A Walkman Mellotron
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2019
- In which I review the ZachteMan, a tiny monophonic tape loop player by Gijs Gieskes (probably butchered your name my friend). When I saw this monophonic walkman Mellotron on his instagram I had to buy it, as I love his instruments. Sadly, only 20 of this machine were made, but I mention an alternative at the end (suspense!). Here are some links:
gieskes.nl/?archive=Zachteman - Gieskes Website
www.ondemagnetique.com - Scott Campbell's instruments
mysterycircuits.com/melloman/... - OG cassette Mellotron
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great video thanks! i still regret not buying all i could get when they were 5 euro new in the shop.
What was five eur, the bloody zachteman??? Was five eur??
@@khalnetherfields7263 These Walkmans were 5 euro when they were getting rid of them in the shop, around 10 years ago i think when i was working on this: gieskes.nl/instruments/motor-keys/tape.php
@@gijs Beste groeten uit Königswinter! Ik zou graag een ZAchteman kopen. I found these here www.aliexpress.com/item/4000010260078.html , maybe these would do. Best regards, Michael
@@mightymike1978 i'm looking into alternative walkmans at the moment. Send me a email and i will let you know when i have new ones.
@@gijs thanks for putting out the video builds again never was able to have a 3trinsRGB+1c tell now.
Would anyone be interested in a tutorial on how to DIY something like this? A MIDI-controlled one, using an Arduino.
Very interested!
Yes, please! I've been looking for some how to's on this for like a week now.
yes;)
Yes!
0wlsAreCool Y E S
Thanks for the OM-1 shout out (and link)! Also massive props to Mike Walters and the Melloman which was one of my big inspirations for the OM-1.
We need you to make more OM-1s plz!
@@romineification There will be more! Just takes me a bit to replenish my walkman supply
@@scttcmpbll yes that can be a little tricky...
Thought that looked familiar lol
Thanks for showing us this ZachteMan device. My hope is that this will inspire a new generation of tape-based Mellotron-like instruments built in small commercial shops and as at-home DIY projects. This video proves conclusively that they don't need to be as big and clunky as those formidable beasts that Mellotron was building back in the 1960s in order to be useful tools for making interesting music. Wonderful video!
Assuming the walkman is stereo, that means you should be able to have two different sounds on one tape, one per channel. Maybe you could combine and mix them similar to the upper/lower sections of an organ. Very cool way to hack a walkman.
It's only 0:40 and I'm hearing Blade Runner again, also some LORN later on :P
It always amazing to see what sort of cool things people can make.
To be able to not only make music, but to also know enough about electronics to design and construct instruments like this is really impressive!
How utterly AWESOME!! I love it Hainbach!!
I have to hand it to you Sir, the sounds you create never, ever disappoint :)
I did something similar in the 90s, but with 12 walkmanz. It was awesome and unwieldy and only worked under the full moon.
Dope! Looking forward to hearing your compositions!
Looks like a great tool! Love the compact design of it, very neat
i want to make something like this, seems really fun to play with
Great little thing! And your tunes with it rank as my fave you've done. A+
I was hoping to see a video on this when I saw that Instagram post as well, thanks!!
Immediate thought of the OM-1 when this came up in my feed. Love mine!
Dude I want one. That's awesome!!! Thanks for sharing this.
It's really cool using hardware for this kind of effect. For those working in the box or not wanting to tinker or wait for others to make more of these, one can make similar effects using sample software (I use Iris 2). What you need is a sample that functions as the tape. I would suggest recording a waveform and add some kind of tape noise, hum and warble effect to it. Add a bit of glide, switch off retriggering, and that works fine. It doesn't sound as cool, it certainly doesn't look as cool, but it can get pretty close with minor effort.
That said, I might still get an Onde Magnétique some day. It's just not within my budget at the moment.
What a great back pocket piece for sound design.
Jesus, some serious boards of Canada vibes on this
I saw a video of a demonstration with a tape player sort of the same size but probably older and more like a desktop model. Showed CV controlling the pitch by raising / lowering the speed. So if the motor speed can be doubled, it should be in good tune for 1volt/Octave scaling. Now, I want to modify my Panasonic RR-830 dictation cassette recorder or, dictaphone. It has a pedal control to start and stop and a reverse. The tape player seems very fully featured, with pitch / speed control. It’s for a secretary to type letters that were dictated to the cassette recorder, without having to remove your eyes from the typed work. THANKS for sharing. It’s got me inspired! I’ve been admiring Gieskes’ great ideas and inventions for a few years, very innovative and creative gadgets.
Awesome, very beautiful, glitchy sounds!
Thank you for another wonderful presentation, I love your seemingly endless examples of “non typical” machines for music. Many years ago, I was watching something on my VCR and the machine was dying
So the speed was warbling and it created the most amazing mellotron type sounds. I wished I could have turned that into a VCR tone machine. There are many old VCR’s out there, it could make for a wonderful instrument....
Yeah, me too. According to the pros such as Scott it's damn near impossible though. Check out the mechanism alone for how the tape is pulled out of the cassette.
@@Hainbach Thanks I will. check out how tape is pulled from cassette. It seems that If the VCR was usable for such possibilities it surely would have been done by now....
Cooooooooooool !!
4:08 ... this part is brilliant! Sounds just like that dictaphone of holger czukay,
and the things he did with Sylvian.
You gotta love magnetic tape. Great sounds!
Thanks. You make great videos for this stuff.
Wow! This is outstanding!
this is amazing! dutch engineering at it's finest!
Peter Christopherson aka Sleazy from Throbbing Gristle built a machine comprising of three Sony Walkmans where the tape heads were hotwired to a one octave keyboard. This allowed him to play 4 tracks of audio from the cassettes ( 2 stereo tracks per side) triggered by the keyboard. He also had flywheels to control the speed/pitch of the tapes, they were also CV and gated to a Roland 104 sequencer so he could sequence them if he desired. All of this went through their custom made Gristleizer effects unit.
Making one of these might be fun too. Very simple but *highly effective* and (should be) cheap too.
if only decoding circuit diagrams were that easy. i don't even know how to mod a cassette player to add tape speed control
@@lauriejmusic just poke around connecting random wires and traces together on the Walkman. When you find 2 that slow down the tape to a stop, connect them to a potentiometer and that should control the speed.
@@monkeyfishfilms wow ok, that'll probably work i just don't want to destroy too many walkmans in the process !
Crazy device! I love it.
just beautiful.
What a beautiful instrument!
I have a design for utilizing all our old tapes as samples and playable like the mellotron that I came up with several years ago, but I hadn't thought about adding the additional controllability to the physical tape deck itself, as far as motors and tension, et al. GOOD STUFF BRUH! #bruh
Hm. A motor used as something akin to a VCO. Reminds me a little bit of the Gamechanger Audio Motor Synth, only in this case a single motor drives the tape machine's transport system instead of turning tone wheels or whatever. That quirky little effect you get at each transition from one note to another is part of this device's charm.
I played early 2000's with Gieskes in the Netherland; That guy is really great... And cool. I saw him a few times later even bought out a synth from him that i sadly lost. Happy to see he's still nailing it.
Yeah, we played in Canada together and have met a few times. Love his ideas.
I see we're on the same page friendo. Very creative and a solid builder (weather it is video synth, audio, hardware or software....). I'm not surprised you two got along together. Would have loved to see this gig in Canada...
I completely forgot about the Onde Magnétique until this video! Something like that would actually be perfect with what I'm trying to do with my project as I enjoy using tapes live.
This was incredible
This is sick !!!
This is your daily dose of Recommendation
Cool and good
Very Interesting!
TOBACCO needs to get one of these. What a neat idea!
He has his own secret tape machines
Amazing I luv it.
Mach mal ZachteMan! 😉
Super Video 👍. Danke dir, du bist Klasse ☺️.
Again: AMAZING!
Soooo cool I want one of these
He is looking into making more!
Liveset in Riga, Latvia please! You are super!
Need this wit spaceecho an motorsynth Mk2 , great idea
I just spent the last week making a worse version of one of these, thanks for the project idea hainbatch
Hypnotic!!
The part when he sequenced it I felt the mellotron vibes.
@hainbach dude could you use it with a tape deck to aux in adapter. Like everyone used to use in cars that didn't have CD players????
3 days and all sold out. There is only one word in my vocabulary right now and it is.....bugger. Great vid mind.
That is beautiful and simple. Want.
Great video !
would be awesome to see you review the Gieskes Zachtkind as well. The Zachteman’s little brother.
The simple equipment some people come up with just blows my mind sometimes.
Question: Could this not be wired into a better tape player?
Great video as always!
I guess? Maybe ask Gijs
Kind of reminds me of some of the sounds Board of Canada use on the Music is the Rights to Children album.
It does!
Oh god, I want one so bad!
Hainbach you are are a genious
cool stuff.
Zoia quietly popping up in a lot of videos lately. I also think Alessandro Cortini would appreciate the Zachteman. Some very cool sounds.
Holy crap I want this thing
So damn cool!!!
Is there any chance we could send him walkmans for him to use for his creation ?
I wonder if the constant changes to the motor speed won't take a toll on the device after a while.
My oldest modded Walkman still works, except for the stereo head suffering from channel bleed through
Such wonderful toys. 😍😍😍 Where does Hainbach find them? 😂😂
Keep watching video's about DIY instruments design, get involved in the communities, maybe even get to know some of the technology yourself to really find out where to look for them!
I'm guessing that sometimes the toys are finding Hainbach.
👍
I wonder how a person could hook a keyboard up to a tape deck, to become a Zacteman? To get this kind've sound? Pitch and speed work together?
It'd probably cost a lot to make but how cool would this be if it were based on a 4 track recorder with 4 channel playback? Being able to play 4 different sounds at once, and mix the levels and process each channel independently could be really cool. It would still basically be monophonic, but still it would be very cool.
Nice! Now I can turn the sound of me blowing up the toilet bowl into beautiful music 👍
What Power adapter are you using? I've bought two 3v DC adapters and they dont power the device.
Is your polarity set right?
check out Mystery Circuit's Melloman. Its sorta the same thing but uses more walkmans for more polyphony.
Already linked in the description (I know, noone reads it). 😄
What happens if you use a regular cassette with music on it? Just pitched sampling? Does it sound good at all?
Its will pitch around, which can sound good or bad.
What duration must have the loop tape?
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!
I don't think this was mentioned in the video or in the description/comments: pre-assembled versions are sold out, but if you provide your own compatible walkman, and you are handy with a soldering iron, you can buy the DIY Zachteman kit and assemble it yourself. See: gieskes.nl/instruments/files/zachteman/assembling-instructions/
Kann man auch einfach nur das Control Board kaufen, um einen Walkman eigener Wahl zu installieren?
Frag Gijs, link in der description.
I had the same Walkman.
The video quality looks better!
Daylight is just the best light.
i was so ready to buy it until you said they were limited and now are sold out lol i'll try to find a nice alternative
Gijs is looking into making more, shoot him an email.
It seems like we'd have decent analog samplers already.
5:05 massages my eardrums nicely
Sounds like NIN"s The Fragile in a box.
Were you running thru the Zoia the whole time?
In bypass, and you you can see when I switch it on. Except for when I process the whole Massive X track, there ZOIA adds space.
The OM-1 is also sold out :(
Yeah, but he keeps them in production, so there is hope!
My uncle worked at BASF right out of high school, he had an accident where chemicals got into his eyes, had to have them plucked out of his sockets and washed from behind. sees fine
Are these still available?
not since years
@@Hainbach that's too bad. It sounds amazing. Thanks for responding. Love tr channel.
How.
Motor needs voltage to run. More voltage faster less voltage slower. Access motor voltage with potis so you can vary speed which equals pitch.
and this one that I had made 15 years ago! ua-cam.com/video/zPEdLVX3PPM/v-deo.html
The guy who made this device also has a great youtube channel!
ua-cam.com/users/ggijs
Hope you having a good summer... not going to try and pronounce that.........
in kontrast it gets interesting for me
In Kontrast we thrive.
@@Hainbach
2:17 sounds like my dog
It's crazy what people could do with a soldering pen, a few chips, some led lights, and whole lotta time
The last part being the most under talked about xD.
Instant Boards of Canada.
Please make this into an iOS app
Nice, very nice soundscapes, totally unearthy. Symphonies made out of tape.
Yes! That is my hidden goal with everything, create the texture of symphony orchestra and beyond.
So now all my dodgy 80s tape recordings have some musical hipster use?
Start sounded like daydreaming by radiohead for a second
ondes magnitues just as rare :(
im pretty good in cooledit, i think i can do most of the shit you do with your tape loops and wonky fx in a couple of instances of cooledit. this is not a criticism of your work, its more an idea of how i could potentially turn my cooledit instances into instruments
I love CoolEdit96, was my first ans still feel the best wave editor. Go ahead and remake a video of mine, destruction loops would be a perfect one to try and recreate in that program.
It makes the sound of those half life aliens
Oh which ones? Huge HL fan
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