It's interesting that we fall it white noise, pink noise, brown noise....what about black noise. Wouldn't that literally be every timbre odd and even harmonics and every shape of wave knowing to existi and then some ?
@@BertramMoranda th-cam.com/video/-I-zdmg_Dno/w-d-xo.html That video is just something made with audacity, this one is from NASA and their SOHO observatory
On the episode of Southpark where the refugees from the future come back and integrate with the culture, they're bumping something similar to this in their car. I always say in the distant future everyone will be looking fondly back to Merzbow as a classical musician who was far ahead of his time.
The idea that you take technical things based on logical concepts and are able to turn it into something organic and creative is just fascinating! Keep it up man!!
Beeblebrox One that's true but it can also have the opposite effect. It's the only drug that psychiatrists manage to actually cure schizophrenia. But in 1952 it were made illegal because it was classified as a narcotic. And at that time the politicians were literally at war with narcotics. But as you mentioned, used without deep knowledge, it can be like Russian roulette to your mental health. 🤘
I have decent computer speakers and a pretty good home theater rig. I dare say that this sounds better on my computer then the actual THX logo does on my much larger home theater rig. Next, I should see what this sounds like on that rig. It' probably blow me away.
There's something mesmerizing about the sound around 8:50. Because of huge amount of osc's and imprefections in tuning there are lots of frequency pulsations that the brain just can't handle. But overall it sounds like a long, constantly evolving drone.
It's been done via software in computers, however I haven't seen it done via hardware. There is always a problem though, the more sounds that you layer on top of each other at different frequencies (even with very tiny alterations between them ), the more and more it sounds like White noise, Pink noise ect. It's often referred to as being 'a wall of sound', which in a odd way is exactly what he's built. This happens because of two things: a) The frequencies and wavelengths coming from each oscillator merge and blend into each other, into one continuous fuzzy sound. Imagine merging 1000 different samples together and the fuzzy, muddy and buzzy result that you'd end up with. b) Even though us humans have a remarkable ability to pick out and separate individual sounds produced by multiple sources that overlap in frequency and in time, we have our limitations. With too many multiple incoming sources the human ear or I should say brain, can no longer differentiate between or pick out individual sounds. Basically your brain can separate individual signals from multiple signals (known as spectral segregation) up to a tipping point . However, once it goes over this tipping point due to a huge barrage of different and multiple signals to process, it goes into overdrive and then just suddenly gives in and stops even trying to differentiate individual sounds. Instead it's just processed and interpreted by the brain, as being a whole bunch of random signals (or white noise). I hate pissing on his parade, but It doesn't matter if he uses 500 or 1000 oscillators, it'll still sound to the human ear like white noise. That's unless whole bunches of the oscillators are very accurately tuned to the exact same frequency and wavelength, using the exact same waveform. However, I highly doubt this would even be possible, using this many 'knob' operated oscillators, no matter how much tweaking he tries. They'll always be some slight or minor detuning or difference happening between each oscillator.
A mad Brit! If you want to see him totally lose it, watch this one - 1000 vintage synths - th-cam.com/video/0XrPLBSlopQ/w-d-xo.html This guy is the real deal!
Bring this to MoMA or something so those of us stateside can have our internal organs liquified in person. Seriously, would love to see this as a traveling exhibit of some kind. A logistical challenge to say the least.
NASA just released a time lapse of 10 years worth of photos of the Sun. It's about an hour long, and I could imagine listening to this for an hour building up over the video.
Me thinking about buying one eurorack oscillator: too much money This guy: purchases and assembles everything necessary to create a 500 oscillator synth for one video
Bro this already sounds so epic.. Im literally hyped for some crazy scifi movie that doesnt even exist yet. I really hope some director will jump on this and get you to produce an OST. Also i wouldnt be surprised if youll generate frequencies no human ear has ever experienced when youre finished and invent time travel in the progress. Man i love your work, keep it up pls!
Imagine taking a FFT of some sample, then playing each 'bin' of the FFT into one oscillator (with each one tuned to each frequency)! (each bin would just be the volume of that frequency at that time). And you could warp the frequencies which would also do weird things to the original sound.... sort of a combination of digital signal processing and analog synthesis. (alternative to doing an FFT would be to make a 500 unit filter bank....but what kind of person would make something with so many parts ;]
Additive Synthesis in the analog domain? Sounds like a pretty tall order - the first usable additive synths were digital: RMI Harmonic Synthesiser, Synclavier, Kawai K5, and so on.
you'd also need as many VCAs for the windowing function and actually at least double as much VCOs to have at least a 2x overlap, then each VCO would have to somehow get phase modulated. but yeah what kind of person would make that :P
If each oscillator could have its own envelope, one could maybe do a wavelet transform on the overall sample and reconstruct it by adding the appropriate combination of oscillators. This could allow for really interesting spectral manipulations on long, complex samples with lots of temporal variation.
Synth Hall of Fame moment(s), I applaud your amazing dedication to an idea!. Sounds like an impossibly massive bee hive, and the time lapsed knob tweaking, pretty sure I've had dreams like that before.
Get yourself some of those hardware store kneepads painters use if you're going to be scrabbling on the floor, mate. Your knees and back will thank you. Also, great job so far! The hard work's paying off.
I think he’s unwittingly created a weapon of mass destruction or an art installation. Until it’s all finished wired in and tuned it’ll be hard to tell unless a country suddenly disappears because its resonance just happens to correspond to that of the drone.
I checked out your music on Spotify, and your music is amazing! Had to come back and comment! I'm following your complete discography playlist. Cheers from Argentina!
This is art. Apocalyptic and emotional! The LEDs limited viewing angle make it look alive when the perspectuve changes. I want to hear the full spectrum of this thing in a museum or club!
I'm just glad I live in a time where I can watch this from the other side of the world on a tiny mobile device. I grew up in the 70s when calculators cost the same as a decent computer now.
cool ambient song you made, going from one oscillator ad picking a note, and then adding 500 more one at a time, with a unique but similar sweep each time. Then when it's all finally built up, and sounded like a magnificent pad, I can't wait to hear that played with keys, (can you play it with midi?) and then each oscillator going to a random frequency until it's white noise and the original frequency is gone. Entropy Of The Universe
It´s always good to waste time with things like this, I absolutely love it! The drones have taken me away, I´ve tried so hard not to look into their red eyes but wasn´t successful... Awesome job so far, so just keep on and make i´em sound even crazier, Sam!!
I kind of wish to see this live - in a music festival, a huge PA system, LMNC with this monstrosity just tuning it, thousands of people listening and waiting the aliens to pick up the signal and arrive to greet us.
when you start turning this thing up, after you have them tuned, it makes me feel things in my heart and brain that i can't exactly explain. when i hear beautiful music the same thing happens
When all 1000 are working. You could tune them all. And do this, gradually turning them up one by one. Record the audio. Make it a song, call it 'Boot Sequence' or something. It's like the ultimate intro to a Sci-Fi OST or Ambient Electronic album.
I can't wait for the day in the far future where LMNC gets tired of building new absolutely insane musical machines, and settles for mastering them. Can't imagine what a savant like him could create with the ability to play1000 notes at once.
Neighbors : TURN THAT DOWN!!!
'Yep, give me 30 mins'
There is no more neighbors since last test in the middle of the night :-) Either dead of heart attack or deaf for the survivors.
Now that was funny 😄
🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂
This was awesome lol
I laughed way too much at that. Take my up vote. 🏁
When you de-tuned them, I feel like it explained to me at a deeper level how white noise is a combination of all frequencies equally. Really neat!
that's exactly what i felt too
yeah, that's like most expensive and precise static noise machine I've ever seen :D
Same! I thought how it could be a educational video
It's interesting that we fall it white noise, pink noise, brown noise....what about black noise. Wouldn't that literally be every timbre odd and even harmonics and every shape of wave knowing to existi and then some ?
@@aaronmcentee9310 Black Noise, to my understanding, is basically white noise cancelled out. Mostly silence with some sub-bass frequencies left over.
It's what i imagine the sun would sound like if you could hear it.
Pretty much yes
th-cam.com/video/ZZQcLJjpdrI/w-d-xo.html
So Cliff Martinez hahaha
@@BertramMoranda th-cam.com/video/-I-zdmg_Dno/w-d-xo.html That video is just something made with audacity, this one is from NASA and their SOHO observatory
@ 9:30 this is amazing
Haha you cant hear the sun?? Duuuuuh!! Wierdo
If human kind does not self destruct, it will evolve to the point where this tune will be #1 on the billboard.
You have a great understanding of our misery.
A PROPHET
On the episode of Southpark where the refugees from the future come back and integrate with the culture, they're bumping something similar to this in their car. I always say in the distant future everyone will be looking fondly back to Merzbow as a classical musician who was far ahead of his time.
Good work buddy!
The idea that you take technical things based on logical concepts and are able to turn it into something organic and creative is just fascinating! Keep it up man!!
This definitely must be used in a Sci-Fi movie's soundtrack when it's complete.
Blade Runner: Apocalypse
I hear Hans Zimmer already bought it.
Oh right, he's on the 8 bit trail now. So order cancelled.
it is already giving me goosebumps
sounds like Coil - Time machines, 1 of my favorite albums
Or just music.
Wow man, thanks for that! I love synths and I love Star Trek, and this video hits both spots simultaneously! Cheers!
Imagine living next to this guy and you slowly start hearing him turn on this machine.
@Boris Shuplecov life is terrible lol
Either God or the devil is trying to communicate with me.
I guess it's a good thing that this is not in his house but is in a commercial building that will eventually be The Museum of Everything Else :)
Beeblebrox One that's true but it can also have the opposite effect. It's the only drug that psychiatrists manage to actually cure schizophrenia. But in 1952 it were made illegal because it was classified as a narcotic. And at that time the politicians were literally at war with narcotics. But as you mentioned, used without deep knowledge, it can be like Russian roulette to your mental health. 🤘
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the sheer number of hours being pumped into this thing? Seriously impressive display of dedication here.
this guy is quite the human!! need more of these kinds of ppl in the world. So fucken awesome!!!
Yes!
Agreed! Eccentric humans colour in/ scribble over the excess grey bits in the world :)
Wholeheartedly agreed
How about yourself mate? Why not you?
"More human than human".
The massed power of 500 oscillators resonating in sympathy ... and I am listening to it through a $15 pair of computer speakers.
Oh you have the new iPhone I see. A human of class 👏 👌 🙌
I think the whole thing completed might look like a sort of noise-generator edition of Sauron's eye lol
T3r4Byt3 Quick, write a fan fiction about it and The One Ring Mod. The Lord of the Ring Mods.
It looks like he built a machine that gained conciousness and it lkke started staring at him at this point
Shh, now. Don't give him ideas!
Fantastic sounds! Please continue to create amazing sounds that we can sample and enjoy! Amazing!!!!
if anyone is going to open a portal to another dimension on accident, it will be this man
Kinda reminds me of the series Fringe. I need to watch that again. Moo!
The Entanglement is REAL !!!
THX: _I'll take your entire stock_
I have decent computer speakers and a pretty good home theater rig. I dare say that this sounds better on my computer then the actual THX logo does on my much larger home theater rig. Next, I should see what this sounds like on that rig. It' probably blow me away.
thought the same XDDDD
A BBC public announcement: The drone noise you heard over london is not part of an alien invasion. Its only a 996 oscillator synth
It does remind me a bit of the sound of an airship's engines like you hear in old film reels.
No joke, remember War Of The Worlds radio broadcast?
Que Doctor Who Theme song
This must have been what flying in a bomber formation in 1942 must have sounded like.
There's something mesmerizing about the sound around 8:50. Because of huge amount of osc's and imprefections in tuning there are lots of frequency pulsations that the brain just can't handle. But overall it sounds like a long, constantly evolving drone.
This sounds like an analog version of the THX deep note. Love it.
I'm 100% sure that the THX sound came from a analogue modular synth.
I'm pretty sure your going to get a call from Christopher Nolan to score his next movie
7:26 playstation intro
Nice ocilators bro
Woow
"The audience can still hear the dialog -- Turn up the oscillator please"
I just realized that this has never been done before. We are watching history being made!
It's been done via software in computers, however I haven't seen it done via hardware. There is always a problem though, the more sounds that you layer on top of each other at different frequencies (even with very tiny alterations between them ), the more and more it sounds like White noise, Pink noise ect. It's often referred to as being 'a wall of sound', which in a odd way is exactly what he's built. This happens because of two things:
a) The frequencies and wavelengths coming from each oscillator merge and blend into each other, into one continuous fuzzy sound. Imagine merging 1000 different samples together and the fuzzy, muddy and buzzy result that you'd end up with.
b) Even though us humans have a remarkable ability to pick out and separate individual sounds produced by multiple sources that overlap in frequency and in time, we have our limitations. With too many multiple incoming sources the human ear or I should say brain, can no longer differentiate between or pick out individual sounds. Basically your brain can separate individual signals from multiple signals (known as spectral segregation) up to a tipping point . However, once it goes over this tipping point due to a huge barrage of different and multiple signals to process, it goes into overdrive and then just suddenly gives in and stops even trying to differentiate individual sounds. Instead it's just processed and interpreted by the brain, as being a whole bunch of random signals (or white noise).
I hate pissing on his parade, but It doesn't matter if he uses 500 or 1000 oscillators, it'll still sound to the human ear like white noise. That's unless whole bunches of the oscillators are very accurately tuned to the exact same frequency and wavelength, using the exact same waveform. However, I highly doubt this would even be possible, using this many 'knob' operated oscillators, no matter how much tweaking he tries. They'll always be some slight or minor detuning or difference happening between each oscillator.
@@fafski1199 I wonder how accurate they would sound if they were all DCOs ?, or would that be cheating lol.
Totally would be cheating
I programmed something similar as a VST more than a decade ago, with the initial goal being a simulation of thousands applauding in and out of sync.
@Smart Tech In which regard? Digital already can produce sound resolution higher than our ears can even tell a difference.
Give this man a Price! This is the most amazing YT channel ever
The remark at around 8:30 about "it sounding like - this will never happen - a hundred football hooligans singing in tune" cracked me up. 🤣
:D
You're probably buying an entire knob factory's output.
Didn't expect this synth to be so spiritual, sounds incredible
That's true. When it was on tune it sounded alive.
Yes! I got semi asleep almost in a trance. Will replay now.
I hope to vacation in Great Britain someday, and your Museum will be on the list of essential places to visit
12:00 - Are you trying to summon an elder god? Because this is how you summon an elder god.
This is exactly what i would expect a guy who build a 1000 oscillator wall to look like !!!!!
A mad Brit! If you want to see him totally lose it, watch this one - 1000 vintage synths - th-cam.com/video/0XrPLBSlopQ/w-d-xo.html
This guy is the real deal!
Bring this to MoMA or something so those of us stateside can have our internal organs liquified in person. Seriously, would love to see this as a traveling exhibit of some kind. A logistical challenge to say the least.
The end product would need a van... for the cables...
its mounted to the wall tho...
This is a great idea!
Also super suitable for Mutek
Exactly my thoughts
Imagine a orchestra where everybody control each note of each oscillator with a midi controller lol
A synth orchestral piece would be cool
Can only imagine what it sounds like and feels like right there!
This thing will attract Aliens for sure.
This shit is insane
I think it IS Alien, as in the governing intelligence behind the Borg Collective.
Lmfaoooo😂😂
Dafuq that killed me :D :D
Amazin bud, everytime pushing it further
NASA just released a time lapse of 10 years worth of photos of the Sun. It's about an hour long, and I could imagine listening to this for an hour building up over the video.
Me thinking about buying one eurorack oscillator: too much money
This guy: purchases and assembles everything necessary to create a 500 oscillator synth for one video
Detuning all those oscillators to chaos after you've spent ages tuning them is the closest thing to domino rally for audio.
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
x 500
Haha
Left the EXACT SAME COMMENT... then I saw yours. Nicely done, sir, nicely done.
Bro this already sounds so epic.. Im literally hyped for some crazy scifi movie that doesnt even exist yet. I really hope some director will jump on this and get you to produce an OST.
Also i wouldnt be surprised if youll generate frequencies no human ear has ever experienced when youre finished and invent time travel in the progress.
Man i love your work, keep it up pls!
Basically I like your scientific experiences with sounds. You are a pure scientist! Awesome! Thank you for sharing your videos.
Man that Big CV pitch knob is going to be the coolest drone ever! Can’t wait to play this at your Museum one day
Put a phaser on the output while they're all out of tune, should pick out loads of interesting harmonics
I've really been wanting to get my hands on these panels so I can put a bunch through a fixed filter bank, get some lovely resonant notes in there
Dude, maaaaaaad respect that you tune ALL of the knobs‼️ great video so far
I ripped the audio from this and reversed it to hear the resolution of chaos into a single note. Really nice!
Imagine taking a FFT of some sample, then playing each 'bin' of the FFT into one oscillator (with each one tuned to each frequency)! (each bin would just be the volume of that frequency at that time).
And you could warp the frequencies which would also do weird things to the original sound.... sort of a combination of digital signal processing and analog synthesis. (alternative to doing an FFT would be to make a 500 unit filter bank....but what kind of person would make something with so many parts ;]
it would probably only sound good once every million cycles but it would be worth it for that one moment
I love this idea.
Additive Synthesis in the analog domain? Sounds like a pretty tall order - the first usable additive synths were digital: RMI Harmonic Synthesiser, Synclavier, Kawai K5, and so on.
you'd also need as many VCAs for the windowing function and actually at least double as much VCOs to have at least a 2x overlap, then each VCO would have to somehow get phase modulated.
but yeah what kind of person would make that :P
If each oscillator could have its own envelope, one could maybe do a wavelet transform on the overall sample and reconstruct it by adding the appropriate combination of oscillators. This could allow for really interesting spectral manipulations on long, complex samples with lots of temporal variation.
Synth Hall of Fame moment(s), I applaud your amazing dedication to an idea!. Sounds like an impossibly massive bee hive, and the time lapsed knob tweaking, pretty sure I've had dreams like that before.
7:00 - that rim lighting on hair looks awesome! :))
This is brilliant! Thank you. I love that drone. Looking forward to 1000 oscillators!
When they were out of tune it pretty much sounded like a waterfall, which makes sense because waterfall is just white noise
Feels like a Sunn 0))) concert, love it.
This man said, "i need inspiration for a new instrument," and looked to the blank walls of his kitchen and said, "that will do."
Awesomeness on so many levels. That sound is incredible.
Kubrick would be proud. This is what the end of the Universe sounds like.
Octamed Or the beginning
The end of the universe sound will be heard all over the earth..
@@MrKeys57 it would be heard better from the restaurant.
"The machines have taken over!! I knew this day would come"
Amazing wall of sound , the hard work has paid off .
Get yourself some of those hardware store kneepads painters use if you're going to be scrabbling on the floor, mate.
Your knees and back will thank you.
Also, great job so far! The hard work's paying off.
I think he’s unwittingly created a weapon of mass destruction or an art installation. Until it’s all finished wired in and tuned it’ll be hard to tell unless a country suddenly disappears because its resonance just happens to correspond to that of the drone.
WARNING : May produce a laxitave effect.....seriously powerful implications and profound applications.
If all the bees in your yard disappear, you’ll know where they’ve gone.
Him tuning the notes reminds me of an orchestra tuning before a show. It sounds pretty cool.
Dream drone!!! I wish I had one of each of these on my studio walls!...and one on the ceiling! Beautiful work. Congratulations!
You might have to change your name... I think Sam has taken the throne! Haha
I checked out your music on Spotify, and your music is amazing! Had to come back and comment! I'm following your complete discography playlist. Cheers from Argentina!
you're gonna need a library-style rolling staircase to let you reach all the knobs easily...
"Ridiculous Escapade" or not
You've Created the Synth power needed for the 'Apocalyptic Trumpets' of Doom!
Well Done and Thanks!
Needs to be heard through a massive massive PA system, 100kwatts per osc column, should do for starters !
That my friend is the fun we need to push this thing forward...and thanks.
This madman is going to need a goddamm nuclear reactor to power all his inventions at once...
At least 1.21 Gigawatts.
One Led about 20mA. 1000 times that is 20 amps!
Leds alone need 40 watt. I hope he driving sound through Marty Mc Fly-type amp...
@@RedLP5000S Gigowatts 😁
Nah...dilithium crystals.
well just get a Furze on the job :P
This channel is underrated
Wow, this is very beautiful)
Damn, so much patience
Also this is the superest supersaw ever
Unison = 500
CPU = dead
holy moly! that is just...wow. I love your vids!! so glad I saw this. cheers
I doubt the low bitrate of the youtube audio will give this justice when its done!
I'm quite sure that TH-cam turned the ending into complete hash. Clearly we need high-fidelity FLACs (of Sam tuning).
What’s the bitrate?
@@MrUnit731
196
@@captainvoluntaryistthestat3207 I think it is 128K / 44.1 kHz for .m4a and 160K /48 kHZ for .webm.
This is art. Apocalyptic and emotional! The LEDs limited viewing angle make it look alive when the perspectuve changes. I want to hear the full spectrum of this thing in a museum or club!
That is one massive sound! Technically, if it is going to be called a Megadrone, you will need a million oscillators. Have fun tuning that!
Kilodrone
Funfact: We are enough people on earth to tune a Terradrone.
Everyone has only 128 Oscillators to plugin and tune. 😅
Wow. Listened to that through a head set. Did my frickin head in.
9:06 alternate title, making people expect the intro to "killers - The Man" for 15 minutes straight.
I'm just glad I live in a time where I can watch this from the other side of the world on a tiny mobile device.
I grew up in the 70s when calculators cost the same as a decent computer now.
cool ambient song you made, going from one oscillator ad picking a note, and then adding 500 more one at a time, with a unique but similar sweep each time. Then when it's all finally built up, and sounded like a magnificent pad, I can't wait to hear that played with keys, (can you play it with midi?) and then each oscillator going to a random frequency until it's white noise and the original frequency is gone. Entropy Of The Universe
amazing work brother, a project like this is a show of extreme resilience and tenacity!!!
When the synth will be finished and you will do this Thx sound, you will open a Stargate for sure 🚪
Your stuff is so great and mind blowin' ! BIG RESPECT FOR YOUR INVENTIONS !!!
It´s always good to waste time with things like this, I absolutely love it!
The drones have taken me away, I´ve tried so hard not to look into their red eyes but wasn´t successful...
Awesome job so far, so just keep on and make i´em sound even crazier, Sam!!
Fantastic. I love it! Keep up the work!
I kind of wish to see this live - in a music festival, a huge PA system, LMNC with this monstrosity just tuning it, thousands of people listening and waiting the aliens to pick up the signal and arrive to greet us.
Hi sam, will there be another game of yours coming out anytime soon? Thanks 😂
That is quite a sound., I admire the purity of the process.
11:50 Sounds like being inside a B17 on the way to france in 1945
This is the kind of thing I want TH-cam to recommend more of
Sounds like starting up the engine core of an alien spacecraft.
Well.....lol
when you start turning this thing up, after you have them tuned, it makes me feel things in my heart and brain that i can't exactly explain. when i hear beautiful music the same thing happens
Looks like IBM computer from 50-60's
Wargames
"Shall we play a game?"
This is so beautiful. I'm in tears.
So this is basically how an alien spaceship would sounds like
amAAAzing,up and till 10:23 like a massive digital tanpura ... or monochord (Also beautiful as an art installation)
When all 1000 are working. You could tune them all. And do this, gradually turning them up one by one. Record the audio. Make it a song, call it 'Boot Sequence' or something. It's like the ultimate intro to a Sci-Fi OST or Ambient Electronic album.
It sounded crazy to me! Loved it!
*Sunn O))) wants to know your location*
😂
Thought also of them while hearing this :)
Damn it, I just posted a very similar comment and now realise you beat me to it!
...it is something truly wonderful...
I can't wait for the day in the far future where LMNC gets tired of building new absolutely insane musical machines, and settles for mastering them. Can't imagine what a savant like him could create with the ability to play1000 notes at once.
I don't undertand much of what is going on here but that is truly awesome.
I will definitively follow this project.
Recorded it via my computer's soundcard to take a look at the wave, zoomed in a 1000x and it looks like a spiky mountain landscape :-D
you are a true artist, would love to see the museum
me: *trying to give an exam*
my last braincell holding any information: 10:27
12.52 "I know it doesn't sound that crazy". Dude, it sounds like a synth cataclysm! So rich, great job
Reminds me of this endless void of an album ----> Thomas Köner - Daikan
I'd not heard of him before; but his stuff is right up my alley. Thank you!