Paper Effects

DEMO

Straight to the heart of the idea.
Nothing in between.

Mar Vista, California

Paper Effects Demo — DAW and hardware device

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RECORDINGWITHOUTFRICTION.

A DAW for the moment.

Paper Effects Demo is a Mac recording app built around one idea: the moment you feel something, you should be able to capture it. No routing screens. No project wizard. No menus between you and the take.

Designed to make you trust your ears, not your eyes — the way recording worked before every decision had a waveform attached to it.

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THE SPACE BETWEENIDEA AND RECORD.

Inspired by the immediacy of vintage

TEAC and Tascam tape machines.

The warmth of Yamaha mixers.

The permanence of cassette.

Combined with the precision of

Logic Pro and Ableton —

without the menus, the steps,

the friction between you and the work.

Designed to make you think with your ears,

not your eyes. The way it worked before

every take had a waveform to second-guess.

Built to keep you in a state of flow.

Built into the app道 · 81 chapters

“There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it — for there is nothing so effectual for which it can be changed.”

Tao Te Ching · Ch. 78No resistance. No friction.

Paper Effects Demo — Tao Te Ching reader

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BUILT TO KEEPYOU IN FLOW.

INSTANT RECORD

Hit record. That's it. No project wizard, no driver routing. The session starts when you do.

COMPRESSOR

DBX 160 VCA and Teletronix LA-2A optical — modeled from the hardware. The 160 is punchy and hard-knee. The LA-2A runs a full T4B opto-cell emulation with program-dependent release. Both have dry/wet mix.

1073 EQ

Neve 1073-style three-band EQ with transformer saturation. The same character that defined the sound of records in the 60s and 70s — LF, MF, HF shelves, plus a trim and drive.

MODULATION

Vibrato, Tremolo, Phaser, Chorus. Vibrato runs three algorithms: clean digital, Gem (Diamond Vibrato-inspired filtering), and full BBD emulation with companding and saturation.

TAPE · ANALOG · DIGITAL DELAY

Three delay characters in one insert. Tape modeled on the RE-201 and Copicat. Analog adds warmth and drift. Digital stays clean. Tone-filtered feedback across all three.

SPRING REVERB

Three spring tank modellers. The first is built from a forensic extraction of the Fender Deluxe Reverb's Accutronics tank — that bright, dripping splash. More coming.

VARISPEED

Jog the pitch in real time. Three calibrated ranges: TEAC 3340S (±5%), Portastudio (±12%), Tascam 388 (±15%). Classic tape machine feel under your hand.

TAO TE CHING

All 81 chapters, built in. Navigate by jog wheel mid-session — the ancient text the software was written around.

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FOR MUSICIANS.ONE TOOL.

Paper Effects was started in Mar Vista, California by musicians who kept running into the same wall: too many steps between picking up an instrument and capturing the take. Every session was interrupted by software. Every idea lost a little something by the time you got to record.

Demo is the answer to that problem. It's the tool we needed — and couldn't find anywhere else.

34.0195° N   118.4323° W

Mar Vista, CA

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READY WHEN
YOU ARE.

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