1/2" 9 Track reel-to-reel tape

Hi,
Is there a 1/2" 9 track reel-to-reel tape drive that works with thecurrent range of workgroup servers - ie V880 ?You remmeber the big old tapes that operate at 1600/6250 bpi and were the bees-knees... in their day.
Thanks for any advice given.
SJE

In the case I described you'd need to use a MIDI control source (pitch wheel) as the source for modulation, and as such this isn't quite the same as directly affecting a specific EXS-24 parameter that would create the effect.
But... Let's say you recorded a pass using the pitch wheel in real time and then you wanted to tweak the shape. I think you can convert that region based pitch wheel into track automation. But even if that's possible (I'm not 100% sure) it would be a redundant procedure because you could do the same data tweaking using hyperdraw on the region itself.
Another option might be to use ENV1 to do the pitch bend for you -- all of its parameters are automatable. In this case, substitute ENV1 as your pitch bend source in the modulation matrix slots. Set all of the modulation amounts to be negative maximum. And add one more slot's worth of that modulation too (because if you're not going to use MIDI pitchbend you're going to lose an octave's worth of pitch drop).
Then, set your Attack to something that will approximate the speed of the pitch drop, Sustain=maximum, Release = long, and Decay doesn't matter at all. Now when you play a note the pitch will start to drop immediately at the rate of the Attack value. And now you can automate the value of attack if need be. The only problem with this is that you can't sustain the mix for any length of time before the pitch starts to drop. By using pitch wheel you can determine, both in real-time and by tweaking the pitch bend data afterwards, exactly how long the original unpitched audio plays before the pitch starts to drop. And, you can control the "shape" of the pitch drop by using hyperdraw.
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In the case I described you'd need to use a MIDI control source (pitch wheel) as the source for modulation, and as such this isn't quite the same as directly affecting a specific EXS-24 parameter that would create the effect.
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I would like to transfer old reel-to-reel tapes to an iMac. There are different recordings on the left and right channel of the tapes. When I connect the tape deck to the Mac, I get one recording on the left, the other on the right speaker. What to do?

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