Abstract: An apparatus for recording information signals on a record carrier in the form of a tape can be set to an "information-signal-controlled recording" mode. The record carrier is driven by a motor drive arrangement (12) which includes two non-positively cooperating drive elements (15, 16) which are pressed constantly against one another during such recording mode, the motor being started by a motor control circuit (43) upon occurrence of an information signal which is detected by an information signal detector 40. The motor control circuit switches the motor off with a delay following termination of the information signal, and includes a pulse generation device (G) which, if during the recording mode the information signal fails to appear for longer than a time interval (T.sub.2) generates short control signal pulses (M.sub.1) which recur at such time intervals (T.sub.

Abstract: In a recording and/or playback apparatus for record carriers accommodated in cassettes, a detection device for determining the presence of a cassette in the apparatus in the correct position. The device comprises an electric circuit for controlling an apparatus function, in response to a sensing means formed by capacitive coupling between two spaced electrodes in the apparatus and an electrically conducting component in the cassette.