pulses

Published on Oct 11, 2013 wouter van Veldhoven·14 videos

"I had a little idea; back in the days people used the second track on a tape-recorder to record some pulses on to which a slide projector could be synchronized ( http://patentimages.storage.googleapi... ). I thought I could use something similar to synchronize samples recorded to tape to do some analog sampling. Every pulse signals the end of a sample (and the beginning of another) and shuts the motor down, an external pulse then starts the motor again on the next beat.

I tried it and it works! I just wanted to show here how the simple sample on the looped tape (on the right) gets synchronized to the sequence on my doepfer. I got carried away though and couldn't keep myself from using two other machines (the reversing tape-machine and the pitching cassette) and eventually it turned out sounding like some kind of weird pulsating scapish thing, I guess I've been listening to Dreamies and Silver Apples a lot lately :)"

via Wouter van Veldhoven on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge