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Hello all,

I'm working on a project where you could manipulate cassettes hands on like vinyl. You would also be able to manipulate via midi. I believe my target audience is djs, but would like everyones opinion. I'm calling it the cassette stepper.

There is a guy who has done some neat stuff with tapes. DJ Artyom or something like that. I believe there was a pretty good quote from him on CDM recently. Something about "club" and "copulate". I don't know if he had any MIDI stuff going on, though...

dual cass mixing is how many many folks started out, my personal opinion conveniently wrapped up as advice would be to keep in mind that there is a very nastalgic, warm and personal connection to the concept your project is based on. I'm not sure if you yourself have ever been into cass. mixing back in the day when it was very prevalent and if not then you should defenitley be aware that it is more important in the hearts and minds of people then you might think. To this day the closest analogy to it would be turntablism so you might want to look at it from that culturalistic context.
people were fanatical about those tapes and realistic was king, of course i remember almost losing my mind when i was able to go from a realistic to a sony dual deck, I thought anything in the universe was possible at that time.
oh how times have changed

btw cassette stepper sucks as a name, it sounds like you're letting the computer side of your brain handle that job, try the other side.
these names might suck too but then again they might not. feel free to use them in any case.

mixtape
tapedecks
holladeck
Rewind
fatdubs

that was fun. good luck

starving student wrote:dual cass mixing is how many many folks started out, my personal opinion conveniently wrapped up as advice would be to keep in mind that there is a very nastalgic, warm and personal connection to the concept your project is based on. I'm not sure if you yourself have ever been into cass. mixing back in the day when it was very prevalent and if not then you should defenitley be aware that it is more important in the hearts and minds of people then you might think. To this day the closest analogy to it would be turntablism so you might want to look at it from that culturalistic context.
people were fanatical about those tapes and realistic was king, of course i remember almost losing my mind when i was able to go from a realistic to a sony dual deck, I thought anything in the universe was possible at that time.
oh how times have changed

and then some of us started Pause Mixin' in the pre-double cassette era using a single cassette deck (portable or otherwise) and editing stuff off the radio or a walkman on the input.

Piano-key style pause buttons were king!


STRATEGY

DJ Ruthless Ramsey knows the score!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=088AWsTt ... m.au/blog/

That's nothing! Try beatmatching on a pair of these...

hambone1 wrote:That's nothing! Try beatmatching on a pair of these...

lmao