Some Pokémon cries use multiple channels actually. In gen 2 (Gold, Silver, Crystal) the new Pokémon cries used the first 3 channels a whole bunch. But here’s the kicker. In gen 1 (Red, Blue, Yellow) Pokemon cries did interrupt the music since sound effects and music shared channels. But it didn’t interrupt the music completely, as the Pokémon cries in that game didn’t use the first three channels altogether. For example, Jynx’s cry could be played and you could still hear the 3rd channel playing something. In gen 2 though, not only did the new Pokémon cries blot out the entire music for a moment, they applied this method to all Pokémon cries to get rid of the clunky sound. This made the game sound a bit more polished and sophisticated. What I find weird was that for these games they never used the noise channel in any of the battling music. I guess it was to save on memory but they made games that could pull it off on the same handheld.
I'm a videographer myself, and the best way to reduce screen glare is to simply put up a black curtain in front of it with a hole for the camera and maybe one for your eyes. Just a tip!
Film tip: to avoid the glare on the screen. Flag where the reflection is. Take some black foam board and cut hole for the lens and film through it. The piece wouldn't have to be huge just bug enough to darken the reflection
@4:10 you're about to bring tears to my eyes. It's been 10+years since wanting a DMG LSDJ rig. Finally JUST got a DOPE custom nodded DMG-07, Everdrive cart, and the feel of the Game Boy and that sound returned right back from 12 years old... the learning curve on LSDJ means I'm getting like 1 note at a time every 5-10 minutes to whet my throbbed holes; and then... no need to step sequence, just play the DMG IN REAL TIME AND POLYPHONY. You sir, are a gentleman, a scholar, and a damn fine human being. My many thanks.
What I find absolutely fascinating about listening to the Gameboy produce music is you're not hearing any compression: You're getting a raw feed of sound in full fidelity of what it was designed to sound like. ...of course, as viewers, we're getting whatever the 8-Bit Guy's microphone picked up, whatever codec/compression it recorded in, whatever codec he exported it in, and whatever TH-cam decided to do with the final video in terms of compression. Only 8-Bit Guy gets to hear the true sound! What a gift :) Please plug this into a full stereo system with a subwoofer. For science!
You definitely need to make a chiptune song using this and use multutracking. It's a beautiful piece of hardware, well done on getting it! And that little piece of improv was awesome and sounded incredible!
Yeah.. i hope it gets better. I thought most of the episodes in the last season were kind of weak. There were a few good ones, though.. especially the one with Weird Al.
i bought this and used it for a while and it was absolutely fantastic, had an issue with it and got in contact with david and he was super helpful and offered to replace the unit, i highly recommend getting one of these they work great with LSDJ and it's a blast to control old MIDI gear with a gameboy
That was really cool! It would be so interesting to know what kind of software that was used to compose these oldschool Game Boy-themes back in the day... (80's-90's).
Whoa, Dave, that's the second-most interesting MIDI experiment I've ever seen so far! (The first one was a MIDI sequencer controlling a handful of 3.5" floppy disk drives, also through an Arduino)!
8-Bit Keys I love Weird All, he is one of my favorite artists, I went to his concerts and I even got so meet him backstage, it was an epic time. I also love all of your channels, I love all of the computer videos and I watched everyone. I really like how you can take us back in time to witness these cool machines and show us how they work. I really hope to see more epic content! Do you have Skype? If you do, I would love to chat, I am a very big fan!
If you use a dedicated sound tracker for game boy (littlesound dj is the best available) you will be able to modulate the sounds a lot more, you should try it :)
1:19 You made me cry when you played THAT song. A full grown man crying just listening to a song. Well, actually the best love song ever written by a human being. THANKS.
***** it has those 2 direct sound A and B sample channels, and then the cpu uses some of its cycles to mix the rest of the samples. I wouldnt say its bad for the time, but you get like 8 bit sample rate on it.
8-bit Keys: Polariser filters only work on plastic or glass surfaces that are under an angle instead of being viewed at their normal. If I recall photography class correctly polarising filters do not work on metal by the way.
You should check out the Steam Controller via Steam Controller Singer. It takes 2 channel midi files (or the first two channels) and plays them back via the Steam controller's haptics and it sounds really cool.
I know a musician who makes music using a Gameboy & a ukulele & he was doing this as far back as 2005 so can't imagine how much easier & better it'd be doing it today
Brilliant! I'm so glad this came up in my suggestions from the MK-100 video. Once I get that baby restored I'm gonna find a Gameboy on eBay and try to recreate this setup.
Some might call the GameBoy sounds archaic or annoying, but to me it speaks from my childhood. I'd love to play a keyboard that used those tones. I find it beautiful!
You don't use it because it's too good? Very interesting lol I was literally screaming at my television when you said that. In my experience with midi and electric keyboards, the closer it can get to achieving a realistic acoustic tone of a grand piano the better... And once you use an actual Piano that you can feel in the floor when you play, there's no going back. For me anyway...
Heh, so many projects, so little time huh? Looks like a neat little bit of hardware. And a nice good challenge to see what one could do when things are a bit more limited.
Nicholas Thach You put underscores before and after the text. So writing _ text _ results in _text_. (just put it all into single line) You can also use * instead of _ to make *bold text. lol* Or you can use - to make -uhhh... how are these called?-
WANT IT ! no but seriously good work mr. Degraw ! this is really cool. I would be interested as how the programming was done for software in the cardridge and some of the electrical engineering / design of the box (of course, I don't really expect this gentleman to gives me all the hard work for free, I'm just merely interested in the subject and I find this fascinating. The kind of stuff I wish I'll be able to do someday). Anyways, good job I love this!
"this is my newest and most advanced keyboard and it was made in 1990" -love this
Correct! As Beldar Conhead so eloquently put it. I saw these in Service Merchandise in 1990..
"My desires are... unconventional. I play on a MIDI keyboard using Gameboy as an instrument."
Lol :D
Zaqq rawr
I regret that I have but one thumbs-up that I can give your comment, @maidpretty.
maidpretty iii
4:10 listen how nice it sounds tho
You don't have to apologize to us because your gameboy color screen is pristine. I didn't see a single scratch on it
You can change that part of if you want,it's around $20 on Amazon
Just go at it with some PlastX.
$20? I got a battery cover and replacement screen cover off of eBay for $6
James Blair links?
He has to apologize....
Because he didn't play enough music on it. 😁
Channel 4 must be what they use for pokemon cries
hannah messmer occasionally they also use the wave channel (channel 3)
Pixel3000nerd and rarely the first channel (square)
yeah, i thought that.
Colored storm They also use the 4th one for the moves they use
Some Pokémon cries use multiple channels actually. In gen 2 (Gold, Silver, Crystal) the new Pokémon cries used the first 3 channels a whole bunch. But here’s the kicker. In gen 1 (Red, Blue, Yellow) Pokemon cries did interrupt the music since sound effects and music shared channels. But it didn’t interrupt the music completely, as the Pokémon cries in that game didn’t use the first three channels altogether. For example, Jynx’s cry could be played and you could still hear the 3rd channel playing something. In gen 2 though, not only did the new Pokémon cries blot out the entire music for a moment, they applied this method to all Pokémon cries to get rid of the clunky sound. This made the game sound a bit more polished and sophisticated. What I find weird was that for these games they never used the noise channel in any of the battling music. I guess it was to save on memory but they made games that could pull it off on the same handheld.
I'm a videographer myself, and the best way to reduce screen glare is to simply put up a black curtain in front of it with a hole for the camera and maybe one for your eyes. Just a tip!
I had considered that option, but it was going to be a lot of work that I didn't have time for.
Dan Hartley ZZ
+Dan Hartley
Easier to just put up a black curtain on a stand, angle the screen or camera so the reflection is on the curtain and not you.
Well in the video you said "you tried everything" and obviously didn't try everything. You didn't have time for it which is not the same.
VGM You go try and make videos and see what you have time for.
I wanna hear more of the 3 voices
Sebastian Molina same
I would buy an album of him doing the random 3 voice music
maikel Mblaster 2nd me 2
@@maikelmblaster2nd280 same
I'm making music for my game using the arduinoboy and the channel 3 has A LOT of parameters and voices, really cool.
this is so awesome. i know you could get these sounds in much simpler ways, but using the actual gameboy's sound chip is just so unique and cool.
"Obsolete 80's keyboards and kids toys" - subbed in 2 seconds.
don't tell me what to do
please come back to this (if you haven't already) because it's really cool
Film tip: to avoid the glare on the screen. Flag where the reflection is.
Take some black foam board and cut hole for the lens and film through it. The piece wouldn't have to be huge just bug enough to darken the reflection
or just turn off lights
@4:10 you're about to bring tears to my eyes. It's been 10+years since wanting a DMG LSDJ rig. Finally JUST got a DOPE custom nodded DMG-07, Everdrive cart, and the feel of the Game Boy and that sound returned right back from 12 years old... the learning curve on LSDJ means I'm getting like 1 note at a time every 5-10 minutes to whet my throbbed holes; and then... no need to step sequence, just play the DMG IN REAL TIME AND POLYPHONY. You sir, are a gentleman, a scholar, and a damn fine human being. My many thanks.
What I find absolutely fascinating about listening to the Gameboy produce music is you're not hearing any compression: You're getting a raw feed of sound in full fidelity of what it was designed to sound like.
...of course, as viewers, we're getting whatever the 8-Bit Guy's microphone picked up, whatever codec/compression it recorded in, whatever codec he exported it in, and whatever TH-cam decided to do with the final video in terms of compression. Only 8-Bit Guy gets to hear the true sound! What a gift :)
Please plug this into a full stereo system with a subwoofer. For science!
Is Gameboy a 4 oscillator synth?
He is capturing directly from the gameboy's headphone jack. he created a WAV file. youtube made it an opus file.
This was 5 years ago, oh man has time passed. Remember watching this when it came out not too long ago..
me too homie, very strange how quickly time passes
4:10 I'm getting goose bumps!
tankjr85, Me too!!
I think it’s beautiful.
You definitely need to make a chiptune song using this and use multutracking. It's a beautiful piece of hardware, well done on getting it! And that little piece of improv was awesome and sounded incredible!
This is a nifty piece of tech.
And I thought I was the only one that watched The Goldbergs... I still can't wait for season 4.
Yeah.. i hope it gets better. I thought most of the episodes in the last season were kind of weak. There were a few good ones, though.. especially the one with Weird Al.
It is really a fun show
ashdoesmc Havent watched it in a while, i only watched it because the father was in curb your enthusiasm
Thats a hacky shit show! you're life must REALLY SUCK!
It's covered in buttons! COVERED!
Oh a performance on that would be so cool
Have you listened to the Nes Band?
Really?
Try treyfrey on a 20 minute mix, pretty epic, using 4 gameboys and original songs only! If you ping me for it, I'll search the link.
4:11 Best thing I have heard from a Gameboy with a piano.
AAAAH a clip from UHF. One of my favorite movies!
i bought this and used it for a while and it was absolutely fantastic, had an issue with it and got in contact with david and he was super helpful and offered to replace the unit, i highly recommend getting one of these they work great with LSDJ and it's a blast to control old MIDI gear with a gameboy
4:10 "And so, ends the adventure. You have saved the kingdom and its people."
name of the song and the game please ?
Reminds me of how in Steven Universe, sour cream uses gameboy-looking devices to make music.
You should play Pokemon Silver music on there.
why don't you just play Pokémon silver
quacked up gaming because i've already played though the game last year and i need to find another poekmon game to playthough this year.
+General Bacon I reccomend light platinum. its a great romhack.
or megalovania
I would have loved it if he played green greens from Kirby
8bit sounds are the most beautifle instrumental sound ever
That was really cool! It would be so interesting to know what kind of software that was used to compose these oldschool Game Boy-themes back in the day... (80's-90's).
Whoa, Dave, that's the second-most interesting MIDI experiment I've ever seen so far! (The first one was a MIDI sequencer controlling a handful of 3.5" floppy disk drives, also through an Arduino)!
UHF reference, you are awesome
I wasn't sure how many people would even get it.
8-Bit Keys
I love Weird All, he is one of my favorite artists, I went to his concerts and I even got so meet him backstage, it was an epic time. I also love all of your channels, I love all of the computer videos and I watched everyone. I really like how you can take us back in time to witness these cool machines and show us how they work. I really hope to see more epic content! Do you have Skype? If you do, I would love to chat, I am a very big fan!
I really appreciate how well you play piano 8-bit guy! Thanks for all your awesome videos.
Now you can start your own YMCK inspired band
Downsampled noise is gorgeous for rhythmic stuff!
3:49 - 3:55
Well. I know where Magnemite and Voltorb got their cries from.
And the other gen 1 - gen 2 Pokémon.
Dude thank you for the UHF reference lmao. That movie is severely under appreciated.
yay, a new video! I just love this channel :)
Amazing. Also that last song was great too. Hearing the GBC music is awesome.
HalberdierV2, it's from Spelunker.
"Oh yea, I can totally rave to this"
Well I didn't keep up but I learned that the 4 bit sound of the Gameboy is not random, but each bit has meaning.
Dang that is insanely cool
I appreciate the UHF ref!
This is the sound of god or something.
False. That would mean there would be no sound.
RavenTheGoddess Edgy atheist found in its natural habitat. It's an expression.
*+Mader Chod* Random TH-cam commenter who can't take a joke found in its natural habitat.
@@mayravixx25 hypocrite in it's natural habitat
@Steven Stanford what about that made me a hypocrite?
So cool! Those sounds are so classic... brings back memories. The 3 first voices together sound so cool in my opinion.
If you use a dedicated sound tracker for game boy (littlesound dj is the best available) you will be able to modulate the sounds a lot more, you should try it :)
The brief clip from the movie UHF is just golden!
1:19
You made me cry when you played THAT song.
A full grown man crying just listening to a song.
Well, actually the best love song ever written by a human being.
THANKS.
Ti piace tanto allora...
No
This is really neat. I hope you get the time to come back and compose something exciting on it.
Will this work on a gameboy advance? i know it has the same chips as the gameboy in it for backwards compatibility
Yes, although the sound chip in a GBA is... Not great.
www.herbertweixelbaum.com/comparison.htm
As long as you have the link cable you should be able to.
I think so, since it has the data connector.
***** it has those 2 direct sound A and B sample channels, and then the cpu uses some of its cycles to mix the rest of the samples. I wouldnt say its bad for the time, but you get like 8 bit sample rate on it.
No, I mean in direct comparison to the sound of the Game Boy.
On the page I linked, compare the Pro Sound modded Game Boy with the Game Boy Advance.
I love the I am 8 bit site. It's full of the best chip tunes. They had a stand alone game boy cart to make music a long time ago
That song you played on the keyboard, was that Bryan Adams: Everything i do ? :)
Correct.
+8-Bit Keys I knew it :)
The colour of the background was blue. ? :)
HURRAH!!!
Its a lot better than the original version : -)
8-bit Keys: Polariser filters only work on plastic or glass surfaces that are under an angle instead of being viewed at their normal. If I recall photography class correctly polarising filters do not work on metal by the way.
You should check out the Steam Controller via Steam Controller Singer. It takes 2 channel midi files (or the first two channels) and plays them back via the Steam controller's haptics and it sounds really cool.
I know a musician who makes music using a Gameboy & a ukulele & he was doing this as far back as 2005 so can't imagine how much easier & better it'd be doing it today
1:07 "Trust me, i'm a Doctor"
1:18 - Bryan Adams - "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" (1991). What. The. Hell. No Score!
Would love to hear a complete song being played with this!
Finaly a new video thanks my like is yours
It's nice to know David is a Weird Al fan. He also owns at least 1 of his albums.
Using a Game-Boy as a MS-DOS midi sound card?
Lol.
got randomly recommended this, already interested this
when I heard the stuff on channel 4 I instantly thought "CAVE STORY"
Bennett Turner oh shit someone else knows that game?
Brilliant! I'm so glad this came up in my suggestions from the MK-100 video. Once I get that baby restored I'm gonna find a Gameboy on eBay and try to recreate this setup.
Joel would be proud
I love that the PSR 300 is your newest keyboard.
1:15 Mde in 1990
Dj_Kirbyッッlmンmッッコフhジュイjgkmgブウッッhンッh
Yes
I'm going to try this now! Keep up the good work with the videos! You deserve a lot more followers!
Some might call the GameBoy sounds archaic or annoying, but to me it speaks from my childhood. I'd love to play a keyboard that used those tones. I find it beautiful!
UHF reference! Brilliant film!!
just bought an assembled kit with the jack and arduino. cant wait to get it in.
what was the tune you were playing on channel #5 at the end? it was nice!
Speilunker title theme (NES)
Please do more with the Game Boy sound chip, I love this soundfont so much and it brings me back to childhood harder than most things
That was awesome!
Your channel kicks ass man! Great content.
Isn’t that what they used to make the actual music for game boy games?
nah they just programmed it on a pc.
I love this. A must-have if I get hold of a gameboy in the future. Thanks for the video on this.
You don't use it because it's too good? Very interesting lol I was literally screaming at my television when you said that. In my experience with midi and electric keyboards, the closer it can get to achieving a realistic acoustic tone of a grand piano the better... And once you use an actual Piano that you can feel in the floor when you play, there's no going back. For me anyway...
Different strokes for different folks. I like the sound of vintage waveforms and tunes. Obviously you prefer the sound of acoustic pianos.
The sound and feel for sure... But yeah I guess you ARE The 8-Bit Guy so... makes sense lol
8-Bit Keys same!
The dyl Pickle
If people wanted things that sounded real, they wouldn't still be buying vinyl records.
Noise makes the best snares hands down.
i was geting a creepypasta vibe at 4:12
Wut?
why doe? the music is great!
I hope you use this to compose something in the future. Maybe a Gameboy version of your theme that you use for this channel.
What was the song he played near the end?
Brenden Rogers heathens by twenty øne piløts
Brenden Rogers it's the spelunker theme song
ShwiftyTown Fox Finally a real answer, thank you
Do i know you from somewhere?
Umm, I think it sounds really close to heathens
when I saw the UHF reference, i instantly remembered my childhood
this is same as tthe 8 Bit Guy? right?
No, those are two completely different people.
but they look really similar
he is trolling you, lol
He only mentioned it multiple times, and looks, sounds and acts exactly the same, so yeah this is probably the same guy.
Well, he still could be an monozygotic twin, who imposes being the same. I'm not convinced!
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;)
Just got a game boy now I can use it for music thanks for showing this to me
Cover pushing onwards from de vvvvv's ost dude :v
Second this! It's a good tune.
6 Vs, not 5.
The legend of 8-Bit Keys: Breath of the keys when?
The box.
Love your shirts, love your work, you are awesome 8bitguy
what was the song at 4:10 or did he just improvise it?
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Yeah,I've only heard the NES version.
It's from Spelunker
Heh, so many projects, so little time huh? Looks like a neat little bit of hardware. And a nice good challenge to see what one could do when things are a bit more limited.
This works on any ol' gameboy, right? I got a GBA SP for my birthday and I might wanna try this out. 😳🤔
Yes really. The device has six channels compared to four. It includes the Gameboy sound hardware so it can work.
I wonder if this can even work on a DS Lite.
8 bit guy always has the most fire music playing at the end
What song did you play at 4:10
I think its Spelunker theme on Atari Home Computer Games
I like the bit of song you played when you were using the three voices
Iceland, it's from the game Spelunker.
mde in 1990
wtf typo
Imagine making a gameboy fan game and making the music and sounds in that for the game
Mde in 1990
Lol yes 1:16
These sounds remind me so much of my childhood. Time sure does fly.
1:16
"Mde in 1990"
wut
8-Bit: *starts playing "(Everything I Do) I Do it For You" by Bryan Adams*
Me: My heart..
1:14
"Mde in 1990"
AHH THES VID S SHET DISLIEK REPART UNSUB
_(Before anybody comes up, just know that this is a joke)_
How did you get italics text in there? I'm just curious. .-.
Nicholas Thach You put underscores before and after the text.
So writing
_
text
_
results in _text_. (just put it all into single line)
You can also use * instead of _ to make *bold text. lol*
Or you can use - to make -uhhh... how are these called?-
-This is strikethrough-
gg
_-what the fuck-_
WANT IT ! no but seriously good work mr. Degraw ! this is really cool. I would be interested as how the programming was done for software in the cardridge and some of the electrical engineering / design of the box (of course, I don't really expect this gentleman to gives me all the hard work for free, I'm just merely interested in the subject and I find this fascinating. The kind of stuff I wish I'll be able to do someday). Anyways, good job I love this!