…what the hell is going on here? 
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@canecreek I got as a present an Atari Punk kit, it came with this sticker:
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Someone is playing Salsa.
I’ll get my coat.
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Welp:
I’ll put money on these being bought up and sold to hipsters and millenials for 2-3 times the price on eBay and Reverb (seeing how Tascam says “for a limited time”)
Mostly spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Evening playing with my SRC6, MS-100BT, and HD500X. Made some great ambient presets, though the poor MS-100 cries uncle pretty quick on DSP ability 
Wow… Never thought I’d see cassette making a comeback in earnest.
My dream machine in the 90’s was a Tascam 688. I wanted one so badly back then but the cost to get one was entirely too high for me.
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I have a 488mkII that’s sitting on a shelf (essentially storage; I don’t have room to really use it), but my understanding is that the 688 has a better head and ofc MIDI sync. I’ve considered modding it to have individual outs but that is spendy, and I should probably just sell it anyway
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The 688 also has a meter bridge and a 10 channel mixer (technically 20 channels).
At one point I was torn between the 488mkII and the Yamaha MT8X, but I would have needed a MIDI sync box for either one.
Cassette is shite. There. I said it.
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…why has no one named their Gallien Krueger bass amp models “Freddy”?? That is pure gold waiting to happen…
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Somewhere a hipster’s neckbeard just fell of their face.
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LMAO 
Back in those days, the only other viable option was to buy an ADAT machine and a decent mixer which would have run more money (maybe about the same as a 688 if you got the somehow cheaper, but feature packed Fostex RD8 ADAT machine which nobody bought for some odd reason).
For the average moe, cassette was the greatest thing to get you into recording.
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The workflow continues to rock hard.
Sub37 Bass
Prophet 8 holds down the intro melody/lead and the later 4ths tuned pad
Boog Model D is the arp later on
Virus is the sine wave ascending pattern
Samples ripped from Art Bell, chopped to 16th and banged out MPC style with some Altar Boy formant processing and Ableton Erosion.
Ableton Drum racks for beats, mainly samples from Yamaha RX series drum boxes.
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I can’t help but wonder how the IK X-Space compares to the Big Sky, but nobody is comparing them directly for some reason. Maybe there’s a reason I heard the Etheral algo and was in love, but my Trinity Reverb pedal has a really lovely one, too. ProGuitarShop had exclusive Tone Print pedals for a while and had exclusive algos to their pedals.
But let’s be real, IK made a big ass blue digital reverb pedal and knew what they were doing…
Moog be like “You know I got this held down.” I could feel my desk thrumming with it via my 8" monitors 
That’s a really nice part, and seems like the Prophet shines at it.
A nice little sprinkling of flavor and fun.
It’s practically singing like a lovely choir, I like it.
This sounds really, really cool, I love it.
Synthwave Approved 
And fits really well with the overall vibe, imo!
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Amen to that. I lived through the 80s bouncing stereo on cassette, used reel-to-reel and finally graduated to a Tascam 4 track in the late 80s. It was incredible for basement production just because it opened up so many possibilities.
That said, I have no idea why anyone with access to basic digital recording would want to relive those days. It’s like being enamored with the 70s and installing a bunch of ugly linoleum and uninsulated appliances in your kitchen to capture “the feel of the era”.
There’s nothing like a completely old, fuckered tape deck with decaying media to destroy some sounds…unpredictable and unique in a way that digital doesn’t do. It’s fun, but it’s niche and a hassle. I’ll never understand the want to ‘master’ out to tape, since everyone on tape back in the day was working really, really hard to get a better sound, not the tape sound. Total shite at the end of a mastering chain fo sure.
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This is what my $20 Tascam 414mkII is for lol. I got it from an old guitar player that was finally upgrading to digital, back before the hipsters and millenials caught wind of or decided they were the hotness. It’s kinda my lofi “secret weapon” - a wonky, in need of TLC tape player that plays things at double the normal speed so I have to pitch it down. It’s a lot of fun to sample from.
That was sexy af! Great track dude!
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I have a Tascam 424 and a 424mkii.
A guy gave me some old grainy 1990’s footage yesterday of him and his family visiting a cave complex.
So I got out the Yamaha CP reface and played 3 tracks and 1 track of strings from Omnisphere, put it all through the strymon Starlab and recorded 10 minute loops on each channel on the 424 MKii.
Now I can jam the track live riding the faders, later tonight I’ll be recording into Ableton, chop it up make a track and put some caving footage to it.
and yes it was a long process especially that patch bay of mine when I keep forgetting what is patched to what.
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Look at you, going all Alessandro Cortini on your friend.
Sounds cool btw
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