Nudlhed shared these video demos of the Noodle Rider, an analog musical instrument in Eurorack format that’s based on a four-track cassette tape player.
The Noodle Rider gives you MIDI and CV control over the tape player, which can play back up to four tracks, which are all played with the same controllable speed.
It offers four individual audio outputs, and a gate output, so you can use the module’s output as source signals for further sound mangling.
In addition to the main module, Nudlhed offers a Sidecar module, right, that provides four channels of envelopes and gate. It features a 4-channel VCA, controlled by envelope generators (AD/AR), with MIDI Gate Sequencer and Mixer built in.
The Sidcar module is designed primarily to create gate-controlled sounds when fed with the base module audio source, but can be used for other purposes within a Eurorack system, also.
Noodle Rider Demo:
A short live performance of a Noodle Rider (Base Module) with MIDI control. The patch is ? Noodle Rider + 4xGate Sequencer + 4xADSR + 4xVCA + 4xMixer. A synth and drums are added. A loop-tape is used.
Noodle Rider Voltage-Controlled Cassette Player:
Pricing and Availability:
The Noodle Rider is available now for $395 USD.
It doesn’t record. Not having a door to cover the tape mechanism is poor design. Zero information about what tape stock this is biased for: Normal? Chromium? Metal? Zero info about who or what is behind this nor where they or or it is located. No tax id, no address, no phone number on the website is fishy.
best product name of 2024.
Only works tuned to E? This is a mess.
smatter, never play a physical instrument? it’s equal temperament; transpose dude.
“…The Noodle Rider gives you MIDI and CV control over the tape player, which can play back up to four tracks, which are all played with the same controllable speed.”
Hmm…what a feature. A cassette player whose tracks are all played at the same speed.
That’s how a tape machine works, no matter the track count or tape width or money spent.
Oh boy…. it’s really high time that Korg introduces a new MicroSampler mkII. This Eurorack-tape-playback device is so backwards and so limited.
As was the microsampler. I don’t get samplers with less RAM than my first pc had back in 1996. Or rather, I understand why companies produce them for 2 dollars per unit and sell them for a couple of hundred bucks, I just don’t get why people actually buy them, and don’t just say “32mb?! Are you having a laugh?”
On the cassette player, it’s a cute gimmick, and, as the videos demonstrate, entirely useless for music production. It’s so hipster retro chique that I half expected it to be made by Teenage Engineering and cost 3,500 euros.
This looks like a lot of fun.
Two immediate wishes spring to mind, which I admit is silly seeing as I haven’t actually used it yet:
1) A rewind button! because I’m too lazy to make cassette loop tapes
2) Offer cassette loop tapes for sale. 🙂