titanbeats101 I was actually making a smart remark, not something factual. Also yes, they did use an electric piano, I've listened to the soundtrack back to front.
LOL if it's 30 years old then it's NOT a modern printer. Literally can't find a modern ANYTHING that works after 30 years because we'll have to wait until 2053 to find out.
wow. how the HELL did you program it to do that. impressive. kudos. ... it would have been an awesome prank, back in the day, to send this to the office printer.
Dot matrix printers were still going strong in travel agencies & pharmacies 20 years ago when I was a tech. Cheap to run, very reliable, can do 4-layer carbon copy for airline tickets, and use fanfold paper.
a need software for c64, 800xl or amiga...this ist so great, music with matrix printers...i like this shit!... nice day to all, the GreyCapHippie from Chemnitz
This song brings back so many memories... It's the student-picked anthem of the only school I spent all the time I was supposed to in(I moved around ALOT as a kid. Middle school was the only time I was there for all 3 years of it)
Well, it was going to show the wave form (if you read the inputs in certain way), but then I realized an analyzer is the basic one. Some modern ones have an analyzer built in I suppose.
Dami Nooki I noticed that since we last talked, you have since changed your profile picture from Thanshuhai's Brins0 to the Apple logo from the 1980s. It's hard to believe how the last four months have flown by! =3
Moss its probably midi controlled, basically the same as people who make the music tesla coils... thatd just be my guess... but i know the people who do this with floppies there is a program to sync em all and set the notes an all that fun stuff
@@B-System Aha, that's an actually useful explanation. The thing that was confusing me is that he somehow managed to get several voices at the same time. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be able to do mixing. But if individual pins can be controlled, you wouldn't have to!
I'm sure some businesses still use dot matrix printers for certain things. I used to work with them long after most home users regarded them as long-obsolete. Same with faxes, which I suspect are still in use even now.
In modern times, the printing's so fast We got the PPM and resolution Don't lose your grip on the tech of the past. You must hack just to keep it alive.
I know this video is a tad old... but is it possible to get the resulting print-outs of these songs? I know they're mostly just lines and dots, but it's super cool to see what the sound "looks" like xD
Old? I saw stuff like this first hand in the 80s. FWIW, the Commadore 64 had an amazing sound system, light years ahead of what PCs had... but all you needed was a printer or really anything with a stepper motor.
Still got one of these in the shed. A Star 2150 or something like that. Ribbons are still good from what I know. I remember you only needed like 1 ribbon cartridge for the whole life of the printer. Now you burn through inkjet like its nothing. I remember colored bubble-jet printer would punch holes in the paper when you tried to print heavily colored things though.
In a way, it's like the reverse of how an analog record/tape would be created. The grooves and patterns on the record or tape would be read by a needle (or however it works with a tape haha) and the machine would read those patterns and output it into sound.
This reminds me of college and my mom (went to the same college, so I heard this as a child). I hope that old A.F. college still uses that printer. #ILobeIt
+Girom Christian Calica So far away we wait for the day For the lives all so wasted and gone We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days Through the fire and the flames we carry on
Stay tuned, we are about to release and produce more. See all our videos on our playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PL-d0F4ghuj8FvFWcVr8Sc9i9s6VMZbi_3And.html there is already something new in the pipeline.Suggestions are welcome.Have fun!Midi Desaster
Even though I recognize how (relatively) simple this is, I like it a lot more than those other guys who use floppy & hard drives. So do you basically treat each row of the print head like a 1-bit DAC ?
If you used a color printer would it make a music video too? LOL This is something that I wanted to do for about 20 years. Congratulations for a great job.
Would you be interested in a potential music collaboration for an upcoming retro themed VR game? That Dot Matrix sound would be super cool for a bumping track!
I must know... how do you do this? Do you record the printing of different characters and then cut that up to determine what needs to be sent to the printer to produce a given song? Is there specialized software for this?
"Hey, wanna listen to this new kick-ass song I bought for my printer?"
Yes
lol could you imagine doing this in an office back in the day? the reactions...
Izlude Tingel a
*MOM GET THE CAMERA!!!!!*
@@Komeiji0401 MOTHER! FETCH THE VIDEOGRAPHY RECORDATION DEVICE , POST HASTE!
Imagine someone getting a fax of this
Indeed. A whole new way to send music to others. Heck, this could beat MP3, because you get a cool printout!
It would be like a gift. You just see "eye of the tiger" and wonder what it is, and suddenly you hear the song.
Should be possible actually, would be hilarious!
It'd be better than a picture of some guy's 3rd and 4th cheeks.
I'd probably slit my own throat out of pure terror lmfao
You and the guy with 8 floppy drives need to do a collab.
+HatchetHaro I second this. It must happen!
+Johnny Zwei thirded
+HatchetHaro fourthed
+HatchetHaro I agree!!
+HatchetHaro One-hundred and sixety-sixed
One of the most nerdy things I've ever seen. It is GLORIOUS.
"I only listen to real music"
So, this is how Portal 2's soundtrack was made?
Interesting indeed...
+Troy Orr no portal 2 theme was on a electric piano
titanbeats101 I was actually making a smart remark, not something factual.
Also yes, they did use an electric piano, I've listened to the soundtrack back to front.
It sounds about the same quality, yes.
+Troy Orr I've often wondered why the Turrets have such an interest in singing when they're primarily built to guard and kill
they also used singin tesla coils and floppy drives
DPI of the Tiger?
To the top !
0.03 PPM.
This printer has more talent than me...
It's the eye of the paper,
It's the start of a line,
Going forth just to print out my me-ss-age
I have to learn printer types for a test that's tomorrow, and this is where I end up
Elyssae there's an actual test for printer types? What college do you go to?
Now you know there are musical printers
Julius Silver probably computer science class
@@trainzguy2472 lol the things people think we do in computer science. It’s not “getting really good at Excel” either.
What is also cool is that you get a literally printed image from the music. A new way of "seeing" music.
Still got my now 34 year old Epson LX-400..and it still works. You can't find a modern printer that works after 30 years.
LOL if it's 30 years old then it's NOT a modern printer. Literally can't find a modern ANYTHING that works after 30 years because we'll have to wait until 2053 to find out.
@@patrickelliottbrennanphoto how many modern printers being used daily still works after 5-6 years.... Not many
Lol. I bet this happened in printer manufacturers' christmas parties in the 80s.
We have some HP laserjets that are still working to this day that are at least over a decade old, some possibly even 2 decades old.
I'd like to buy that paper with rocky's dot matrix of the tiger.
+5oClock OcO
Hi,
I have to check if we still have the paper, but I would be glad to send it to you or upload a picture.
Have fun!
Midi Desaster
Lol
I want it too. It's pretty epic. I wish my lousy brother printer could do that
+Midi Desaster I'll pay more than he will
+Josh Davis I start at a free mediafire account to upload it!
Oh, so that's why Guitar Hero wants to use our printer...
Genuine EPSON ribbon cartridge recommended.
I was kind of hoping the end of the print job would be a picture of Rocky. But still good.
wow. how the HELL did you program it to do that. impressive. kudos.
... it would have been an awesome prank, back in the day, to send this to the office printer.
Yes it would.
Now THAT is creative recycling.
Hahaha, at first I thought the "Hot Heiss" lable said "Hot Mess."
This just further proves dot matrix printers WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEST PRINTERS EVER MADE!
Dot matrix printers were still going strong in travel agencies & pharmacies 20 years ago when I was a tech. Cheap to run, very reliable, can do 4-layer carbon copy for airline tickets, and use fanfold paper.
the fact you were able to get multiple voices out of something that usually goes at only one pitch is amazing
Programmers, please rise for your national anthem!
Oh boy.. this Dot matrix printer brings back so much memory, and I am only 32
Are you pumped? ARE YOU PUMPED!?!
Lets go print some pages.
PC Load Letter.
I always wanted to know what this song looked like on paper. : )
What a time to be alive
Im in awe of your technical skills and also that this is even possible, that the printer seems to have the sound capability to do this
You can now play music, onto a piece of paper, with a office tool. What a world!
you could had done it years ago after all it's whit a dot printer which is old
Oh no...
I'm in that part of UA-cam again
coryman125 You mean the cool part?
If you only knew the power of the tech side....
You mean "oh sweet"
It's like you also made sheet music in the process. It'd be neat to make something that is capable of reading this sheet and playing it back as audio.
I kinda want to hear "Metal Crusher" on this now.
I wonder what that would sound like
That is insanely creative.
How did you program this? It's incredible.
Just a man and his will to debug.
It would be even more impressive if at the end you'd get a legible image instead of an ink mess.
a need software for c64, 800xl or amiga...this ist so great, music with matrix printers...i like this shit!... nice day to all, the GreyCapHippie from Chemnitz
@@kazkylheku1221 best comment xD
@@UltimatePerfection it's the waveform of the music
This song brings back so many memories... It's the student-picked anthem of the only school I spent all the time I was supposed to in(I moved around ALOT as a kid. Middle school was the only time I was there for all 3 years of it)
"what did you do at work today?"
You have achieved everythingin life when you created this
This will show our children how we stayed entertained during this pandemic :)
This is basically like sheet music, only you need a microscope to read it.
+Guido Belluomo (Kurochi) And an oscilloscope/spectrum analyzer.
Do you really need the oscilloscope? What for?
Well, it was going to show the wave form (if you read the inputs in certain way), but then I realized an analyzer is the basic one. Some modern ones have an analyzer built in I suppose.
That is shockingly good audio resolution for a print head.
I guess it is 21 pin not 9 pin, and a relatively high speed printer. I'm impressed too.
Aw man this sounds like a Sega Genesis game lol
dinojack9000
That twang!!!
dinojack9000 That's what I thought too. It's a genesis sound chip, just ran through a filter.
that's pretty awesome
More like GameBoy
You guys deserve a nobel prize for sound tech.!!! :o
Is it possible to send this fax to someone with a working dot matrix printer?
The awesomeness of your profile picture coupled with this song nearly knocked me over! I assume you got your profile picture from Thanshuhai.
Dami Nooki I would recognize that art style anywhere on the internet. What is the picture called?
oh my god imagine his/her face when it starts printing XD
Dami Nooki I noticed that since we last talked, you have since changed your profile picture from Thanshuhai's Brins0 to the Apple logo from the 1980s. It's hard to believe how the last four months have flown by! =3
@@scratchpad7954 4 years later now
o_Ô How the hell is that even possible?? Anyway it's brilliant.
Moss its probably midi controlled, basically the same as people who make the music tesla coils... thatd just be my guess... but i know the people who do this with floppies there is a program to sync em all and set the notes an all that fun stuff
you know how engines change tone as they go faster same concept kinda but it uses pulses of electricity that match the frequency of musical notes
A dot matrix print head has a grid of pins which print out the dots, and some clever driver work will let you use every pin as an individual voice.
@@B-System Aha, that's an actually useful explanation.
The thing that was confusing me is that he somehow managed to get several voices at the same time. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be able to do mixing. But if individual pins can be controlled, you wouldn't have to!
Wow all the times I had one of these back in the day musical instrument never crossed my mind!!!
You had me thinking that it was going to draw out Rocky. But singing the theme song was awesome by itself.
My god, it even has a watermark... I mean... It even fades out. Brilliant.
I keep coming back to this one, honestly still more technically impressive than the floppy drive and or scanner methods.
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.
Do the pins get hot at all? Just...all that vibrating
+Chad robinson that's what she said
+Shiggity Shwa ahahahaha
Very interesting. Finally! Someone has found a use for old dotmatrix printers.
I'm sure some businesses still use dot matrix printers for certain things. I used to work with them long after most home users regarded them as long-obsolete. Same with faxes, which I suspect are still in use even now.
Its not about how hard you can print! It's about how you can be printed
In modern times, the printing's so fast
We got the PPM and resolution
Don't lose your grip on the tech of the past.
You must hack just to keep it alive.
I am amazed and feel my day is no longer wasted
I know this video is a tad old... but is it possible to get the resulting print-outs of these songs?
I know they're mostly just lines and dots, but it's super cool to see what the sound "looks" like xD
+Archimedes Warplight
Hi there!
We did not keep this printout, but we took a picture of the Mozart song.
imgur.com/a/8gABH
Have fun!
Midi Desaster
+Midi Desaster sell those as art.
old? the video was published in 2014. :| if you want old, go for 2008 and the days of MovieMaker.
Old? I saw stuff like this first hand in the 80s.
FWIW, the Commadore 64 had an amazing sound system, light years ahead of what PCs had... but all you needed was a printer or really anything with a stepper motor.
Good job. You got Content ID to engage.
The original creators don't have shit on this
The prints that it makes, look a lot like digital sound waves. Really cool...
Now that's what I call clever music, wish I still had my old dot matrix now.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! THIS TOTALLY MADE MY DAY! :)
I was enjoying this version of song and was laughing my kidneys off at the same time! Truly priceless!
Still got one of these in the shed. A Star 2150 or something like that. Ribbons are still good from what I know. I remember you only needed like 1 ribbon cartridge for the whole life of the printer. Now you burn through inkjet like its nothing.
I remember colored bubble-jet printer would punch holes in the paper when you tried to print heavily colored things though.
In a way, it's like the reverse of how an analog record/tape would be created. The grooves and patterns on the record or tape would be read by a needle (or however it works with a tape haha) and the machine would read those patterns and output it into sound.
...including VOLUME as well as pitch. Fantastic.
This reminds me of college and my mom (went to the same college, so I heard this as a child). I hope that old A.F. college still uses that printer. #ILobeIt
That was definitely the coolest thing I've seen in a while
I love that the movement of the printer head sounds like a bass line.
Rising up to change the toner of our rivals
Looks at an ink mess on a paper
"I love this song!"
Now play Fire and Flames
OH boy that's gonna be fun
+Girom Christian Calica
So far away we wait for the day
For the lives all so wasted and gone
We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days
Through the fire and the flames we carry on
What a time to be alive! this is epic!
This is amazing! Please release more dot-printer played tracks! :D
Stay tuned, we are about to release and produce more. See all our videos on our playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PL-d0F4ghuj8FvFWcVr8Sc9i9s6VMZbi_3And.html there is already something new in the pipeline.Suggestions are welcome.Have fun!Midi Desaster
Ups, bad link, better take this one:DOT MATRIX DESASTER - Wallace and Gromit Theme [HD]
Printing an essay about boxing and this happens. That'd be freakin narly dude.
this definitely beats my beeper speaker i use occasionally...
We desperately need to protect this guy from Covid. He's too precious.
Fantastic!! The very definition of the true and highest form of hacking! Making a device do something for which it was never designed. Kudos
Even though I recognize how (relatively) simple this is, I like it a lot more than those other guys who use floppy & hard drives.
So do you basically treat each row of the print head like a 1-bit DAC ?
Please do Der Komissar by Falco. That would be damn cool!
Someone has a lot of time on their hands. Wow, impressive.
This makes dot matrix printers cool again.
I would go back in time with this printer and tell people this is how we listen to music nowadays.
Wow, you actually printed the song haha
Amazing .. What a creativity and geekiness !
man my grandma have old pc with a dot printer and im playing with it every time that im there the sound is amazing
I guess this guy wins the prize for "the coolest thing ever" ...
Just when I felt like punching my printer...
If you used a color printer would it make a music video too? LOL This is something that I wanted to do for about 20 years. Congratulations for a great job.
Dude, this is awesome!
And they'll go onstage with those stereotypical conductor coat-tails and it'll be amazing.
And an air of confidence.
And then waltzes off stage to the sound of thunderous applause.
Ha. Floppy disks. Amateurs. They should have booked the hard drives.
Ah, excellent point. And the floppy disks deserved a decent gig anyway.
this should be in an art gallery
Am I the only one who wanted the printed results to be a cool picture? I'm thinking ... a Chevy Impala? ...
Right, now can I convince my employer to do that with our old one? This was awesome!!!
This is the theme tune of being in the zone doing code/web things :)
Better than most of those computer beepers from back in the day. :P
Best video I've seen on UA-cam.
The eye of the printer
Risen up , back on the print !
Would you be interested in a potential music collaboration for an upcoming retro themed VR game? That Dot Matrix sound would be super cool for a bumping track!
THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER
+Pokemaster102 kinda hurts my head a little bit but still awesome
+Pokemaster102 Yeah, it just needs something to fill out the sound after about 1min, in that range.
i honestly think i prefer this version
thes vids r always on my recommended list
This is so beautiful. I need a schematic and code for this, like now.
Briliant job.. I really liked it, how much time did you spend composing the song?
I must know... how do you do this? Do you record the printing of different characters and then cut that up to determine what needs to be sent to the printer to produce a given song? Is there specialized software for this?
Hi Dustin Rodriguez ,
we made our own firmware for this that translates midi commands into pin motion ;)
Have fun!
Midi Desaster
Midi Desaster
how did you do the translation? Did you try different commands for the different notes and then compiled them into the song? Great job!