This is the result of my first hour with a Crudlabs Crudman. The Crudman is a walkman hacked to take MIDI or CV control for motor speed. This means that you can use cassette tapes to play play pitched sounds. In use it feels like a cross between a Mellotron and one of those old Yamaha Portasound sampling keyboards.

There's no planning on this track, just me cv sequencing the Crudman with a bunch of tapes I'd got ready for it and then collaging the results together in Live afterwards. It was purely to see what several instances of Crud would sound like jammed against each other.

There are no effects, compression or limiting. I fade out the first sound that comes in and there's a lttle bit of panning. Some of the sounds I used were lofi before even being re-recorded to tape (shoutout to samples of the Birotron).

The "rhythm" is a RYO Aperture low pass gate being pinged into self oscillation. The Aperture is another fantastic thing.

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Crudman Demo

A quick test of a Kawai R100 drum machine.

Sounds from of the R100 stereo out. Sparing use of Ableton EQ and Cymatic The Glue compression.

Sequencing from a Cirklon.

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