Playing around with my Portrastudio 424mk3. Yes, we have too many projects going on at once but we grabbed up one of these as an experiment with going DAW-less. There's no real goals here other than to try it and exercise the fundamentals as it were and work within some intentional limitations.
With only 4 tracks, songs we make on this thing aren't likely to be in stereo, and we want to avoid bouncing tracks as much as possible. So that means pretty much just 4 things. Among the ideas were Vocals or Bass, Guitar or Bass, Piano or Sax, and OB6 or Modular (and maybe a drum machine).
I used an OB6 and Piano here. Actually, it was an Ableton Piano instrument but when we do this for real, I'll be playing my real piano now that I have a decent way to record it. You'll be hearing piano in some of the upcoming songs we'll be releasing (including a new synthwave one we're pretty excited about). And sax too, of course!
Anyways, tape is awesome!
#PortaStudio #Cassette #4Track