Playing 50000 Marbles - Marble Machine X  

The progress is slooow but steady. Next target is to end the issue with the marbles missing the funnels, until i have done that i dont think we can achieve a perfect score. I also noticed that the score doesnt get punished enough for failed marbles, when rounding the score to two decimal points you couldnt see a difference. So i should probably alter the score calculation function in the spreadsheet for that. Thank you everyone for following the build! These are the larger remaining steps until full completion: - hihat activation - Cymbal Activation - plywood module for vibraphone (same design as for drums) - vibraphone marble droppers (same design as for drums) - plywood module for bass (same design as for drums) - bass marble droppers (same design as for drums but smaller, trickier) + a lot of smaller extras, but it seems within reach i think!

Martin, you should get yourself a thermal camera to keep an eye on the machine during these long tests to see if any frictions are creeping in anywhere!

This man right here is my hero. He has the determination, the skills, the friendliness. He deserves everything he has right now. He works so hard, and never gives up, and laughs when he makes mistakes. He does all of this purely for his and our enjoyment. He’s been working on this machine for years, and isn’t planning on giving up ever. We love you Wintergatan. Keep doing what you love, and I’ll be sure to download that sheet music.

i dont care what anyone says. this is my definition of peak art. the absolute peak. peak engineering, peak musicality, peak art. absolute banger.

If he plays the original marble machine song on the new machine, he can republish it as the remastered version.

The *PAIN* of seeing a CNC eating through the screws actually made me gasp 13:50

I'm honestly really glad to stumble across your videos. The Marble Machine sounds very good even with the clicks and clanks. Makes it a lot more authentic some how, but that's just me.

Musician: What’s your favourite instrument? Wintergatan: M A R B L E S

"Satisfying in a way only a spreadsheet can be". You're officially an engineer now, welcome to the club

The way these tests blend so smoothly into jams, which so smoothly blend into background music....flawless. these videos are masterpieces in themselves

15:50 track should be released, it sounds soooo good.

I have no idea how I ended up here but I think what I saw was a mad scientist, designer, engineer, constructor, musician doing something rather awesome. Most not wasted time I have had on YT for ages. Thanks for being amazing.

Heck yes

Martin, one way you could improve the funnels would be to bracket them to the frame at the base of the funnel, instead of relying on the PMMA to support them. that way the funnel as a whole doesn't move during playing, while the spring back can still move. additionally, less than 10 marbles out of 50000 lost to missing the funnel is really good. keep in mind that is a non destructive failure that doesn't directly effect the song. The last two or three tests have had a 0% critical failure rate, meaning nothing was damaged that would prevent you putting a marble or two back in the machine and continuing to play a concert. Also first time commenting, but i've been watching since the beginning. Regards

If these aren’t on museums when I’m on my deathbed I am gonna die a sad man.

I've never seen before, a Modern Artist like this, it seems like your Mind is so pure, its not about Business, not about Money, not about Monetizing your work, its purely about your Love for art, Music and Engineering, you even made some of your stuff available for free ! Watching you feeling genuinely Happy while working on your Machine, and playing Music, made me Feel Empty, you must be One of the Luckiest and Happiest Person in the whole world, So Inspiring, I hope I could also able to feel the same as you, to the things I do. Hats off.

On the day of 1 million marbles he should do a live stream the entire time.

It would be interesting to see the MMX through a heat cam after a test

Man...this is SO beautiful...this comment will be lost in the mix, but so much appreciation for the craftsmanship of the analog tech here. How incredibly beautiful this work is.

You, sir, are one of the most inspiring people I "know"! Not just with your engineering skills but with your contagious enthusiasm and love for what you're doing. There's just a certain vibe about your videos, impossible to describe with words, but making me smile from the bottom of my soul. I'm proud of being your patron (and little ashamed that my monthly contribution isn't bigger). Thank you for sharing your journey (and your personality) - you always remind me what it's like when someone's found their purpose and it helps me to keep going when I feel like losing mine. Please never stop creating, Martin :)

I haven't caught up with Wintergatan in a while, so to come back and see such massive progress is such a great sight and it's astonishing. I hope this doesn't sound too cheesy or sappy, but I think Martin and his Marble Machine X is so inspiring. Watching his videos and seeing him come closer to completing the machine makes me feel a little less like a crazy person for having ambitious ideas, so thank you Martin for sharing your journey with us!

"Take a look at this clean floor" is now my favorite phrase ever.

What a brilliant, and inspiring young man! It's refreshing to see someone with such incredible talents; multi lingual, mechanical genius, instrumental genius, excellent teacher, yet humble, patient, determined, and kind hearted. Thank you!

I love how this man doesn't do it for fame, money, or publicity. He does it just for the art and music. That is why I admire this man so much.

This is getting so close to the real life “animusic” dvd that partially inspired this project!! Kudos martin!!

This feels like one of the best episodes in a while. I actually laughed so hard my sides hurt when the CNC went straight for those screws. I loved seeing the engineering put into fixing previous problems and adding the new tracks in. I like the new spreadsheet and in this episode it really feels like the MMX is progressing nicely and has a clear path forward. Then you put in some footage of the early shop and that music box clip to tie it into early episodes. Awesome! This one is super exciting.

teacher: so what talents do you have? wintergatan: YES

It's nice to see Martin actually making music with the MMX and enjoying it so much :)

absolutely criminal that he told us about the sheet music book after christmas

I’m just smiling ... and enjoying hearing MMX actually function as an instrument ... and the Wintergatan song on the piano makes me tear up

I'm so thrilled for you and Wintergatan!! Thank you for the beautiful music!!🥰

Just in case you don't know, Martin has been uploading daily to his second channel (Wintergatan 2) with progress on the MMX. I highly advise you go check it out because he has done BARE stuff to the machine now, and fixe lots of things on it-- he's even done a test with the HI hat, snare drum and kick drum all linked up to the marble divider (which he has also overhauled as of the latest video)

When he does his world tour, Im sure the crowd will anticipate collecting these marbles falling off. It'll be reminiscent of catching a home run at a baseball game. Probably better odds at catching a home run though.

Not going to lie, hope you release the test song. It scratches my love for synthwave

Extraordinary Genius of nature .God blessed you Brain

I love that the soundtrack is an MMX creation!

I should go to bed soon. Let me just refresh youtube once. Oh no.

This is my favorite episode so far. I have no idea why I’m so emotionally involved in the development of the marble machine x but gosh dang I love it.

Sheet music for free? Absolute madman

Beautiful book!

Me: grooving to the beat with my electric guitar, in A minor Martin: adds a bassline in A minor Me: AAAH, MY FIRST JAM OF 2020, and it's on DEC 30th, with WINTERGATAN!

"You're not watching me build a machine, you're watching me learn how to build a machine" :D Welcome to engineering! As discouraging as it sometimes feel, I hope you remember that it's how the process works, and is why I enjoy watching projects like this. Don't get discouraged, every step is progress, even if it involves an angle grinder.

This guy... wow. Beyond genius level intellect! What a beautiful translation of your brain power!

Your master of art,music and design blows my mind

"It's also really satisfying in that special way only a spreadsheet can be" *MATT PARKER LIKED THIS*

Martin out there just casually making a banger synthwave beat for background music

This is seriously so satisfying!! As an AuDHDer, this is incredible!!! All the clicks and the consistent drops of the marbles are SO satisfying! Thank you for your work!! I’ve only seen several videos thus far, but it’s always so good!!

There is a certain irony that I procrastinate by watching a guy work really hard on something, himself diligently working to avoid procrastination.

Just realized his current marble dropper design are kinetic fingers. And they serve a function. And these do not look creepy.

You should use glow in the dark marbles when you tour. Or white marbles and shine a black light on it. This way, the audience will be able to see them and you don’t need moving funnels or kinetic fingers.

omg remember when you pretty much finished the marble machine X and it was soooooo awesome

And when we all needed him most, he returned!

You've probably been told this countless times, but those plywood threads are not going to hold up well over time, especially if you're taking the screws out repeatedly. You can get special inserts that you can press and/or glue in that will provide a metal thread that will last forever. Fortunately you can just drill out the existing threaded hole with a hand drill and stick the insert in there, so it's not like you're making a mistake here. But keep those in mind for when these connections start getting sloppy.

Martin...younjust make the world a better place...true artistic engineering visionary...you have me hooked brother

Eitherway he is litteray gonna be in world record books. That thing is almost complete

Everyone watching; "We don't live in a perfect world." Martin; "IT WILL BE PERFECT!"

Based on the carbon on the drum heads, it looks like you will not only need a marble demagnetizer, but also a marble cleaner.

The intersection of music and engineering has brought me to tears. Thank you.

You aren’t building a machine, a work of art is evolving to a new level of existence.

Me: I gonna go sleep. Wintergatan: No

Martin every time he has to fix a mistake: I hate past Martin, what a garbage person. Martin playing with the mute system past martin made: *fangirl noises*

The reason you hear the beats when trying to sleep is two-fold... 1: Your brain tries to mute repetition and saturation, for sanity and sensory reasons. So you can hear beyond those saturations. Like your inability to smell yourself as strong as others smell you. (Including cologne, B.O., farts, breath...) The self-muting can continue, having reverse effects, as no sensory input is filling the brain and your brain attempts to un-mute the sensory saturation that was once present. (Like sound canceling... if you are trying to remove sound by negative waves, but the sounds you are canceling don't actually exist, it just sounds like it is amplifying the noise that it should be canceling. The negative waves become virtually positive.) 2: Stress... Your are stressed, or "thinking", while hearing that sound. At night, you are TRYING to relax, but you are self-resonating stressed and "thinking", of similar things that you thought about while hearing the beats. Your brain is doing a Pavlov effect. It is associating "thinking", and "stress" with the "beat", and filling-in the blanks, matching the "muted anti-muting" that your brain is attempting to do. (Pavlov... ring a bell and the dog starts to salivate, in anticipation of being fed. After being trained with "beats" on a bell, prior to "thinking", under "stress".) Put on some low music, so your ears can focus on that, and accelerate the muting process back to normal. Your brain will mute the muting, to focus on the sound and the music should help reduce stress. May be impossible, but make an effort to NOT THINK before bed. You can simply tell yourself, out loud, to give yourself a break and not think. (It's not like the "don't think of elephants", issue... It is a psychological permission to not do something. You literally have to verbally say it, not just think about saying it, or it doesn't work. Then it becomes the elephant that you shouldn't think about, and it will be something you can't stop thinking about. Because you are "thinking" of "not thinking", instead of "hearing" that you have permission to not-think.) Also, wear headphones, sound canceling ones, while in that room, while testing. Though you will still "feel" the beats, your ears won't be damaged and your brain won't be "saturated", as much. There is no reason that you need to "hear" all that "noise", while testing. You use your eyes to observe anyways, and cameras too. It will give you the chance to think while also increasing your potential observation. Your brain is limited in the number of things it can, effectively, do at once. Though, obviously yours is more effective than many others, at doing multi-tasking... Why purposely limit yourself with undue stress, noise, observation and thinking. Vacations aren't only needed in lump-sums, at the end of months... but during the day too. P.P.S. Logic and mechanical thinking requires a lot of oxygen. Creativity, opposite of logic and linear thinking, requires oxygen deprivation. In the day, when oxygen is greatest and CO2 is lowest, is best for logical thinking. At night, when CO2 is high as plants switch from creating oxygen to consuming it, and they create tons of CO2, you think more creatively, in a pre-dream state. Try to isolate logical thinking to daytime and creative creations to night time. Besides, creative thinking is less stressful than logical thinking, obviously. Work on making music, instead of trying to design complex logical structures. Paint something, draw doodles, play a game, go out and socialize... Just don't work into the late hours, unless it's "creative work". It will be like trying to drive a car with square wheels, up hill, towing a house, on ice, into the wind, powered off steam. Save the driving for the day-time, when the wind has changed to your back, your tires have been fully inflated back to being round, the crest of the hill has been breached, the ice has melted, there is more oxygen to burn with petrol, and the house is not weighed down by night-time condensation.

Fun fact: The song Martin plays throught the whole video is called "Rolling The Boulder" 🎶

Gotta admit, I was confused when he started off with the marble test before making the changes but as the video went on I was really enjoying the format. Great job as always, Martin!

"Snare Drum Nightmare" sounds like a song name you'd use.

Am I the only person who enjoys the pure mechanical sound of working mechanisms?

One of the most impressive music instrumental projects I've ever seen Such a true inspiration what's possible out of just a vision

You wouldn't think it would be from a machine if you only heard the music and didn't see what's happening... shows how legendary it is

4:28 **furiously mashing piece down into place** "Here's a technique I learned..."

Since you're tracking stats in excel: A fun and informative stat to track in your spreadsheet is the MTTF, mean time to fail. You can factor how long it runs for, how many failures you get, and do the math to show how often it will fail and the mean period. Once you have all the development done, you could also track mean time to repair (MTTR) or how long it takes to repair that failure. Adding MTTF and MTTR will get you Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) which is the time from when it finished the previous repair and was working properly, until the point where it is returned to service after the next repair is complete.

Take your time Martin! The dish is only served when ready. You have been super inspiration all of us!

The fact that you give your music sheets for free is really amazing. I don't even read sheet music when I am playing but I want to actually buy the hard copy version just because it is really beautiful.

Hell yeah ! P.S. : we need a "clean floor !" T-shirt XD

It is truly beautiful how far his machine has come in just 4 years; how clean it is, how much more it's capable of, and the efficiency of the inner workings. I absolutely love it.

It seems that Nolin as no limit in creativity... Love Wintergatan for ever!!!

I always like how he creates a melody over the drums and then even when he jumps to the next cut he uses the drums from the machine and it doesn’t even sound like he has the sound from the MMX running.

The CAD team is gonna have a hard time with that blue tape smh

The engineering on this rig is awesome. Can't imagine the amount of time it took to get all the measuring done for the holes and tunnels.

I hope you post this song. It sounds great would love to hear it over and over!!!

"What happened to 7?" 7 was finally punished for his crimes. Cannibalism is not okay...

That milling accident is gold - so glad you had the camera running for that!

As someone who has seen and heard the original marble machine song, it feels nice to finally have a song played on the marble machine X. It’s a very nice song too.

Still keep coming back for that guitar! Also love the machine, followed you from the start!

"Perfect method, perfect results. You're watching Wintergatan Wednesdays."

What I love the most of this video is watching how healthier and better Martin looks compared to a few months ago. I mean, the progress on the machine is fantastic and can't get enough of it, but seeing how happy, fulfilled and healthy Martin looks, that's just amazing.

Such great tunes man! Love it!

Totally mad, totally brilliant

I love how it is literally the other Marble machine, just WAAAAAY more advanced, and less wood.

I'm in love with this man. I cannot believe he'd just let people download all that music for free. Also the marble machine trials never cease to amaze me

Yay for someone who loves to share his music and genius!

The track you made for this episode is absolute banger! It's has "drivin' into sunset wibes.

21:13 "What happened to seven?" Well nine ate seven ...

damn. The CNC machine went mad

8 Cylinder Marble powered music motor. Makes me Happy!!! :D

thank you for the beautiful music.

Guy: Develops ingenious marble music machine that looks like something from the future. The Internet: What's up with the calculator, man?!

i want to take a guess here about those marbles......., those marbles missing the funnel...... have you ever checked their mass? maybe weigh them as i suspect that they might be a tad lighter than the rest "flukes" that may cause them to travel a slightly different trajectory.

You don't see people so determined to keep at something like this anymore my hats off to you brother. I'd love to hear you play music with it .

Your an Angle two Everything 💙🎶🌸✌️

Martin, you honestly give me hope in this world, hope in humanity, and hope in art. You are truly an inspiration and I have nothing but respect towards you and your drive, tenacity, love of the arts, your willingness to confront flaws and address them, voice your worries and your continual passion for this project. Seeing all the progress you've made with the MMX over the last few years, I have absolute confidence you can finish this project. Thank you for giving all of us such incredible content to watch and keep up the incredible work.