Hey Product Hunt, I’m a funkaphiliac, and I’ve been obsessed with a very specific art form for about 25 years. In the mid-1980s, a group of New York DJs and engineers discovered that you could cut and join reel-to-reel tape to make music do things it was never supposed to do. Single beats became machine-gun stuttering. Four-bar loops became rhythmic sculptures. The Latin Rascals, Omar Santana and Chep Nunez turned tape editing into a performance art, you can hear their fingerprints on Shannon, Saw-Fire, Duran Duran, Mantronics and David Bowie records of that era. No one has really created a proper tool to recreate this. DAWs are very common. The models are very modern. So I created iVox: a desktop-based splicing machine that thinks like a tape editor. Load any audio, define your region, then use the pads to create editing patterns, pitch-bend slices, reverse hits and micro-edits… live while it plays. In the early 2000s I started a Yahoo group called The Editheads. A few hundred obsessive editing freaks found it and kept it alive for years. Eventually the scene moved to Facebook, became overwhelmed with spam, and quietly died. I believe those people are still there – they just went back to their lives. iVox is for them. And for anyone who has ever wondered how these records were made. The website is live and the app costs 49 euros for a lifetime license. I’d love your thoughts, questions, and upvotes, and if you’ve ever been an edit lead, please say hello.
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