Nota Vintage
Nota Vintage makes things sound old, warm or worn: a dusty record, a stretched cassette, a VHS soundtrack, a tube preamp, a console bus.
Signal flow: wow / flutter → saturation → output stage → tone, head bump and band limit → hiss and crackle → auto gain → mix.
Layout: the State column on the left (Drive and Wear faders), a centre panel with three tabs headed by the character list, a right panel and a status line.
The eras
Section titled “The eras”Each character sets its own saturation, tone tilt, head bump, band limit and baseline hiss, crackle and wow: Vinyl, Cassette, Reel-to-Reel, VHS, Tube, Analog. Character off keeps your settings without the era’s voicing.
The transfer curve the saturation runs — Drive pushes it harder. Even harmonics only gives a warm, tube-like colour without grit.
The pitch drift over the last four seconds. Wow (slow, free or synced to the tempo) and Flutter (fast), each with its rate; Wear — an age macro that raises everything at once, and can follow the input; Stereo drift lets the channels wander apart.
Output
Section titled “Output”
The harmonics against the hiss floor. Noise (hiss, with a Hiss HP filter) and Crackle; tone — Tone, a Warm, Flat or Dark model, Low and High shelves; the output stage (Tube or Analog), Oversampling, Auto comp, Mix and Output.
Presets
Section titled “Presets”30 factory presets: vinyl (Dusty Vinyl, 78 RPM Shellac, Clean Crackle, Warped Record, Gated Dust), tape (Lo-Fi Beat Tape, Warped Cassette, Worn Deck, Chewed Tape, Walkman, Reel Warmth, Tape Saturation, Mastering Tape, Tape Sway 1/2, Seasick 2 Bars), video (VHS Fever, VHS Dream, Broken Tracking), tube and analog (Tube Glow, Tube Glue, Even Warmth, Hot Preamp, Parallel Tube, Analog Glue, Console Bus, Transformer Color, Crunch Drive, Neutral Saturator) and radio (Telephone Line, AM Radio).