Many years since this was posted, I still go back to this video and show it to people. I'm sucker for a solid rendition of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, and this is one of my favourites.
Floppy drives use a special motor called a "stepper," where the shaft rotates in discrete intervals and is controlled by electric pulses. I created a circuit to translate MIDI notes into drive instructions. So say it receives a MIDI note A4, it sends a pulse to the drive every 2.27ms, and you hear the transmission system clack and buzz at 440Hz!
I'm guessing you use either CPU cycles or a reprogrammed IRQ 0 timer to get that time interval between FDC I/O commands. For the additional drives, did you modify the flat cable to reuse the two extra drive selection values that IBM threw away in 1981 ?
TheBlackSheep I actually have a modern computer that came with an HP Pocket Media Drive bay. After the installation of Windows 8.1, I replaced it with a floppy drive. I even replaced the case with an older one to get 2 floppy bays. But the thing is, when I plug/unplug a drive/drives, it makes a short sound from the floppy drive read head. If this is the case, then you sir, are correct. For example, when I plug/unplug a multi-function card reader I took out of the computer, it places four drives in the drives list, and clicks my floppy drive four times. ***** I agree on almost every level with you.
This is absolutely amazing!!!! I know lots of people have done this sort of thing but I think you've really transposed the music to floppy drive well :D
Far worse aberrations in the misinformation department has humankind witnessed, so... And yet, it's so marvelous what people like this guy have done with old drives.
I bet you think you're all smart and shit for pointing out a minor technicality before you read the information under the video... guess what... IT WAS IN PHANTOM OF THE OPERA! The Phantom of the Opera (1962): Hammer Horror version featuring Herbert Lom and Heather Sears. This version has the Phantom playing the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach on the organ.
pineapplewafers ¿Is "The Man Who Sold the World" from Nirvana or from David Bowie? the song is this: th-cam.com/video/B3OrUlnbF84/w-d-xo.html The fact that BWV 565 appears in The Phantom of the Opera doesn't make it the main theme which you can listen in the link and yes, I didn't saw the information under the video, sorry for that sin.
I never said it was the main theme, but the reference is there and it is a legitimate reference as most people associate that song with phantom of the opera. I would even feel safe venturing so far as to say that most people, don't know the actual name of the song. All I was saying was that while you are correct, you were also incorrect, but +1 for actually knowing what the song's real name was. Appreciation of good music is never a bad thing.
This song is played by the phantom in the 1962 film The Phantom of the Opera, that's why it is associated. It's an iconic scene. The Phantom existed before Andrew Lloyd Weber.
The fact a classical piece even got 2 million views is pretty amazing. The Star Wars song is obviously going to be viewed more because almost everyone knows it and it's extremely nostalgic for most people. I'm proud this got as many views as it did, really.
Well, here at the weird end of TH-cam I've just watched a whole bunch of musical-floppy-drive videos. This is about the only one that sounds half like a musical instrument: well done sir.
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.
Thanks! There's an association between the two: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_(1962_film)#Music I used the reference for the sake of the pun in the title, and the gag at 2:30.
+Will S Here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565#In_film you have a source ^^. The association between "Phantom of the Opera" and "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" is actually quite strong and well known. Pretty much in the sense of "James Bond" "Live and let die", "Shrek" "Hallelujah", "Easy Rider" "Born to be wild", "Dirty Dancing" "The time of my life", "Flashdance" "Maniac", "The Graduate" "Mrs. Robinson" "Blown Away" "Still haven't found what i'm looking for" or "U2" in general ^^
Insanely good! This is a so worthy a subscription! Now I'm not a huge fan of floppy disk drive noises, but this is nice. Really nice actually. I so have to show this to my collegues today at a music studio.
Fellow TH-camrs, he called it 'Phantom of the Floppera' for the sake of the pun. Brilliant and charming video anyway, you've got to love these unique and quirky projects that only TH-cam provides!
heyoooooooo this is only the Tocatta!!! it's missing the Fugue! still this is absolutely amazing and well tuned knowing the hard that it is to get the proper sounds!
teens of today never will understand how terrifying and gloomy was work with an IBM AT or the first ATX towers, with win 95 and even internet was a pain in the ass to equip
Ah the pain of missing a jumper and seeing a Pentium 133 appear as a cyrix 83 coupled by the fear that you might mess up the voltage jumper and fry your new chip
Turbo mode slows the clock speed of the processor. You dont want that on unless your are playing some really old games that were designed on the slower clock speeds.
This is the kind of thing that a Fury X, an i7k will neve give you. Thanks for the nostalgia and for doing something useful and smart with to most people are just obsolete junk.
Very well done considering the limitations of your "instruments". If you had one of the old 8" drives that IBM used back in the 70s, you could have hit the lower notes more accurately.
He points out that the 5.25 drives are actually better at hitting the higher notes because their constructions standards were so much better than the cranked out in high capacity 3.5 drives. The point being that when you actually look into it things don't work as you would expect.
If I'm thinking this right all you did was set a program to run the floppy drives at different speeds at alternating times, the hard part nowadays would be to find that many versions of floppy drive that work, I like it very much.
When people hear Toccata & Fugue they are much more inclined to think of church music than one of many film adaptations of Phantom of the Opera, so maybe a better title could have been "Toccata & Floppy in D Computer" or something along those lines :)
TheBLC94 Sure that would be more accurate but I was going for that little more using D to mean THE as many people, myself not included, mispronounce it that way! ;)
Actually, it's only the Toccata. The Fugue is another 6 minutes or so (probably why this is a "test run"). Together, the Toccata and Fugue in Dm are cataloged as BWV 565, and are around 9 minutes and change. This seriously rocks. Nice work... and bringing back memories. :)
Whenever I start to miss the naturally musical floppy drive of my old mac classic, I can come to TH-cam and hear floppy drives sing in a more organized manor. :-)
Imagine this if you will: Its Halloween night, you go to a haunted house, and its pitch black inside. Suddenly, an office lamp flicks on and you see that, the usual cords out the back, but no parts in sight and suddenly it clicks to life and it starts playing, and you see him, the phantom that people have spoken about, but rarley see.
The sound you hear is the motor that moves the read/write head back and forth in the drive to read the floppy disc. By running that motor at different speeds and intervals, you get different, specific vibrations. (musical notes)
If you'd like someone to be completely fair, Phantom of the Opera is in fact an actual song, and the first song in the track listing in the original Broadway cast recording, while it isn't the song played here. Either way, it's still a well-done rendition of Toccata and Fugue, even if it wasn't exactly what you came for.
Tocatta and Fugue aren't or isn't a specific song [-name] either, since it can rely to to 'ANY' other classical musik piece either.. . There are tons of tocatta's and "Fugen" out there . First get you own point right, before posting such aristocratic shit :).
I saw this in Related Videos and thought it'd be the theme from Phantom Of The Opera. It's not, but I've got to say it exceeded my expectations. Great job :D
i like that the drives were left inside the pc case. so many floppy tunes are just stacks of drives on tables. also this is one of my favourite Bach pieces (T&F in Dm)
Nice set-up, well done… :) I like that the drives are in a tower, and not just laying about. As for the title "Phantom of the Floppera", a little artistic license, good title.
you mean Toccata and fugue in D drive
d drive is usually optical though
floppies are always A and B drives (A for master drive and B for slave drive)
That's because this Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
@@connosoft1949 well, I assume I have been nitpicking unintentionaly too, ahah )
In D:\
@@kernel_data_inpage_error D: is a terrifying drive. Makes me get all emojional.
Many years since this was posted, I still go back to this video and show it to people. I'm sucker for a solid rendition of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, and this is one of my favourites.
Floppy drives use a special motor called a "stepper," where the shaft rotates in discrete intervals and is controlled by electric pulses. I created a circuit to translate MIDI notes into drive instructions. So say it receives a MIDI note A4, it sends a pulse to the drive every 2.27ms, and you hear the transmission system clack and buzz at 440Hz!
!!!
I'm guessing you use either CPU cycles or a reprogrammed IRQ 0 timer to get that time interval between FDC I/O commands.
For the additional drives, did you modify the flat cable to reuse the two extra drive selection values that IBM threw away in 1981 ?
Brilliant, thank you
The bass from the 5.25" drives.
there's this channel called fami cm with the same profile picture as @John
@@Noratekki It's "Disk Kun" The Family computer disk system mascot
I've known about this for years, and every time I listen to it it still brings me joy.
the 5.25 floppies have such a warmer tone to them.
Real audiophiles listen to 8" floppies.
lol (thumbs up)
The toneplastics had more time to dry and set.
I love how the different drives emulate different pipes in an organ. Bravo.
Bach would have been proud.
I think he would have said something more like. "WTF is this awful Sound?!"
Bach to the future?
Love the use of the big 5.25 inch floppies.
+1987VCRProductions Imagine if he had an 8-inch drive
+1987VCRProductions yes, that's computing
Could have been a huge hit! Too bad it flopped...
This joke should have got the boot! =D
Any more of this awful humor and they'll de-magnetize this channel.
I love that, contrary to others I saw, your drives are in a case. I think it really add to the musicality!
*Sniff,* I can smell the smoke of those poor floppies from here.
Zakhar Vanzin I wonder if this even damages them at all.
I doubt it.
This is one of the best things I've seen on TH-cam in years! I love the 5.25" phantom mask! Very well done.
the gritty film quality makes it perfect.
This is still awesome in 2021
After all these years, and many others playing music on floppies, this is still one of the best if not still the best.
mine did this when I installed Windows 8
***** The same people who need to have this joke EXPLAINED TO THEM!
***** That's how terrible Windows 8 is. It makes that sound without a Floppy drive.
***** IKR? why would I want to destroy such an amazing machine? LMAO!
*****
I do
TheBlackSheep I actually have a modern computer that came with an HP Pocket Media Drive bay. After the installation of Windows 8.1, I replaced it with a floppy drive. I even replaced the case with an older one to get 2 floppy bays. But the thing is, when I plug/unplug a drive/drives, it makes a short sound from the floppy drive read head. If this is the case, then you sir, are correct. For example, when I plug/unplug a multi-function card reader I took out of the computer, it places four drives in the drives list, and clicks my floppy drive four times.
***** I agree on almost every level with you.
This is absolutely amazing!!!! I know lots of people have done this sort of thing but I think you've really transposed the music to floppy drive well :D
386 era, I missed you.
Due to these videos, eventually young kids will say "so these were for playing music?"
Ya, this was the days before 8-Tracks...lol
or wow, you made a 3d printed save button. 😂
Hahaha XD
Far worse aberrations in the misinformation department has humankind witnessed, so... And yet, it's so marvelous what people like this guy have done with old drives.
To me this will forever be the greatest video on this damn site!
This is what we will hear when the machines start the apocalypse.
Castlevania: Funeral Doom.
That is Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 not The Phantom of the Opera
I bet you think you're all smart and shit for pointing out a minor technicality before you read the information under the video...
guess what... IT WAS IN PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!
The Phantom of the Opera (1962): Hammer Horror version featuring Herbert Lom and Heather Sears. This version has the Phantom playing the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach on the organ.
pineapplewafers ¿Is "The Man Who Sold the World" from Nirvana or from David Bowie? the song is this: th-cam.com/video/B3OrUlnbF84/w-d-xo.html
The fact that BWV 565 appears in The Phantom of the Opera doesn't make it the main theme which you can listen in the link and yes, I didn't saw the information under the video, sorry for that sin.
I never said it was the main theme, but the reference is there and it is a legitimate reference as most people associate that song with phantom of the opera. I would even feel safe venturing so far as to say that most people, don't know the actual name of the song. All I was saying was that while you are correct, you were also incorrect, but +1 for actually knowing what the song's real name was. Appreciation of good music is never a bad thing.
Rodrigo Polo Well, Tofloppa and Fugue in D minor doesnt sound nearly as good. Ya dingus!
+Please attempt to argue with me How about in D:\minor>
This song is played by the phantom in the 1962 film The Phantom of the Opera, that's why it is associated. It's an iconic scene. The Phantom existed before Andrew Lloyd Weber.
I find myself coming back at least twice a year.
The fact a classical piece even got 2 million views is pretty amazing. The Star Wars song is obviously going to be viewed more because almost everyone knows it and it's extremely nostalgic for most people. I'm proud this got as many views as it did, really.
Well, here at the weird end of TH-cam I've just watched a whole bunch of musical-floppy-drive videos.
This is about the only one that sounds half like a musical instrument: well done sir.
Goddamnit. This was SO BEAUTIFUL. You dude, brought fuckint tears of joy to my eyes.
+Phellipe Diaz Wow, I'm guessing you liked it...so uhm...you wanna slide your disk into that drive? Read: head. See what I did there?
the same
J.S.Bach respect to
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.
the best music on flobby installation I have ever seen.
Never heard these absolutly perfect pitched and clear harmonics on a stepper!
GOOD JOB!
LOL Alone the title is pure genius not to mention the acutal realisation and the sound.
Great job. Though, if you know it's Toccata and Fugue, why the Phantom of the Opera reference in the title?
Thanks! There's an association between the two: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_(1962_film)#Music
I used the reference for the sake of the pun in the title, and the gag at 2:30.
+Shark Eel My life was a mess when I posted that.
+Will S I hate it when that happens. Hope life is treating you a bit better!
+Will S
Here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565#In_film
you have a source ^^.
The association between "Phantom of the Opera" and "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" is actually quite strong and well known. Pretty much in the sense of
"James Bond" "Live and let die",
"Shrek" "Hallelujah",
"Easy Rider" "Born to be wild",
"Dirty Dancing" "The time of my life",
"Flashdance" "Maniac",
"The Graduate" "Mrs. Robinson"
"Blown Away" "Still haven't found what i'm looking for" or "U2" in general ^^
How else was he gonna make a pun in the title?
Insanely good! This is a so worthy a subscription! Now I'm not a huge fan of floppy disk drive noises, but this is nice. Really nice actually. I so have to show this to my collegues today at a music studio.
Fellow TH-camrs, he called it 'Phantom of the Floppera' for the sake of the pun.
Brilliant and charming video anyway, you've got to love these unique and quirky projects that only TH-cam provides!
Not only have you won the internet, but your an inspiration to me personally and to aspiring Techies everywhere. I'd give an arm to be this awesome.
One of the best I've seen. Amazing.
heyoooooooo this is only the Tocatta!!! it's missing the Fugue!
still this is absolutely amazing and well tuned knowing the hard that it is to get the proper sounds!
I give this a A:/ plus
yeah, he definitely is a master at this
Slightly late but A:\
@@mirandahw better late than never C:\ 😂
I give it A:\> *.*
I've seen as lot of these floppy songs, and this one is absolutely the most brilliant! Bravo.
60% of the internet won't even know what a floppy disk is, let alone what one would use one for. Music, it seems, is the best use so far. Bravo.
Best - startup sequence of any OS :P
teens of today never will understand how terrifying and gloomy was work with an IBM AT or the first ATX towers, with win 95 and even internet was a pain in the ass to equip
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Ah the pain of missing a jumper and seeing a Pentium 133 appear as a cyrix 83 coupled by the fear that you might mess up the voltage jumper and fry your new chip
This is still one of the best renditions of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor I've ever heard.
This was hilarious. The camera work, the song, the programming. Love it. :D
My life is complete. I can die happy now.
and he didn't even have it on Turbo mode !
+XfStef because he is doing it 8088's style
turbo slows it down for games linked to clock speed
Turbo mode slows the clock speed of the processor. You dont want that on unless your are playing some really old games that were designed on the slower clock speeds.
This is beautiful art.
Did any of you notice on the display where it says "d0" stands for "diskette Organ"?
and who knows what *DF0* would mean, Huh ?? :D
it's written in the description :)
Well then, why did I put that in the comments? Duh, I read the description!
DF0 DH0, come on man is there _no brother amongst us_ ?
Extra-good with the lights coming on, kind of like spotlights on individual performers showing you which one is playing. Great work!
This is the kind of thing that a Fury X, an i7k will neve give you. Thanks for the nostalgia and for doing something useful and smart with to most people are just obsolete junk.
Very well done considering the limitations of your "instruments".
If you had one of the old 8" drives that IBM used back in the 70s, you could have hit the lower notes more accurately.
Yes, maybe potentially so. Still, I assume pre-PC era stuff is something not that much people know how to handle.
He points out that the 5.25 drives are actually better at hitting the higher notes because their constructions standards were so much better than the cranked out in high capacity 3.5 drives. The point being that when you actually look into it things don't work as you would expect.
If I'm thinking this right all you did was set a program to run the floppy drives at different speeds at alternating times, the hard part nowadays would be to find that many versions of floppy drive that work, I like it very much.
This is what happens when computers get the blue screen of death
Vital and important music forever preserved on film and sound. Bravo, bravo!
The lights made it even more menacing for me. I love this!!!!
If one day my computer does this to me spontaneously, I will shit my pants
This is mildly terrifying... But, on the up and up, definitely not boring.
where is the 2nd part!!!!? this is awesomee
You've chosen the tones perfectly... BRAVO!!!
2:31 The guy's wearing a 5.25" disk as the phantom's mask. All around brilliant!
When people hear Toccata & Fugue they are much more inclined to think of church music than one of many film adaptations of Phantom of the Opera, so maybe a better title could have been "Toccata & Floppy in D Computer" or something along those lines :)
Or just "Toccata & Floppy in D:\" =P
TheBLC94
Sure that would be more accurate but I was going for that little more using D to mean THE as many people, myself not included, mispronounce it that way! ;)
Стыдно не знать, что это Токката и Фуга Ре-минор И.С. Баха
#Respect авторам за работу!
Its the ultimate DOS machine making music. Druaga1 you might want to see this
0:53 always gives me goose bumps
My favorite classical piece played on one of my favorite "instruments"...wonderful! Just wonderful.
It's CREEPY AS HELL.
And that's why I like it.
"Floppera"....... I laughed so hard!!!
and here I was thinking it wasn't going to get better than "house of the rising sun" played by dot-matrix printers... boy was I wrong
Actually, it's only the Toccata. The Fugue is another 6 minutes or so (probably why this is a "test run"). Together, the Toccata and Fugue in Dm are cataloged as BWV 565, and are around 9 minutes and change.
This seriously rocks. Nice work... and bringing back memories. :)
Still one of the best videos ever made
That title made me lol soooo hard XD
actually this is "Toccata and Fugue" from Bach.
Just tocatta, no fugue.
Title is misleading but awesome none the less!!
Whenever I start to miss the naturally musical floppy drive of my old mac classic, I can come to TH-cam and hear floppy drives sing in a more organized manor. :-)
And this is how Pawel Zadrozniak was born...
try doing this to "the addams family" Explains the wannabee borg near end of vid
its the phantom of the floppera... not a borg
moi qui pensais plutôt a Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Floppera :'(
more like Title that flopperaed
Imagine this if you will: Its Halloween night, you go to a haunted house, and its pitch black inside. Suddenly, an office lamp flicks on and you see that, the usual cords out the back, but no parts in sight and suddenly it clicks to life and it starts playing, and you see him, the phantom that people have spoken about, but rarley see.
This is the beautiful thing I've ever seen!
I will never get how this works xD
Pray explain xD
The sound you hear is the motor that moves the read/write head back and forth in the drive to read the floppy disc. By running that motor at different speeds and intervals, you get different, specific vibrations. (musical notes)
That's Bach......
No, THIS IS PATRICK!!!!!
J. S. Bach You mean, you
Phantom of the opera is not a song. Tocatta and fugue is the song
Read the description.
Josh Deffenbaugh Man, you haven’t got the point.
If you'd like someone to be completely fair, Phantom of the Opera is in fact an actual song, and the first song in the track listing in the original Broadway cast recording, while it isn't the song played here. Either way, it's still a well-done rendition of Toccata and Fugue, even if it wasn't exactly what you came for.
Tocatta and Fugue aren't or isn't a specific song [-name] either, since it can rely to to 'ANY' other classical musik piece either.. . There are tons of tocatta's and "Fugen" out there . First get you own point right, before posting such aristocratic shit :).
This is only the tocatta - there's no fugue on this.
still watching it in 2018, this video is so beautiful
This rather glorious thing never gets old.
Nostalgic , disk us !
It gadgets that young people do not know , but would travel will surely splendor !
That would be the scariest and most epic sound ever to wake up to in the middle of the night!
please take requests, we need a full playlist of these. only competitor is 8 floppy drives guy, and i love that you left them in the tower!!
THAT was HILARIOUS! AND BRILLIANT! What a great way to re-purpose the zillions o floppies laying around!
@Merceauroix Also in one of the older Movies of Phantom of the Opera there is a scene where the phantom is at the organ playing Toccata & Fugue
I saw this in Related Videos and thought it'd be the theme from Phantom Of The Opera. It's not, but I've got to say it exceeded my expectations. Great job :D
Fricken phenomenal! LOVING that! must have taken hours and hours to code.
I love toccata & Fugue and J.S. Bach, very great job!!!!! I'm crying of happiness!!!!
i like that the drives were left inside the pc case. so many floppy tunes are just stacks of drives on tables. also this is one of my favourite Bach pieces (T&F in Dm)
@keetner Its a drive which can read and write data on floppy disks, disk that were in use before cd-rom was invented.
I'm not sure what's more awesome- the song or the name of the song!
The floppy disk on face 2:38 alone merits a like on this!
Nice set-up, well done… :)
I like that the drives are in a tower, and not just laying about.
As for the title "Phantom of the Floppera", a little artistic license, good title.
you got here because this is the best music to listen to during surgery
That's just cool, I never knew you can make music with floppy disk drives XD