https://snowday.fm/blog/ Notes from making tapespin: how it works, how to use it, where the sound comes from. en https://snowday.fm/blog/free-tape-stop-plugins-compared/ https://snowday.fm/blog/free-tape-stop-plugins-compared/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Guides Free tape stop plugins for Mac and Windows compared honestly: Kilohearts, cStop, TapeFi, Sotto, Cassette Transport, iZotope Vinyl, EAS and more, then tapespin at $9. https://snowday.fm/blog/how-to-tape-stop-in-ableton/ https://snowday.fm/blog/how-to-tape-stop-in-ableton/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Guides Three ways to make a tape stop in Ableton Live 12: with stock devices, with a free plugin, and with tapespin. Step by step, with what each can and can't do. https://snowday.fm/blog/dsp-scratching-with-a-spring-and-landing-on-the-beat/ https://snowday.fm/blog/dsp-scratching-with-a-spring-and-landing-on-the-beat/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How tapespin works How a critically damped spring turns hand movement into speed, how the spin-up is arranged to land on the grid, and why a stopped tape would click. https://snowday.fm/blog/dsp-shaping-the-stop/ https://snowday.fm/blog/dsp-shaping-the-stop/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How tapespin works Why pitch falls with speed, what the stop curve does, why a straight ramp sounds crooked, and the platter model behind Auto and Weight. https://snowday.fm/blog/tape-stop-vs-vinyl-brake-vs-spindown/ https://snowday.fm/blog/tape-stop-vs-vinyl-brake-vs-spindown/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Guides What a tape stop, a vinyl brake and a spindown are, why the pitch falls, where each is used, and how to get each one in a DAW. https://snowday.fm/blog/dsp-the-read-head-cannot-read-the-future/ https://snowday.fm/blog/dsp-the-read-head-cannot-read-the-future/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How tapespin works Inside tapespin: a ring buffer, a read head chasing the write head, the debt a slowdown builds, and the two ways to pay it back. https://snowday.fm/blog/where-the-tape-stop-comes-from/ https://snowday.fm/blog/where-the-tape-stop-comes-from/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT History From reel-to-reel varispeed and Schaeffer's turntables to the SL-1200's brake, Grandmaster Flash, the first freeware plugins, Gross Beat and the trap cliché.