After my last post it occurred to me that I have a much better machine for cassette playback. One that will almost certainly deliver better quality, and it was almost completely staring me in the face.
I think I might try this next!
Category: Creative Process
The ‘creative process’ category is about anything that relates to or influences the creative process.
Old 4-track gives me a new idea
I saw this the other day as I was looking for something else and had remembered that I’d bought it so I could retrieve some old 4 track tapes from complete obscurity. I had some notion that I’d revive the tracks and even add to them. Who knows if that would’ve ever worked out. However, at the time when I bought it I didn’t go ahead with the plan as this 4 track doesn’t have multiple track outs. It only has a stereo out, which kind of ruined the idea. My very first cassette 4-track was an X-15 which did have 4 outs, but sadly this doesn’t.
Anyway, as I saw it the other day I had a new idea of how to make this work. So, when I can get some time to set it up I might try and get it working.
If I do, you’ll hear about it. I it fails, we’ll never speak of it again …
SoundLab and Heart n Soul on the British Council site
It was great to see this on the British Council web site just before Christmas. A really good endorsement of the superb work that Heart n Soul do.
Some more littleBits experimentation from me
Another mention over at littleBits
Those lovely people over at littleBits have been kind enough to give me another feature as well, on their maker’s page. You can view it here.
littleBits SoundLab and me
This was really nice of littleBits. They put up a page about me and SoundLab on their site. You can see it here.
MIDI, CV and Audio IO coming to littleBits
These are going to be awesome and really transform the whole littleBits music and sound design experience.
ThereMIDI for the Theremini
I’ve got onto the beta test list for this app for accessing all the MIDI parameters of the Moog Theremini, which is a really exciting prospect.
Thinking about Ototo and MIDI
After a little while of playing with the Ototo and enjoying what it can do I now want to attach it to some gear to play with it via MIDI. So my next experiments will be using Ototo to drive apps and other devices over MIDI and we’ll see where that takes me.
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