Quick, rough video showing my setup for recording tapes for the Intellivision Keyboard Component. The particular tape in this video is a white Blank Data Storage Tape (preformatted for the Keyboard Component). Apologies for the mess in the room. <br /> <br />Setup is: <br />- Tascam's Portastudio 424 - A 4-track cassette tape player/recorder/mixer that allows for either simultaneous 4 track playback or simultaneous 4 track recording. This particular model has an excellent block diagram in the manual. <br />- ESI's Maya44 USB+ - A USB sound 'card' that allows for simultaneous 4 channel playback and simultaneous 4 channel recording. On Windows, you have to install their ASIO drivers to access this functionality. <br />- Reaper v5.941 on Windows 10 - Digital Audio Workstation software that allows for simultaneous 4 channel playback and/or simultaneous 4 channel recording. <br /> <br />The audio cables are in order of white, red, red, white or black, red, red, black. This is deliberate. Tascam labels the tape tracks as 1, 2, 3, and 4 which map to standard cassette tracks Side A Left, Side A Right, Side B Right, and Side B Left, respectively. In Reaper, tracks 1 through 4 are displayed on the screen in order from top to bottom. <br /> <br />While recording from this tape, at the beginning you can see tracks 3 and 4 light up before tracks 1 and 2 on both the Portastudio 424's meters and the Maya44 USB+'s red indicator LEDs. After getting past the initial tones on the tape, only track 2 is active since this contains the read-only digital data on the tape.
