This has a nice melancholy due to some minor wavering while sweeping the volume as well as switching the note midway, like it's grasping to get that perfect pitch, lovely!
This is why I love musical equipment history. There are a hundred beautiful oddities no one has heard of. And although I won't own many of these oddities I am glad to see someone else show them of.
This would be excellent to play like the way 10cc's 'I'm not in love' was built up and recorded. All required tones/chords they sung were recorded and bounced on mutli-track tape and when they recorded the final track they played the sliders on the mixing desk. Recording 4 tones or some massive chords onto a 4 track tape recorder and get playing those sliders! EDIT: I spoke too soon - 04:35, as this is what you did! 😂
Thank you Hainbach. Such a beautiful whimsical sound. Like the lonely lullaby of a deep space satellite as it slips silently past the edge of the known universe.❤️
I would’ve been the worst piano tuner in 1950s Germany. Customer after hearing strange noises coming from the piano room:”Hey aren’t you supposed to be tuning a piano in there?”
Oooohkey. This needs a VST emulation... Complete with the heavy clacks of the keys as one press the midi controllers keys. Optional, so we can play it with and without the CLADUNK when needed.
Thank you for being such an inspiring figure in the experimental ambient scene Mr. Hainbach! If it weren’t for you I don’t think I’d be the same musician I am today
Isn't it like the most ambient artist thing to play an invisible theremin after playing each note, no matter what instrument you've got infront of you?
You find the most amazing & esoteric electronic equipment I've ever seen. This machine looks like it belongs in the movie "Brazil" or the Fallout series... The wavering slightly crunchy tone is delicious ! They'll never make machines like this again. SIGH....
That is one awesome machine! Love all of the experimentation you do Hainbach! I just picked up a Polyend Tracker that I’ve been having a lot of fun with
That sine is fairies-playing-in-the-moonlight. A lot of these old devices are so visually interesting, it would be cool if a play actually featured them. Like a scene where a character makes some sounds with this thing as part of the story.
What a remarkable device. The tones you got from it have a remarkably plaintive, ethereal quality. The reedy texture of the sawtooth there reminds me of the “heat haze” melody in Delia Derbyshire’s track Blue Veils and Golden Sands. For that part she used square wave tones from a bank of valve oscillators. (She made that piece for a BBC documentary about a nomadic tribe living in the Sahara desert).
Watching that stream, I was thinking "what IS that instrument he's playing?" ... well now I know. :) Your vintage-German-instruments live show sounds like a GREAT idea too.
I wish you'd show more how it worked as a tuner. I get that synth is a reference point and it makes sense when tuning by ear, but tuning using an oscillator is a new concept for me. Anyway, brilliant video as always. You make such magic with something that is not much more than sine waves really.
I’m actually eyeing up this lovely little heathkit generator I just received and wondering just how hard it would be to replace the resistor path that controls the frequency with a similar little keyboard with resistors matched to note intervals 🤔
Just found a korg wt-12 tuner for $20! Not nearly as versatile as this is for an instrument, but wow am I impressed with how easy it is to make interesting and evocative sounds on just a tuner alone!
Hi Hainbach, can you explain how do you measure the connector pins? I have an UHER Report tape machine that I have to fix, sadly there are no technicians here and getting parts and adapters is really difficult (and I've no background in electronics, I just fiddle with things until they work again). The fix should be doable (usual belts change, cleaning, maybe some minor components swapped) as the unit was working until some time ago, but I was hoping there's a way to replace the current connectors with jacks, so it's easier to interface the UHER with pedals and other instruments. Greetings from Argentina.
Oh I mainly check if there is voltage present and how high. This output is also an input, so I wanted to be sure there are no 30V control voltages present that would fry my gear.
Seems the best coating and finish material they had at the time to keep the aspect of brand new equipment for ages. And I'm supposed to believe it's not just at that time...
I imagine the 1950s German engineers who designed that thing would be perplexed by the fact that 70 years in their future, there will be a guy who makes this odd sounds with it and actually calls it music.
