Waves Retro Fi

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.

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.

FEATURES

• 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

Compatibility

 MAC OSX    WINDOW

 Windows Requirements

• Host application compatible with:
  
  • AAX Native plugins
  • VST3 plugins

• CPU
  Intel Core i5, i7, i9, Xeon (all Gen 5 and above)
  AMD Quad Core
  AVX Support required
  
  Memory
  Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
  16 GB free disk space on the system drive
  
  Operating System
  Windows 10 64 bit (21H2)
  Windows 11 (21H2)
  
  Screen Resolution
  Minimum: 1024x768
  Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
  

 Mac Requirements

• Host application compatible with:
  
  • AAX Native plugins
  • Audio-Unit plugins
  • VST3 plugins

• CPU
  Intel Core i7 / i9 / Xeon-W / Apple Silicon
  See notes regarding Apple Silicon based processors
  
  Memory
  Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
  16 GB free disk space on the system drive
  
  Operating System
  10.15.7, 11.6.5, 12.4. 13.0
  
  Screen Resolution
  Minimum: 1024x768
  Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
  USB displays are not supported as the primary display.
  
  V14 plugins require a graphics card that supports ‘Metal’