Go back in time to the '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s and add deep vinyl grooves, classic cassette vibes, and inspiring lo-fi textures and spaces to your tracks with Waves Retro Fi Lo-Fi FX Chain Plug-In.
Remembering when hiss, surface noise, hum, color, wobble, and noise were part of audio, Retro Fi combines everything you need to create a lo-fi sound into just one plug-in.
Use this collection of analog sounds degraded from decades of neglect to bring vintage charms to modern music, push lo-fi sounds to the furthest edge of experimental hardcore, or create anything inbetween.
Vintage Cassette Tones and Deep Vinyl Grooves
- From turntable rumble to wow and wobble, turntables and cassettes were bedeviled by mechanical sounds. Retro Fi brings them back to life with textures that help you breathe life into the dullest synth line, drum break, or vocal ad-lib.
Choose from Varied Textures and Noises
- The library of 67 different noises includes vinyl, cassette, electrical, synthetic, mechanical, digital, and FX noise sources. Duck or gate so noises flow with the music, or lay them in as a background to provide texture.
Choose Era-Specific Vibes
- Choose from four decades ('50s through '80s), and four different interpretations of those decades. Squash with compression, push peaks with expansion, then tweak big with the tone—or if you want, go insane with ring modulation.
Bathe Your Tracks in Nostalgic Spaces
- Create a sonic space with reverb, from spring to vintage digital plate. Sync delay to tempo for percussive echo bursts, pan with ping-pong mode, do parallel processing, and add feedback from zero to infinity.
350 Artist Presets
- Over 350 presets launch you intro retro world, thanks to a dizzying array of artist presets created 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 more.