Superbooth 2021: Loopman Eurorack experimental casssette recorder
It’s nuts but somehow completely genius. Loopman Eurorack is a cassette-based tape loop for Eurorack. Undoubtedly best of Superbooth 2021 and it hasn’t started yet.
Loopman Eurorack
What is it? It’s a Eurorack version of the Error Instruments Loopman which is a wonderfully weird cassette recorder for making tape loops and generally messing about with sound. They said that it was so popular they decided to pump out a Eurorack version. This thing would look fantastic and/or ridiculous in anybody’s rack.
The idea is that you can record directly onto cassette tape and have it playback in response to a Gate input with CV controllable speed. It has an audio output and a thru for bypassing the tape. There’s a light-sensitive sensor to make the sound “extra weebly” whatever that may mean. The original has a built-in microphone and also a radio tuner but it’s unclear as to whether these made it to the Eurorack version.
Error Instruments can also provide 5-second loop cassettes and have been inviting people to create 5-second loopable content.
I think this is fantastic and I’m putting in an order plus a handful of cassettes as soon as it becomes available. The original loopman is โฌ275 and the tapes are โฌ10 but we’ve no official price on the Eurorack version yet.
To give you an idea about what it can do here’s a video on the original Loopman:
Error Instruments will be in booth B070.
More information
- 5-second tapes: Error Instruments