Safari Pedals Everything Bundle 2026.05 (macOS)

You know that moment when a track needs a bit of grit, a different space or just something to stop it sitting still. Safari Pedals Everything Bundle is the rack you reach for. It sits on individual tracks — Cassette Bunny adding its lo-fi wobble to a vocal, Zebra Clipper catching peaks on a drum bus — and it works just as well across groups or the master bus. Rhino Reverb can open up a synth pad or glue a submix. Hawk Phaser and Owl Control give you movement and level shaping without leaving one plugin window.

The bundle runs in VST3, AU and AAX on macOS (11 or later, Intel or Apple Silicon). It includes Lion Master, Rabbit Tape, Yak Delay and the rest of the Safari Pedals line-up. You treat it like any other channel strip, only the character comes from a dozen different pedals in one package. No hunting through menus to find the right flavour — it is all here.

Version 2026.05 adds Cassette Bunny to the collection. Install is straightforward: open the package, follow the instructions inside and authorise the plugins. After that, it is just another insert on whatever needs it.

Putting together a vocal chain with the bundle

A common starting point is a single vocal track that needs both character and control. Insert Cassette Bunny first for its saturation and the slight pitch wobble that takes the edge off a clean recording. Follow it with Dragon EQ to cut the low-end rumble and lift the presence region — the curves stay musical, so you are not fighting the filter. Owl Control next, set to catch the loudest phrases before they hit the reverb. Then Rhino Reverb on a send, dialled to a small room with the mix low; it sits behind the vocal instead of swallowing it. If the track still feels static, Hawk Phaser on the send with a slow rate adds movement on the verb tail only. That is four plugins from the bundle doing different jobs without leaving one insert slot wasted.

Cassette Bunny adds dedicated lo-fi tape wobble

• Cassette Bunny added — a dedicated lo-fi/tape-wobble plugin that was not present before. It means you no longer need to fake cassette saturation with a combination of other plugins.
• Bundle composition — the collection now includes twenty-seven individual plugins. The only practical difference is one extra insert option in your menu.
• No other feature changes — existing plugins keep their same controls and workflow. If you were already using the bundle, nothing moved or broke.

Forgetting Cassette Bunny replaces plugin stack-ups

Overloading the master bus

It is tempting to throw Lion Master and Zebra Clipper straight onto the master and hope for loudness. The bundle is designed for individual tracks or groups. Putting five character plugins on the master bus usually ends in mud. Use one — Lion Master for gentle glue or Zebra Clipper to shave transients — and leave the rest for individual channels.

Ignoring the order

Beginners often drop plugins in any order and wonder why the sound gets worse. Dragon EQ before Cobra Fuzz gives you a clean signal hitting distortion. Cobra Fuzz before Dragon EQ lets you shape the distorted signal. There is no right answer, but ignoring the chain entirely means you hear the flaws of the order, not the plugins.

Forgetting the bundle includes sends

Plugins like Flamingo Verb or Ladybug Reverb work well on aux sends, not just as inserts on every track. Beginners insert a reverb on every individual instrument and wonder why the mix turns washy. One send with Flamingo Verb set to a short decay gives the whole mix a shared space without eating headroom.

• Cassette Bunny added to the bundle.

• macOS 11 or later
• Apple Silicon / Intel