Patina uses digital technologies to transfer analogue recording attributes into modern studio productions.

You can stream your vinyl with A2D2.
Now you can make music that sounds like vinyl too.

Minta Foundry presents Patina as a plugin suite which enables music producers to incorporate analogue recording characteristics into their digital music production. This plugin incorporates genuine tape hiss alongside vinyl crackle as well as lo-fi saturation effects, which produce authentic gritty sounds.

This approach avoids being retro simply for retro's sake. The software enables users to save the essential qualities of their preferred formats despite working within digital audio workstations.

What Is Patina?

This plugin offers users a straightforward method to reproduce the sonic characteristics of tape recordings and vinyl records as well as vintage audio equipment. This plugin offers more than a standard lo-fi filter does. Patina lets you go deep:

• Add subtle dust or dramatic decay
• Choose from dozens of impulse responses from analogue sources
• Fine-tune every scratch, flutter, and hiss
• The audio processing runs your audio content through a thrift store and a time machine as well as a haunted tape deck to deliver sonic gold.

Why It Resonates with the A2D2 Stream Audience

Our development team created A2D2 Stream as a solution to bring real-time analogue audio streams to contemporary systems through direct transmission without requiring any conversions. And Patina? The plugin provides digital artists with the capability to reintroduce the same essence found in analogue production into their digital music-making process.

Perfect pairings:

Sample-based producers can use Patina to age new loops

The authentic imperfections in lo-fi beat production can be integrated by musicians who work with lo-fi beats.

The system enables users who love analogue audio to integrate their physical and digital equipment.

A2D2 Stream allows users to stream the vinyl records and cassettes from their collections through their speaker systems. Meanwhile, Putina lets users create new music which has the same authenticity as the items in their record collections.

Glitch, Groove, and Glue

Our attraction to physical formats persists because of their unique characteristics. They’re flawed. And those flaws? They breathe. The plugin Patina precisely captures the unpolished nature of music created by human hands instead of computational algorithms.

Just like A2D2 Stream, it says:
The need to select between vintage feel and modern convenience no longer exists. You can have both.

Does the sound difference interest you? 

Check out the Patina plugin here. 

Want to explore more about the intersection of analogue and digital? Read our related blog featuring smart vinyl here.