How To Make Music Using Tapes in 2026
We're back with a beginners tutorial on making music with cassette tapes!
We are going to show everything along the way, starting from zero all the way to actually making music with tapes!
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00:00 The Plan
01:13 Info about Tapes
01:58 Info about Players
04:56 What to record to tape
07:22 Making your first soundscape
10:22 Making a "gapless" loop
14:44 Your first set-up
15:49 Making a playable soundscape
19:29 Using tapes in an ensemble
20:44 Using a modded player as an instrument
22:44 Using tape samples in your DAW
26:24 "make a chune" hyperlapse
27:04 Tune finished, BREAD 🍞 👌
28:13 we out, gg, glhf✌️
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