Waves Cassette
Kahlil Algya
Cassette is an audio plugin that imparts the unique character and sonic imprint of an often maligned recording medium, one that offers a sound like nothing else. This is not a tape machine, this is a time machine.
This is Wavesfactory's tribute to the sound that shaped their childhood. They discovered the passion for music between quirks and random fluctuations. Watching the meters move as they sang into an old microphone. Red peaks and analog saturation. Rewind, listen again.
Cassette is an audio plugin that emulates the sound of vintage cassette tapes and decks. It has been carefully modelled after exhaustive analysis of a high number of sound signals recorded into real tapes. As a result, you get the same sound and behaviour of the original units.
Magnetic tape is not sterile media. Because of that, it will impart its own sound signature to signals recorded into it. These include a different frequency response, frequency-dependent saturation, high-frequency compression, hiss, asperity noise and much more. Reproduction systems will also induce their fingerprint: wow, flutter, random high-frequency loss, crosstalk between channels, stereo unbalances and other.
Demos are fully featured, but have a brief (< 1 sec) sound drop-out every 45 seconds and cannot save custom user presets. Settings are retained however, so if you decide to buy you can pick up right from where you left off!
I have gone through many different cassette emulations. Some are great, but this plug in is the best. I often use it for modulation to give my signal a little movement. Brings things to life in exciting ways.
I tried a lot of cassette simulation plugins, but in my opinion, nothing comes close to the real thing as much as this one. Very flexible too so it can be used for many different purposes. And the drop out feature is simply amazing.. was looking for this! Really happy with it!!
ive been working with a 4 track for years, and ive tried a lot of tape emulations. this is the best one ive found by far. not only is it incredibly accurate, it focuses on the appealing faults of the medium, and lets you dial in everything individually.
on a side note, i miraculously got this working in Reason. for anyone who uses a DAW that doesnt support vst3, try making a copy of SketchCassette.vst3 and renaming it to SketchCassette.dll
i have no idea how or why this worked for me, i did it out of pure curiosity and it works perfectly. it seems like such a dumb way to fix something but trust me, try it out!
It does exactly what I have been looking for in the way that I have been dreaming. There are plenty of tape emulations out there, but none have the character of Sketch Cassette. I am going to have a lot of fun putting this on my current productions.
More people need to have this in the arsenal. spent a good amount of money on other plugins over the years and this is by far the best bang for my buck ive ever gotten with a plugin and ive had it for like ten minutes lol. mad ez to use, and instantly gives your track that authentic cassette warmth.
Oh Lord this sounds truly SHITTY and PRETTY. A perfect antidote to pristine audio and a super fun and quick way to get your scowl on. Run your funk jams through this. Run your dubs through it. Run your beats through it. Reap the rewards of Abherrants hard work.
When you play a cassette, the tape is run past a head that moves up and down from the charge on the tape. Just like a needle running over the etched sound waves on a vinyl record, the electromagnetic head of a cassette moves from the sound waves recorded on the tape. The movement of the receptor is translated into electromagnetic waves which are then sent to your speakers.
When you break it down, tapes and vinyl records basically use a similar playback technology, just done through a different medium. Tapes use a magnetically charged strip of cellophane run past an electromagnetic head for playback, while vinyl tapes literally scratch a needle over etchings in plastic. Tomato, tomahto.
Technology is ever-changing, especially in the music scene. Few transitions have so dramatically impacted the way we interact with music as the shift from cassette tape to digital format. This shift totally transformed every way we engage with music - from listening habits and medium, to sound production and distribution channels. The intermix of theory and history tinged with innovation makes this transition a riveting tale of the ever-evolving technology in the world around us.
How does one go about getting the .TAP extension files dumped from original cassettes back into a format that can be used and read by the Datasette? I have a TAP to WAV conversion program I've tried and an old school late 70s era tap recorder with new belts..etc. I attempted to use a standard 3.5mm male to male cable to try and "play" the wave files from my PC back to the cassette recorder and from what I can tell with wave form comparison, they seem to match. However, I've not been able to successfully convert any .TAP files back to .wav and then record the wave playback to a cassette to work.
Usually I get nothing as if the datasette doesn't see any data at all, or it will see something and begin loading and then after about 30 seconds or so, it will generate a bunch of gibberish on the screen and lock up the Vic-20.
Oh...and yes the Datasette does work as the Vic-20 I picked up had several tape programs such as a financial program and what I believe is the default tape that comes with the Vic-20 that contains a hangman game..etc. Those all seem to work just fine when I put them in and load them up.
Which exact software have you tried? While it was many years ago I had the need to convert digital files to audio, I recently read a thread at a different forum about someone doing something similar, and this was how he did it:
2. Configure WAV-PRG with suitable settings. Apart from default settings, you will want to select Machine to VIC-20 NTSC just in case, although the clock frequency tends to be so close for NTSC computers that VIC or C64 might not matter. Select WAV output, check the box for inverted waveform (important). The output volume can be default, otherwise it is known that too low volume will be difficult to load back but too high volume also isn't good.
3. Select PRG or I presume ready made TAP file to convert to WAV. Connect the tape recorder to the headphone output on the PC, with speaker volume about 70% of max - might depend on your sound card, as I've found that not all sound cards have equally much drive. Save the program to tape.
I did actually try this exact method stated above. That is how I compared the waveforms between what was converted to Wav format and what got recorded to the tape player via the microphone input. I even recorded one of the files from an original to wav directly into my PC and then attempted to play that wave and record it back onto a different tape. No luck. It is like there is something in the original tape recording that isn't getting brought over somehow or perhaps the bitrate. I'm just not sure.
My ZX Spectrum 48k seems very resistant to working with audio input. I no longer have any cassette players, so am relying on audio files from digital players. I have been able to save and verify a tiny BASIC program to a digital recorder, but getting the right volume to save files from playtzx or OTLA is eluding me.
If (and only if) your audio player is battery powered, and your Spectrum is the 48K or 128K toastrack model, try the following procedure, intended to boost the volume of your wave signal, as seen by the Spectrum EAR circuitry:
Then what? Just invert one of the channels so the voltage level of one channel, reffered to the other channel, will appear to be double the value of any of both channel reffered to ground (which won't be connected at all in our setup)
Change to the select tool (above the magnifier tool) and click the second track (the one below the other) as near as possible to the beginning of it. Press Home to bring the selection mark to the very beginning of the track. From the menu, select Edit -> Select -> Cursor to Track End so the whole track is selected.
I used a stereo to split channel lead using phono to jack adaptors (basically green line in to red/white phono audio connections). I'm sure there's an easier way but this is the way that worked for me.
In November 2014, AWS completed the large scale installation of a single membrane type power generating cassette at Lyness quay, Orkney. The purpose of the test was to demonstrate one large scale membrane and the cassette installation concept in a real sea environment.
The test included the design of the membrane and cassette geometry, including a novel backing shell intended to limit membrane strain, the fabrication, transportation, assembly, of the cassette and the commissioning and operation of the system mounted on a concrete barge at Lyness.
During the project, the team developed specialist materials for the membrane, developed and validated numerical models, conducted fatigue and strength tests on membrane joints and developed the modular cassette concept for practical maintenance offshore. We also carried out all the practical aspects of developing the valving, turbine and control systems, modifying the pontoon and completing the marine operations using local vessels.
We also gained valuable information on the environmental impact of our technology-including noise and vibration monitoring. Underwater video cameras showed fish were using the absorber as an artificial reef and were grazing on it.
On some freehubs i.e. Hope, the axle endcap can foul the drive on the XD cassette, so needs to be removed first before fitting.
It wasnt the problem I had this time, Think mine was actually not on square. but I noticed it when I did the wifes bike.
My family's first computer was an Ohio Scientific Superboard II--something that my father purchased around 1979. At the time, the Superboard II was about the most inexpensive computer you could get. In fact, it didn't even include a power supply or a case. If you wanted those features, you had to add them yourself. Here's a picture of our system with the top of the (homemade) case removed so that you can see inside.
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