"If you were at MakerFaire this year you may have seen me rolling around with my bass guitar made out of a Commodore 64 on roller skates" what a time to be alive
How the elephant got into the pajamas we'll never know. Great instrument Jeri. I feel like you undersold the FPGA part to keep it short. There's a lot inside there! Thanks for sharing.
This video is perfect, organized in a structure of "intro-pieces- how it works-assembly-demostration" under 3 minutes. At the begining I thought "maybe she just combined the c64 and a bass and thats it, no electronics" but it surprised me as she actually uses the sound chip of the c64 and the buttons! This was a joy to watch and I don't know how I didn't watched it sooner.
My issue was never with how or if you could cut em, mine was if the wire comes off how the fuk are you supposed to get it reattached? Is not solder ill tell ya that...
I know she did this way long ago, but how many people would kill to hear her actually play full rock songs with this. Maybe make an EP and release it. I'd buy it!
So weird how TH-cam picks an OLD video to favor, then puts it in everyone's recommendations. Sort these comments by "newest first" and look at the time stamps. One after another very recent. A blessing if you're the one favored, but given how many TH-camrs get the opposite treatment (vids intentionally removed in recommendations, vids demonitzed for no reason, etc), it's just another annoying thing YT does
As someone who had a Commodore64 when they were new, played many analog synthesizers (and still do) and plays many instruments, including electric bass guitar. This is 100% BRILLIANT ! I hope you can find a way to sells these somehow.. even without the Commodore64 and have the SID I.C.'s inside a generic keyboard, with the bass parts.
"Press play on tape"...I was a little kid during the 80's...still have the Commodore 64 (not working, sadly) somewhere at my parents house. I didn't have the heart to threw it away...such cool memories...seems like 300 years ago.
@@Mnnvint Yeah, probably. The point was in the heavy blinking of colors on the TV screen but the problem was the computer not the TV ofc. You could actually load a game but it was impossible to play it. The colors were all mixed and blinking.
...and just for the record my favorite C64 game was Turrican 2. Incredible graphics/game play if you consider the very first and basic games for a C64.
So this video might be 10 years old by now, but it’s the first time I see it, so with that I mind I’m gonna jump to your TH-cam channel crossing my fingers hoping that you have some videos going crazy playing that instrument of yours cause it sounds cool and I hope that you gotten good after 10 years :)
I started watching this and at first I was like, "Ok that's pretty cool you built a bass guitar into a C64 case" but then you start talking about the FPGA and the 6581, and you're practically telling me, as if reading my mind, "oh NO, this is much cooler than that!". Great video, subscribed. Thank you.
2 Questions: Will you build one for me? Will you marry me? This is the coolest video I've seen in YEARS! C64 was my 1st programmable electronic instrument! And this design is GENIUS!
That was 8-years ago! What a freakin’ genius that’s easy on the eyes. Her wielding FPGA like it was an Arduino UNO is mind bending. And she taught herself! 🤦♂️
“...and then compared it and send it to the FPGA. The FPGA scans the Commodore keyboard...” -Uh oh “...board has some linear power supplies, so the audio is nice&clean” -Ah good, that put my mind to rest: we wouldn't want any distortion or interference in the signal, would we?
Fooking awesome! I loved every second of this. I am also a EE, a musical equipment designer, and a bassist. I think your string tracking might be off as you are using piezos under the string at the bridge. That whole bridge is resonating so not the best way to isolate strings. Your comparator is acting like a noise gate so I could see that you are opening the gate more than one string at a time. You might try winding a small version of a pickup for each string. Like copper wire around a nail (with a magnet) might even work. You don't need a bunch of output as you are amplifying it. Like a Strat pickup has 7200 turns of wire - but they are trying to get that output up to a volt and they are dealing with tone. You are using this as a trigger so just 100 turns might work. Or you might even try a hall-effect sensor. A 3503 is about the width of your E string so the string isolation would be much better. May the fourths be with you! ;-)
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Please someone grab her DNA so we can clone this woman a thousand times! Jeri you are amazing!
That...is by FAR the coolest thing I've ever seen!! Circuit bent stuff has always caught my attention and you took it way beyond what I thought was even remotely possible!
I'm sorry I got here so late, this is brilliant, wonderful and hilarious all at the same time. Excellent use of the C64 carcass and SID chip. Just brilliant in your execution. Kudos.
Awesome!!! Can you explain how you are converting the sound of the strings and sending it to the audio chip? Are you detecting the frequency with the help of the FPGA? Is it polyphonic? Thanks a lot!
Wow! How could I miss this one! I'm an amateur musician and an electronics engineer. And both Google and TH-cam know this. Then why the f* they suggest me unrelated bullshit instead of this awesome hack!
Hell of a lot more than that. I'd say anyone born after 2000 probably doesn't know what one is. And anyone born after 1990 has probably never seen one.
Well, the input (string vibration) and low-pass filter are obviously analog, but you're generating digital commands to send to a computer chip - the SID - which generates waveforms digitally, but outputs analog signals directly.
My thesis in 1986 at U of Manitoba was a MIDI guitar synthesizer. Used a Motorola chip and did the machine code. Wire-wrapped everything. Got into construction with Honeywell after graduation and then went on my own in 1991. Became a wealthy Apartment Developer. Just did was I was good at. You did a great job on the guitar. Way better than I could do. ve4mm
Holy smokes!!! You should make those on custom orders. I want one, and i know plenty of other musicians who are also C64-enthusiasts who would love to own one of these. Best video i've seen in years!😍
That wasn't simply awesome - that was epic! Combining electro-wizardry, synth, nolstagic C64 and bass guitar. You just have to lay down some tracks and return with a part 2. Thanks for this!
My first question was going to be, Why? But then I watched the video and I pondered the situation and it hit me. Answer? Because there was a void on the earth the size and shape of this and you filled it perfectly. Nice job muchacha!
"If you were at MakerFaire this year you may have seen me rolling around with my bass guitar made out of a Commodore 64 on roller skates"
what a time to be alive
What a great place to live at to even have such faires.
How the elephant got into the pajamas we'll never know.
Great instrument Jeri. I feel like you undersold the FPGA part to keep it short. There's a lot inside there! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome!!! Ah you are a treasure 😎
are there any videos online of the MakerFaire from this year? would love to have seen this all in live action 🙂
Every once in awhile I have to come back and make sure this video wasn't some beautiful dream I had.
Just did the same thing now!
Same here.
Be back in a couple months. :)
Indeed!
Back again lol
squirrels in my pants
"I'll take 'videos that ended far too soon' for $800, Alex."
Why does no one pick "Potent potables"?
I'm glad people like her exist and have free time.
I still can’t believe it 🦄
Nobody's time is free.
I want her to be my electronics mommy 🥺🥺🥺🥺
I’m 8 years late but I gotta say: this was brilliant👏👏
I guess you also got recommended this video? ;)
I'm 8 years old but i gotta say: who stole my commodore 64?
64-bit brilliant!
I have no idea what I'm doing on this part of the internet, but hey, cool stuff. I guess.
Same
This video is perfect, organized in a structure of "intro-pieces- how it works-assembly-demostration" under 3 minutes.
At the begining I thought "maybe she just combined the c64 and a bass and thats it, no electronics" but it surprised me as she actually uses the sound chip of the c64 and the buttons!
This was a joy to watch and I don't know how I didn't watched it sooner.
This just popped up in my feed... And even thought it's old, I learnt something...
WTF! You can trim piezos like that?!!!
I had the same! 😁
This would have saved me from some serious headaches in the past 😶.
Good point n I heard her saying it doesn't track well. Lol may that be the source reason?
My issue was never with how or if you could cut em, mine was if the wire comes off how the fuk are you supposed to get it reattached? Is not solder ill tell ya that...
As a bass player, a retro tech and retro gaming junkie, this hits the approval scale beyond eleven.
Also, that Cream riff sounded so hot...
I know right?
idk the finite number of commodore 64s kinda makes me sad lol
@@tictacterminator Lots of them though
@@tictacterminator a keyboard and a sid chip would also work but c64 case has some style points.
Like 99% sure i thought it was Black Sabbath
"I hope you enjoyed my little hack..." Way to make the rest of us mortals feel inadequate...
I didn't understand one bit of what she said...I just think the whole thing is cool as shit.
I only got 8-bit of what she was saying :D
shit is not cool .
@@posford well is posford is saying it, it must be true :D :D :D :D
@@endorphinsmusic you see.. That you got correct. (and fix the first "it" to "if").
@@posford - wouldn't the correct thing to say have been, '(and fix the first "is" to "if")' ?
WHY HAVE I ONLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS NOW. I AM DELIGHTED AND ENRAGED.
I know, just try and find a C-64 in 2020!!
You could make some wicked surrealist movie scores with that.
tell me about any surrealist movies u know that use the sid chip for a soundtrack plz
amphitheatre probably 2001 a space odyssey. But it would work for Beyond the Black Rainbow, Colour our of Space, Mandy, a Clockwork Orange.
You could make some wicked surrealist rudimentary computer games with that ...
You may think you are cool, but you will never be "bulding a bass guitar out of a Comodore 64 with its original sound chips" cool
"little hack" -- that thing is *awesome*!
You had me at "bass guitar made from a C64"... no need to go all in on the "roller skates" bit (that was just you flexin')!
I know she did this way long ago, but how many people would kill to hear her actually play full rock songs with this. Maybe make an EP and release it. I'd buy it!
Playing bass, on a hacked Commodore 64, while skating on roller skates. That must have been the most 80s thing anyone has seen in decades.
It is 2020 now and this bass is still the awesomeness
When I saw the clip of you showing this thing off I was like, "How did she make that thing?!"
So glad I found this video.
👍🏽 Same! And bless her for sketching out the basics! Truly sorry I missed that Maker event! 😎
Sometimes, doing something just because you can is the only reason you need. BRAVO and then some! 🏆🇬🇧
So weird how TH-cam picks an OLD video to favor, then puts it in everyone's recommendations. Sort these comments by "newest first" and look at the time stamps. One after another very recent. A blessing if you're the one favored, but given how many TH-camrs get the opposite treatment (vids intentionally removed in recommendations, vids demonitzed for no reason, etc), it's just another annoying thing YT does
Yeah I’m so glad I found this, and props to her for more people discovering it !
TH-cam needs replacement
Just checked the date after I read your comment. Damn 8 years ago.
As someone who had a Commodore64 when they were new, played many analog synthesizers (and still do) and plays many instruments, including electric bass guitar. This is 100% BRILLIANT ! I hope you can find a way to sells these somehow.. even without the Commodore64 and have the SID I.C.'s inside a generic keyboard, with the bass parts.
I am so with you, Mr Tom.
"Press play on tape"...I was a little kid during the 80's...still have the Commodore 64 (not working, sadly) somewhere at my parents house. I didn't have the heart to threw it away...such cool memories...seems like 300 years ago.
It can probably be rescued! I mean, if a C64 left outside for more than a decade can be rescued, likely yours can too! :)
@@Mnnvint Yeah, probably. The point was in the heavy blinking of colors on the TV screen but the problem was the computer not the TV ofc. You could actually load a game but it was impossible to play it. The colors were all mixed and blinking.
...and just for the record my favorite C64 game was Turrican 2. Incredible graphics/game play if you consider the very first and basic games for a C64.
So this video might be 10 years old by now, but it’s the first time I see it, so with that I mind I’m gonna jump to your TH-cam channel crossing my fingers hoping that you have some videos going crazy playing that instrument of yours cause it sounds cool and I hope that you gotten good after 10 years :)
This instrument would go well for Chiptune, Avant-garde metal, or Alternative rock.
You are so fucking cool.
If she loves Eric Clapton I am definitely her fan !
I started watching this and at first I was like, "Ok that's pretty cool you built a bass guitar into a C64 case" but then you start talking about the FPGA and the 6581, and you're practically telling me, as if reading my mind, "oh NO, this is much cooler than that!". Great video, subscribed. Thank you.
This is the coolest thing I've ever seen in a while, kudos to you.
2 Questions:
Will you build one for me?
Will you marry me?
This is the coolest video I've seen in YEARS! C64 was my 1st programmable electronic instrument!
And this design is GENIUS!
LOL right? And she builds cars too...I think i'm in love..XD
at first I was shocked to see the c64 desecrated but then I was amazed by the end result. I hope I can see you play this beauty.
Jeri, you need to make these and sell them. I am a bassist and I would so play this and endorse it.
“I only did this”, “I simply did that”...
You’re a technical ‘genie-ass’!
...Genius!
...”little hack”?!
Ingenious engineering! 🙃
I know, so modest.
that was amazing brilliant, loved that you used fpga for this
It's HIP to be square wave!
Hey Allen!
Especially with pulsewidth modulation!
@@mrkiky Is that a raincoat?
Wow, this is the coolest thing I've seen since...her previous video.
That was 8-years ago! What a freakin’ genius that’s easy on the eyes. Her wielding FPGA like it was an Arduino UNO is mind bending. And she taught herself! 🤦♂️
oh my god, this is amazing. great work!
Is there a longer demo of this working? This is too cool to be ignored. I would love to build my own.
Unfortunately, someone stole this guitar while she was at another event.
@@AureliusR What?? That's literally tragic
Are you serious? What a harsh reminder that the world sucks, geez.
@@AureliusR Dude you gotta be kidding!
She plays it at the end of the video...
Good job. It is not surprise that such a great computer (with more than 38k memory and legendary SID sound chip) makes great bass.
Make more and sell them! I know I'd buy one.
“...and then compared it and send it to the FPGA. The FPGA scans the Commodore keyboard...”
-Uh oh
“...board has some linear power supplies, so the audio is nice&clean”
-Ah good, that put my mind to rest: we wouldn't want any distortion or interference in the signal, would we?
Interference no, distortion yes lots please.
I'm at a loss for words, so 11/10. Well done. Absolutely crushed it. Would recommend.
Imagine Buckethead playing this...😍🎸😎
Jeri, you are a GENIUS!!!
Buckethead NEEDS one of these! LOL
insanely awesome
nice1
So creative, we need more of this sort of thing in music today.
Do you do weddings and funerals?
Wait, do you mean two different functions or a combination event? I envision a new career path.
She does them on roller skates, bro
@@jaylittleton1 I'd have Jeri roll around with her C64 bass guitar at my wedding-funeral. She seems like an awesome inspiring person to be around.
@@jaylittleton1 Sadly, these days...
Very cool, made my day.
Jeri, I saw you on ham nation. I feel like a worker ant crawling around beneath you. How can any one person be so brilliant.
Man you are such a genius woman hope there are more youtubers like you. Or even better just post more PLEASE because that is unique.
AWESOME!!!!
You really should make this a KickStarter campaign. With rechargeable a Lithium Ion Battery
She's gonna make the Ironman Suit
... out of a MSX Spectravideo and a manual push lawnmower.
Fooking awesome! I loved every second of this. I am also a EE, a musical equipment designer, and a bassist. I think your string tracking might be off as you are using piezos under the string at the bridge. That whole bridge is resonating so not the best way to isolate strings. Your comparator is acting like a noise gate so I could see that you are opening the gate more than one string at a time. You might try winding a small version of a pickup for each string. Like copper wire around a nail (with a magnet) might even work. You don't need a bunch of output as you are amplifying it. Like a Strat pickup has 7200 turns of wire - but they are trying to get that output up to a volt and they are dealing with tone. You are using this as a trigger so just 100 turns might work. Or you might even try a hall-effect sensor. A 3503 is about the width of your E string so the string isolation would be much better. May the fourths be with you! ;-)
Please someone grab her DNA so we can clone this woman a thousand times! Jeri you are amazing!
I need a copy.
@@beforth This thread is exhilarating and frightening at the same time.
cringe
the fuck
What a totally normal, non-creepy thing to say to a random stranger.
How much cooler could you possibly get!
@@alfa-psi NO U
Incredible work on this instrument! Very impressive!!! I do hope a musician owns this device today.
you have got to sell this I would hands down want this for my birthday, could you make more, and maybe,only if you want, sell them please!
Jeri next quartz fest play ray a nice good nite riff
Nicely done. I hope you'll be showing more videos where you use this to play some famous pieces of music.
As a kid I used to listen to more C64 music than mainstream stuff.
This is brilliant. I believe there's a market for a variation of this instrument as both a bass and a regular guitar.
Where were you 26 years ago when I was pretending to know how to play bass? :-)
***** a dang cant compete with aesthetic stoicism
Fur Elise in square with pulse modulation!
Why is this now in my feed and why do I love this so much? This is wonderfull!
I'm sold
could really make some expressive noise with the digital vcf offset sound at the end there....your brain is amazing.
twas!
or adapt in the voice modulator extended circuit pack from a TI-994A ... muauauahahaha
That...is by FAR the coolest thing I've ever seen!! Circuit bent stuff has always caught my attention and you took it way beyond what I thought was even remotely possible!
Lady... You're bad ass.
Want. To. Buy. Now!
just came here from 9gag, had to give you props for an amazing project
awesome work!!
This reminds me of the thing Harold wears on The Red Green Show
YES
Just saw this and am very impressed. The C64 is my all time fav computer.
Amazing work ......you are one smart lady !
I want one. And I’m not even Tony Stark.
I'm sorry I got here so late, this is brilliant, wonderful and hilarious all at the same time. Excellent use of the C64 carcass and SID chip. Just brilliant in your execution. Kudos.
Awesome!!! Can you explain how you are converting the sound of the strings and sending it to the audio chip? Are you detecting the frequency with the help of the FPGA? Is it polyphonic?
Thanks a lot!
Have anamanaguchi seen this?
Haha, I immediately went and posted it all over their facebook and twitter as soon as I saw this.
Okay... I know this is a decade later but this may be the coolest thing I've ever fucking seen!!! I love this!
Genius
Did you do the FPGA programming too? Interfacing with the sound chip in the C64 sounds non-trivial.
If you consider that she's done a complete implementation of the C64 in FPGA... it probably wasn't that hard.
I'm having to watch this again, years later. This is the coolest stuff!
Whaaat ? Play a song for us .
Wow! How could I miss this one!
I'm an amateur musician and an electronics engineer. And both Google and TH-cam know this.
Then why the f* they suggest me unrelated bullshit instead of this awesome hack!
Why am I just now seeing this?! The SID chip is amazing and this bass is a wicked awesome way of using it!
94 people don't know what a c64 is!
Priceless. :-)
Shame there isn't anymore on this
Hell of a lot more than that. I'd say anyone born after 2000 probably doesn't know what one is. And anyone born after 1990 has probably never seen one.
well if anyone else wants to make a funky, sid chip guitar. get one from ebay :)
I wonder if she ever got her stolen 64 guitar back?
Is it digital or analog?
Rieni Otten looks like both
Well, the input (string vibration) and low-pass filter are obviously analog, but you're generating digital commands to send to a computer chip - the SID - which generates waveforms digitally, but outputs analog signals directly.
Yes.
Dow!
How did I only learn about this now? This is truly awesome.
This is frikin' awesome! I did some music on C64 back then, but never imagined it as a bass guitar :-) Good job...
AND she plays classic Cream! Jeri, you are amazing.
My thesis in 1986 at U of Manitoba was a MIDI guitar synthesizer. Used a Motorola chip and did the machine code. Wire-wrapped everything. Got into construction with Honeywell after graduation and then went on my own in 1991. Became a wealthy Apartment Developer. Just did was I was good at. You did a great job on the guitar. Way better than I could do. ve4mm
I see ur QSL card on eBay
PS: now i build MIDI-pickUp too
@@sepic5407 The one from Jamaica. I made 1300 QSO's and had QSL cards made and I made sure I sent one to every station that contacted me.
@@ve4mm its a greats!
maybe.... have U a docs of your MIDI-synth?
@@sepic5407 1986. Too far back. lololololo
That moment when you find old stuff on the internet and don´t know if you should be amazed or appalled.
Holy smokes!!!
You should make those on custom orders.
I want one, and i know plenty of other musicians who are also C64-enthusiasts who would love to own one of these.
Best video i've seen in years!😍
Wow...where on earth did you think this up. Smiling over the ingenuity and knowledge youve got here
WOW! Girl that's amazing! Do a 2023 revisit please!
Awesome - had an Amiga unit very similar to that back in the day. I can still hear the 2 x 25MB hard drives when I think about them.
Love the idea!
This is the weirdest and most excellent stuff I have seen on youtube. For ever.
* instant subscription
I think you just saved some lives when you mentioned that you wrapped up pick ups. I'm new to all this stuff and it definitely helps. Thanks!
That wasn't simply awesome - that was epic! Combining electro-wizardry, synth, nolstagic C64 and bass guitar. You just have to lay down some tracks and return with a part 2. Thanks for this!
This is genius. How I'd love to play this... Congrats
Is this video some sort of fever dream? I can’t believe this exists and I found it randomly on TH-cam. Instant subscribe!
This is really cool project, thanks for sharing!
A C64 Bass with an FPGA?
How did TH-cam reccomend this first now?
Amazingly cool stuff👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I'm sure Jerry Casale from Devo would love this bass keyboardguitar!
I'm amazed that someone can be smart enough and innovative enough to actually do something like this. A++
My first question was going to be, Why? But then I watched the video and I pondered the situation and it hit me. Answer? Because there was a void on the earth the size and shape of this and you filled it perfectly. Nice job muchacha!
Amazing Jeri ! and her wonderful toys !