Trying to make music on a Nintendo NES.. using the FAMIMIMIMIDI

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Loops As Usual Over Here :) :- www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputer Info on FAMIMIMIDI :- catskullelectronics.com/ Info on NERDSEQ :- xor-electronics.com/nerdseq/

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

@widgetphreak exactly

[@eolle43]

"All your bases are belong to us."

[@samjones3433]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER yo sam have you ever used elektron gear? i'm really curious what you'd do with an octatrack. def got the patience for it if you can stand there programming step by step in a hardware tracker

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

hi sam never used it! Only got patience for trackers cus I know em and I know they do do things like this well! But one day I’ll look into elektron fo sho. Only so many days in a life tho hahahaha

[@joanjo9285]

Please brother, release that sick song !! It's insane and I can't stop replaying it. Love your work!!!❤️

[@Wintergatan]

Wow

[@ekyo_stuff]

didn't expect you here.... nice to see ya!

[@Wintergatan]

​@@ekyo_stuff One of my favourite channels! Dont be scared to try it :).

[@ekyo_stuff]

@@Wintergatan One of my favs too! Guess you'll also know Andrew Huang then... if not, don be afraid too!

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

WOW World Of Wintergarten haha gotta jam sometime mannn!!!

[@justicesportsman6020]

Was just about to comment "Wintergatan needs to get his hands on this"

[@tshnow6619]

This guy is dope as shit bro. Can’t believe i didn’t find him till this morning

[@toastangler]

Tyler 661 He is isn't he. I found him about a year ago, and I was like damn this dude's rad af. Did you know he had a record deal at one time? check out Zibra if you haven't already.

[@WeAreComingHome]

Same. Except 8 months later than when this was originally posted

[@TechMetalRules]

The sound of the NES is so iconic!

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

fr no cap

[@MegaPhester]

"The Nintendo NES, the ness, the Nintendo Entertainment System for short" That should be all the different types of pedant pissed off in one sentence.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

MegaPhester haha I think that is one of the primary goals of this channel 😂😂

[@cooperpitts3862]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER well played.

[@TafferDP]

Nintendo finally confirms the correct pronunciation for NES: www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/08/random_nintendo_finally_confirms_the_correct_pronunciation_for_nes

[@GraemeMarkNI]

Prrrreeeetty sure he did that on purpose :D

[@TreyMotes]

​@@TafferDP That's kind of an error as far as I am concerned. Japan never had a product called the "NES." It was the Famicom there as everyone and their grandmother knows. It was the west that had the system name changed by Nintendo of America. And in the US, where the system launched with this western name, it was always referred to as the N-E-S, or by its full name, Nintendo Entertainment System. Most kids just called it the Nintendo. You'd be hard-pressed to find any kind of official audible advertisement here in the US calling the system the "ness." That didn't really become a thing until the European launch, which honestly I consider to be a bit of a head-scratcher as it went for a full year in the US never being called "ness."

[@darrenplace5562]

Sounds amazing as usual Sam! A great trick for making kicks on the NES is to use a very quick pitch envelope on the triangle channel and combine it with one of the lower sounds on the noise channel. If you need a huge kick you can even add a sample on the DPCM channel :)

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Darren Place good shout! I was aiming for that but annoyingly couldn’t get the sweep to work on that channel for some reason. Something I was missing! Will keep trying thooo

[@onedeadsaint]

1:17 love that transition! lmao slides it off to put it right back in the same spot

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

onedeadsaint shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no one else noticed

[@wrash]

*drops some fire* "I can't really use it righ now"

[@ToothpasteJuiceBox]

Haha my thoughts exactly

[@ahotdoge7855]

Somehow I always get surprised how good the music he makes out of these things.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

AHotdoge I call it lucky button mashing

[@ericf260]

I just love the sound of the NES!

[@SorchaSublime]

Imagine if behringer released a clone of the NES sound card as a eurorack module

[@SorchaSublime]

hell with some well thought out patch points that could become a killer synth

[@lowbD]

I would shit my pants

[@Nukle0n]

It's like two pulse waves with 3 different cycle modes, a triangle wave with 1 cycle mode, a noise channel with two settings and a 1bit ADPCM sample player. Not exactly high class.

[@K_man217]

@@Nukle0n but full of character

[@MikeyKoopa]

KautenjaDSP do a few modules on VCV rack for emulating NES, SNES and a few other retro consoles if you're into that

[@XanTheDragon]

"There's probably a decent trick to getting a kick outta the NES" You had the right idea with the triangle wave. Make it have a sharp fadeout and make it go down in pitch really fast at the same time. That creates the perfect sound.

[@IamBananas007]

thank you for such a small powerful introduction to the capabilities to this console. I listen to chiptunes all the time, but I haven't seen how it was produced . so cool!!

[@steveparkes]

When I messed around making games for the NES I used the noise channel to get a kick drum. Just asked the last two professional NES programmers in the office and neither did much sound programming back in the day. Mostly ZX Spectrum and GameBoy devs among us oldies here. Shit, I've just let the secret out that some game studios are full of middle aged men ;)

[@Bendit1974]

You mean noise channel to get a snare drum sound?

[@j5d1c73]

the way to get NES kick drums nowadays is to take the triangle channel, play a middle-highish pitched note and quickly slide the pitch downwards.

[@xSeb01]

@@j5d1c73 Exactly, that's how guys like Tim Follin did it back in the day. I highly recommend any of his NES soundtracks. He layered the triangle slide with a clicky sound on the noise channel to get the attack sound of a kick drum. He also uses the same technique for the snare.

[@illustriouschin]

If they programmed for the NES and are middle aged then they must be planning to live until they are 120.

[@steveparkes]

@@illustriouschin prick, when does middle age begin?

[@rustyvworld]

you are by the most craziest genius on youtube, love your vids man

[@timm_3r]

Every last sound is recognizable. This is awesome.

[@Marcus-ym2kg]

Just casually swipe out a Cirklon, sequencer of the heavens.

[@WalterCReel3rd]

"yeah, just picked this up. What evs."

[@kaitsu9608]

Waited it for a while 😅

[@anew742]

It looks like it uses keyboard keys and switches, that's really cool

[@Sporp]

Dude, freaking sick. NES bleepy bloopy is one of my favorite music genres!

[@rippspeck]

C64 bleepy bloopy is even better.

[@Sporp]

@@rippspeck Ok Boomer

[@alexanderbjork2841]

@@Sporp Have a listen kzbin.info/www/bejne/n560mHSAbtupbNE However I think I like the Amiga better. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZjQmWB4oNp1p6s&t Can't really decide though, depends which song it is.

[@Sporp]

@@alexanderbjork2841 I like em! They both really have a VVVVV vibe to them.

[@LabRatWarfare]

🤯 This is incredible! Loved that lil track you made at the end too!! I have to get this!! 🤘🐀

[@Maxxarcade]

You could do the "stereo" sound mod and get even cooler effects. I got really good results with a circuit that used a couple pots to mix the levels and also add some of the mono signal back in. You get a nice clean, punchy sound with adjustable channel separation.

[@KenwayTheBonker]

Or you could use a top loader or a nes clone that uses stereo

[@pyrumid5673]

What you've done here was just great ! I would have never thought it was possible to use sound channels as you have shown here. Thank you for sharing.

[@batican8367]

Dude! Loved the track man! So sick!!! That hardware tracker is really cool too. Didn’t know those existed.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

indeed1!!! check em out

[@TRIPPLEJAY00]

Man and I've sold all my retro consoles because I wasnt using them and then you make all these awesome video's and now I'm slapping myself. Bloody love this new twist to old tech.

[@janoschamann3008]

07:00 oooh... gettin some Wintergatan vibes here :) great jam

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

oh really????? hahaha

[@janoschamann3008]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5K6Zn5uarp3iJI haha his acoustic "8-bit" drums, tho... :)

[@truthreporter1709]

Genius level insanity. Never, ever stop.

[@venomslair137]

I saw a Ness-band video last week. Then you upload this... It's really mindblowing!!!

[@AstroKidOne]

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER 🙏 you, my kind s7r, make my heavy mind and heart soft and really makes me happy seeing you showing me how to let GO and just try and check it ALL out, pure nostalgia with the Tracker mode, I need one of those NERDSEQ! ❤️🙏 Anyhows, hope to meet you over here across the little stream in Denmark , you are loved and appreciated. Thank you for opening your visualization and showing us how it can be done and enjoyed ❤️🙏 🤜🤛👌 pump up the volume .! Have a Good one

[@guarapo66]

I love how you dress and your hair style, straight from the 90's , and your crazy place were you make your videos, beakman's world vibe to it. On top of that retro consoles and music 😍 #mancrush lol

[@iamelvisman68]

Holy shit I haven't seen the name beakmans world since I was a kid

[@blearmoon]

Cool song, and sound very modern which is the best of all, to use vintage electronics for modern genres

[@MysteryD]

Every last one of those sounds are pretty much forever etched into my brain.

[@FinalBaton]

there's a trick for getting a kickdrum sound out of the triangle wave, and it's about quickly dipping the volume and then getting it back back at the right time. There's a vid on KZbin explaining it (it's got white-lines-on-black-background visuals)

[@jeanse27]

Nice tune Sam!! Looking forward to see future updates on the Game Boy Mega Machine!!

[@idj20]

Another quality and enjoyable video as always. Keep up the good work, Sam.

[@PocketOperatorGuy]

Holy crap!! That is too freaking cool! Make some serious Skippy techno with that setup. I didn't think the NES was capable of producing fat sounds. Really cool! 🤘👌🔥

[@Heatwave1988]

Sound so clean and agressive!

[@cafestudiosinc.1702]

I just wanted to say thank you for all your content.

[@Robertkopp84]

I love the use of numlock keys on the circlon and the sinclair keys on the nerdseq. My hyper sensory processing disorder makes me want one of these because of the fammiliar look and feel. Most keys and especially the arrangement and mixture of those on music equiptment just confuse me.

[@ricauburn9553]

4:00 aaaaand.... PERFECT! Well done! 👏

[@lyyretv1126]

“Express what you wanna say with your dodgy music”

[@TradieTrev]

Thanks for making electronic music great again!

[@SuperBeardWill]

So so good! Love your work man

[@RealGalleleo]

*sighs* the warm 8 bit sounds of the NES... 6:49 onwards warms my heart, merry christmas everyone

[@TheKingbluez]

Thts a great sound , your track was mental , love it sam

[@Thalon77]

Next step: a NES megamachine with 48 of those linked together :-)

[@williew705]

This really made me want to write some stuff on Famitracker again! Great vid!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Hot damn. I've wanted to be able to do this for years. Awesome.

[@kirkvincent5047]

Nice. Just waiting on mine to arrive. The manual is a bit sparse. Looks like a Bletchley Park would struggle to spark it up. Got a Polyend Tracker which will hopefully work out well

[@Dorillien.]

I love your videos It's really original, fun and creative keep going

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

il, try not to stop

[@rvendelstrego6688]

you came up with the tracker and got me slow clapping. great! besides ... everything before that got me on my nostalgic note.

[@celestialode]

Sounded awesome, riff in 3:40 was badass

[@kermitttt]

Look mum, no computer NESsesery

[@WARDISWARD]

Use the sculpt kmob on the cirklon to sclupt in your parameters ( aux values ) while playing the pattern

[@Nukle0n]

The way you'd usually make a kick drum on an NES is to use the triangle wave with a bit of the noise channel i think, you can get a sort of kick drummy sound like that. Or cheat like Sunsoft and use the sample channel for that.

[@superandroidtron]

While Sunsoft did use the DPCM channel for drums on some of their earlier games, they switched to triangle/noise drums later in order to free up the DPCM channel for the bass. Check out the "Batman: Return of the Joker" soundtrack.

[@whatevsimbulletproof]

Awesome dude! Sounds of my childhood!

[@jakeniemi6533]

Need this soundset as a VST

[@randyharrigan4790]

now all we need is a look mum no computer nes rom hack with this as the background music 👌💯

[@oscwavcommentaccount]

To get a good kick sound out of a nes you need to use the triangle channel and have note that pitches down fast.

[@AdmanMVR]

That tune was epic! 8 bit music is great

[@HeegeMcGee]

DOOOPE! Wonder if i could wire in the VRC6... And what about the FDS, with its extra channels?

[@alexthejapanfan7905]

Me, Famitracker, OCC-FAMITRACKER, And J-OCC-Famitracker: Uhhhh Am I a joke to you, boy?!

[@Marius-vw9hp]

I am going to get one! Had no idea these existed before watching this video.

[@2.7petabytes]

I’m so jealous of all the awesome gadgets you get to mess with!!!

[@goatskindreams]

very cool, can't wait to hear a full song

[@chent]

That is so awesome! I'll definitely use those sampels, since I just got my computer working, and I havent been able to get my hands on another NES, since I sold my childhood one in the dark ages. Someone called me "Look Mum No Comments", so I think I am alowed to use a computer, and I think sampeling is fun and I just love Nintendo music. That NerdSeq seems pretty cool, I used to make some crazy jams in modplug back in the days. Could you please tak some about what you use for you'r Gameboy stuff, like the software and stuff. I can't seem to figure out what I need and how to make my DMG-01 make sweet music, I just have the camera with that sequenzer mini-game thing, but I do however use the Korg games for the DS lite a whole bunch. Still I think I'll make something out of the other pink case, like a super simple oscilator, unless you finely let us in on the magic behind making a crystal oscilator. Stay awesome.

[@jiproijackers7595]

More of this PLEASE!!!

[@CabalisOrder]

when I heard the Track around 3:00 i had Contra Gameplay in my head lul

[@brpadington]

I love the NES sound chip almost as much as the gameboy. The track you made was great too. Maybe try and do something with the Megadrive next?

[@thecaptainofrock]

LMNC, I sure you have thought about once you find a space you will have enough awesome synth stuff to make your Museum!! Just gotta make the stuff tougher than a rock cause of the de-gens. As always great video!

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

im working on it!! its gunna be called the museum of everything else

[@thecaptainofrock]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER I know it!:) I have watched all of your videos multiple times. My Favorite is the Synth Bike and Synth Bike 2.0. I really like that you had switches for each note. Cause switches are more fun than buttons! I was dead set on building it until you opened the hood and I saw everything you have in there!! OH GOOD LAWD! Anyways, have an awesome day!!

[@dillipphunbar7924]

Sam Sam I Am, I wasn't scared to try it, but I went and screw up my Rakit Metal wth some old guy dodgy soldering. The nerseq is amazing..really brought the NES to life as a genuine multi osc synth/soundbox

[@evol6]

Sounds a little bit like Veronica maggio "jag kommer" brilliant stuff !

[@BoombapArt]

Nice video! Looks like FT2 in a box 🔥🎹

[@kiDchemical]

Use the sweep on a square wave to get a decent kick. You can use a hard pitch bend on the triangle wave as well if this supports pitch bend commands (I don’t have this, I have midines). At lot of games use the noise channel for kick drums, not really my favorite sound though

[@ewatfred]

Dude that track with the nerdseq was fucking HARD Great work!

[@retrorevival617]

Brilliant! love the NERDSEQ would like to see a more in depth look at that for sure! Thanks man :)

[@kinorai]

I don't understand anything you're saying... But i love it either way! That's amazing!

[@dykodesigns]

Cool, I wonder if this midicart can work with the expansion soundchips like those in the japanse version of Castlevania 3 and the Sunsoft mappers. Sunsoft made some pretty wicked tunes for old nessy.

[@alexthejapanfan7905]

Ummmmmm, but Famitracker Exist.

[@synthshoot1026]

7:00 Man your good at tracking.!!

[@dannyd02]

I seriously enjoyed that song!

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

If I still had the original Nintendo we owned in 1988, this interface could be ideal for the brainwave I had last night - a cover of ABBA’s “Angeleyes” sounding exactly like the track you laid down here!!

[@DouglasDuhaime]

Rocking that Final Fantasy hair giddyup

[@wisteela]

Excellent. It would be cool to use it to make NES game theme remixes.

[@MaxMakerChannel]

I am wondering. Do you have some kind of fuses anywhere in your setup? Could a faulty component fry all the gameboys?

[@Abby_cat47]

Y'all out here giving me goosebumps with this! HeLL YeS!

[@IngwiePhoenix_nb]

So... I was getting into LSDJ... Now I have to get into this too. FAMIMIDI + LSDJ. Imagine the epicness you can produce with htis duo?! I want to try it!

[@0961downtown]

you're a genius bro

[@normdurkin6425]

..the Cirklon is sick bro.. I need one and a 2nd beatstep pro..

[@berzerkrobot]

Those jams are fire.

[@iamelvisman68]

I picked up a bare nes console the other day for 5 bucks at a flea market, I guess they are still out there!!

[@theobscurestash6537]

Absolutely beautiful! Have you heard any of the _8 BIT MUSIC POWER_ Famicom cartridge albums? They're amazing!

[@decon4611]

Best song yet!

[@DouglasDuhaime]

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER is that intro song on spotify? I planned to keep it on repeat til 2030

[@sugarshark7626]

Is this guy an NES music composer? Awesome!

[@rimmersbryggeri]

You are brilliant man. It's an actual song that doesnt sound like it's from probotector or the tv show ALF very good.

[@uketacopu4073]

Best thing you've done yet, mate

[@Swenglish]

I've got a PAL Midines, but I never got it to work. The power light just blinks, if I recall correctly.

[@freem4nn129]

Thats one sick tune !

[@grahamjhallaudio8198]

Have you tried the ‘SuperAudioKart’ software by Impact Soundworks??? Would love your take.. 👍🎶

[@thefantasticadventuresofmr7126]

I that is the most AWSOME thing I have seen today!

[@fugyamofug]

that tune had me cruisin a square road full of boxed out mushrooms double dragon donkey konged lazer beams blastin out my sword bad dudes and ninjas lurkin in every corner and bricks breakin everywhere with powered up punches and kung-fu kicks

[@LukeKillen]

If the Cirklon isn't the answer to your MIDI sequencing problems, nothing is.

[@rdoes6696]

"Somebody called themselve look mum no computer" lol Enjoy your humor and work. Keep it up my man!