The Saddest Drone Machine - HP 3782A Error Detector

[@JaggedNZ]

This is a PCM error detector, do you have a anything with dts or pcm out or even Casio pcm keyboard you could feed into the data input? Actually feeding any signal into the data input should result on something more interesting on the error output. Have another look at that cable and I think you will find it plugs into the data input section and you should be able to crudely patch into the other end.

[@Hainbach]

Crudely patch sounds like my style. Thank you, I will give it a try!

[@JaggedNZ]

HAINBACH just watch out for stray voltages (telephony gear is often 48v) and impedance. Should be at least 50ohms though.

[@Hainbach]

oh good to know, I will run it into a switch with a wide range then to protect the audio gear.

[@Hainbach]

If you have any other tipps on telephony gear I would be happy to know them. AFAIK this is new territory.

[@SoundAuthor]

That sounds interesting indeed. Maybe a second video if the experiment yields desirable results!

[@sudonim7552]

"Oh you make music? What instrument do you play? Guitar? Keyboard? Drums?" "Nah. HP 3782A Error Detector."

[@maw9406]

DJSubAir not funny mate

[@SharedVision333]

People used to ask the same thing when they saw the Cocoquantus.

[@mons.romerodurante8086]

I've heard more musical sounds from infants playing on the _linoleum_ .

[@clustercrash2995]

@@maw9406 now, im confused that its both tragic and funny

[@alphanumeric1529]

That's hilarious. Don't listen to the haters from their sad hateful countries.

[@alienorbiter]

This needs to be paired with some footage of accelerated mushroom growth over abandoned civil areas.

[@hayd7371]

You're a genius

[@mmettej]

alienorbiter why does that seem so familiar? what is that from?

[@alecman95]

Wow

[@user-qo7qt3wq7h]

@@mmettej from a Lyra-8 soundscapes video ? :)

[@garbleduser]

And narrated by Paul Stamets.

[@VideoMcVideoface]

“Local man activates 60,000 MK Ultra assassins. News at 10.”

[@gorsefan]

HP 3782A woke after years of slumber... maybe now it could finally fulfill its destiny - to detect some errors. But it could detect no errors at all. Now it's awake in an error-free world, a perfect world, but this just makes it feel sad, when everything else must surely be happy.

[@KnightMirkoYo]

This story gives me wall-e vibes. A piece of old tech unnecessary to modern world, merely a piece of garbage. Only mad enthusiasts like Hainbach could revive and repurpose such things, give them a new meaning, a new hope.

[@user-ck9lm6xi1o]

I am now happy sad. Thank you for your poetry.

[@OdaKa]

😢

[@andre-michelgoulet6933]

That was a great story, a metaphor for everything. I've got a alternate version tho. It's not sad because there are no errors to detect in a perfect world. It's not a perfect world... The world is so broken, full of errors, that the machine can't detect any errors within all the background noise.

[@JustAnotherThisDJ]

Lol

[@MakeItB3tter]

Damn, those sounds would fit an Half-Life game so damn well...

[@MBaadsgaard]

There are some elements of this in the incredibly brilliant game "Prey"

[@wege8409]

HL3 confirmed

[@samwalker7567]

It felt more "Thomas Was Alone" to me, especially those first few pitch shift attempts.

[@GregAdamsEternal]

Don't be sad little drone machine. You are still getting some love!

[@XXROGUE]

"What, is, my, purpose?" You detect errors. "Oh, my, god."

[@rachaelballard3009]

Your profile picture is one of my favorite birds. I just had to tell you that IDK

[@luancervantes6124]

wow the new boards of canada album sounds insane

[@sethnelson4490]

i hope youre not making fun of boards of canada

[@PantherFox]

if only they were still this interesting.

[@grahamhornecker395]

@@mattd3826 ok buddy

[@vesta_elm]

finnaly after years

[@ooferrell]

Love that band lol

[@thechronicnoizeco.6675]

I’m waiting to hear Thom’s voice to come in...

[@SharedVision333]

the cHroNic nOize co. Oh please god no

[@rickenbacker40011]

the cHroNic nOize co. Gimme

[@KarlHamilton]

#BDS

[@elrabeechum5180]

"OooooOOOOoooooo....broken stuuuufff...you've got it all wroooong..." Is what he'd say.

[@totalbrainfail1812]

Who is Thom?

[@NostalgicRuckus]

Your obsession of old gear makes me happy Hainbach. This was crazy cool to watch.

[@Hainbach]

Thank you! Next video will be a return to modular, which is a nice homecoming.

[@clock2552]

I too use so called non musical equipment to make music

[@circuitousvibes5226]

HAINBACH is a madman, in the best way possible. That he collects so many oddities for his studio is admirable enough, but to make music this good is on another level. I truly appreciate the way he coaxes such beauty out of the saddest "synth" ever made. Mad.

[@sebastiennesp1978]

Utterly BONKERS! But that's why his posts are so entertaining!

[@zooblestyx]

In theatres soon: Werner Herzog's Nuclear Winter, with original music composed by HAINBACH.

[@Hainbach]

Stop jinxing my dreams

[@beflygelt]

@@Hainbach please score the Herzog clip with the suicidal penguin with this

[@Bobbias]

A quick Google search tells me that the error detector was used in conjunction with a separate pattern generator on the other end of the network, so if you can find the pattern generator instead, you might have a more useful source to work with. But the pattern generator is digital, and seems to send different bit patterns in different formats, so it might be a bit difficult to get interesting sound out of. Or it might be a goldmine of sounds. Hell, I have no damn clue here.

[@alanaxley3936]

my man just created a modular synth out of vintage lab equipment. iconic

[@Hainbach]

Yeah! That was part of the fascination, to go back to the roots.

[@applejacks8160]

This new Radiohead album is awesome

[@mic-ps1qt]

Calla CTM no way😱😱😱u stated ur opinion😱thx for sharing we totally care😄👍

[@gmyersgilmer9470]

@@callactm14 Someone is triggered. A sign of a great band to make you flash. Who is the real trash?

[@Hxxrtbrxxk]

4:12 "That's very dark and brooding, I'll try to see what happens if I pitch it up a bit." *Proceeds to make the most 'blade runner' sounding sound I've ever heard*

[@prescott231233]

Sounds like the intro to a documentary on how technology is ruining the earth

[@yrussq]

So basically random day current news)

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

Getting a distopian electronic music machine from Deutsche Post, now that's German.

[@przemekkobel4874]

I remember that as a kid I had that cheap Sharp calculator (EL-230), and I could receive some radio signals from it on one of AM bands. It sounded more cheerful than HP, and pressing the keys changed the tone, but overall it was the same... ehm... 'genre'.

[@NothingAiring]

By Genre do you mean Industrial?

[@przemekkobel4874]

@@NothingAiring Yup. Inside quotation marks.

[@jthek2000]

This is the soundtrack of time counting down before an extraordinary confrontation.

[@speedysandisk78]

Do tangerines dream of HP 3782A Error Detectors?

[@Hainbach]

likely, very likely.

[@nuttynoah5342]

nice reference to tangerine dream

[@zacklance7798]

nice reference to tangerine dream

[@Meikurey]

nice reference to tangerine dream

[@beflygelt]

nice reference to tangerine dream

[@Projacked1]

Music for the next Blade Runner....

[@Hainbach]

Please tell Hollywood! :-)

[@davido3109]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! I will buy on Vinyl!!!!!!!

[@My_Legs_Are_OK]

Came here looking for this comment.

[@bitegoatie]

It is amazing not only that you get good sounds from test equipment, but also that you gathered so much gear so quickly without a giant grant award to pay for it. Well done.

[@BillyTalentguitar1]

I heard „Hi, I‘m Hainbach“ and had to give a thumb up for that voice

[@wenthecowscomehome]

Sounds like a high stakes spy mission in a government owned high tech research facility, beautiful as well!

[@Hainbach]

Super, that is the vibe I was going for!

[@austinallen3110]

Liking for your picture though

[@SarahMaywalt]

This device makes a sound perfectly capturing the essence of the internet: suspicious, oddly beautiful, terrifying.

[@SCWood]

You should release just the original melancholic rhythm for sampling.

[@goldcrossLOLs]

or you could just sample this video

[@TheDeliverator]

Seayorie shh don’t spoil the secret

[@drpibisback7680]

Yeah, I think a sample of the bleeping cleaned up a bit could produce a cool instrument to play melodies against that drone.

[@BeyondTheIslands]

“So now we can program two notes!” I’m wheezing. Hainbach, you are an inspiration.

[@mrotaveria]

loving this "exploring old creepy gear" series man! the resulting tracks are so organic and unique

[@Hainbach]

Thank you! Every piece of gear is an inspiration. Now I am obsessed with the plumbing - mixers, switches etc.

[@iano292]

Such an inspiring video. As soon as the ED was fired up, I felt the wash of nostalgia and imagination wash over me, like hum of a familiar air con units in an old warehouse that are phasing in and out with each other. Just brilliant. Thanks Hainbach.

[@paulmitchum8658]

Disagree. *I* am the most melancholy error generator. Lots of fun seeing this come to life, though.

[@Braunschweiger1984]

I like what you do Hainbach. It feels magical the way you coax sounds out of these machines. You're a true original.

[@jalexandermedia]

4:18 is the part I like the most. Really reminds me of those crappy 80s sci-fi movies. Sounds super cool, I want one myself! Edit: I’m also really glad that this is the first ever video of yours I’ve seen. I love old tech and music, they just go so well together

[@PseudoPseudoDionysius]

This is such a gorgeous insight into how noise artists work.

[@dvdny]

It's a TDM (T1) test pattern generator, which runs at 1.544 MHz, so what you're hearing are just harmonics of the primary 1.5M-rate square-ish waves. Hook up a decent scope and you'll see.

[@CaalamusTube]

You've gone full Radiophonic Workshop! Watch over us St. Delia!!!

[@Hainbach]

Watch over us!

[@sillyfello]

Wow.. the third octave really caume off guard.. love that sound..

[@theusher2893]

If you’ll forgive the comparison, just a very few notes of this reminds me of Paul Leonard Morgan’s soundtrack to Dredd. The remarkable thing about that movie was that it Portrayed a futuristic setting, but as it was imagined in the mid to late 80s. He used a lot of deep synth drones and pulses exactly like you produced here. It was a very vintage sound that went with the movie perfectly. So now that I’ve stumbled across your video of you making music with vintage equipment to achieve a vintage sound that was at one time considered to be futuristic, it to me has that same wonderful blend of distorted, minimalist retro sound. It is a great pleasure to hear, and I’ll be subscribing.

[@Hainbach]

Thank you! I always love to hear about context, it makes the world more exciting for me.

[@theusher2893]

HAINBACH Then you should definitely check out that soundtrack to see what he did! Even cooler was that he didn’t use a drum machine, but live drums with distortion. In the meantime I’ve got lots of your videos to catch up on. :)

[@EarlyMist]

Too true. I love the soundtrack/soundscapes from that movie.

[@jeanbonnefoy1377]

so beautifully relaxing and another proof that industrial electronic music is not always synonymous with hardcore Rammstein-NIN-Ministry like hammering!

[@retrosad]

Could honestly do with an extended version of that modulating drone at the beginning. There's something relaxing but eerie about it

[@chimaera2372]

1:14 this is probably the saddest noise I’ve ever heard from a machine. It’s probably what pain sounds like

[@howardanderson3061]

Super cool, sometimes the less a machine can do the cooler it is. Great sounds

[@sdero499]

Absolutely beautiful. Thanks Marvin.

[@LiMCRiMZ]

4:26 that's such a magical moment, maybe not for you but for me that sound is sensational. Amazing work!

[@LiMCRiMZ]

Also that 1 current dislike has no business here.

[@LiMCRiMZ]

Good to see that only 2 people have lost their minds so far 😂

[@jasonmcgary]

Is the next wave in overpriced vintage gear.giant analog test equipment.all it takes is one viral song and everyone needs that sound....

[@projectnemesi5950]

lol. hipster synth equipment has indeed gone too far.

[@TurtleGamers1]

This wasn't expensive at all though and I hope it stays that way tbh

[@projectnemesi5950]

@@TurtleGamers1 I'd rather there be a solid revival of industrial music using modular and analog test equipment. Rather than some hipster making ironic techno music with synthwave pads over the top.

[@TurtleGamers1]

@@projectnemesi5950 What? I was just sayin that it only costs like 40 bucks which isn't too expensive??

[@projectnemesi5950]

@@TurtleGamers1 I dont disagree

[@gunterkrass4778]

Being creative in an awesome, exploring way! Kinda fitting that you resemble 1973-ish Ralf Hütter, too...

[@Hxxrtbrxxk]

I know I already commented on this but I've been watching this over and over again all night... I'm honestly just enthralled by the noises of this machine. I was wondering if can I record the noises this thing makes with just the Tascam; or if I need all the other equipment you used in this video? All I really want to do is record the machines melancholy drone and make it into a rhythm like the one you made at 4:12, when you pitched it up.

[@Hainbach]

Don’t need anything else, just bnc to jack Adapter

[@SoundAuthor]

I love me a good Hainbach video. The sounds you can get out of all these obscure machines from who knows where.

[@8BitMunky]

Woah. Instant Oneohtrix Point Never. Love the uniqueness and timbre of this instrument!

[@chrissearle23]

Your videos always stimulate me to go and make some interesting noises!

[@BrunoWiebelt]

what a soviet deadhand doomsday machine you build soon you grow mushrooms that live on radioactivity and get your self an used submarin atomreaktor ... recording i love ... creatomisch

[@Hainbach]

Creatomisch, such a lovely word.

[@2.7petabytes]

Brilliant!! I drool every time I see all of the wonderful gadgets you possess! You definitely reinforce why I collect all of the “weird” items (as my wife would say) that I do.

[@soundethersinfo135]

It's amazing hiw you bring any machine to life, a new life indeed. Most of those devices could never imagine they'd have been music instruments. Chapeau!

[@LittleZdy]

After 10 seconds of playing this vid I clicked the subscribe button.

[@bglee2765]

Someone forward this to Jonny Greenwood asap

[@goredwings1212]

So cool! Really inspirational, I want to drive around looking for garage sales and buying any old electronic gear I can get my hands on now

[@apexshinbi638]

This was absolutely exquisite to listen to. Thank you.

[@alphanumeric1529]

So just a month ago, I checked out your vid landfill totems, or maybe another vid that linked to the totems, but that was my introduction to test equipment. Loved the sounds, really in my space. I've been stuck into, like, western diatonicism, and am always trying to get my very musical synths to make nonmusical musical sounds which is so much harder than it should be (naw, haven't gotten into eurocrack, love the sounds, can't hang in that disposable income class anymore). I've kind of been frustrated/lacking something for the past 25 years, so I started to look around, and lo and behold, there is actual test equipment out there being sold for $20-$30! Amazing. I am beginning my very inexpensive journey into actual industrial sound. Thanks, in a way I can't express.

[@noxyu3m]

Subscribed for years, but just realised you are Electronic Music Lord.

[@charlieaydin1377]

The only 'error' would be you not releasing a track based around this 😊 Such a beautiful noise

[@Bonks332]

Super cool video. Fascinating to watch your workflow. Definitely on another level.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

whats the crazy drum thingy?!?

[@Hainbach]

Check your insta PM's

[@Rhuggins]

@@Hainbach also curious

[@HotStrange]

Check your Insta PMs

[@HenryGWalker]

Oh you're here too, nice

[@SharedVision333]

Are you using a D-1000 for percussion?

[@kirkyoung4147]

this was rather brilliant

[@Nickersons-Theme]

I won't lie - I didn't understand any you just done. But it sounds good!

[@knuclesnucls991]

I’d love to see a recap of all of your lab equipment. You’ve got such a broad collection already

[@Hainbach]

Its coming! Have been crazy busy and this will be a longer video, need to find time.

[@macguffinrecords9362]

You really made that sound good! I wish I hade more space, the test equipment is really awesome. And I love that they are all one trick ponies. Huge machines that does one thing.

[@Hainbach]

It's very conductive to focussed creative thinking 😃

[@jltep]

Thank you for being you.

[@KK4CNM]

There is something so very pleasing to that sound, I can't describe it.

[@Hainbach]

I agree. It's a rare quality. I managed to find the sister unit, I wonder what it will do.

[@jakoblaban429]

Es freut und ruehrt mich, dass es bei Dir ein warmes, sicheres Zuhause gefunden hat um seinen Lebensabend zu beschliessen und doch nochmal alles zu geben. Das HP 3782A wusste es hatte einen anderen Lebenssinn als die miefige Post. Happy End :) Love'n Hugs aus Portland

[@codih1716]

Love from the Pacific Northwest!

[@Max-mn1qn]

Such Lovely haunting sounds you get from the most interesting sources.

[@Kaxlon]

Wonderful tune! =) Great work. Reminds me of the artist NonPlace Urban Field (Bernd Friedmann). Back in the 1990's there was this kind of tunes emerging. Since we didn't know what is was called, we just called it 'Bleeps & Clicks". We didn't have Google back then. We listened to Calle Dernulf on Swedish radio station P3, and he would reserv the last 30 minutes of his 2 hour session to new and obscure tunes.

[@flleeppyy9959]

4:26 Triggered so much inspiration for me thank you, for using this wonderful machine in a video

[@bartt7425]

I never realized that some of the futuristic songs I listen to can be made with tools like this. So cool!

[@Neonate_Aeon]

So glad I discovered your channel, live what you do

[@BetoLarski]

Wow, you manage to put out some very cool music from your rather unusual gear!

[@KNHSynths]

I love the way you love electronic sounds...

[@LudvigC]

I don't think it's sad! It's a major chord, sounds pretty content to me. Thanks for a great video!

[@drpibisback7680]

@Stanley Hampshire An inverted major third dyad (a major third interval but the root is pitched above the third) is essentially a flat 6 interval at the same time (interpreting the third as the root instead). I think that's what gives it the melancholy vibe, it's sort of between major and minor.

[@jaydeepalmer]

Nah, it'ts the VI degree of a minor I that never comes 😅

[@wesmatron]

Sir, you are a genius

[@RetroPlus]

This is interesting, I would never think to try to dig music out of something simple! 5:07 Sounds like a ghostly pipe organ, I love it!

[@fmoll8748]

diese Testgerätvideos wirken super inspiriert, coole Musik die dabei rauskommt. Würde ich mir auch laut anhören!

[@Hainbach]

Danke! Klingt laut auch sehr gut, teste ich immer wieder auf größeren PAs. Man arbeitet einfach sehr präzise.

[@chrisrichbeats7383]

The tapping high frequency drum sounds like the noise when you type on an iPhone, definitely fits the technological dystopian vibe

[@readonly2309]

: error detected ///// \\\\ : dumped all "relevant' input after the shooting. now all i care about is life+the inner boffin. subscribed ::: :

[@Nekubi]

That's definitely a laboratory more than a studio.. speechless on the unique gear and techniques!

[@gergemall]

You’re an electronic genius

[@blurzice7206]

4:28 sounds like a sick start to a song

[@Didymusartist]

This is so inspiring, right away I got stuck in an amazing vibe from that HP 3782A

[@fungi331]

dude...... superb ambient tracks for any fps video game. right here people.

[@impressionistslandscape]

Please release that recording, it would be astounding to hear at the beginning of a techno set

[@Hainbach]

It will happen in autumn!

[@Hainbach]

It will happen in autumn!

[@nimmen]

When you start layering and adding beats it reminds me of something Solar Fields would produce

[@ELaschBro]

Thanks for showing this. I enjoyed seeing your process. I find the kinds of things you are doing influential, although not attainable, for my own process with making and mixing sound. I plan on watching many more of your videos. Thanks.

[@AmsterdamBicycle]

This is the best You on the tube together with LOOK MUM!!!

[@forbescallum]

"sound futuristic yet they look into the past" this and and the melancholic quality are very much what Oneohtrix Point Never's early releases sound like. Check out Rifts

[@nicholashennell-foley4608]

Love this song! I especially love the "almost a major third" interval you bring in using the 2nd slider on the mixer :) Great job!

[@KPsTboy]

Cool, especially the low pitch around 4:12 reminded me of 'Biosphere' on Geir Jenssen's 'Microgravity' album, cheers!

[@yourfernd4513]

what is the music playing from 0:00 to 1:09 ? i searched through your Bandcamp catalogue but couldn't find it :(

[@TheRadioCupboard]

Any one else getting Portal vibes?

[@ZackYouTube]

i like what you turned it into

[@Undy1]

4:50 reminds me of Portal 2 soundtrack - Light Bridge, Love as a Construct and Triple Laser Phase 6:30 - 6:45 remind me of computer sounds from the beginning of Alien (1979) or the photo enhance machine from Blade Runner (both by Ridley Scott so no wonder they sound somewhat similar). Overall amazing as usual - I only discovered Your channel a few days ago but I'm loving every minute, especially the old test equipment.

[@Hainbach]

You are citing works I love to bits.

[@Undy1]

@@Hainbach I suspected as much:P

[@JosephPalmer]

I love your creativity.