The 1992 MIDI Experience: Yamaha "Hello! Music!" Kit for Windows 3.1 

Each of us subscribers could be a byte on a floppy disk.

@@Chillalil or a hz on a good monitor ;)

Except 1.44 megabytes is a strange marketing figure which assumes a megabyte is neither 10^6 bytes (decimal) nor 2^20 bytes (binary, now known as a mebibyte). It's a weird mix of the two. A "computer" megabyte is 1024*1024 = 1,048,576 bytes and a "human" megabyte is 1000*1000 = 1,000,000 bytes. A megabyte as used on floppies is 1000*1024 = 1,024,000 bytes. To be precise, a 1.44 meg floppy is: 80 tracks * 2 drive heads * 18 sectors per track * 512 bytes per track = exactly 1,474,560 bytes or 1,440 KiB.

@@grootsyt 1.44 MHz would be a bit more than a "good" monitor.

@@CptJistuce haha i meant just 144hz

Come on Clint. Show us yer synths!

third this !

Yes please!

oooooh so that's what he meant by show us his organ...

Or just MIDI Mountain 2: Electric Blues-galloo.

Honestly I'd love to see a brand brave enough these days to make packaging so... loud XD

It just needs a pair of sunglasses.

better than the minimalist crap of today.

2000s graphics card boxes uses to be pretty nuts.

@@zanite8650 It’s not complete until they add a kid skateboarding on a rocket.

indeed, id love to remix that! can we have the mid file clint please? 😊

cmon clint, make a rmx contest! 😊

Same, lol. Either that or a play on "Hello, Nurse!" from Animaniacs

And I said it in Clint's voice too.

Oh hai music

@@jaythomas3180 I did not hit her! I did not.

@@patrickglaser1560 Dooo do do do do do do do do dodo do... do do do do! TWELVE!

Really cool! Very retro like you used to see in old television shows about PC's.

Came here to say that same thing. Super smooth and natural.

or maybe he called out the dudes that want everything they see on retro RU-vid.

@@BlaBla-pf8mf xactly

Clint knows the market too well.

People were complaining over at Reddit about it, with LGR responding to the subject here: www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/jizyib/these_ebay_prices_are_insane/gabgoio/?context=3

MT-32 used to go for 50-60 before it became famous on multiple RU-vid channels

DJ pendejo!

DJ Lazy

@@Blurredman what's wrong with you...?

@@boden_staendig Or is that DJ Lay-Z?

@@AndrewAMartin Oh yeah! Ha ha!

They always seem to sound best on Roland Soundcanvas based synths.

I can't wait for Christmas Clint. Best time of the year.

Clintmas? 😆

@@cs188creations Ha I love it.

You WHAT!? I am so jealous oh my gosh that has been my lifelong dream.

Lol I call bullshit

During what now

@@appalachianexploration5714 why

I know, right? Such a missed opportunity. I was holding out for it.

Apparently passport.mid isn't included in Windows 3.1 😢

Jokes on MIDI! I got a Multi-Pass!

@@TylerComptonShow The rest of the songs included with the Passport software shown in the video also came with the Windows MultiMedia Pack that was bundled with some OEM systems. CANYON.MID was also a product of the artists at Passport Designs.

This. I was extremely disappointed at such a perfectly good wasted opportunity.

You must be new.

@@wellfuckyoumr you must be smart

That was a thing, you know...

"Macintosh Color Classic - Wikipedia" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Color_Classic

@@TimWochomurka except that’s clearly not the computer in the photo

You're right, it's probably an SE/30 with a micron xceed card installed. Mea culpa.

@@TimWochomurka I own a Classic, Classic II and Color Classic, so I'm well aware :) A color CRT wouldn't have fit the original Classic, the Color Classic's case is quite a bit deeper.

LOL Nailed it... this is very "Nothing To Fear", and I need a copy of that .mid

@@DOSdaze haha exactly! Even “christmas Island” and “the great outdoors”

Using hardware costing a fraction of the hardware Depeche Mode used. For a long time I wondered why the UMI sequencer Vince Clark was a big fan off wasn't more popular. More recently I found out that it cost more than the BBC computer you needed to run it.

There must be at least some musical talent behind this early Depeche Mode hear-alike!

I want him to upload that somewhere

I remixed it! link in the comments

That was CLEAN.

Does that mean he was typing looking at a green screen and then made the animation from green screen at an angle to fullscreen in post production? Unnecessarily ambitious!

@@stanstaniboy7655 It appears to me to be a video capture feed of the computer screen being transitioned into the frame from the center outward. I'm not a professional, I just slowed it down and made my best analysis. Pretty freaking cool looking though. Kudos!

yea like how he do daaaaaaaaaaaaaat

It's even older than that. Commodore Amiga's had really good midi support.

Most definitely, and you might wanna check out some mid-‘80s Atari ST computers (the 520 and 1040, in particular), which were and even remain some of the most highly-rated and oft-used machines, for production, among the second wave, on up, of digital music artists (with the “first wave,” as I see it, include pioneering groups like Kraftwerk and DEVO (who, in particular, connected piano pick-ups that triggered short sounds from compact cassette (aka, “cassette”) tape players, with recordings of machine guns, helicopters, and other sounds that made form “good loops” to Alan Myers’ drums (“pre-label” recording have been remastered, in/since the ‘90s, from the early ‘70s) and Kraftwerk, who often “had to” construct their own instruments, to (forgive the pun) “craft” the sounds they wanted to make. They gradually played both “live” than “automated” tracks, on-stage and in the booth-as well as both, simultaneously (note the “masochist” comment, about that, in the video... ), playing live over a pre-programmed track) and they helped to set the tone for sequencers, such as MIDI, and samplers. From the early-/mid-nineties, the Ensoniq LPS-16 was an awesome keyboard/sampler/sequencer combo that could be used live AND/OR with pre-made sequences - especially for the price. Everyone knows about Roland’s stuff, much in the same way the know about “beats by Dre” headphones... It is surprising to see a Windows program as relatively comprehensive as this, for the time. Most “PC” users were hobbyists, as was mentioned (kinda like Garage Band, etc., today) who owned a PC and saw something like this, on the shelves at K-Mart, Sears, or Toys R’ Us (not a joke or put-down; those stores were the Wal-Marts and Amazons, of today) and in magazine stores that would advertise in PC World, and because the market was already so big that porting or creating a Windows MIDI player was a good idea, especially in terms of percentages of the market equaling a much larger total number of machines, out there. I know this is all over the place, but I’m remembering more things, as I write. A not very big, but very good, in their simplicity, were also “MOD” players-sampler/sequencers that first sped up/slowed down a sample, to create different pitches-and the 16-32-64 track compositions they could easily create and play, that could even be done with “lower-end” computers at the time. Very inexpensive shareware and even freeware programs, such as “Player Pro” were, relative to their functions and “power,” at a time (in the early-/mid-nineties) when 44.1/48kHz recording were starting to come into their own. MOD sequencing could use a number of relatively small file size sounds that were embedded into the file, made possible “orchestras” of music that took up very little space, and Macs (especially Quadra 660- and 840-AVs) had become the machines that increasingly more digital musicians used (until next-gen, PPC “replacements” took their places), especially because, beyond MIDI, they also had composite A/V inputs and outputs, such that everything could be done on a single, off-the-shelf computer. However, a lot of the best artists/bands, around, still sought out Atari STs and later STEs, etc., which were light years ahead of their time. Hope that was worth reading. This video and the comment really took me back to undergrad through doc, which was a good time... Sure the hell better than this godforsaken year, I can say with absolute certainty, unless aliens land, on New Year’s Eve, and flood the world with amazing, free tech that’s literally light year’s ahead of it’s time - which may not be as far ahead as one might think, but still... 🍻

Midi isn't CV but it's still a pretty old standard. Basic Midi 1 is 31.25 kbps UART with weird isolated input specs. It more or less requires at least a controller chip but it's a simple protocol with simple wiring.

More on the apple computers back in the days. I remember those sharp monochrome displays and midi sequencers. Too bad you couldn’t play too many games with those, so I went the other route...

same. automatic came up..

There's a similar software for Windows called MIDITracker. You can even compose just with your computer keyboard.

Honestly I'd love a modern midi interface with that bank of LEDs on the front running in time to the music, it would be so satisfying.

On the bright side at least you arent hankering for an Electone

Got your pun there,lol

Honestly, I think I'd just build my own. You can get MIDI boards online (from what I've seen, any wave table board should work), an audio amp, power supply, some extra caps for reduced noise, the connectors & controls, and just stick them all together with whatever case you like.

Doesn’t it?! I used it as the intro to a news cast style video for a high school Spanish class (mid ‘00s) project.

My dumb brain wants to say "Woodgrain" would be involved somehow; Woodgrain Vintage or Lazy Woodgrain or something XD

@@UNSCPILOT "Woodgrain Socks"

Just... Woodgrain The simplicity

@@ndm13 WOODGRAIN

Woodgrain Applique

Was expecting Rick roll

I think you meant “missing”

@@JasonZakrajsek Indeed. Autocarrot has foiled me once again.

i hed yes clue you were math

The entire X-Com soundtrack has always been great.

@@MikaelMarius Yeah .. That’s right. I mean, Instruments.

It's what you mix with clorians to make a jedi.

Another dunk fan :D

Yeah his video got released just a day ago, and I was a bit sad for him because he said that no one appreciates quality content but veiws misleading clickbait toxic kids channel

He watches LGR? Nice

@@MrMG43 yeah he mentions him on his newest vid.

Never thought a late 20's early 30's man who's grown up playing games, and still does, would have an interest in LGR?

Look at the sega genesis or Atari Jaguar soundtrack

Sega 32X

@@Ash0512 good ol' diarrhea doom

Except the AWE32/64.

That was my thought too, the opening for 'Only'.

We are Aaaanimaaniacs! With some brand new MIDI tracks!

That's because it is lol I think Civie recorded it on an (emulated) OPL3 via DOSBox

Also... this sounds very much super nintendo.... is that chip similar?