Making the Most of the Micro (7): Sounds Interesting

[@naysmith5272]

A very good introduction to programming sound. "Making the Most..." these episodes were repeated up and including 1986.

[@MarkTheMorose]

This and the episode on computer graphics were my two favourite episodes. I was half-way through high school, and had a VIC-20 at the time, I think.

[@urinater]

Mine too.

[@johneygd]

That rtrained obot arm is the best part of this video, but i also liked how that smart guy demonstrated how to play music on a computer, many sound effects remainds me of sega master system games, no wonder concidering both computers from that era and the master system contains the PSG soundchip.

[@piggypiggypig1746]

13:55 He was spot on. The Amiga :)

[@kristianTV1974]

Homer: "Vent radioactive gas?" Y E S. "Sound alertness horn?" Y E S. "Decalcify calcium ducts?" Well, give me a Y, give me a...Hey! All I have to type is Y! Hey, Miss Doesn't-find-me-attractive-sexually-anymore: I just tripled my productivity! ... Where's that Tab I ordered?

[@JoeBetro]

Thank you for sharing 🌟

[@SoloStuff]

4:15 I used to program a tweeting bird sound using that same SOUND command back in the day. Dusty lovely memories.

[@mauryginsberg7720]

I remember messing about with the sound command on my Amstrad CPC464 as a kid and scaring my hippy neighbors with a police siren noise who were convinced they were getting raided :D

[@kristianTV1974]

Just about pre-MIDI by the looks of that data cable from the keyboard to the computer!

[@JoeBetro]

18:15 - Mac didn’t want to hear that!

[@CallousCoder]

That robot at the end has severe Parkinson's disease.

[@MrFaceHead]

Funny how impressed they were by 8 bit approximations of orchestral sounds.

[@gan9e]

11:26 those are the high hats of an Aphex twin...

[@InternalMind]

high hats of the roland tr 606 and other synths also

[@takeonemusic5537]

round about the middle of the program from 07:00 he's trying to demonstrate a very early version of what became MIDI (musical instrument digital interface)with is totally standard these days..the keyboard is just a midi controller ..this all exists in every music software program(DAW) today (cubase, logic,nuendo,pro tools, etc )

[@rooneye]

The music is from Kraftwerk, people! Kraftwerk!

[@annother3350]

Citation Needed!!

[@bobomb1986]

4 was in fact not Middle C. On a BBC Micro, 53 was middle C. 4 wasn't actually a note (in equal tempered pitch), each semitone you went up by 4, so 5 would have been a note, 1 was a note, and, in fact, 0 was a note all by itself). 5 would represent the C below Middle C, 53 middle C, 101 the C above, 149 the C above, 197 the C above, 245 the C above.

[@jesuszafra]

I don't know but it sounds very cool, indeed.

[@WINSTANLEYOBXa]

I wonder who the band is at the start?

[@8bitkick988]

+Glenn Winstanley it's Kraftwerk - Computer World.

[@Synthesis1979]

My Goodness. I think this is pre midi.

[@MarkTheMorose]

It's from the same time, in fact. According to Wikipedia, work on the developing standard was publicly announced in October 1982 (by one Robert Moog), and the standard itself published in August 1983.

[@synthrichie1]

midi was introduced 1982

[@MrFaceHead]

Also can't synthesize a bassoon.

[@MarkPMus]

18:18 Computer as fat-shamer.

[@rooneye]

They do like to break things down into 3 bullet points in this program dont they.

[@annother3350]

1. No 2. They 3. Don't

[@yan2292008]

thanks a lot for sharing "Jesus Zafra"