This is interesting

[RFR]

 

[TalismanRich]

I wonder if you have to clean the heads and realign them after so many hours? And I like his studio setup... he's got a screen full of fake hardware devices, and a screen with a fake tape deck. And you can add fake wow and flutter! That's real analog!

I'll keep Reaper. It works just fine.

 

[Papanate]

$29? It’s a very good price - I didn’t look to see if you can save individual wave files - but that might make it fun to play with - but honestly as along term ‘Tape Daw’ it would be a PIA - I can pretty much get the sounds they are gettting with Logic - and have none of the issues with tape.

 

[RFR]

I don’t really get it. With any daw you can do an analog style workflow if that’s what you want to do.

Maybe it might be nice for a ‘tape guy’ to transition to digital.

Anyway, it popped up, I shared.

 

[TalismanRich]

Maybe it's a new thing, a placebo for the "DAWphobes" who want the zen of spinning tape reels, who grew up playing with Tascam Portastudios or don't like to look at computer screens. Personally I can't see the need to steal computer cycles to make fake pictures. I would rather have a program that is uber efficient in processing the audio.

 

[RFR]

Now someone needs to come up with a plug-in that links the 16 and 8 track together.

I guess there’s a market for just about anything

 

[Slouching Raymond]

I wonder if you have to clean the heads and realign them after so many hours?

You would need a head cleaning app.

 

[DM60]

You would need a head cleaning app.

That reminds me when Discwasher sold special CD cleaning fluid and stated with will make your CDs sound better. Well, it was new technology

 

[Papanate]

That reminds me when Discwasher sold special CD cleaning fluid and stated with will make your CDs sound better. Well, it was new technology

I think they make a Disc Washing App now - so you can authentically clean your MP3s.

 

[rob aylestone]

People live in a permanent April fools day now.

 

[TAE]

Total silliness but there must be a market for it. Why only 16 tracks the way it is set up it could be unlimited tracks ez plz

 

[RFR]

Total silliness but there must be a market for it. Why only 16 tracks the way it is set up it could be unlimited tracks ez plz

But wouldn’t unlimited tracks destroy its purpose? It would make it like any other DAW when its purpose is to simulate working with tape, or at least a tape workflow.

 

[TalismanRich]

Apparently, the GCS Model 8 can do 24 tracks. It's currently in beta testing. Free version does 4 tracks but doesn't support external plugins. The full version is priced at $69 introductory rate and supports 3rd party plugins.

https://gulfcoastsynthesis.com/beta

GCS Model 8
A standalone 24-track tape machine and studio environment.
Built-in magnetic physics, analog-modeled synthesizers, and classic outboard routing.

01 Magnetic Physics
True mathematical emulation of tape transport. Control wow, flutter, oxide age, stick-slip (stiction), and dynamic frequency curves from 1" Master to Cassette.

02 Integrated Rack
Load the GCS A-10 Poly Synth, Voxtone Rhythm Machine, MonoBass, or Glissandio directly into the session. Route MIDI and audio natively without external hosting.

03 Analog Outboard
Process channels through component-modeled effects: LA-2A Opto Compressor, FET-76, Tape Echo, Spring Reverb, Parametric EQ, and Multi-Modulation.

04 Hardware Workflow
Punch-in with zero-latency monitoring, layer infinitely via Sound-On-Sound, bounce tracks internally, and link channels with VCA grouping.

05 Dual Interface
Operate in the skeuomorphic vintage console view, or switch to the distraction-free Minimal UI featuring configurable Light and Dark modes.

06 Session Resilience
Engineered for stability. Every fader movement and tracking edit is protected by background auto-saving and robust crash recovery systems.

 

[CoolCat]

nice video and the song was pretty enjoyable, the sound and placebo of tape did grab some "old school" vibe for me, the attempt at 1970's vibe and the rewinding of the tape might get old.

Actually I would take this over real tapes and all the hassles of that world. Those who spliced reel to reels still mystify me, don't get how anyone could do a 100 edits with a razor blade?

As TAE mentioned maybe a market for someone. It wasn't that bad was it?
Reminds me, I recall fighting with some "Harrison Console-DAW that looked like a mixing board with analog meters on every track", like a DAW Console of 1970's-
but some reason went back to Reaper - I don't remember why.

 

[bouldersoundguy]

Now someone needs to come up with a plug-in that links the 16 and 8 track together.

I guess there’s a market for just about anything

Nah, it needs a USB interface that lets you connect a real Lynx tape sync device.