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

[rdrake]

not quite a modular, but one of the guys in wolfeyes has a 3" reel2reel in his suitcase.  i think the mechanicals of getting/keeping the tape heads in alignment would be a lot of trouble... maybe better to keep the original housing and just circuit bend things like vc tape speed...



>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: lightburnx at yahoo.com
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Sent: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 -0800 (PST) 18:12:05
>
>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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