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snowday makes small audio plugins built around one gesture each: grab a record, pull a string, let go. each plugin is $9. never on sale.
tapespin
short
tapespin is a tape-stop and scratch plugin you play by hand: hold the record to stop the tape, drag to scratch, let go and it spins back up on the beat.
long
tapespin turns any track into a record you can grab. its window is a platter with the track's audio drawn in the grooves. hold the record and the tape slows to a stop, pitch falling. drag it to scratch: the audio follows your hand forwards and backwards. let go and it spins back up, landing on the next beat, so even rough moves sound intended.
in auto mode the stop and start times come from the gesture itself. snap sets where the spin-up lands, from a 1/16 note to a bar. holds and scratches are written as automation, so a host can record a performance and play it back. any MIDI note can stop the tape too.
features
- hold to tape-stop, drag to scratch, let go to spin back up
- spin-up lands on the beat: free, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 or bar
- auto mode: timing comes from the hand; weight sets how heavy the record feels
- manual mode with stop and start times in ms or note values, and custom curves
- the track's audio drawn in the grooves; colour shows slow (orange) and fast (blue)
- performances record as host automation (stop and scratch parameters)
- MIDI notes stop the tape, timed to the sample
- window scales from 75% to 200%
facts
| developer | snowday |
| formats | VST3 · AU · CLAP · mac · windows |
| requirements | macOS 11 Big Sur or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Windows 10 or later, 64-bit. |
| price | $9; $5 for the first 14 days |
| release | to be announced |
| demo | the whole plugin; starts from default settings when a project is reopened, until activated |
| web | https://snowday.fm/tapespin/ |
| contact | press@snowday.fm |
pictures
PNG, 840 × 960, twice the plugin's base size. click to download.
tapespin-playing.png
tapespin-stopping.png
tapespin-settings.png
still to come: a logo, a short clip, a 1500 px screenshot.
- logo
- clip
- 1500 px
coming
dubplate: put any sound on a record. scratch it. dive: pull the string. let go. both in development; details on request.