>I myself have entertained the notion of "inventing" a miniature
>Mellotron about the size of a cheapo Magnus toy organ and utilizing
>cassette tape and cassette tape heads.
Who hasn't thought about something like this...and on more than just one
drunken design session? :-)
In Keyboard mag a while back was a single tape 'tron...someone had rigged a
cassette deck to a keyboard that controlled the tape speed. Monophonic and
I'm sure horrible sounding. :-)
>I thought about it being a
>four track, but the trick would be to record the tracks in the same
>direction, let alone the playback heads being available only in mono
>and precise enough to align properly.
A readily available 4-track cassette recorder (Yamaha, Tascam) would do for
recording the tapes. For playing back I'm sure there are cheap 4-track
cassette heads floating about (I've seen them in car cassette
decks). Yeah, avoid the head moving mechanism and go with a 4-channel mixer.
I imagine one could devise a rack mechanism to hold tapes, even in the
cassette shells. It would need a new drive mechanism to keep it compact,
though, maybe along the lines of the Chamberlin.
No problem on key width, just space the cassettes.
...kl...M400 #805, don't you mean "space cadets"?
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