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EIGHT MACHINES · ONE DESK
The Tomorrow
Looper
A 1966 tape collage — eight machines, varispeed, then stretch and warp. Open a reel for its ink.
Threading demo tapes.
Threading the demo tapes…
Performance reel
Record the whole desk — every running machine and the keyboard — for up to 1 minute 30 seconds. It stops itself at 1:30 and waits in your loops.
Waiting0:00.0 / 1:30.0
DEMO LOOPS · THREADS ONTO THE LIT MACHINE
Eight slots
Upload fills the empty slots, starts them on reel I, and keeps them as the default sounds. The original demos stay under Extra. Up to 8.0 MB and 90 seconds each.
Gull Cry
Tape · ×1.18
Tanpura
Tape · ×1.00
Chord Cloud
Tape · ×0.84
Ha-Ha Machine
Tape · ×1.41
Reverse Pluck
Tape · ×1.33
Skin Loop
Tape · ×0.71
Wood Flute
Tape · ×0.92
Reed Organ
Tape · ×1.59
Keys
Reel 1, Gull Cry. The reel can run on its own, and the keys play it too. − Vol + under each number moves that reel’s fader.
C4
Vol4.8
Vol4.0
Vol3.6
Vol3.2
Vol3.4
Vol3.8
Vol3.0
Vol2.6
Up to 1:30
Computer keys A S D F G H J K, blacks W E T Y U. Z and X shift the octave.
How the 1966 loop sessions worked
Inspired by the tape-loop sessions the Beatles ran in 1966. Someone recorded a short phrase, the tape was cut and spliced into a circle, and several machines ran at once. No two motors matched, so the loops drifted against each other.
Varispeed changed the capstan speed. Pitch and tempo moved together — speed a laugh up and it turned into a seagull. Reverse tape was already in the room that year. Try Seagull trick and Backmask, then Run all machines.
Stretch is the modern split: length changes, pitch does not. Warp locks a loop to 1, 2, 4, or 8 bars of the tempo clock. On the grid does that across the eight reels. Open a machine for the capstan, the warp, and the splice marks. The mixing board rides each reel and the whole performance. Performance reel captures that mix, up to a minute and a half, so a drifted balance can become the next loop.