What's with this funky little pixie?
A standalone 16-track tape- machine DAW designed for producers, songwriters and recording artists who want a faster, more decisive workflow.

TAPE DAW | TAPE 16 Tape Machine DAW for Modern Music Production https://share.google/rcgXKfru82CZxWy83

 

This DAW has been popping up all over the place today!

It looks and sounds really interesting, but still in development.

Here's a review I saw

 

What kind of tape does it use? I still have some 2" reels of Ampex 456 laying around. Can it use that

 

I wish we had tape mode in other DAWs.
Something like a Tascam MX2424.
There I could punch in and out all day long and get one wav file in the the end.
So it's not rocket science.
With any DAW I end up with hundreds of wave clips I have to bounce and clean up at some point.
And having that thing here on a second machine to use it as a dubber is not that fancy I'd say.

 

Funnily enough I still have some Ampex tape still in the shrink wrap.

 

I like how the creator is thinking, he was negotiating with himself about offline bounce, i´m not focusing on that but he makes decisions which will fit a certain kind of workflow, whoever starts using it might loose the overthinking part and laborious repetitive patterns from the daws and possibly be more productive. Weather it fits everyone or not, i´m sure someone will try to turn it into Ableton, wanting both options etc..

I used this Sonicbytes Phrazor "DAW" and got quite happy with it because it just limited me enough for me to start coming with solutions and making decisions, stop overthinking and so on, so i have a good feeling about this one.

 

On PT you can use Avid's Heat to mimic tape input (just the harmonics, not the behaviour or the imperfections) and the algo was designed by Dave Hill from Crane Song. That's one of the only things i envy from PT core users.

It's kinda the same envy i have for StudioOne users using MixFX thing to emulate the input of an analog console. Those things should be standards IMO. It's would kill from the beginning the need of buying emulations.

 

If this thing actually gives you 16 tracks only and you can set it so you have to erase over takes to do them again that would be cool! I grew up using tape and the emotional roller coaster involved in decision making and the kick up the arse to actually have to get it right was invigorating to say the least. Obviously today is better but it's a vibe for sure. Maybe we could sync two computers up using SMPTE lol!

 

UA Luna has a lot of this baked into it, minus the obvious picture to really let you know it.

 

I wish we could get the pro version of LUNA on the sister site, without the UA Connect dependency and other garbage required to run it.

 

Great idea - an offshoot of Yamaha's iOS Audio Rec app (which I've been using since 2014 or 2015 - great app).