Want you gone but with floppy drives (ft GLaDOS)

the last week of my life is in this
yes, the hard drives are actually singing the real vocals
Download: www.mediafire.com/file/ds8h9qs...

[@ibeprofin69]

it's sad because hard drives can actually sing better than me

[@captinturtle]

xD

[@blueshark4926]

Yeah.

[@badpiggies988]

I kind of miss the whirring sound of the platters when opening a 10GB video game and the sound of the head moving upwards when the computer is powered on. But I definitely don’t miss the slower speed and lower life expectancy

[@IizUname]

The hard drives do glados really well.

[@Jockster109]

Ikr, it's awesome.

[@michaelfixedsys7463]

It’s kinda perfect seeing as GLaDOS is a computer from the 1980s

[@xX_und_wv_d_x_Xx]

I'm absolutely stunned at the fact that you managed to have the hard drive do vocals like that! Bravo to you sir!

[@spartan456]

it was pretty hard

[@astro_che]

must have been

[@KirbyMan12]

Some say he needed the drive-ing force

[@freedom_7341]

it was hard hard/drive/

[@jackwilson3303]

Pelmeninator When you think about it our voices are just precisely coordinated vibrations so its not too unbelievable to hear a floppy disc singing.

[@MKtheinstrumentalist]

There are a couple of flat notes, probably just due to hard drives/scanner not actually tempered to the 100 cent chromatic scale, but DAMN I am *_blown away_* by that vocal emulation. It's a little bit creepy how well you managed that. XD

[@MKtheinstrumentalist]

No, that I understand, but that's a different thing. If everything was tuned chromatically (even just for 2.5 octaves) you wouldn't get that dissonance.

[@spartan456]

MKtheinstrumentalist unfortunately you can't tune a stepper motor

[@MKtheinstrumentalist]

spartan456 True, and that's why I'm not actually that bothered by it because I know it's very difficult to bypass.

[@daltonpaulvideos]

I feel like GlaDOS, herself, is responsible for programming this...

[@growlinglucario7922]

agreed

[@markellii3093]

Dont you hate it when glados hacks into your pc to play its songs?

[@HaloMG]

but brooooo,you gotta listen to ma sick beats

[@saminterestingsurname5198]

"pass the aux" -glados

[@noterobrine9921]

@@HaloMG it's the 5th time this weekshe does it

[@jameshieber3753]

Well at least GLADOS makes good songs.

[@kyleklatt7948]

do you want to get on trending? because that's how you get on trending!

[@Jcorella]

This is truly amazing, 11/10 Where the heck is your patreon?

[@stanley_427]

But how the heck did you get it to do the vocals??

[@stanley_427]

Oh, that's really cool

[@spartan456]

Amplifier is an absolute must, and you can get away with cheapie ones or build one yourself for the purpose. Typical hard drive coils are between 50 and 90Ohm, so you'd at least want an amplifier circuit that can push out 20 or 30 watts to deal with that impedance. I've got about 12W going to the hard drive coils and they are plenty loud. It's also dependent on the signal you pass through to them. I've tried playing entire songs on the coils and it sounds horrible, but to be expected. The coils are tiny and so are the magnets, so they can't cover a wide frequency range. However, the more pure the signal is, the better it usually sounds. By "pure" I'm referring to unwanted junk. Isolated vocals, like what I have here, is an example of that. It's just playing what I want it to play, nothing else thrown around it to give the coil more stuff to work with. I did a lot of modifications to the isolated vocals to get as much mid-range frequencies through as I could. Without those modifications it sounds like the vocals are being played out of a tin can. They work their absolute best with an absolutely pure signal, like a tone from a function generator. Tones like that are how I've previously been using them.

[@MsZsc]

the roboticness fits so well

[@awesomevideos32]

We need a bts video on how you put this all together

[@Captainspamo]

Dominic I couldn't agree more

[@CarrieFisherman]

I can't comprehend this. It's too amazing.

[@deadnamedeadnameson6391]

easily one of the most hardworking and innovative content creators on youtube

[@juneBug412]

HOLY CANOLLI!!! the drives were actually singing the vocals?!?! that's amazing!!!

[@HavingFunTimes]

YES I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT SOUNDED LIKE PORTAL MUSIC

[@---zk4pe]

when nostalgia hits you

[@decoydoedoe9453]

Kõu-Himot Torm ikr

[@vincebln2]

W E L L H E R E W E A R E A G A I N

[@paulwebb2078]

Vince Beltran I T ' S A L W A Y S S U C H A P L E A S U R E

[@Blueshirt38]

no

[@colbyschultz5466]

Sean Fronteras R E M E M B E R W H E N Y O U T R I E D T O K I L L M E T W I C E?

[@deephorizon1365]

Swagalistic Gaming L E T S T R Y S O M E T H I N G E L S E

[@freedom_7341]

N O W W A T C H A N D L E A R N

[@kmemz]

You really did it. You really redid a portal song into the real versions of the FX used to make it. Probably completely pointless, but still awesome and amazing.

[@DamianQualshy]

Please play one of Terminator themes. I beg you xD

[@Narvaljodchik]

bump (also, use the Terminator 2 theme)

[@johnconphoto]

the whole floppestra reminds me of the opera at the end of portal 2. with the scanner being king turret, the hard drives are like the main singing turret, and the rest are the music. Great job! Also: the Cara Mia would be fantastic on these!

[@Dibxmonkey]

dayum this song is so perfect for your hard drives! I really didn't know they were capable of vocals holy moly. My ears are pleased

[@bitwize]

Modulating a hard drive motor to talk to you sounds like the kind of malarkey GLaDOS would get up to.

[@QT43_]

This is how it starts..

[@maxwellosborn9990]

This is great. What frequency is that poor HDD having to go at to make actual vocals? Geez

[@cammiescorner]

knew this had to come eventually

[@GamingRushToTheMax]

GLaDOS' voice box is confirmed to be the floppestra

[@friedrichmacklin4735]

Floppy drives: "Kiss my singing metal *ss"

[@riccardo1796]

shit, son! the darn thing actually talks!

[@spartan456]

it's learning

[@TheGaminBible]

They will begin to evolve

[@graytlo]

FUCKING. BRILLIANT!!!

[@badpiggies988]

Kid: Mom can we have GLaDOS? Mom: No we already have GLaDOS at home GLaDOS at home:

[@Silver-Rexy]

You still have to do Turret wife serenade man :P

[@poophead7990]

I was a floppy disk, now I'm a hard drive.

[@BlaReagy]

You actually did Portal! I'm so happy I found this channel

[@samwilliamson2217]

This is perfectly Portal-esque! Well done!

[@Bogdan_Olszewski]

so this is 21st century art. Astonishing.

[@jackemled]

HOLY SHIT! THE DRIVES ARE DOING THE VOCALS!!!

[@cole2999]

You _earned_ that sub. Nice work! Edit: watched it again. This is really cool. One of the first examples of singing I've seen on KZbin.

[@Crusader1089]

You've got some really nice floppy disk remixes here. I've been posting them over to reddit's /r/FlopHop, as we love floppy disk music there. Hopefully some people from the comments, or you yourself, would like to join us.

[@Sonikku94]

I love you, spartan456.

[@JahnDough]

DUDE. AWESOME. THE FIRST WEEK A START WATCHING TOU UPLOAD THIS. I LOVE PORTAL!

[@supern0v477]

"What instrument do you play, sir?" "Uhh... The hard drive?"

[@nowaxtheory]

That scanner is such a diva!

[@delewdsional8020]

3 years on, I still listen to this. Because there will never a better cover for “Want you gone”.

[@milan3857]

How did you do the voice? It sounds so feminine and so real, like, you can understand it, that's just amazing!

[@xan1242]

You can use hard drives as speakers if you're brave enough ;)

[@spartan456]

C R O N E X X hard drives contain all of the elements to be a speaker. it's just a matter of properly amplifying the input signal. for the most part they can't handle anything too complex but simple isolated tracks and pure tones are okay. I isolated the vocals from the actual song and spent a lot of time cleaning up useless frequencies to get them to play nice with each other. there is some trickery here but nothing that's detracting from the overall experience. the vocals from the hard drives sound just like that when I play them through, but the vocals are being sent directly from my computer rather than the Arduinos interfacing with all the motors. I can play them all together in real time but to get the timing of the vocals right I had to cut them and mix them in separately, but it's using the recorded audio from the hard drive output

[@xan1242]

***** this would have to go down in history

[@spireiris3518]

Out of all the floppy drive music videos I've seen this has to be the best. Amazing work

[@am_goose]

4 years later, and I'm still amazed by this

[@Slix]

Holy shit the amount of effort was totally worth it. Well done!

[@jazzeeraeignacio471]

Please do the "Still Alive." 10 out of 10 for the score.

[@billay360]

this is so fucking cool, probably your best work

[@gingerjake2936]

Ah, the floppy drives putting the notes in order so they sound like speech. marvelous!

[@spartan456]

Nah, the vocals in this are done by using a hard drive as a crude speaker (the hard drive is the thing with the silver arm that moves back and forth).

[@Restosiii]

Aperture Science got some major budget cuts.

[@jeffer746]

Still Brings a tear to my eyes

[@bendodwell9413]

Starring HardDrive. Support Instrumental by Scanner. They deserve a mention too! Poor thing always gets left out.

[@bonesthecreepypastahunter9674]

I never thought I would actually hear a machine actually sing.

[@gmrgamingrm]

Poor Glados...She was at first a person, then an immortal robot, then a potato, NOW A HARD DRIVE! xD

[@spacesquid8263]

This absolutely blows my mind, thanks for this!

[@benhaggerty8707]

This has always been one of my favourite songs that originate from a game, and how well replicated it is here just astounds me

[@PyroMan588]

Amazing, you even managed to get the voice in.

[@yonahouse]

I wish the instrumental was a bit quieter so we could hear the majesticness that is the glados voice better.

[@TheGaminBible]

Please have my babies, i need this memester machine as my child

[@matty1266]

I have to say that this is one of the most impressive things I've seen on KZbin. You've earned a sub, and thank you for doing this! Please keep up the amazing work, it's things like this that make this website worth coming back to.

[@JukeboX115]

Wow now you've figured out how to make vocals in these?! Every time you upload I think "This is the best one yet!" and then you have to go and prove me wrong. Keep doing what you're doing, and don't listen to the haters on the last song. It's amazing.

[@carimeslockdownedtree2654]

This has this...flipnote feel, it's just...perfect

[@ians.2349]

Out of the channels I've seen using things of this nature to make music, the singing hard drives are probably the most impressive. The other use of hard drives that I have seen were purely used for percussion.

[@spartan456]

iDouglas h Thanks, I figured it'd be a good idea to try and do something different with it.

[@ians.2349]

Could you share the way you make the floppy drives and hard drives do this? Like what pins control the motors and what program you use to interface with them.

[@spartan456]

iDouglas h Look up Moppy

[@spartan456]

iDouglas h The hard drives are a little bit different though. Hard drives contain all the basic fundamentals to work like speakers, you just need a way to wire into the voice coil motor that drives the read/write head and an amplifier with an audio input going to it. In some of my other videos the hard drives are playing generic square waves, these waves are produced by the Arduinos that run everything, but are passed through an amplifier and then to the voice coils of the hard drives. In videos where I'm using them to play back actual vocal tracks, I hook up an audio source (e.g. a cable from the headphone output of my computer) to the amplifiers, and then play back whatever audio I want through it. In the case of this video and others including vocals, I either found existing isolated vocal tracks or isolated the vocals myself with some audio post processing. Then synced the audio up with the MIDI that I intend to use with the rest of the orchestra, and play it back through the hard drives and record it. Then mix it in with everything else.

[@ians.2349]

Another question, not related to making music. I have an early 2000's floppy drive from a dead Dell computer. I want to put it inside my PC, which is modern and has only SATA ports on the motherboard, no IDE. I've looked for adapters for SATA to IDE but only found ones made for using new SATA drives for old IDE PCs. Do you know of any adapters that would work for this setup? And for some reason the modern power supply I have has a power connect for floppy drives. Also I can experiment with the failed hard drives that the Dell computer ate.

[@deadlybombproductions426]

its learning... ITS SENTIENT

[@ken-bq5uv]

This is beyond impressive. I love it.

[@DuckHunterVideos]

This is so friggin rad. This should be the version that sounds ingame

[@Raithe11]

Yeah, this floppy stuff you do needs to be noticed. Get that patreon going! Expand the floppy fleet!

[@pookaping2407]

THIS IS SO FREAKING COOL!!! Keep up the great work!!

[@GriffinWiebel]

Absolutely well done.

[@allenholloway5109]

You are the best thing to happen to KZbin.

[@dreadednearwith5665]

PURE TALENT

[@cyrodiilbunz938]

You're awesome dude i love all these

[@PixLgams]

I'm genuinely questioning whether it's the drives or the synths that fit the song better. Great work!

[@sirpent2176]

I love music made on floppy drives! I've never heard someone do vocals on them, that's really neat.

[@zawzero]

That's because you cannot do vocals on floppies.

[@KeystoneScience]

this is beautiful.

[@spartan456]

Keystone Science o shit, whaddup

[@papercliphoarder66]

Can you do hard technology rock from half life? I think it would sound perfect with floppies. Also I actually love this because portal was one of my first pc games ;)

[@papercliphoarder66]

Oh wait it's portal 2. Still pretty nostalgic tho. Feels like forever since 2012

[@Divitruvious]

Brennen Carey it was my first game too

[@arturoquintanilla5607]

just amazing

[@SpencerPaire]

this is so amazing! it's like the song was written for floppies! great song!

[@pandintea]

Amazing video. It was probably really hart to make vocals midi. :)

[@leomendoza6821]

Wow this thing you're doing is great!

[@paulbutcher7006]

Keep up the good work- just subbed

[@EyeCrumb]

M8 u deserve like 1 million subs this is good stuff right here!!! I'm subbing to u and I hope u have a good Christmas bud :)

[@darkbeetlebot]

Holy shit, this is so unbelievably fitting.

[@Levi-ky4sy]

A bit distorted but I understand, they are floppy drives haha. I liked this alot!

[@Alphashow7]

QuakeTheSongPoser 3.5 octaves if im not mistaken, it still need a shit ton of determination to do this.

[@spartan456]

2.5 to 3.5. Depends on the song. In some songs notes in the upper ranges sound fine. In others they sound awful. It depends on the length of the notes.

[@TullyCuffs]

This is fantastic

[@FNecro]

HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET THEM TO DO THE VOCALS!? omg I am blown away!

[@spartan456]

no, the vocals are coming from the hard drives (the things with the silver arms). the floppies can NOT do vocals. the hard drives however, can. they are just speakers.

[@delewdsional8020]

When GLaDOS tries melodious rock.

[@Indyreptiles]

Amazing! This is great!

[@humanoandante9642]

Amazing! Great work! Cheers from Argentina!

[@notagod-5174]

That moment when you live in the 80s and this starts hapening

[@Zenos-fz4uj]

man this is really cool, dang it now i'm gonna wanna learn!

[@ivorycry473]

This is straight fire

[@BecomingAMan]

In tears

[@Not_XenoVoid]

I feel like undertale songs would be pretty amazing

[@cameront7710]

Love it!!!

[@stargazersdance]

This is so good. I didn't know hard drives could produce sound like that, that's crazy.

[@gameboysdatabase6863]

I really love this stuff. Do you mind if I use some of these songs in a Portal 2 custom map, they sound really cool.

[@NoNameBAM]

This made me sub to your channel.