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DAWCassette by Klevgrand - A Virtual Cassette Tape AUv3 - Brilliant Effect
Here is my demo/tutorial thing for the most excellent DAWCassette
You can get DAWCassette here at the App Store
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daw-cassette/id1368962464?mt=8&uo=4&at=1l3voJz
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Sounds very good Doug. My old Fostex 4 track recorder/mixer has Dolby C-NR...wonder how it compares to the Dolby A and K
It's amazing, isn't it? I spent YEARS cursing cassettes under my breath, and working furiously to minimize tape noise. Now we have an app that gives it all back to us.
What a time to be alive.
My feelings exactly!
Cycles and pendulums swinging and what not
Cassettes are in the up turn, In the UK they have even started stocking blanks at supermarkets again.
$8 seems kind of steep for a one-trick eq pony
Running SidTracker64 thru DAWCasette is pure nostalgia for me!
(I used to make mix-tapes from game-music when I still had a real C64).
It's also very good for creating samples with old-school feel and it's a blast to process, freeze, process, freeze in Cubasis!
I've yet to find a proper process to emulate the crunchy 8-bit samplers I used on the Amiga where the poor A/D was overdriven beyond reason to keep the noise-floor reasonable and to fully utilise all the 8-bits and setting the sample-rate as low as possible to conserve memory. That 'sound' can not be properly re-created by down-sampling and as far as I know there are no samplers on iOS with different interpolation options for even more added crunch and aliasing noises
One trick I used when sampling drums/sounds from my SY85 was to pitch the source sound 2 octaves down and sample at 4Khz and when the sample was then played ad higher pitch it got a certain sound to it...
I'm almost in the same ballpark using Shaper and DAWCasette...
(It would be neat with a 50Hz & 60Hz 'mains hum' AUv3's that could be used for added flavour).
Awesome demo. Will be buying. Can’t wait to try this on everything. Especially iKaossilator tracks before they go to Grand Finale. Klevgrand is being quite impressive lately
Thought it might just be a gimmick but it actually sounds good.
Ugh... I really want to not like this. Why must I always be wrong?
GOT IT! it works pretty good for Lo-fi aesthetic ..........waiting for MSXII sound design to drop there cassette AU too.....then we kick some ballistics out the speaker.
I tested this quickly with some bass patches from moog little phatty this morning and i think it sounds great. Gives a really nice compression/saturation and overall tape sound
Most iOS synths have a touch of brittleness to them. This helps that and does a lot more. Just AB source vs effect and tweak for your desired result. Well worth it IMHO.
It does seem like the idea of Tape-anything is largely synonymous with big warbling and general Boards Of Canada-isms while Klevgrand's DawCassette is a more true emulation rather than a general lo fi "trippy" effect. For those looking for the psychotropic feels there's a world of AU chains waiting to be connected and for those who value the concept of Cassette as much for sonic limitation as anything else Daw Cassette is a slam-dunk win.
Thanks for all the nice words folks (and thanks Doug for the great video)! I've been lurking here a bit since the release but haven't had the time to answer questions etc (goes for both cassette threads). I'll try to make some time for that tomorrow. Anyhow! If you like the app, we'd be more than super-mega-happy if you rated and/or reviewed it on the App Store. Cheers! Johan / Klevgränd
Just found the saddest recording I've ever made...
Was rummaging around looking for an old portable cassette player/recorder that I remember I used to use to listen to mix tapes and record the lectures at school.
Wanted to play around with tape looping, and lofi recording stuff, etc. to compare to some of these app effects like DAW cassette, Tap Delay, Master FX, Audio Damage combos, etc.
Finally found the recorder and another one as well. Not sure if I can get them working again because one got stored with the batteries in it and got battery acid inside. One didn't have batteries in it, but my rechargeable batteries won't really turn the motor hard enough with a tape in it, and I can't get the stop button to come all the way out on it's own. They may be shot and not worth repairing.
One of the players had a tape in it labeled "Spain/Morocco 1997". That's the trip I was on when my mother passed away. I had my last phone call with her from a payphone in Marrakech. Was being antagonized by some Marrakech street pusher trying to sell me all kinds of evil drugs and services. After screaming at him, he finally chuckled and schlepped away.
Was able to get the tape out of the recorder and put it into a home tape deck I still have but never use. At first it sounded like it was all school lecture recordings. Rewound the tape about halfway and heard my voice from 21 years ago, along with some street market sounds of Marrakech. Evidently, I was recycling a lecture tape on the trip and recording my travel experience.
From the point I hit play, it sounds like I've just got the news of my mom's passing. I'm recording how I feel as I walk like a zombie through the old city kasbah.
Harsh.
So strange to be transported that far back, so quickly and vividly... from just a few seconds of cassette recording. Felt the same grey, raw, cold feeling I felt that same afternoon so long ago.
I don't think I can listen to it just yet... maybe later with some vino.
Ok... so much for my momentary fascination with lofi iOS cassette tape effects.
@skiphunt wow what a find! My condolences on the situation though. Sounds corny but maybe you recorded that and found it now for a reason.
So strange to be transported that far back, so quickly, effectively and vividly... from just a few seconds of old audio cassette recording.
Instantly felt the same grey, raw, empty coldness I felt that same afternoon so long ago.
And, kind of strange I'd stumble on this audio relic the same month as her passing.
I think I'll call this... her reaching from beyond and reminding me to remember.
Appreciate you taking time to share @skiphunt , there are indeed some weird reasons we stumble on stuff seemingly at random (I don’t subscribe to the random thing though).
On the subject of passed parents being kept alive through audio I can hear my late father’s voice on the backing vocals to Crowded House’s Weather With You as clear as a bell.
My name is Matthew and the “with you” refrain sounds like him calling my name.
Weird.
Moving memories being shared here.
@sundhage I love the little spinning tape heads
How about adding a tape jam effect? That gobbled up sound could sound so crazy depending on the music playing.
@sundhage
i like spinning tape spindles too (spinning tapeheads being a vhs thing )
any explanation as to why they spin backwards? does this tape deck have auto-reverse
Does the 'pulled' spindle get faster as the tape moves to the 'puller' spindle ? You know, if you want that FULL cassette experience
Does it emulate track bleed?
yes! i want all of that.. siphoning of the black doughnut of tape from one side to the other.. existentially eeking out my limited minutes on earth symbolically at one and seven eighths of an inch a second!
Picked it up. I had just taken an old vhs out if the closet and was going to set it up to record snippets and spit them out lo fi but this is way easier and sounds pretty nice. This weekend it gets a workout
I love that the Dolby settings simply chop out the ultra high end, just like the old-school Dolby filters did. So great... I've used this plug-in on literally EVERY jam I've made since the beta dropped.