Bedtime company tape! is a new pocket-sized audio recorder and looper with four asynchronous tape heads, flexible routings, and effects.
Every musician wants to capture his ideas. You can use the computer, an audio interface, and the DAW in the studio. If you work DAWless, you can work with a field recorder, a mixer with a recording function, or other hardware. A new one will appear on Kickstarter soon.
Bedtime Company, a new company will launch an exciting little recorder called tape! in December that brings vintage tape recording to a pocket device.
Bedtime company Tape!
Tape! is a small pocket audio recorder described as a travel companion, studio gear, and creative canvas in one. The developers call it an audio sketchbook. The device is very compact and offers many ideas from vintage tape recorders.
It features four asynchronous tape heads modeled after cassette and reel-to-reel machines, which can be used to record tracks and happy accidents or even act as sound manglers. It can record up to 45 min per file writing at full speed and hold up to ~30 files.
According to Bedtime Company! the tape heads are not simple but are modeled after cassette and reel-to-reel machines. This brings with it the workflow and the color of the respective devices. The Teenage Engineering OP-1/OP-1 Field synthesizers also offer a similar concept with emulated tape heads.
There are two ways to record on Tape! unit: via the line-in socket or the high-fidelity stereo microphones. Plus, it can be a dry or wet signal. On YouTube, someone asked whether they would also include audio via USB-C. According to the developer, they are working on it.
Then, Bedtime Company Tape! also comes with the ability to bounce your recording to neighbor tapeheads.
The flexibility of the track signal chains will be a highlight. You can configure effects and modulation chains for each track, including individual FX send for each tape head, adjustable feedback for emulating delay lines, bit-crusher, saturation, adjustable noise, LFO setting, and more.
Bedtime Company has also implemented a looping function in Tape! You can loop specific sections of your recording and playback them faster or slower.
Further, Tape! can be operated with a wheel on the side and buttons on the top, an operation reminiscent of vintage cassette players and recorders.
At first glance, it looks like an intruiging little recorder. We’ll have to wait until all the features are known to get a better look. And, of course, the asking price which is at this point unknown.
The Kickstarter campaign for the Bedtime Company tape! will start in December. Stay tuned for more information.
More information here: Kickstarter
Interesting but there is a problem with the design, most part of the precious screen surface is given to pointless gimmick of two spinning circles and main necessary info of tracks and tapehead is made small and inconspicuous
The UI part is not really finished yet, also its just “tapedecks” app, others like portastudio or granular engine will have different user interfaces
This is app surely?