What is Cyrills? Here is the website for tape!
https://b.edti.me
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Cyrills is the Dev, Iāll edit the title for clarity ! Thx.
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Definitely an interesting take on the digital tape looper emulation model. Cute format, and depending on the price their kickstarter will probably get funded. Reminds me a lot of homebake instruments tapes.
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Very cute! Looking forward to learning more about this project. Looks like the playdate screen
I can see myself playing with this if reasonably pricedā¦ Whatās your bet on Price ?
$500
most part of the precious screen surface is given to pointless gimmick of two spinning circles and main necessary info of tracks and tapehead is made small and inconspicuous
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This is yet another little thing that looks really cool as a ātoyā (as in, looks really fun to use, but not something I would be able to practically work into my main hardware setup) but Iām fairly certain its price will be too high for me to justify using that way.
Like Iām really interested in OP-1 and TEās little field recorder, that sort of tape workflow looks really fun, especially OP-1 since itās built into the thing youāre making music with. But I just donāt feel comfortable throwing that kind of money around when I already have a hardware setup that Iām satisfied with.
Itās also not clear how long this thing can record for? Is it mainly intended for short loops or can you record full songs on it?
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I suspect the price will be a bit inflated and probably follow a typical kickstarter model of something like $330-350 for earlybird and $400ish at launch. Developers are in Wilmington, DE so if they source parts domestically and assemble this in the US you can probably expect that price to be higher.
I can see the perspective that this wonāt be worth the cost, but my feeling is that if TE released the same product with a āwhiterā color scheme that it would sell for twice that price and without people batting an eye, so as far as the degree of functionality Iām keeping an open mind.
Definitely a gimmick, but that doesnāt mean that itās any less useable than an actual tape player with the exact same functionality minus the digital storage.
Now, mechanically speaking, one might infer additional value from an analog tape device but if you want to be technical about it, a digital emulation like this is more reliable than actual tape device however from a consumer standpoint feels a bit like an overblown zoom h4 with some trade offs on the feature set and in a tomogatchi style package.
I do think itās cute and could probably be fun but I would not value this at $400-500 in 2024-2025 and so it will have to be something you really want to play with, and then really really want to find a way to work into your compositions if a person intends to get that much value back out of it.
Just an opinion of course, but I suspect this will be more expensive than the aforementioned ātapesā by homebake, and that would then put it somewhere in the price range Iām expecting.
If there were a synth engine built into it or they made it clear there was midi control, stuff like that, then I can see this being formidable as an inspirational tool. My experience with stuff thatās hard to integrate into your workflow, however, is that you go through a honeymoon period and then it starts to sit on a shelf or in a drawer for longer and longer at a time.
This is purely opinion, and they havenāt even launched the kickstarter yet, so who knows what changes of course this will take before it actually makes it into someoneās hands.
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personally, i just want one so i can do little field recordings at my job without looking like im holding a taser to a child, as is the case with the zoom h1e
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i like it. u dont often see a pocketble looper with a stereo mic and multi fx. i can see myself finding uses for it that a bunch of other devices together cant do.
i think its silly to expect competitive prices for homemade devices. 400 seems reasonable.
if all you want to do is meditative loops on the go, away from the phone, this fits great.
i dont see myself getting one as i already have a sampler and a field recorder. but if i didnt, i would consider.
going for a walk with this and a kalimba would slap.
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Attached to OP-XY you now have OP-1F+XY.
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I like it also, people have been asking for an asynchronous looper for ages, and the way this unit visualises its tape is great. Keen to hear more as the campaign develops.
Between this and the Tp-7, itās nice to see some pocketable recorders again - agree with the above tazer comment, decent portable recorders have become super bulky since the R-09 days
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I like hardware just as much as the next guy but with this Iād just as soon use my iPhone.
someone can help clarify, because i donāt really know at all, but isnāt the developer in russia or the ukraine or something? and they had to set up an american company for the kickstarter i thinkā¦