Field Four: why I made a digital four-track tape recorder

Field Four is a four track tape recorder for Windows. This is the story of why I made it – from the TASCAM Porta 07 that I used to record songs in the late nineties, through my dislike for digital DAWs, and finally to my reasons for making the thing I always wanted: an analogue-style digital 4-track tape recorder. I also explain some of the choices I made in creating Field Four, and discuss what it means to be afflicted by the filmic gaze.