Retro Fi

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True Lofi Analog Magic

Spark real life in your tracks: Retro Fi is the ultimate lofi FX chain, with everything you need to produce authentic lofi textures, warm analog sounds, and mesmerizing nostalgic vibes.

Vintage cassette tones. Deep vinyl grooves. A massive palette of lofi noises, spaces, devices, and textures. Retro Fi has what it takes to breathe life into the dullest synth line, drum break, vocal adlib or instrumental track.

Retro Fi gives you four modules you can combine, each with its own flavors:

Device is a complete analog coloring and tonal shaping engine, armed with newly designed impulse responses, an era-specific Styler for 50s/60s/70s/80s retro tones, a squasher, a colorful compressor to add life to instruments or vocals, and more.
Space adds saturated echo and analog reverb (spring/plate) for colorful depth and bold spatial sounds.
Noise boasts a massive library of over 60 unique textures, including diverse cassette and vinyl noises among many other surprises. Its smart noise generation algorithm ensures that the textures you add are lively and ever-changing, never repeating themselves like a pre-recorded loop.
Mechanics delivers the beautiful imperfections and mechanical wear & tear of old cassettes tapes and vinyl records. This section has two independent modulation engines, each with its own adjustable wow, wobble and speed.

250 Artist Presets

For instant gratification, flip through 250 artist presets, curated by top producers and beat makers in hip hop, electronic genres, rock and beyond - including the producers for Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller, Dr. Dre, Dua Lipa, Post Malone, and many more.

Organic Textures with Real Analog Glue and Character

Retro Fi doesn’t just stack various random FX onto your tracks: it’s designed to act and feel like a true, living, breathing analog device. The four sections are built serially, while also internally routed, so they act together like a singular unit. The result: better-matched sounds that feel organically glued, without the artificial feel you sometimes get when adding a digital lofi effect.

Instantly vintage, timelessly classic - Retro Fi is the first choice for true analog lofi sound.

Everything you need to produce authentic vintage lofi sounds
Massive menu of lofi noises & textures
Diverse cassette & vinyl sounds
Analog device impulse responses for versatile analog tones
Two independent Wow & Wobble engines
Era-specific 50s/60s/70s/80s Styler
Lofi-flavored analog reverbs & echo
Squash control for upwards and downwards colorful compression
Smart noise generator for ever-changing textures that never sound like a pre-recorded loop
Master section with HP/LP filters and a Mono slimmer
Carefully matched FX chain for organically “glued” analog character

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Focus... Producer, Composer

Dr. Dre, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem

“The sexiest thing about Retro Fi is that you've got everything you need to create dope lofi sounds in one plugin. It truly gives you an experience, you can do different things with sounds than what you would normally hear – and it's all right here.”

Seige Monstracity Music Producer, Sound Designer

Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tyrese, Busta Rhymes

“Retro Fi is going into my 'favorite plugins' section. A few knob tweaks get me just the right amount of retro I need.”

Lu Diaz Mixing Engineer & Producer

DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Beyoncé, Jay Z

“Retro Fi is jam-packed with goodies. The cassette and vinyl effects are great, the retro Styler is awesome, and the huge number of options for noises and textures makes this plugin a big winner in my book. Love it!”

Iman Omari Producer, Singer, Songwriter, DJ, Audio Engineer

Mac Miller, Kendrick Lamar, Kaytranada

“Retro fi is the perfect tool to dirty up whatever sound you want in a cool and interesting way. It really lets you produce your own signature sound.”

Tyler Armes Artist, Songwriter, Producer

Post Malone, Lil Baby, Honors

“Retro Fi is a go-to plugin when looking for new ways to get that classic cassette sound. You can really push it and get some outside-of-the-box textures and tones. Fire!”

Roni Size Producer

“The world of vintage has just changed with Retro Fi's cassette simulation and 80s ,70s & 60s style sounds. If you’re a drum-breaks guy like me then Retro Fi is the plugin you’ve been waiting for.”

Krewella Singers, Songwriters, Producers

“You can take the most lifeless sample, vocal, synth line or guitar, and completely transform it into a sound full of emotion, nostalgia and color with Retro Fi.”

MarioSo DeJesus Mixer, Engineer, Producer

Wisin & Yandel, Tego Calderon, Celia Cruz, Jencarlos Canela

“Generic instruments are no longer boring with this plugin. I can easily add a 70s vinyl or cassette feel, or that old-school modulation with the Mechanics options.”

French Original Producer, Writer, Artist

Deadmau5 and The Neptunes, Meduza

“You can really get creative with the Retro Fi plugin. I love it that you can work with each individual layer, from Device to Mechanics, in a way that's so easy on your workflow.”

Matt Schaeffer Mixing & Recording Engineer, Producer

Kendrick Lamar, The All-American Rejects, Baby Keem, Bakar

“Waves Retro Fi is a great all-in-one lofi plugin that can get you anywhere from warped cassette to space echo and everything in between.”

Mark Ralph Producer, Songwriter, Mixing Engineer

Clean Bandit, Years & Years, Jax Jones, TIEKS

“Retro Fi has tons of tonal possibilities in this chain of effects. Super-useful for adding that old-school vibe!”

Chris Tabron Producer, Mixer

Beyoncé, The Strokes, Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blige

“Retro Fi is an inspiring tool that can immediately inject character into vocals, synths, drums and pretty much anything else you can throw at it.”

Tom Lord-Alge Producer, Mixing Engineer

Blink-182, Weezer, Live, Dave Matthews Band

“Retro Fi takes mangling sounds to a whole new level. F*** hi-fi, make it Retro Fi!”

Nick Brophy Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Songwriter

The Rolling Stones, Hootie & the Blowfish, Big & Rich, Jimmy Fallon

“Lots of ear candy from old cassettes to vinyl. Pick a Device and an Era from the Styler section, and you’re already halfway there. Designing vintage tones is easier than ever with Retro Fi.”

Billy Bush Producer, Studio and Mixing Engineer

Garbage, Jake Bugg, Boxer Rebellion

“I love the tweakability of the grit, grime, dusty ambience and seas of analog textures that Retro Fi adds to my tracks.”

Mick Gordon Composer/Producer

DOOM, Wolfenstein, Killer Instinct, Bring Me The Horizon

“Retro Fi gives me a lovely set of brushes to paint a nostalgic past. Got a boring loop you need to sound more special? Try running it through my presets for those dusty VHS aesthetics.”

Dave Darlington Composer, Recording, Mixing & Mastering Engineer

Avicii, David Guetta, Sting, Oz

“With Retro Fi I've got that old soulful glue from the records I grew up loving. Now I can add that mojo to my mixes, quickly – and there are plenty of extreme options if I want to go crazy, too!”