Board:   [DoveNet] Pro-Audio Discussion
Subject: Re: Tape deck
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Wed Apr 22, 2020 21:03

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  Re: Re: Tape deck
  By: Digital Man to calcmandan on Tue Apr 21 2020 11:02 am

 DM> Nope, still terrible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPn3Gop2h1A

That's cool.

A few years ago, I bought a USB cassette deck to digitize some old cassette tapes.  Some of them are some music that seems to be unavailable on CD or online download.  In the 70s and 80s, Roland (synthesizer company) had an annual synthesizer music contest where they let people send in tapes of their synthesizer music, and Roland would choose their favorites (the winners would win some prizes), and Roland would release a cassette tape of the winners' songs.  My dad had the cassette of the 8th contest, which he gave to me a long time ago.  I also found the 6th & 7th on eBay, and I've been trying to find as many of the others as I can.  I have digitally recorded the tapes I have so far.  Also, I lost the cassette sleeve for the 8th a long time ago, so I'm missing many of the artist & track names.  I've found a few of them online, but the information is very hard to find, as are the tapes themselves.

I put my digital recordings of them on YouTube (which seems to be a popular site for music):
6th: https://youtu.be/1Bn6I801BhE
7th: https://youtu.be/Gi5JH1ZfZYA
8th: https://youtu.be/1sgibLoz9cA

I also put them on the Internet Archive:
6th:
https://archive.org/details/Roland6thAnnualSynthesizerContest

7th:
https://archive.org/details/Roland7thAnnualSynthesizerContest

8th:
https://archive.org/details/Roland8thAnnualSynthesizerContest_MissingInfo

I've also shared them on Reddit, and another Reddit user had the 9th tape and put it on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/roland-9th-annual-synthesizer-tape-contest

Nightfox

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