MIDI modding an average tape recorder then joining it with a

[Guest Pandable]

This is a freakin crazy idea but hear me out...

 

Take a Novation Bass Station Rackmount, with the external audio input.

Take a tape recorder.

Record random daily events or sounds onto a tape.

Feed the recorder through a noise gate and into the bassstation's audio input.

I cant recall wheather the bassstation can mix the signal between an oscillator and external, or if it's just oscillator 1 OR external. If you cant use both, this idea will be a lot harder.

 

Use the bassstation in a track while tweaking the filter and LFO modulation, while playing the tape. Provided you can use oscillator and external, this should morph the sound as the tape plays. Intresting for a lead line.

 

Better yet would be if you could midi-retrofit a tape player to stop and start at midi events... but that'll never happen.

 

If the bassstation can only use oscillator OR external input, you'll need to run the tape player through a noise gate into a small 2 or 4 channel mixer, with another synth on the other channel, and run those through the bassstation.

 

Regardless, it's a tad intresting... morphing according to tape play...

[Guest woggz]

how would u midi a tape deck? would u have one continious looped tone and then increase the speed of the tape deck? then ahave different gates? that'd be a project and a half. and in the end would probably sound like ass:-o...

[Guest Pandable]

Probably have a built in midi-cv converter and someway use CV to control when the tape starts/stops.

[Guest rnd]

damn thats dumb... use a sample for christ's sake

[Guest Pandable]

You missed the idea. Most samples arent an hour or so long, and cant be fast forwarded or slowed down in real time.

[Guest rnd]

use the computer then, you can have a 20 hours long sample and twist/bend it as much as you like... Speaking of bending, fast-fowarding/slowing-down a sample is called pitchbending and has been around since the first hardware sampler existed.

 

But I get the idea... Look up the Mellotron, you'll like it

[Guest Pandable]

Yeah, I'm familiar with the mellotron. Something down in me loves that thing.

 

But yeah, I see your point. It just seems do much more creative this way

[Guest fugelpitch]

why not use an aphex that is equiped with sync.