[sdiy] Tape Deck Module Brainstorm (was Fw: Re: [AH] Sampler Module for Modular????)

[Kyle Stephens]

Hiya List...

There was some interesting talk recently on AH about recording with tape. I've no where near the funds nor am that infatuated with the sound of tape recording to invest in a full blown deck, but I had a lower-fi idea come to mind:

Take the guts of a few hand held (ie: small) cassette players (maybe 3-4), and stick em in a module. Have voltage control over recording and playback speed (with two decks one can tune playback to do octaves, chords, demonic vocal pitch pitch bends and slowdowns etc.), and triggered/gated playback (play sample for duration length X or as long as a gate is present).

Least these are the ideas I have so far - anyone else think of anything cool I could do with this, and what might be good ways to go about doing it?

Shifting and scaling 10V p-p CV to run the motors directly seems logical enough, and a 555/556 for integrating the triggers/gates...


_Kyle (out of the loop or onto something reel good?)


--- On Thu, 1/7/10, Kyle Stephens <lightburnx at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Kyle Stephens <lightburnx at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [AH] Sampler Module for Modular????
> To: analogue at hyperreal.org
> Cc: "chris neotek" <neotek303 at hotmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 5:49 PM
> Chris,
> 
> Seb Francis has a DIY toy in the works that is a sampler,
> among other things:
> 
> http://burnit.co.uk/sdiy/index.php?page=digimod
> 
> A few times I've spoken to him about it, and seem it'll be
> a while til it's fully available; the hardware is good to
> go, though the software needs some finishing up. Seb has the
> code he's done so far available if you ask for it, though
> you're asking here on AH and not SDIY, so dunno if you can
> ride that pony or not (I sure can't yet). It's an all SMT
> board, which may not be your cup of tea either, though it's
> cool enough to be worth the trouble imo.
> 
> 
> I've been playing with an idea of sticking the guts of a
> few handheld cassette players in a module, and have voltage
> control over record and playback speed, kinda a proto
> sampler/Mellotron-in-a-module, though again this is AH and
> not SDIY, so I'll save more thought on that for the other
> list :]
> 
> 
> _Kyle
> 
> --- On Thu, 1/7/10, chris neotek <neotek303 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: chris neotek <neotek303 at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: [AH] Sampler Module for Modular????
> > To: "AH" <analogue at hyperreal.org>
> > Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 10:33 AM
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is there such thing for a modular system as a sampler
> > module? Does anything like that even exist? 
> > 
> > I guess, it would have to have audio in and either CV
> or
> > MIDI
> > for triggering, with some input patch points for real
> time
> > sample manipulation. I think I’m dreaming, but I
> hope not.
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Chris.
> > 
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