Padme: Hacking the Circle of Fifths With Shepard Tones
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- Padme is an Amiga-based lo-fi pad synth instrument based on intervals of Shepard tones.
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I mentioned that it's possible to get hi-fi sound from an Amiga. That video is here: • Lunatico End Part perf...
The shepard illusion demonstration blew my mind
the chord "brightness" setting at the end blew my mind
this all works so elegantly, it's so cool!!! I wonder if there are any market synthesizers out there that work similar to this, it's pretty darn unique!
Yes! That not only sounded amazing but was done in an incredibly elegant way. I have to watch that bit again...
An Amiga accordion! Neat.
WOW!!! 😲 amazing trickery!! BTW: i always knew that the Amiga mouse was made to be a foot paddle.
*picks up mouse and holds it in front of mouth* "COMPUTER!"
Att some point lft will have such a large collection of amazing instruments that he can just go somewhere with 4 copies of himself and just go play Space Debris
Your videos are pure gold.
Everyone: Hacking is better than music because you can't use tricks like reusing registers and memory between different instructions in music.
Lftkryo: Hold my keyboard.
We need a video on how you built the samples too! We need it! Or… well… *I* would be amused by it :-) You’re awesome! ❤
It would be super cool to have a 'legato' mode modifier key that when pressed would keep playing and transposing the same sample.
This would result in changing the brightness while also changing the pitch with the correct amount.
Resulting in the ability to play connected melodic phrases in the original amiga/tracker style.
Great work! Is Padme available for download?
That's a clever way of managing both inputs and memory. There's a fairly obvious gap in chord coverage, with no Dominant 7th, but apart from that it gets almost everything.
That's a valid point! Depending on what other instruments are playing, it might be possible to get away with VII dim, or a V7 without the third. Another chord that's missing (and harder to fake) is the augmented triad. But a trade-off had to be made.
perhaps you could press 3 keys for that, for example C7 would use the C-G, E-G, and G-Bb keys
Amazing. You are a wizard of dark magic when it comes to the old machines.
So many little clever and intuitive design choices here! Each step made perfect sense as to why that's the way you'd go about it, but I don't think I'd have thought of it all myself! And that's the mark of good design really isn't it? Something that seems obvious in retrospect.
I particularly enjoyed the use of pitch shifting alongside remapping there at the end, of course! But also wow!
What a fun project this is, and thanks for sharing it with us :)
Having experienced Sonix on Amiga in the 90's, I am really amazed by this! The only thing missing would be a filter to get a sharper/more mellow sound.
The next step could be to introduce a gate/stutter step-sequencer to automate the rhythmic gated effect and just focus on performing the chords and harmonies.
Either by recording your gate pattern live, or through a TR drum machine pattern styled interface where a row of keys each turn on/off 16th or 8th positions within a bar.
Hi Danko! That's a nice idea.
Impressive yet again.
Wow! Looking forward to hearing more music based on this. Concert at Fjälldata 2025? ;) Thumbnail name approved btw. :D
You blew my mind once again.
Mind blowingly concise and well explained video. Thanks for sharing
Amazing as always!
Mind. Blown. (also AMIGAAAAAH!)
🚨 Scener alert!🚨
Amazing work as always! Great to see Amiga getting all the love. And nice shoutout to @MarkusKaarlonenMusic there as well. :)
Nice idea, wonderful sounds!
very cool!
holy shit i did NOT think the circle of fifths could be effed with that much
My reaction when I realised what Stradella Bass is.
Is that keyboard the same age as me?!
That intro was hott.
Amazing stuff as always! Very clever!
Awesome man!
That is a brilliant, elegant and ingenious design. Wonderful.
This is incredibly ingenious! *Thumbs up*
Excellent design!
A pad synth that abstract away the concept of chord inversions and replaces it with more/less brightness!
You never fail to amaze. This one was particularly fun for the added fourths 😊
You are a genius!
Genius music theory implementation!
damn you re a genius
I was blown away by tracker music when I first heard it on the Atari and later PC, but the memory constraints on 16 bit machines did tend to reduce the variations of chord samples, and there was a big influence of rave music so a lot of tunes sounded a bit samey at that time. In contrast on the C64 people were writing fast arpeggiators to simulate more voices, and there seemed to be more chord qualities being used -- the Follin bros certainly seemed to like maj/min 7s and some altered dominants.
Bedankt
Nice
grande!
Excellent video! When you're stacking two fifths CG and GD to get a Csus2 or Gsus4, do you hear G more pronounced since two channels are playing it? (And thus perhaps making it sound more like a Gsus4?) I couldn't really make it out myself, but I wonder what your experience is when building it. The trick of stacking chords to make others can be used on an accordion too, by the way, but in that case each note would only be played by one "channel".
Watched the video, enjoyed every second of it.
We already know you're a Wizard... "A Mind Is Born" and the Chipophone... but can you tickle the MC68000 + Paula into becoming a software defined synth?
Space Debris mentioned, summon @MarkusKaarlonenMusic
Best song ever
Music on tracker need a lot of patience and dedication, 4 track one note a the time was very limitating, but thanks to the sampling chord trick, it was even difficult to do that on a famicom tracker or C64 one, by using arpegio for emulate the chord, on the SNES it was the memory limited to 64kb that was a pain in the ass to deal for sampling continuous strings or pad sound, you must use a very short and lofi sample for that convert in there BRR format, the megadrive feel more friendly with there FM and master system chip plus sampling for the drum and some extra.
Delightfully clever design! I dig it.
On an unrelated note - could you tell me about your piano? It's been a pleasure hearing it over all these years, and I've grown quite curious about it. :)
Laxity will approve your horror chord ;)
I wish my Amigas still worked... I have to play My music on a fancy Yamaha keyboard.
If you still have them, they can probably be brought back to life! But, if not, alas.
Whatever you do
1) don't get rid of them
2) cut out the batteries NOW and apply baking soda and water around where the battery was.
What is the video allowing the amiga to play hi-fi samples lft?
Thanks for asking! I've now added the link to the video description. And the video is here: ua-cam.com/video/xyQlmsD7PAg/v-deo.html
@@lftkryo Thanks lft !!
oh well...
...clears throat...
AMIGAAAAA!!!!!111111111
and sure ... it HAD to be space debris.
Honey, look, someone plays music using an Amiga keyboard. And he uses a mouse as a foot pedal. Honey, put that bloody smartphone away, you have to see this.
😉
I have to make a video recreating what I did thirty years ago, playing vocals on the keyboard of an A500.
Sadly my A500 is dead.
@@KC9UDX I had an Amiga 500, too. I loved it. Then I was in a hospital for two weeks. While I was away my father sold my Amiga for an IBM PC. I hated both of them.
@@robertpenway I know the feeling!
1:11 No. The stairstep effect is a myth.
Dude!
Incredible!