Phantom of the Floppera
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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! - เพลง
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.
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.
Yeah very impressive bass.
there's this channel called fami cm with the same profile picture as @John
@@UCILaGtQaYAh3wnkvg4Rxzqg It's "Disk Kun" The Family computer disk system mascot
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.
Bach would have been proud.
I think he would have said something more like. "WTF is this awful Sound?!"
Bach to the future?
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.
*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.
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.
the gritty film quality makes it perfect.
I love how the different drives emulate different pipes in an organ. Bravo.
I've known about this for years, and every time I listen to it it still brings me joy.
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.
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.
Love the use of the big 5.25 inch floppies.
+1987VCRProductions Imagine if he had an 8-inch drive
+1987VCRProductions yes, that's computing
This is still one of the best renditions of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor I've ever heard.
386 era, I missed you.
This is what we will hear when the machines start the apocalypse.
Castlevania: Funeral Doom.
I find myself coming back at least twice a year.
After all these years, and many others playing music on floppies, this is still one of the best if not still the best.
I love that, contrary to others I saw, your drives are in a case. I think it really add to the musicality!
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.
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
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.
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.
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:\> *.*
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.
+George Whiteside But the association is uncited.
+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 ^^
LOL Alone the title is pure genius not to mention the acutal realisation and the sound.
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
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
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.
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>
To me this will forever be the greatest video on this damn site!
Best - startup sequence of any OS :P
This is still awesome in 2021
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.
If one day my computer does this to me spontaneously, I will shit my pants
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!
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.
I've seen as lot of these floppy songs, and this one is absolutely the most brilliant! Bravo.
The lights made it even more menacing for me. I love this!!!!
One of the best I've seen. Amazing.
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.
2:31 The guy's wearing a 5.25" disk as the phantom's mask. All around brilliant!
the best music on flobby installation I have ever seen.
Never heard these absolutly perfect pitched and clear harmonics on a stepper!
GOOD JOB!
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! ;)
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_ ?
0:53 always gives me goose bumps
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.
This is beautiful art.
This is what happens when computers get the blue screen of death
old but gold.
You've chosen the tones perfectly... BRAVO!!!
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 mildly terrifying... But, on the up and up, definitely not boring.
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!
Vital and important music forever preserved on film and sound. Bravo, bravo!
Its the ultimate DOS machine making music. Druaga1 you might want to see this
It's CREEPY AS HELL.
And that's why I like it.
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.
Extra-good with the lights coming on, kind of like spotlights on individual performers showing you which one is playing. Great work!
"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
This was hilarious. The camera work, the song, the programming. Love it. :D
This is the beautiful thing I've ever seen!
Стыдно не знать, что это Токката и Фуга Ре-минор И.С. Баха
#Respect авторам за работу!
actually this is "Toccata and Fugue" from Bach.
Just tocatta, no fugue.
This rather glorious thing never gets old.
still watching it in 2018, this video is so beautiful
where is the 2nd part!!!!? this is awesomee
try doing this to "the addams family" Explains the wannabee borg near end of vid
its the phantom of the floppera... not a borg
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.
Still an amazing video, six years later.
That title made me lol soooo hard XD
Title is misleading but awesome none the less!!
Nostalgic , disk us !
It gadgets that young people do not know , but would travel will surely splendor !
this is absolutely amazing! please make more!
moi qui pensais plutôt a Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Floppera :'(
more like Title that flopperaed
My favorite classical piece played on one of my favorite "instruments"...wonderful! Just wonderful.
i am speechless, just beautiful
That's Bach......
No, THIS IS PATRICK!!!!!
J. S. Bach You mean, you
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)
I wish this was how music in old games worked. 'Cause that would probably be the coolest thing ever.
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.
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.
My life is complete. I can die happy now.
That would be the scariest and most epic sound ever to wake up to in the middle of the night!
you got here because this is the best music to listen to during surgery
Ahh I love when my floppy drive on my old computer makes noises, brings back memory's lol
the best i've ever seen in years...
This is beautiful
Beautifully done! Wonderful! Author! Author!
Fricken phenomenal! LOVING that! must have taken hours and hours to code.
i never stop to put like to that!! is simply awesome!!
I'm not sure what's more awesome- the song or the name of the song!
Masterful floppering.
Floppy will never get useless!
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.
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. :-)
Utterly fantastic . . .