Zoë Blade

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@tavishn 10 күн бұрын

This is so comforting.

@TransistorSounds 9 күн бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

@babetweirdgirl4103 11 күн бұрын

I can relate to everything you just said about communication issues. I think your theory about autistics being truth seekers and having everyone on the same page is exactly how I am. I accidentally embarrass people all the time. It makes me anxious because how was I to know? I have a weird communication style because of it, and often over- explain my reasons for things because of the frequent misunderstandings.

@TransistorSounds 9 күн бұрын

Right, exactly! But be careful, the over-explaining can apparently actually make things *worse*. It's so unintuitive!

@juliantaylor5956 16 күн бұрын

I have very similar hair to yours! I am also trans, austistic and a huge fan of synths

@TransistorSounds 15 күн бұрын

Hello! 👋🏻

@msaid1410 26 күн бұрын

How do you make your spectogram please ?

@TransistorSounds 25 күн бұрын

I used a program called Spek: www.spek.cc

@mikeadenff 27 күн бұрын

Thank you for posting! I found this fascinating. I now have language to describe a common behavior that I find annoying. If somebody wants something or wants me do something, and can't be explicit about it, I will generally ignore them. If they want it badly enough it, only seems fair that they should present a good case. You helped explain why they persist with hints: either they fear rejection; or they know they don't have a good case, but thought they would chance their luck anyway.

@TransistorSounds 25 күн бұрын

Yeah, the whole thing's a delicate tangled mess, like... they're "politely" giving you the option to say no without having to explicitly say no, but because you're actually taking that option they're giving you, that's "rude".

@thesincitymama Ай бұрын

Hi! Wow, I really like you. Thanks for sharing the link to this video. I came here from the r/ discussion about body language. Glad to find you 😊

@TransistorSounds Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad to help!

@UnicornHeads Ай бұрын

Great demo thank you

@joekellett7017 2 ай бұрын

This is brilliant. Thanks! I've started recommending it frequently on r/AutisticAdults.

@walrtbstudios5430 2 ай бұрын

I’ve got the SEM and Wasp- but I can feel the urge to trawl the s/h markets for a couple of the others…

@TransistorSounds 2 ай бұрын

I mean, if you were pushed for space, those are a good two to have! I made all of Blast Off! with the A-106-5 as the only filter, I'm pretty sure.

@GregGuitarsGear 2 ай бұрын

I read your notebook regarding implicature and it was very helpful. The simple truth is I have no desires to play games or to keep up a charade... I suppose plausible deniability makes sense to avoid embarrassment and rejection albeit nothing is worse than an ambiguous boss who doesn't want to be held accountable for decision making... Anyways, Ty for the video. I subbed as I too have a passion for music!

@penglingwhisperer3382 2 ай бұрын

I think “British politeness” makes it worse.

@beanoneya 2 ай бұрын

Instant subscribe. Great explanation!

@adaydreamhd 2 ай бұрын

that rly got me thinking about epilepsy and autism.

@adaydreamhd 2 ай бұрын

a glimpse into modular systems is so cool

@adaydreamhd 2 ай бұрын

one min in, awsome

@zoevioletlebeau2681 3 ай бұрын

I think phase issues in situations like this aren’t honestly that big of a deal (I like the Joe Meek passage, “if it sounds good, it is good”), but one thing I enjoy doing is panning a bass hard left, hard right and center (so three voices) with a high pass or shelving eq on the hard panned voices to make the center bass stand out). I have also been experimenting with making the lowest oscillator louder than the others (which would also prevent frequency cancellation), which I heard about from Anthony Marinelli’s channel.

@IanWaugh 3 ай бұрын

Cool! An interesting trick to try with any music line 👍

@canecreek00 3 ай бұрын

Great quick video, I have the same sequencer as you and the built quality is outstanding, you mention phasing this is the one thing that niggles me about using Ableton, any other DAW you can choose between Mono & stereo tracks but in Ableton there no choice of mono there for you record a mono instrument and its presented as stereo, record a kick drum and it appears stereo, that's so wrong. People say use the utility plugin to make it mono but why should you use a plugin to correct something that fundamentally wrong. Digitakt 2 is the same, it only samples in stereo.

@LoudPaul1 2 ай бұрын

What's the difference between having the same audio in both speakers, and having mono audio?

@canecreek00 2 ай бұрын

@@LoudPaul1 As Zoe is describing, possible phasing issues. Two identical signals can in theory cancel each other out.

@GregGuitarsGear 2 ай бұрын

@@canecreek00Just get rid of single split phase electricity and generate 3 phase, each leg is 120 degree phase shifted. /s

@ProjectHMF 3 ай бұрын

I think my favourites are the sem filter and the wasp filter 👀

@adaydreamhd 3 ай бұрын

Omfg she has a full modular system and hardware compressor. thats crazy how cool. damn thats inspiring to see.

@TheMachinesWon 3 ай бұрын

Blocking out the Behringer logo is hilarious 🤦🏻‍♂️

@freshmeat2501 4 ай бұрын

shes so real

@forestine_ 4 ай бұрын

i send people this video all the time and i just realized it only has two comments. soooo thank you!

@JaseLovesDub 5 ай бұрын

Great vid. As you mentioned people working on mainframes, I don't think that Laurie Spiegal gets enough credit for her work with computers and synthesis. Some amazing tracks!

@gnomerod 5 ай бұрын

New to this channel and a bit off-topic but is that a Commodore Amiga in the background and do you actually use it for music? And as a sequencer only? With Tracker? Sorry for the 3 questions bundled into one...

@TransistorSounds 5 ай бұрын

Very close! It's an Atari ST. Alas, I've only used it on a few tracks so far (mostly for the not-yet-released Malebolge). In my mind, it's kind of "glamorous" or "romantic" to make tracks in a very 80s/90s way, but it does add a fair amount of friction at the moment..! Not such an off-topic question after all!

@TransistorSounds 5 ай бұрын

As for what I've used the ST for, sequencing a few tracks in Creator and Sweet Sixteen, and also programming the TX81Z via 4-Op Deluxe. I first started making music in Scream Tracker 3 then Impulse Tracker in DOS, so if I had the space I'd totally get an Amiga to track on. So far, all I've used an Amiga for was some speech synthesis a while back, on my retrospective album Deep Cuts. Oh, speech synthesis! That's another thing I've used the ST for more recently. But that's another video...

@gnomerod 4 ай бұрын

@@TransistorSounds Thank you! I used an Amiga with Tracker many years ago (circa 1996-97), to program Drums for a Demo my band back then was working on. Incredible times :)

@EricPierce-wapcaplet 5 ай бұрын

Cool piece of tech and interesting bit of history! When you mentioned Spiny Norman, I could only think of the Monty Python sketch, so I love that you made the association right away too.

@WizardBalls29 5 ай бұрын

whats the keyboard controller on your desk ?

@TransistorSounds 5 ай бұрын

That's a Korg microKEY-37. I wrote about it at notebook.zoeblade.com/microKEY.html if you're interested.

@Elektronijaenis 5 ай бұрын

If you want to use some script to make samples raw pcm values are certainly ok, but it's not too difficult to write RIFF WAV headers so about any software that can load soundfiles can load it. I once did that in MS PowerShell.

@SimplyChrisRLP 5 ай бұрын

Great way of explaining, thank you 🙏

@OCEANSINSPACE 5 ай бұрын

new goal, find a way of making Gwave into a vst! cheers

@RaquelFoster 5 ай бұрын

Defender has great noises. And tiny tiny people falling to their death. But nothing really equates to the chunky noises of relays and cams and actually hearing the score accumulate on pinball machines. Maybe Smash TV at the end of a level? I love the way it has an ascending pitch while counting your money & VCRs with your dude standing behind the game show podium. On the later levels it can get really high-pitched.

@mybachhertzbaud3074 5 ай бұрын

I still remember when I found a program called pianoman that played awesome sounds on an old IBM PC single sound chip. Beep Beep😁

@Flashahol 5 ай бұрын

When you look at older and older and older tech you quickly realize people really wanted to get some vision realized in the real world, not matter which way allowed them to achieve it.

@Hermitthecog 5 ай бұрын

New here (in an impressive sideway display of algorithmic recommendation via Musings), thanks for posting! I hadn't considered pinball as any sort of forerunner of electronic music but the moment you mentioned solenoids as a trigger things started clicking in my head. (I loved Author & Punisher's drone machines at first sight and immediately wanted to build something similar but with more portability; your discussion has neatly dovetailed with and rejuvenated those thoughts.) 🏆👍👍

@johnbarrington2526 5 ай бұрын

Great explanation. Using less and producing more is the basis of musical genius

@markodesign 5 ай бұрын

Really happy that the algorithm suggested this video to me! So wild to think of what people were able to accomplish with so many restraints

@Cebollaverde 5 ай бұрын

I would love to hear you talk more about Idioteque. When I first hear that song I had never heard anything else like it, my mind was so blown

@TheWoodlandWhale 5 ай бұрын

very cool, thank you

@c7261 5 ай бұрын

Wow! Zoe Blade is a fan of the British C64 SID scene. No wonder I love your music. Loved this video, your enthusiasm is infectious. What you do is pure bloody magic. Can't wait to hear more insights or tunes from you 💓💓💓

@TransistorSounds 5 ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤️ Yeah, I had a C64 growing up, pretty late in its life (the early 90s). That Night Moves & Mind Benders pack. (This was after having a Plus/4.) So the first proper chiptune I heard was Night Breed, and I was hooked ever since! Being a late adopter had its advantages. Besides all the classic games being budget priced, or even covermounted on Zzap!64 and CF, you still had some new releases, like Turbocharge. That could really make the SID chip sing!

@LAZ-org 5 ай бұрын

So, what synth in today's age would you recommend to easily make those cool sounds from DEFENDER, JOUST and TEMPEST?

@BatteryCoverMissing 5 ай бұрын

That was from a Reddit pinball post

@BatteryCoverMissing 5 ай бұрын

KZbin nuked my reply I guess because it didn't like the link out to the defender sound emulation

@cyberyogicowindler2448 5 ай бұрын

@@BatteryCoverMissing They don't allow any links except to other KZbin videos, Wikipedia and very few others. So only name its headline but do not insert link.

@TransistorSounds 5 ай бұрын

Hopefully as OP KZbin will let me post this URL that @BatteryCoverMissing tried to give you: www.dl.unospace.net/defender_sound/

@cyberyogicowindler2448 5 ай бұрын

@@TransistorSounds Yes it works. But make also an offline version. Coming archeologists will name our generation the dark streaming-age of that nothing was left and so stone-age started over again, after by EMP or a small fundamental bug the entire world knowledge had disappeared in a eh... cloud.

@cyberyogicowindler2448 5 ай бұрын

In 1980 the unknown British company Electroplay created a programmable toy synth "Sound FX Phasor" with very similar sounds like GWave. But the whole thing ran inside a 4-bit microcontroller PIC 1655A-522 with only 768 byte ROM and 32 byte RAM, using 4 resistors as DAC and a simple capacitor envelope circuit. So this was the likely world first single-chip softsynth. Beside 8 preset effect noises it has a keyboard mode with synthesizer, featuring suboscillators with multipulse squarewave and freakish siren-like howling modulations. Particularly it can do sonorous organ-like bass notes and crunchy motor noises with simple decay envelope. The foil touchpad of the monophonic instrument has only 15 "white" keys (no sharps). It is full of glitches those prevent reliable live play, but remarkable is that it even precedes the famous Casio VL-1 by 1 year. You can find it emulated on MAME; it sounds interesting although the volume envelope is not emulated properly. kzbin.info/www/bejne/joTYpmeim85orMU

@t3l3phasicworksh0p 5 ай бұрын

Suzanne Ciani genius - Xenon kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGObmmChaNJ_adE

@BatteryCoverMissing 5 ай бұрын

Julia Truchess has a patent on a 4 bit effect generator but I don't know which microcontroller it used but it was in those solid gold rock and roll drum machines and I think the toys with the Lazer and bomb sounds. Nice to see you here!

@cyberyogicowindler2448 5 ай бұрын

@@BatteryCoverMissing I read datasheets that those single-chip keychain soundtoys (Mini-Attacker etc.) were made by Holtek (according to block schematics based on hardwired logics). But also Casio SA-series (the 1st versatile multitimbrale single-chip softsynth, "PCM" sound engine) was 4-bit. Dtech hat started to analyze the chip (OKI M6387) but didn't get far enough for emulation. The "Sound FX Phasor" is very unobvious and complex to use. My preliminary hardware description with operating instructions can be found in mame forum in the "TMS-09xx/1xxx thread". So you can try it on MAME, although the volume envelope won't work like expected. The algorithm is mixing 2 multipulses made from polynomial generator noise. Although it lacks the iconic bright phasing drone timbres of Gwave ("Defender" start sound), it does plenty of different crunchy noise waveforms. Many are POKEY-like, but the timbre palette goes beyond that, including e.g. semi-metallic clangs like gongs and ringing bells. For a 1980 toy the thing is crazy. (To get an idea, a Speak & Spell had 16 kByte ROM, which is >21 times more.) With minor redesign, its software could have blown most early budget mini keyboards off the market. This is the same type of British low-cost miracle like the first Sinclair homecomputers. It could have been a game changer; under different circumstances UK instead of Japan would have created the VL-Tone.

@lucian2701 5 ай бұрын

The intro sound on defender is iconic, but also just sounds really nice, as was the level change sounds in robotron (which I assume was the same sound chip). I had no idea (well, ok, I could have guessed) that is was so basic hardware-wise. Incidentally, if anyone here has a soft spot for the ST and the SID, it's definitely worth checking out 'STay4Evr' by Cream; they released it at this year's Sommarhack and I can't enthuse about it enough; the ST's simple square-wave YM chip doing a very good impression of the C64's SID. There are several videos of the demo on youtube (should you not have an ST) and no, I'm not on commission, I'm just really impressed with what they got the YM2149 to do.