I wonder if you have to clean the heads and realign them after so many hours? And I like his studio setup... he's got a screen full of fake hardware devices, and a screen with a fake tape deck. And you can add fake wow and flutter! That's real analog!
$29? It’s a very good price - I didn’t look to see if you can save individual wave files - but that might make it fun to play with - but honestly as along term ‘Tape Daw’ it would be a PIA - I can pretty much get the sounds they are gettting with Logic - and have none of the issues with tape.
Maybe it's a new thing, a placebo for the "DAWphobes" who want the zen of spinning tape reels, who grew up playing with Tascam Portastudios or don't like to look at computer screens. Personally I can't see the need to steal computer cycles to make fake pictures. I would rather have a program that is uber efficient in processing the audio.