UK (AND IRELAND) OCTOBER TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED TODAY!!! INFO OVER HERE :- www.lookmumnocomputer.com Aswell as the november europe dates! . with all due respect to computer restoring youtube peepz! those videos are probably my faveurite type of videos on youtube haha. restoring the colour of computers definitely does make them look amazing. but to clarify, i just love the yellowing well used look. i dont know what it is but when i see an old computer that is on the verge of becoming orange, beyond the point of yellowing i get all hot and sweaty, i have no idea what it is. its probably the equivelent in retro computers to the rat look haha. oh god
haha.. the PET was the last thing I expected to see you play on here. I was amazed what you could do to that squarewave voice using one of those effects pedals!
ugh, makes me wish my dad hasn't gotten rid of all his. he had 30 at one point, including the Porsche design ones, but sold them all when I was born. if only he knew, I could be playing with PetSynth riiiiight now
also, since you're exactly the person who would know this stuff, would it be feasible to design a similar very simple synth programme for the vic-20, considering the similarities? I'm blanking on what significant differences could make this feasible / infeasible and how
Being a fan of Retro Computers AND Effects Pedals alike, i find this amazing! i love the sounds you got out from the PET! Very cool! btw: You should a Series on how to make DIY Pedals, maybe, much like youstarted with the DIY Oscilator and Filter! I, for one, would love it!
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Wunderbar! I'm really looking forward to both of these projects! Especially since you can combine the Synth modules with Guitar Effects and stuff... This will be a huge party for both Guitar players and Keyboard / Synth fans alike! Can't wait!
Cool! One of the first computers to which I had access was a Commodore PET. Was just learning to program in BASIC, and it was a delightful tool for that. Later I got a C-64 and learned to access its 3-voice SID chip programmatically. That was around 1982-1985. I love what you're doing with this old gear. Keep up the good work, Sam!!!
That yellow box in the background looks like a giant civil defense geiger counter. If you want to be the edgiest person ever, you should take one of those and modulate the clicks from gamma radiation for the ultimate post-apocalyptic synth. You might want to wear a lead diaper instead of one made out of foil though :-)
@@scottbruckner4653 He could use the calibration cards or a box of old smoke detectors for a safe source. Or just trade the Furby organ to North Korea for a sachet of uranium.
"MELTDOWN: Chernobyl Soundtrack Remixes" Track list: 1. Fire Emergency (Intro) 2. Chest X-Ray 3. Comrade Dyatlov's Theme 4. Don't Open That Door (Blue Fire Noise Mix) 5. Graphite Klixxx (Neutron Flux Dub Mix) 6. Helicopter Bass Drop 7. German Robot Burnout 8. Puppykilla 9. No Goin' Back 10. The Cost of Lies
Bro! this video and resulting song are just inspiring! Seriously, God bless you! or, rather, i see he already has. amazing dude! i super love this video and wish i had 100 accounts so i could hit like individually that many times. If i ever get a good idea to launch my music channel, i will share it with you to show what has come of your inspiring work. i love your humor, generally clean language, unusual combination of skill sets, and your hair. and also your face. peace and grace to you, and keep it up.
I wonder if it’s easy to interface a sid chip with the pet. I seem to remember that something like that existed some years ago. I you add a dac/adc you can turn it into a fairlight, already got the the right monitor😀.
"I make the rules 'round here!" - said the mad scientist with a crazy eye and a decapitated Elmo head on his desk. I'm scared, but fascinated at the same time.
Back in the 80s when I was a student at Humber Collage I wrote a synth program for the Pet but it didn't do anywhere near as much that one did. It did however anger the computer lab's janitor and he called me a "hacker" and then lectured to me at lengths about how hackers will never get anywhere. I wish I knew who he was so I could send him a link to this video.
It's GPL wherever you got the software from, you should get the source code too. So you can patch it to your hearts content... It's like circuitbending, but with a keyboard instead of a soldering iron. Don't be scared to try it.
It's 12k of printing to screen, a bit of value swapping and a couple of poke commands (mwah ha ha ha). Oh and some outrageous remark statement developer easter eggs; 𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚎 𝚒𝚏 (𝚔𝚎𝚢_𝚑𝚒𝚝 == '|') { // 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚞𝚙 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚠 Coding standards, mutter mutter, best practice, grumble ...
@@mons.romerodurante8086 :) To be fair, basic was designed a couple of years before Dijkstra's EWD 215 GOTO statement considered harmful... Why they used it in the PET a decade later... Basic and C64 assembly has pressed it's mark on my poor young brain... Maybe that's why I appreciate Python so much.
This video made me realize something. I'm a guitarist mainly and i have a load of pedals lying around. I'm interested in getting into synthesizers and the like and what i've learned from this video is that i can take a cheap synth, modify it with an output jack, and run it through a load of pedals to make something incredible sounding. Thank you for that Sam.
I was waiting for "Hello, I'm LOOK MUM, COMPUTER" to be honest. A bit sad to not hear it this time. Great video though. Thanks so much for your work. You're amazing as always in all your mad-scientist glory.
I remember those PETs from elementary school...loved staring at the green phosphorous display and making things happen when i push the keys! Sweet jam session mate :0)
For 12 minutes and 24 seconds the entire world went away and the sole purpose of my existence was to watch this video. I could not turn away. That was the definition of cool.
when you held up the octaver and said its 30 pounds, I (an american) was like "thats a heavy pedal," and then was like "thats a tiny pedal" i dont think I can lift 30 pounds.
Pleased to see your PET is still running, and making sounds not PET has done before! When I stopped making the PET microSD, I designed a replacement, the SD2PET which is available here: www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/commodore/sd2pet-future.html
Well well if it aint Sam cattle himself. Good to see you doing great, though we miss you and the others (dive bella dive). Do us a favor and make a synth version of one of DBD's song please. We miss you all!
I thought i had pretty much everything i wanted, with the Electribe 2 synth and sampler - and "Komplete 11 Ultimate" (and various midi controllers)... Guess i still want some of those effect pedals :P
Another awesome video dude! Your oscillographics is one of my faves. Quick question - you were asking about somebody who could code you a sequencer or something... couldn't you just convert output from one of your own sequencers to wire up certain outputs to certain computer keys, thereby triggering from the sequencer of your delight slash choosing slash MAD AF CREATIONS???!!! Ps. ain't it about time we saw you at the Brighton Modular Meet? Pps I am a coder who wrote music making programs in BASIC in the 80s :) PPPPPPssssssssssssssssssss oops sorry about that
And then was Vic, sub budget Alec Empire digitalcore! Who needs (me please!! Lol) an Amiga 500, I have two, but a family member dropped the screen, dammit.!. Awesome stuff!!!
You going to build a CMI FAIRLIGHT V Synthesizer if so you are going to need a card cage to accommodate other circuit cards i.e VCA, VCF, Filter, ADC and DAC cards and various cards.
backronym i like that! never heard that word before. definitely gunna use that for nearly every project i do cus they are all backronyms. make the machine. worry about the concept later!!! :D
Thing i remember most about my CBM was the floppy drives crappin out all the time, some 40 pin chip always the culprit. Back in the days of 300 baud dialup.
I wonder, if the scratches and the dirt on those totally expensive pedals (strymon big price) are real. The CBM looks surprisingly clean, by the way. Could need a bit concrete dust or some cigarette burns. Just light a cig, then smoke it (don't need to inhale) for a minute, then put it on the CBM keyboard. Let it do it's job- looks great, I swear !
Lol, I do the same I have 10 original xboxes that I repaired and modded, loads of game boys 3 Sega master systems, the list goes on, keep saying I’ll put them back together and sell them but they sit in my cupboard that time forgot forever
thing about shooting your self in the foot. Actually, I think not at all. It makes it even funnier and hilarious, as if you were hiding all those computers from your mother. keep on the compuuuaaasss!! :) great stuff.
I was a 80s Teen with 8 Bit Computers and iam happy to see you in 2019 let the old Stuff alive in a new fascination way. You do more with that old Computers like the Guys in the 80s. You are special. Thanks ! One of you best Performances i see. But i dont know where you have all the informations to unterstand the hardware ?
that is freakin rad! some of those pedals make it sound a lot like the "trancemogrifier' and 'crystal matrix' modules that a couple of artists use in the studio, here.
Great noise, man. Great ideas, of course... The greatest noises in history are found first in the ideas that sparked them. Love the stuff you are doing, brother.
