A tribute to Wintergatan! Played on the PO-28 and PO-20 from Teenage Engineering. It's possible to make Arcade play the vibraphone part as well if you have 12 patterns to spare, but it's more fun to do it live on the Robot.
with a ti z80 calculator and some assembly programming, You can play frequencies, but no harmonics. However, with some tricks you can be able to play something like this.
Sometimes I think music is dead. Then I see Wintergartan's Marble Machine (I was originally sceptical/cynical as to whether it was real or another web-based advertising attempt at viral marketing and totally CGI. But after watching the vids, I'm in some kind of beautiful yet surreal world watching this.) being emulated by someone else using playing-card sized synthesizers that I didn't even know existed until just now. It's fucking brilliant guys! Jean-Michel Jarre and Pat Metheny take note!
*jaw drops* I have never seen such devices before, let alone witnessed such expert use of them as musical instruments! Blown away! I wish I could give 5 of 5 stars!!
Aaron Ingebrigtsen : but they ARE musical instruments, dude! simply, they are played live by a real expert> I must humbly admit I have the first 4 PO devices for more than 3 years now and am still fighting my way through the quite arcane programming and fingering on those pocket calculator keys. not the easier to master interface....
Late to the party but very happy I finally arrived. My head has exploded don’t expect any additional comments from me. Well done and thank you. I think Martin Molin is a genius I really enjoy his music. My biggest fear is that he will loose a finger or damage his hands building the MMX. I’m 70 and hope I live long enough to be able to watch new live performances. His music touches my inner being.
I love how this song has sparked creativity in the maker community. So many people are doing their own covers using unique ways. One guy made a cover completely in minecraft. Anywho this is awesome dude! Love it :)
Well, no need to critique his hard work and dedication. He probably worked a decent bit for it to go right. And a heck of a lot more if this is the person whom invented it. Even then, Daniele, you are so right. Maybe this should be a lot more common. I miss a lot of chip-tune music now...
Chiptune is the birth cry of a new instrument/machine. Melody bring life to it. The essence, the absolute sobriety, whole universe in a few Kb. Sobriety/melody is beauty in it most powerful term but you need to be aware of it.
Finally found your channel after years of loving a mind is born. And then I found out that THIS WAS YOU!? Such a happy moment. Such a bit world that acts small in the best of times.
Equating note sizes... dividing time by notes to see empty space for fun... Wait, the last one didn't work... Were is the darn music? Wait a minute, this isn't my operator!
The sound these devices produce is like nothing else AND I FKN LOVE IT!!!!! This is my childhood and it is amazing. You have inadvertently made my day 🤓
Admittedly, this took me some time to get into, but wow ... once you kicked it in and ESPECIALLY the 'improv time!' That was amazing! Thanks for making and sharing this with the world!
I was watching this and thinking "gee, this sounds like the bitbuf". Then I looked at the username. Then I looked at the page. I still want to make an original bitbuf though, it's a shame the code to that was never released :'(
If you played Ocean games on those systems, you missed out on the Ocean loaders ;) Ocean had some of the finest chiptune composers of the 8-bit computer era, they brought a bit of that magic to the consoles too! LFT designed these mini-synths (yes, he's the designer as well as the perfomer) to be able to recreate many classic sounds of the Commodore 64. You should check out his "Lunatico" demo if you like this sound :)
