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George Whiteside
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2010
Phantom of the Floppera
Visit georgewhiteside.net/projects/diskette-organ/ for more information!
Test run of my (d)iskette (O)rgan doing Toccata & Fugue.
People have made floppy drives sing before, but this is my personal take on it.
Features two 3 1/2" drives and two 5 1/4" drives connected to a PIC18f14k50 microcontroller. It interfaces to any MIDI source via MIDI over USB. Straight MIDI would also be possible with an additional small circuit and some minor firmware changes. This initial version can respond to all 128 MIDI notes, and pitch bends +/- 2 semitones.
As it can produce only four simultaneous notes, and each drive has a different range and tonal characteristics, best results are obtained by arranging compositions by hand. However, it features two modes of operation: in one mode, MIDI channels 1 through 4 are played directly on floppy drives 1 through 4. In the other mode, all 16 MIDI channels are read, and notes are "intelligently" divvied out on a first-come, first-serve basis. "Note stealing" ensures that melody lines sound, but chords are often cut short. One or the other produces acceptable results for many unmodified MIDI files straight out of your favorite media player.
I apologize for the poor video quality. :)
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Update Feb. 10, 2011: Wow, I just want to give a HUGE thank-you to every one of you for the overwhelmingly positive response! It truly means a lot to me.
I'm reading all your comments, and I've been answering individual questions--but due to popular demand, I will be posting a web site with additional information very soon. If you were interested in how this works, how I built it, and what else it can do, check back soon!
Again, thank you everybody for all your kind words!
Test run of my (d)iskette (O)rgan doing Toccata & Fugue.
People have made floppy drives sing before, but this is my personal take on it.
Features two 3 1/2" drives and two 5 1/4" drives connected to a PIC18f14k50 microcontroller. It interfaces to any MIDI source via MIDI over USB. Straight MIDI would also be possible with an additional small circuit and some minor firmware changes. This initial version can respond to all 128 MIDI notes, and pitch bends +/- 2 semitones.
As it can produce only four simultaneous notes, and each drive has a different range and tonal characteristics, best results are obtained by arranging compositions by hand. However, it features two modes of operation: in one mode, MIDI channels 1 through 4 are played directly on floppy drives 1 through 4. In the other mode, all 16 MIDI channels are read, and notes are "intelligently" divvied out on a first-come, first-serve basis. "Note stealing" ensures that melody lines sound, but chords are often cut short. One or the other produces acceptable results for many unmodified MIDI files straight out of your favorite media player.
I apologize for the poor video quality. :)
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Update Feb. 10, 2011: Wow, I just want to give a HUGE thank-you to every one of you for the overwhelmingly positive response! It truly means a lot to me.
I'm reading all your comments, and I've been answering individual questions--but due to popular demand, I will be posting a web site with additional information very soon. If you were interested in how this works, how I built it, and what else it can do, check back soon!
Again, thank you everybody for all your kind words!
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Name of instrument?
i love you
timeless classic
And this is how Pawel Zadrozniak was born...
Play a game on DOSBox - like Seirra Kings Quest, Monkey Island, Maniac mansion or the likes?
Still one of the best videos ever made
To me, this is a TH-cam classic. One of the first "floppy tracks" I ever heard, honestly one of the best too! There's a lot of heart and soul in this performance of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, a surprisingly rich soundscape of mechanical motors harmonizing.
Amazing ! I used 5,25" disks back in the day...
Cool! 😮
Still awesome! 👾
Amazing, love it. Thank you
Masterful floppering.
This is cool! :D
2023 almost 2024! 😄
This is the father of Floppotron. 😊
bro just got blue lobstered by a floppy
Recommended again.
Bravo.
Toccata & Fugue in D:\
You should probably update the description with the link to your github repo, now that the website link is dead (or at least to the wayback machine). This video is a classic
What? No hideous face reveal? I was expecting you to rip the floppy off to reveal a zip disc or a CD!
where is phantom of the opera
Incredible!
Aaaah, we meet again, old friend!
This piece of music was featured on the movie Fantasia as well & it's being played in Baroque pitch at 415. I heard that on Accordion:th-cam.com/video/DVlnzHMsvTU/w-d-xo.html as well
4 drives?
My life is complete. I can die happy now.
As always, the link in the description is dead, special thanks to the Dot Com Bubble...
FLOPPA + OPERA = FLOPPERA
This is still awesome in 2021
This person having produced a single video, yes, but with 3,7 million views, even if after a decade, has got right to get revenue from TH-cam? I hope so, but if that's the case, does he even know? What a shame if he missed the chance.
Это не Призрак оперы, это Токата и Фуга Баха в рэ-миноре.
2021
Genius XD
Hahaha, "Floppera", this is funny because it sounds similar to "Opera", you understand?
Мать Флоппотрона
Sometimes i feel like i just watched the whole thing
I miss annotations. There used to be this little annotation that would pop up at the end, made to resemble an error message, and it said "Fugue not found! Please insert disks 5-8."
I was expecting Iron maiden lol
That's toccata and fugue, not phantom of the opera.
This is the guy who started the floppy music trend on TH-cam.
holy moly !
Toccata and Fugue in B:\ minor
This is still one of the best renditions of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor I've ever heard.
sounds pfotoshopped! probably fake
Now computers can only freeze
wtf lol
All floppy disks rise for the national anthem
Que loucura!!! 😍
Boy ! I Want to build me something like this.. I think the Gotlib Pinball "Haunted House" theme musik would be great on this. If i did build one of these, Would it be possible to have a few buttons to select song to be played ? or use a small keypad...Thinking a floppy Jukebox with 8 or 16 bit musik. What do you think ?