[Decurus] has made a simple tape based synth using a cassette deck. It uses a loop of cassette tape, and varies the pitch by changing the speed of the cassette motor. There’s an RP2040 and a ...

though it did not significantly impact the cassette's standard playback experience. In comparison, C90 cassettes, which offered 45 minutes per side, used a thinner tape measuring approximately 10 ...

Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was ...