Any reel to reel tape (and portastudio) simulations?

anickt

@Simo said:
Speaking of Tap Delay, I didn’t realize before that the AU presets don’t show up unless the standalone app is opened before the Audio Unit after installation. (As mentioned above.) Sorry for the tangent, but I was wondering, does this happen with any other AUs? Which might therefore call for a reinstall.

There are others. Can’t think of any specifically. .

u0421793

@syrupcore said:

@TheVimFuego said:

@studs1966 said:

@u0421793 said:
This is what I have left, unopened:

Your missing the ole classic Zip Disk matey in your collection. When I use to have a Roland SP 808 back in the day.

https://jimatwood.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/roland-sp808.jpg

Dat takes me back, I loved that thing! Built in D-Beam too.

The disks were sub-optimal design tho ..

"DAT".

Strangely, there isn’t a DAT in that photo of other unopened media of mine. I do have a few unopened DAT tapes, I think, I certainly have a box of about 20 of recorded-on ones, and I still have a dat recorder (though not the ones I recorded those dats on). I have a Panasonic SV-3800 which I bought exceedingly cheaply quite a few years ago purely to dump all my DATs onto computer (the old white MacBook had optical in and out in the 3.5mm audio jacks). Once it was done, it was no longer needed, but is still up in the attic.

JRSIV

@u0421793 said:

@syrupcore said:

@TheVimFuego said:

@studs1966 said:

@u0421793 said:
This is what I have left, unopened:

Your missing the ole classic Zip Disk matey in your collection. When I use to have a Roland SP 808 back in the day.

https://jimatwood.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/roland-sp808.jpg

Dat takes me back, I loved that thing! Built in D-Beam too.

The disks were sub-optimal design tho ..

"DAT".

Strangely, there isn’t a DAT in that photo of other unopened media of mine. I do have a few unopened DAT tapes, I think, I certainly have a box of about 20 of recorded-on ones, and I still have a dat recorder (though not the ones I recorded those dats on). I have a Panasonic SV-3800 which I bought exceedingly cheaply quite a few years ago purely to dump all my DATs onto computer (the old white MacBook had optical in and out in the 3.5mm audio jacks). Once it was done, it was no longer needed, but is still up in the attic.

I too have lots of DAT's with mixes, sounds for sampling, etc. recorded on them. A huge regret I have is selling my Tascam DA-30 mkII DAT machine, it was rock solid & for even todays standards the A-D converters sounded great. But after I got a CD burner it just seemed superfluous.

DAT machines haven't lost too much of their value (I still want to get one to play/transfer all my tapes), a DA-30 mkII or Pioneer, Sony, good comparable brand in good shape & running smooth are $350+ easy.

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anickt

@Max23 said:

@anickt said: No digital method will ever approach the hands-on results and sound of real analog tape.

Cough. You mean the hour long process of cutting and glueing tape ?
There are enough good tapeemulations on the market that sound convincing to my ears
We are living in the matrix now.
Everything you thought was analog is digital.

No - cutting and splicing tape never interested me all that much. But recording, layering sounds with different techniques, overloading the tape and such is something I don’t believe can be replicated digitally with the same result. Slowing something way down via repeated bouncing from tape to tape yields a completely different texture than doing the same thing digitally. Different tape machines sound different. Analog is different than digital in my experience. Not necessarily better - just different with different results.