WatKat - freeware Watkins 'Custom' Copicat simulator plugin

Post by **modman** » 23 Oct 2008, 11:02

WatKat is a digital “clone” of a Wem Watkins “Custom” Copicat. It sounds very lo-fi, noisy, irregular. When you turn it off and leave the tape loaded, the tape bends in proximity of the capstan, and this turns into a periodic pitch fall during echo playback; plus, it gets hot and the background hum gets worse in time... you should turn it off every now and then; the tape is never completely erased, and the capstan motor flutters... and it gets worse if you touch it while it's spinning; heads tend to get dirty very soon, infact you should clean them often. This is true for the actual hardware unit, and for the digital simulation as well!

Downloads are here

kierc · Post by **kierc** » 24 Oct 2008, 13:12

Thanks for this!!

Was looking into buying a Copicat, but will try this out first

DWBH · Post by **DWBH** » 24 Oct 2008, 15:11

Download Reaper. It's free, and great for recording, and using VST's, plugins and shit like that.

bajaman · Post by **bajaman** » 24 Oct 2008, 19:31

My friend downloaded Reaper - found it soooooo good and user friendly etc., besides being a very low drain of CPU, that he decided to pay for it - to encourage the developer to refine it further.
It is THE best recording program out there and makes excellent audio CDs
+100000
bajaman

Post by **modman** » 25 Oct 2008, 12:23

bajaman wrote:My friend downloaded Reaper - found it soooooo good and user friendly etc., besides being a very low drain of CPU, that he decided to pay for it - to encourage the developer to refine it further.
It is THE best recording program out there and makes excellent audio CDs
+100000
bajaman

Thanks for reminding us of this Baja, I think it is very important to see that community efforts are paying off big time for the average, non-commercially engaged musician. As my Google search revealed that Reaper downloads are now hosted at a number of different sites, one might forget about the intitial project, so here the link again:

http://www.reaper.fm/[/url]

Baja and myself already tried to convert the world in the Recording Software thread.

kierc · Post by **kierc** » 25 Oct 2008, 12:32

Thanks for the heads up, downloaded Reaper last night, gonna have a fiddle later on