TAPE SCULPTOR: Build your own tape machine!

[whyterabbyt]

Is this really as absurd?

Yes.

[Ronny Pries]

Maybe autism is contagious

Yes.

I'm fine with both.

How about getting back to the actual topic again?

[kevinsparks]

I look forward to demoing this magnetic recording media simulation very soon.

[vurt]

neither cassette or reel, are very good at being tape anyway.
you try using either to parcel something up.

[jens]

Additionally, "Tape" has been synonymous here in Germany with Cassettes. When talking about games. "Tape vs Floppy Disk".

Mixtape also seems to be oddly format specific.

So: yeah, I'm aware that all these plugins are called "Tape". And find it unsettling.

I'd be fine with being mistaken. Could this be exclusive to Germany?

Ah, no, I think it's basically just you mitranslating, misremembering and confusing stuff.

In Germany:

a tape-machine is "Bandmaschine" or more specifically "Tonbandmaschine" or "Bandgerät" or "Tonbandgerät" - band = tape
(Klebeband = adhesive tape and Tonband = audio tape (however Haarband = hair ribbon); Ton (in this context)= audio; Gerät = device)

... reel on the other hand would be "Spule" in German, which nobody ever uses (or used, for that matter afaik/afair) when talking about the machine.

in the 80's a tape-cassette was a Tonbandkassette and a tape-cassette player was called Kassettenspieler(player = Spieler) so in German it was basically (at least for the most part of it) a word-by-word translation of the English terms.

But along came the hipsters - and because they were so very hip, they used a lot of Anglizisms - so a Band was a tape - but the hipsters weren't interested in tape-machines in the slightest so they didn't need a hip word for these...

and thus the German word "Band" was used by the non-hip people dealing with tape-machines and "tape" was used by the hipsters whenever they talked about their silly cassettes (where they were super-proud (as if they had anything to do with even just a single note of the actual music they used) of making their own silly, semi-random sampler-cassettes they handed over to anyone who had absolutely zero interest in listening to it - and these the wankers then called "mixtape".)

[aMUSEd]

Thanks guys for keeping it 'reel'

[vurt]

Additionally, "Tape" has been synonymous here in Germany with Cassettes. When talking about games. "Tape vs Floppy Disk".

Mixtape also seems to be oddly format specific.

So: yeah, I'm aware that all these plugins are called "Tape". And find it unsettling.

I'd be fine with being mistaken. Could this be exclusive to Germany?

Ah, no, I think it's basically just you mitranslating, misremembering and confusing stuff.

In Germany:

a tape-machine is "Bandmaschine" or more specifically "Tonbandmaschine" or "Bandgerät" or "Tonbandgerät" - band = tape
(Klebeband = adhesive tape and Tonband = audio tape (however Haarband = hair ribbon); Ton (in this context)= audio; Gerät = device)

... reel on the other hand would be "Spule" in German, which nobody ever uses (or used, for that matter afaik/afair) when talking about the machine.

in the 80's a tape-cassette was a Tonbandkassette and a tape-cassette player was called Kassettenspieler(player = Spieler) so in German it was basically (at least for the most part of it) a word-by-word translation of the English terms.

But along came the hipsters - and because they were so very hip, they used a lot of Anglizisms - so a Band was a tape - but the hipsters weren't interested in tape-machines in the slightest so they didn't need a hip word for these...

and thus the German word "Band" was used by the non-hip people dealing with tape-machines and "tape" was used by the hipsters whenever they talked about their silly cassettes (where they were super-proud (as if they had anything to do with even just a single note of the actual music they used) of making their own silly, semi-random sampler-cassettes they handed over to anyone who had absolutely zero interest in listening to it - and these the wankers then called "mixtape".)

what about bondage tape?
asking for a friend

[vurt]

Thanks guys for keeping it 'reel'

vinyly, some puns!

[donkey tugger]

and because they were so very hip, they used a lot of Anglizisms
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the wankers

Only messing. Of course I won't begrudge you that one. 'Tis one of our finest words.

[jens]

Yes, it most certainly is!

but yeah, I'm busted wide-open here: whenever I speak English, the amount of Anglicisms I use is excruciatingly high...

[donkey tugger]

Yes, it most certainly is!

but yeah, I'm busted wide-open here: whenever I speak English, the amount of anglicisms I use is excruciantngly high...

A German friend of mine has lived in Leeds for about 30 years and she has the most weird hybrid German/Yorkshire accent now. You'd think it would be the other way round, but when she gets pissed she gets more and more Yorkshire, and to hear her swearing is a joy to behold.

[kylie]

You're not recording to reel, nor casette. Reel and casette are just containers for... wait for it... tape!

They were quite rare, but I've seen one or two of them in the late 80s. There was actually no real advantage to the usual plastic hubs, and even the reel variant has them.

As you put it... in the end it was all tape - either wrapped up a reel or a hub (and protected with a housing called cassette). Or even both.

[jens]

Yes, it most certainly is!

but yeah, I'm busted wide-open here: whenever I speak English, the amount of anglicisms I use is excruciantngly high...

A German friend of mine has lived in Leeds for about 30 years and she has the most weird hybrid German/Yorkshire accent now. You'd think it would be the other way round, but when she gets pissed she gets more and more Yorkshire, and to hear her swearing is a joy to behold.

Would love hear that!

[jens]

You're not recording to reel, nor casette. Reel and casette are just containers for... wait for it... tape!

They were quite rare, but I've seen one or two of them in the late 80s. There was actually no real advantage to the usual plastic hubs, and even the reel variant has them.

As you put it... in the end it was all tape - either wrapped up a reel or a hub (and protected with a housing called cassette). Or even both.

I don't think they were that rare actually - I'm pretty sure I still got a couple of these lying around somewhere - but of course it was just a design-element....

[kylie]

what about bondage tape?
asking for a friend

It's just another word for "Gaffa Tape".
Might come in special colours, though, to give it a fancy touch. Not just grey but 50 shades of it.