generation algorithm ensures that the textures you add are lively and ever-changing, never repeating themselves like a pre-recorded loop.
Mechanics
Mechanics delivers the beautiful imperfections and mechanical wear & tear of old cassettes tapes and vinyl records. This section has two independent modulation engines, each with its own adjustable wow, wobble and speed.
250 Artist Presets
For instant gratification, flip through 250 artist presets, curated by top producers and beat makers in hip hop, electronic genres, rock and beyond - including the producers for Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller, Dr. Dre, Dua Lipa, Post Malone, and many more.
Organic Textures with Real Analog Glue and Character
Retro Fi doesn’t just stack various random FX onto your tracks:it’s designed to act and feel like a true, living, breathing analog device.The four sections are built serially, while also internally routed, so they act together like a singular unit. The result: better-matched sounds that feel organically glued, without the artificial feel you sometimes get when adding a digital lofi effect.
Waves Retro Fi FX chain plugin is currently available at an introductory offer price of $29.99. Head to Waves’ website for full details.