Plugin comparison
Specs, price and the Dubspot Score, side by side — with our verdict on which effect to buy.
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Contenders
ALIAS is orph's sampler and tape character plugin: four sampler colours, twelve tape settings, and wear tiles for vinyl and CD errors, at €39.
Effect / XLN Audio
RC-20 Retro Color is an XLN Audio effect plugin that adds vintage-style texture and character to recordings, emulating warm analogue and lo-fi recording equipment.
Technical matrix
| Signal | orph ALIAS | RC-20 Retro Color |
|---|---|---|
| Price | €39 / $39 | — |
| Dubspot Score | — | 8.6 |
| Formats | VST3, AU | VST, AU, AAX |
| Type | Sampler and tape character processor | Creative effect / character processing plugin |
| Price | €39 / $39, tax included | — |
| Trial | 7 days | — |
| Sampler characters | SP-1200, MPC60/MPC3000, S950, Mirage, three variants each | — |
| Tape | Subtle, Sat, Worn, LoFi, three variants each, level-matched | — |
| Latency | 1011 samples, 22.9 ms at 44.1 kHz | — |
| Audio | 32-bit float, 44.1–96 kHz, mono or stereo, no sidechain | — |
| Formats | VST3, AU | — |
| macOS | 10.13 or later, Universal, 64-bit | — |
| Windows | 10 or 11, 64-bit | — |
| Install | About 350 MB, about 110 MB RAM per instance | — |
| Effect modules | — | Noise, Wobble & Flutter, Distortion/Saturation, Degrade (bitcrusher), Reverb (Space), Volume Drops |
| Plugin formats | — | VST, AU, AAX (64-bit) |
| Mac requirements | — | macOS 10.13 or later (64-bit) |
| Windows requirements | — | Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) |
| Magnitude control | — | Single slider to scale the intensity of all active effects at once |
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