THE ULTIMATE Commodore Educator 64 Music Production Tool???

[@NeoBechstein]

Hi Sam, nice to see it actually doing something useful again :-) Maybe the fuse popped because of our 230V outlets here in Germany?

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

hey julien!!! yes it lives!!! its strange as when i tested it first it was fine, only started happenning a few hours into working with it, which is usually the case with these RIFA capacitors. they always fail. mad they were sat inside the socket haha. but yeah after that a transistor died! but now its working happy days!!!!

[@NeoBechstein]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Very cool indeed \o/ I had no idea what it really was, too. I thought it's a PET... I still have the missing keys. Will hand it over when we meet next time 🙂

[@firefly2472]

germany ? thought he was in england ?

[@Athazago]

@@firefly2472 he was on tour in germany once in 2019 and took that commodore with him

[@NeoBechstein]

@YaKefir not really. What I meant was a capacitor in the PSU which constantly gets loaded. If the PSU is for 230V and you use it on 110V it is possible that the capacitor or whatever constantly uses more and more electricity what finally brings the fuse to pop. possible to much Ampere.

[@Hainbach]

Nice job on this!

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

funny timing with your tweet about melody in basic haha

[@jeremyjohnson7676]

Can you please define the extraordinary "job" on this? I've done that in the 90s together with my producer friends, when we are bored to work with our SSL desks for the big major labels. And I mean that seriously. And the only reason you are commenting here is because you want to profit from his reach. If he had only 100 subs, regardless of the content (!!), you would just ignore him Mr. Magic-Hand-Waving-Hainbach. I've lost complete respect to you because as someone who are claiming that analog is the real deal (which is!), and then making money with useless terrible PLUGINS... well... you showed everyone your real purpose behind everything. >> making money even if you have to sell your soul. Cheers.

[@jaredwblack]

This one should be called "Look, Mum A computer!"

[@javinshki17000]

the alternate universe sam

[@YanickFM]

I love the music you made on it. I'm always so impressed with what you do, and I really appreciate seeing these old technologies that I wouldn't be able to otherwise

[@user-dd6on5cr3u]

Ngl, this C64 music is probably the best out of everything LMNC has made

[@SpectrumDIY]

You literally brought to life a new series of 8-bit songs. So beautiful!

[@alexanderwingeskog758]

But it's analogue sound :-)

[@niklaswejedal463]

As always, youabsolutely nailed it with the music - sounds so awesome!

[@italiandiscomafia]

Love this stuff.. amazing video man

[@pianokeyjoe]

For some reason it shows I was not subbed? I had to press the sub button again. Now I am witnessing what some youtubers are talking about that people are getting unsubbed without user interaction. hmm. Anyway, now that I got you back, I am loving the C64 sid chip music my friend! I am very impressed by how much music and synthesis you can get out of such a under powered machine. I have tried as I may and tried as I might to get the same results with a much more powerful PC system running Windows 95 and a Pentium with 32mb ram, 1GB HDD and soundblaster 32 soundcard and there was ALWAYS crashes and stuck notes, and other issues! I am in awe as to how the much older computers where able to just freakin work!

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

name a commodore 64 game Download the C64 drum sounds and sons on the C64 plus watch loads of music streams here :- www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputer

[@StarDollar]

Winter Games

[@newdykung6775]

Monty On The Run

[@tomorrowsyndicate]

Barbarian II

[@sergeleon1163]

Giana sisters, Last ninja 1 & 2, International karate, R-Type and many more, love the SID sound

[@mickydee84]

Wizard Of Wor

[@ultratorrent]

Please put this song up on spotify! It's the kind of vibe I want to just chill with.

[@ScottsSynthStuff]

Wow...I grew up near Commodore Canada where the PET was created. I knew (and used) the 4016, 4032 and 8032 PETs for years, I learned programming on them. We used to go dumpster diving behind the Commodore HQ for all kinds of great computer bits that had been tossed out. I had a VIC-20 and C64 and programmed them for years. I wrote and sold C64 software. But I NEVER heard of this 4064 before!!!

[@standudinski]

someone stop the presses and call Ridley Scott. He needs to remake Alien with this in it, Ridley as a travelling musician encounters a Xenomorph event promoter and has to fight in order to get her set headlined at the colony on LV-426

[@Dakiraun]

Dang... that music sure reminds me of my childhood around C64s! There may be a way to fix the monitor issue. The screen size on that thing is larger than the older/original pets, and looks to be about the same as the actual C64 monitors of the day. You _may_ be able to swap the the CRT itself with a proper C64 monitor and just fit it into that housing. Save the original, just like you did for the motherboard in case you want to restore it, but if that fits, that would give you a colour monitor and make the software easier to use.

[@geertjalink]

C64 had that nice cutoff and envelope filters sadly I had an MSX which sounded awful compared with it.

[@spazkong]

That is very very cool. I couldn't get my hands on one of those but I did have a Currah Speech and Ram Music Machine for a ZX Spectrum. Different vibe but I'm seriously thinking of covering those. Nice work man. I feel so nostalgic watching these vids

[@jmcdowell994]

Mr. Sam. Those who are going down silicon memory lane with your videos thank you so much for being our nostalgic gateway to the past. The C64 was my very first ‘entertainment console’ at the tender age of six and this was the start of my fascination of technology in general. Watching your videos on this unit and other consoles (game boy, sega, etc) and what they are capable of has brought back so many emotional memories for me. I really do hope you continue to produce such videos well into the future my friend!!

[@siinxx7656]

bloody hell what a sick tune king, you rocked those bits damn hard

[@theboombapkingdom8628]

Sounds like every 1980's video game theme song combined! An instant classic! Nice work!

[@josh4740]

13:20 I would love to hear this on a stereo

[@luislozano2395]

im not into keybord music or electronis music but i rememeber the nitemare of putting a game cassette into the Comodore 64 waiting fr ages n syntax error...uve brought those nitmaers back! loved the video new fan here!

[@lorinatzen]

Sounds Very Nostalgic Sam. Good work!

[@chrismofer]

13:26 my favorite part. Amazing composition and instrument :)

[@amyshaw893]

In regards to the other motherboard without the sid, you might be able to make your own sound system with the user port, similar to a Disney sound source or covox speech thing (I think it was called that). Basically an R2R ladder DAC on the user port, and you output the sample value, and hook the output to a speaker. It's a bit CPU intensive, but it can he surprisingly high quality

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

indeed!@!@! but the sid rules, it is the thing that makes the commodore better sound wise than similar computers, so went for thiis approach :D.

[@amyshaw893]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Of course, but you could do this for the old motherboard to add sound to it

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

@@amyshaw893 indeed im not saying it wasnt possible :D. but the sid reigns supreme!

[@dedballoons]

This channel is like Art Attack for electronics nerds and I love it

[@Shamandis]

LOOK MUM Finally COMPUTAR!

[@mfbfreak]

6:48 Replace it. It is not just to prevent stuff like voltage spikes from fridges switching on from causing glitches in the computer, but also to prevent the 1MHz or so signal from causing interference to broadcast radio. Old computers could radiate pretty badly. 3 capacitors that form the RFI suppressor cost a whopping €4 or so if you buy them from Farnell or a Farnell-redistributor.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

It’ll be fineeeee

[@Blacktronics]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER It's all fine and dandy until the megadrone starts making C64 noises

[@bill-custom-lab]

Ure amazing, dude! very nice sound! I love the projects!

[@jhoncho4x4]

Looks like a competitor to the Radio Shack TRS-80. My small rural elementary school had a lab of TRS-80's and the Apple iie was considered the "good computers" for the High School kids. During same time period at home, I had a Commodore 64 with a tape drive.

[@jamesdecross1035]

Yay, I got myself a tiny little-diddy 5" CRT display, for use with the Cynthcart (and MSSIAH when I finally get around t buying one).

[@nerd_one_ai2157]

AWESOME!! i remember seeing a old demo video of this.

[@MilMike]

C64 was my first computer! This music brought the memories back :') this sounds so good what you produced with it.

[@philippelewis3543]

Love the last track. Good job!

[@KrickFilm]

Look mum a computer!

[@StefanBlurr]

LOOK MUM A COMPUTER

[@ubahfly5409]

Look Mum A Computer But It's Heckin' Retro AF !

[@wolfpackpresets]

Interesting C64 stuff 👍 I loved Music shop, notation software ... back in a days

[@dislop.oficial]

I want to use the C64 as a synthesizer right now! 👾

[@Brutal-X]

X2

[@d_vibe-swe]

It's interesting that you can use the SID chip to make sounds that does not necessarily resemble of chip music. Especially when doing bass- and lead sounds.

[@YQN2149]

@@d_vibe-swe the SID has a filter unlike most PSG

[@d_vibe-swe]

@@YQN2149 Yep.

[@almarshall1452]

Pretty rad tune... nice going! Cheers

[@vimaak]

awesome sound ! you are gifted !!

[@ndSpaz]

Evil Sam be like: LOOK MUM YES COMPUTER

[@FOWST]

Look mum no computer: Uses computer Me: "BLASPHEMY!"

[@Jonas-bn8gp]

Keep it up. Miss all my synths n stuff. Itching.

[@christopherjohnson4276]

Amazing the racket you got out of that!

[@outdoormstudios5112]

Amazing ! Really nice ! Remembers me using an ADC0804 connected to the user port for my first sampler in the 80's :-)

[@suitandtieguy]

Look Mum, Computer!

[@GadgetUK164]

Lovely video Sam =D These are very rare! First one I've seen I think!!!

[@hiroprotagonist1587]

Another great project Sam. I grabbed both versions of Backslash Backlash when I could still afford to be a patron, still listen to it at least a couple of times a week although I favour the big band version as an Atari fanboy. Looking forward to seeing you perform live when the varus is over, (I have elderly parents who are in the high risk group so I'm taking no chances).

[@nosville22]

The commodore iceberg: Each copy of the Educator 64 is personalized.

[@gimble8638]

Look Mum a video about a computer!!! :D Always loving your work Sam :)

[@georgereasonproductions]

love this video so much and c64 awesome beast

[@TamasKalman]

12:58 final music - fantastic work

[@thomaswiwchar1661]

wow. you made it sound really good. pretty impressive considering the limitations. look mum obsolete computer

[@CHONKERBOT]

*looping the rubbing the mainboard fragment* ohhh...

[@Xaero188]

12:14 Actually looks like a pretty cool album cover if you ask me :D

[@platronic]

sounds freaking good, nice job!

[@AMOKIAN]

So awesome…..my goodness… To navigate on that system and the mods. 👁🤖🎹incredible!

[@tobitechboy1461]

Jeroen Tel was a Dutch person making all of these game songs for the C64 Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱

[@JETJOOBOY]

Any links for the tunes?

[@tobitechboy1461]

Yes, for example: Gaplus (C64) by Jeroen Tel Link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5rQh6qYqbpljdk

[@Mnnvint]

He's still around... very active on KZbin even. Won't be surprised if he shows up!

[@tobitechboy1461]

@@Mnnvint yes!

[@COTOHAXX]

By the way,sir Clive Sinclair passed away several days ago(. I always remember,how i try to make some melodys on Spectrum in the age of 8... and if I'm right, Sinclair C5 starring LMNC' "modern gas")

[@Terenty95]

LOOK MUM its COMPUTER

[@sparkyprojects]

Another wy might be to use the computer to output serial or parallel to a device that can play music, that will save any modification.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

indeecx i was goiiung to initially but my love for the sid runs deep. its something that the commodore does better than other things :D

[@ScienceOfThePS3]

I absolutely need a MUS or SID of this to add to my C64 SIDPlayer music collection!

[@mehdirezigui5255]

Plus

[@javinshki17000]

5:42 this is peak performance sam

[@tees_trials]

Wow that took me back… Banging beats as always!!!

[@Adam-or6mb]

Always loved the music from a C64, sounds epic!

[@DYNANiK]

LOOK MUM A COMPUTER ♪

[@OscarLuisGarridoRojas]

LOOK mUM MY COMPUTER :D NICE VIDEO, GREAT JOB

[@ExperimentIV]

my dad used to have like, 30 PETs in his basement. he probably knew about these, but he didn’t own one. love to see all these old commodores get repaired

[@JETJOOBOY]

He might have been a top spy or something?

[@GentryBa1]

Hey! You should look after a Commodore EDUCATOR64, because they had a green-scale-monitor in them. They are quite different to the 12"-PET/CBM Monitor in your 4064. The Educator64 is able to show every color in different greens, and also got a SID-Chip with amplifier and speaker in it. :) I'm also getting a 4064 soon and looking forward to it! :) I SIMPLY LOVE IT ;)

[@IanPageEchols]

Hey Sam, if you haven't tried the C64 mouse converters, try to get a hold of one of those. I have a usb dongle wireless laser mouse connected to my C64! Mssiah feels really close to a modern daw/sequencer once you get a good mouse. Absolutely worth it compared to controlling the software with buttons. I tried through quite a few old school mice before giving up and then finding the converter.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

I did that gotta say unfortunately wasn't for me alas!

[@Trollioli]

Oooo that's quite funky. I like.

[@Bowzee303]

It says these came out in 1983. I was already 12 then. So that must mean, we must of had the earlier PETs in my school elementary computer lab. Late 70s early 80s. I just think it's amazing we had a computer lab. Great video btw.

[@drewfinn2]

it’s so unreal you can crush it even on a commodore64 ...cheers

[@michaelcarey]

40 years on and the SID is still a formidable performer!

[@mechadrake]

every time I hear chiptunes I want to learn a bit music theory so I could make my own ciptune music! The piece sounds amazing to me

[@relic985]

I love the C64 drum samples. They're so CRUNCHY!

[@ToysintheStatic]

Nice! MSSIAH is so awesome! Sounds great on this!

[@Thaldor_]

I need that godsdamned CHUNE. Nice stuff, can't wait for the live!

[@elektroarkivet]

Haha, RIFA, the shame of Sweden! :-D We have a lot of those capacitors here... I've had the magic smoke coming out of a Luxor ABC806 1980's computer. I have a Husqvarna sewing machine from the 1960's that not only released the smoke, but also started to run at full speed while sitting on the table. It was just a lucky coinsidence that I was in the room at that moment. RIFA's have learned me to never trust a 1980's or older appliance that runs from a 230V outlet.

[@new-knowledge8040]

Yes I remember up here in Canada long ago back in 1975 when one could have lost footage. Now of course, one would have lost meterage.

[@andrewbailey7999]

Backslash Backlash is an absolute jam

[@PhilBrinkle]

Dude, you are a native British language carrier, oh my God! Insane!

[@carlosrodriguez4723]

LOOK MUM NO..... EMMM... WELL, LOOK MUM A COMPUTER JUST FOR TODAY

[@szecse]

Oh boy, where is the whole song to be find?

[@Brutal-X]

Just AWESOOOOMEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@floatingdoor]

Jesus, I didn't realize you could make a Commodore 64 sound so cool.

[@Solid_EXC]

If i had that in the 80s could be a zombie.... i was an addicted to Octamed in Amiga. Nice to see this man

[@huntabadday2663]

You got an Educator 64? Nice. My favorite computers are the Commodore 64 and PET, and both combined = yes

[@tomstorm255]

Look Mum! One of the best 8-bit computers ever!!!

[@lezorn]

That's a great tune.

[@pixannaai]

Amazing, i learned BASIC on this one at school.

[@unusedsn]

I wish I had your brain! Smart enough to repair electronics and to thrive on limitations.

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

Oh my heck! I knew that Commodore made or at least badged some thermostats, but I never knew until now that they had a MIDI keyboard in their name!

[@PRM-RECORDS]

автоматический like до просмотра..)) После просмотра ждем трека с данным девайсом! )))

[@mayor_dj]

Omg. that track is AWESOME.

[@ugzz]

Anyone ever run a "crack" program that has music back in the 90s early 00s? Because.. not saying I ever did.. but I've been told that this music harkens back to those days, and it's awesome, new, and nostalgic!, all at once!

[@grahamdavidson8661]

It would be pretty cool to try and get a colour monitor that would fit inside the case

[@MindlessTurtle]

That was sick. Vintage music production is the best.

[@MM4F]

Sam, what's your connection to Ramsgate (if any)??

[@Noone-of-your-Business]

How extraordinarily weird. I went to school in Braunschweig in the 1980s, when they produced the C64 there, and we had 2 C64s in our school as well as 2 or 3 PETs, but I had never even _heard_ of this thing before.

[@oztrekgelsoft8409]

Absolutely luv it 🔥🔥🔥