Monday, January 14, 2008

Tape-o-tron

Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2DL9WoIGtM


A monophonic MIDI keyboard-controlled cassette player with the following features:
  • 17 semitone range
  • Potentiometer for sweeping up and down the motor speed smoothly
  • Pitch-bends control the motor speed
  • LFO that is mapped to motor speed delta values
  • LFO includes user-controllable depth and speed
  • Mute switch remembers the last motor speed value pre-mute
It sounds quite okay (dependent on source material).


2 comments:

Tristan Louth-Robins said...

I can't make up my mind what it actually sounds like: maybe a cross between a castrato and an ondes martenos. It's very good though. :)

Sebastian Tomczak said...

hey, thanks tristan. yeah it has quite an antique sort of sound to it i think.