For some time now the free Tape Bus add-on, designed by gbSound (Germán Bou), has helped many composers, producers and DJs, to profile all kinds of instruments, and vocals, emulating analog circuitry and the connection between tape recorder and mixing console.
This plugin was programmed a few years ago when the 32-bit format was in force, being somewhat uncomfortable at present due to the change to 64-bit format, having to use wrappers to adapt it to current workstations.