crazy how i can hear Miku say "doushiyo" (or in english "what am i going to do") at min 5 as she contemplates how she can escape a situation where she has no mouth and must scream
I'm stunned, I can't believe someone managed to open a portal to the 10th level of hell with a couple guitar pedals AND I'm shocked to learn that is also where miku lives!
Whenever I'd start doing this, I could never shake the sensation that I was about to unlock the secrets of the universe by accident. It's so trippy fun.
I'm actually working on a musical project for my studies, in electro acoustic style, this is definitely top class material samples you got here, this is an unbelievable way to use pedals that impressed me, the possibilities are again endless
Simon: Technique Suggestion: make a collection of things (pedals and/or mixer and whichever else thing you’d like) to generate the audio (I suggest you add a matrix pedal which changes the feedthrough of L/R channels so you can change the nature of the feedback). Then pass the output through something which controls the gain (to reduce the gain) so you have a “before gain” circuit and “after gain” circuit. Add controlled effects “after gain” and have one output which feeds the controlled “after gain” back into the “before gain” (creating yet another feedback, but without overload) you can choose if you want to amplify the controlled output before adding it back to the “before gain” circuitry. Enjoy!
Don't forget there is a way to add your own custom phrases. It works as text to speech. This would allow you to have variety of tones/phrases but have a bit more control of the output and not be completely random output. It is mentioned in the manual, I believe it is accessed through an iphone app. I'm not sure if there is any other way.
Whatever purpose a person has in mind to get a Miku pedal, there is no justification for the price people are asking for it now. Keep in mind the Piapro Miku software pack for the whole Japanese language is $160, not just a minimal set of random Japanese syllables. Your use here was very cool, but not for googolplex dollars*. *actual eBay price
@@jesseroberts1041 really depends on the voice. Crypton future media vocaloids are only usable commercially if you don't mention their name and don't use their design (so saying "feat hatsune miku" in an album you sell isn't allowed without a dedicated contract with them, you also can't have miku on the album cover art) Also in piapro studio NT, miku has a new license and here no commercial use AT ALL is allowed without contract
I love this, it reminds me of many years ago when I was working in a music store and we got snowed in, were incredibly bored and decided to have a contest to see who could make the best crazy synth out of our stock of guitar pedals plugged into themselves.
Boss Flanger: Adjust the two internal trim pots. I think one on 0 and one on maximum. Then you get a feedback loop synth with a completely controllable note with one knob and a bit of a noise gate type control with another knob. Super musical. I mounted mine on a drum pad screwed onto a cymbal stand so I can stand up looking cool while I use it on stage.
Man that jam at the end, so trippy, industrial but chill. I was definitely not expecting such musicality going in! By the way, I learned this from Hainbach, you can send aux outputs from the mixer into pedals and back into the mixer (a pretty normal send-receive setup) then send the pedal return channel back into the aux, creating a loop. That way you can do yes-input loops, and your mixer becomes a console for feedback experiments. Choruses become flangers and reverbs become screeching horrors.
I'm so glad happy excited these new videos you've been putting out about total experimentation everything else be damned huh? And I'm only halfway through this one and I'm loving it so far. I was really hoping you were going to say the Miku is the coolest pedal ever and then you said it and it really probably is the coolest better pedal ever again I'm super stoked on the new video-ish directionalish path you seem to be going down I've always loved your videos still do Loving me more keep rocking in the free world
I think a lot of people have tried that but if you haven't, the metal zone is fun and good when inserted in the FX loop of the amp (it does not sound like grilled cheese that way).
This reminds me a lot of the improv noise album I made with a coupla friends. One was chittering and screeching into a mic and holding it to the speaker, and the other was twiddling a mixer. I had my electric guitar and a loop pedal plugged into the mixer to create big walls of loops.
Sounds fk great 😂 I was a big Miku fan in my teens and now im a big fan of Buckethead, who also does a lot of glitchy and dissonant stuff. (Also RLY love primus) This scatched an itch i didn't know i had 🤣
@@editingsecrets Send and Return blocks to create the feedback loop. A Volume block tied to a sequencer. A Drive, PanTrim, Plex Delay, and PEQ blocks in series. PEQ has multiple notches sweeping via LFO1. Pitch set to Cyystal Echos with both Pans sweeping opposite directions via LFO. Same for the PEQ notches. A Reverse Delay, Pitch, 2nd Plex set to shimmer, Reverb, MultiDelay, and RingMod ran in parallel. RingMod freq sweeping via LFO. With Block channels and Scenes, I'm sure it could be a performance all in 1 patch. Current patch is sitting at 64% CPU usage.
@@johnnylucid Thanks, that gets me intrigued! I could imagine footswitches to bring things in and out, pedal for LFO rate/depth, delay time, EQ frequencies or resonances etc. I don't currently have an AxeFx at my disposal. Got a demo video?
No input mixing with Boss SY1 is my favorite. That pedal is sort of disappointing as a guitar pedal but using it to do other things like no input mixing works so well. Was using it for a while with a cheap Casio keyboard and a "not synth" synth
I had to special-order my Miku stomp as it was only available in Japan, lol. What a hilarious effect, it's one of my faves. I HAD to subscribe to this.
I've got one of these and running one of those drum beats from a KORG keyboard into miku, with a hall of fame reverb, into a beat up orange amp was a lot more fun than I expected. Its so unpredictable since its tracking is bad, and it cant make chords. but thats what makes it cool.
This is fantastic. I actually have the standalone synth version of Miku, the Gakken NSX-39; it's basically a Stylophone with the same Miku-in-a-chip as the pedal. (Gakken is a Japanese company that's sort of half science magazine, half STEM treat box; they make various electronics kits and suchlike. If youve seen Teenage Engineering's recent vinyl record cutter, it originally a Gakken machine.)
Gakken makes absolutely everything when it comes to educational stuff. Manga, dictionaries, equipment, online lessons, building blocks…you name it, Gakken makes it.
@@tokumei99 that's cool to know! I'd only encountered their Otonanokagaku publications - I've also got their SX-150 synth - so I figured that was their main line. (I suppose a lot of companies are more diverse than the context in which you first meet them.)
So BBLS is like a sequencer type thing. You know what would be cool, get an envelope filter or whatever kind of envelope pedal. Maybe reverb and swell effects. Those are like an envelope. Then a filter which is like a wah wah. Maybe two. A couple of oscillators. You see where I'm going with this. Build a whole synth out of pedals. If only there was some way of making a keyboard control it. I'm sure there is SOME way but I mean, in an uncomplicated way. Anyone else have any ideas?
6:49 the initial scream and the mix you made afterwards both sound like something that'd either be in a horror version of Portal, or maybe in just a more terrifying section of Aperture, especially given some of the creepy music Valve put in Portal 2 (Robot Ghost Story, Ghost of Rattman for two great examples)
@@SimonTheMagpie Total sonic Annihilation 2. It does similar aspect of feeding your pedals into itself, you can adjust the feedback which creates drones etc. Its not totally a "synthesizer" but the concept is quite close! Great latest album btw 🤘🏼
I love the Metal Zone. As our Lord Josh Scott showed us recently a humble tricked out Screamer Clone can sojnd like almost any other drive, due to its bigger eq. The Zone has a full channel strip eq, with its parametric mid. You can dial in lots of clasdic distortion types andcysing it for feedback gives you massive scope. One thing to remember when pedals in feedback loops is those with buffers, Boss for instance will add to the sound even when "turned off", which they never fully are.
Isn't a keyboard just a big collection of different value resistors? Wouldn't you then in theory be able to exchange the variable resistor(s) you use to control the pitch of the feedbacked metalzone with a keyboard? This is a very silly idea but it would be very funny if it worked.
Oh my god. Miku screaming in pain and then speaking in fast tongues was the stuff of nightmares. I love it.
hatsune methhead
5:05
Sounds like a deems trip gone awry
You can really hear the terror in Mikus voice as she’s trapped inside a metal box.
Miku is subjected to the eldritch horror that is the boss metal zone
5:05
Lol. She's definitely in pain.
She... She's virtual, so she's always trapped in a metal box or circuit o.O
No, this was noise genre. Terror is a different genre.
Really haunting sound with the delay and subtle pitch shifts. I like that a lot.
Very James Holden-ish yes !
GLaDOS vibes
crazy how i can hear Miku say "doushiyo" (or in english "what am i going to do") at min 5 as she contemplates how she can escape a situation where she has no mouth and must scream
Creepy 😅
That's the most horrible reference posible
Well, in this case, she kinda can scream?
I'm stunned, I can't believe someone managed to open a portal to the 10th level of hell with a couple guitar pedals AND I'm shocked to learn that is also where miku lives!
Miku is the queen of ultra-hell!
that end jam is one of the coolest most original sounding youtube video jams I've ever heard. Awesome.
Thank you!
Now my dream noise rig is a bunch of no input pedals and a mixer. Thanks for the ideas.
That's called an analog synth!!
-Plugs metal zone into miku
-miku screams
😂😂😂
5:00 is the cutest horror movie soundtrack ever, lol
The part where you’ve added mixer was so naughty, good stuff.
Also, another great ending.
7:11 the cutest horror soundtrack continues ❤
I love how that sounds actually
I immediately thought the same thing! That was terrifying. Sounded like she was screaming.
Dude, I couldn't agree more. Especially when the distorted dissonance came in! Its something I'd do, really love how that unfolded.
I want to hear it played back at like 50% speed after being recorded to tape, that would be pure Dark Ambient.
@@dvevotedlove especially the random "Na-mo-" sounds like she is about to chant some Buddhism spell
i want an hour and a half video of you just doing stuff like this
You need a video looper/mixer, a few different channels you can mess with. Then try "no input video mixing"🤪🙃
i dont know why but the abrupt sceam of the petal [ 6:52 ] just had me laughing like an idiot for a good 10 minutes
Miku ROARS
i cant even XD
She fuckin' barked at him for interrupting her
That chord was brutal. Would love to sample that.
Kinda like a fnaf4 jumpscare
This sounds like a chillbeat/citypop inspired doom metal album in the making.
"Miku in a Meat Grinder" requires existence.
This is the first Miku video that genuinely made me want one.
Me Koo!
This made ME want one--and I do harsh noise!
(seriously, that's gotta be how John Leidecker felt about pitch trackers)
Whenever I'd start doing this, I could never shake the sensation that I was about to unlock the secrets of the universe by accident. It's so trippy fun.
Simon is now a Vocaloid producer
SimonP
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Simon MagP
Ah, SimonP, the new emerging producer
ya know
this would be a really crazy way to do a super edgy song similar to mind brand....
Simon-P
I'm actually working on a musical project for my studies, in electro acoustic style, this is definitely top class material samples you got here, this is an unbelievable way to use pedals that impressed me, the possibilities are again endless
I gave this a like after seeing how polite Simon was about waiting his turn to speak.
My sound for the last couple years has been Miku into LifePedal. Hoping to add a Microcosm for an incomprehensible three pedal challenge.
Wooow what a wild setup!!
Congratulations magpie, at 5:05 you have successfully created the first miku horror track
6:53 literally took me out, that is such an aggressive SCREAM
An Otamatone with nothing pressed will make a Miku stomp howl at random; it’s one of my fave random noisemakers.
Note for clarity: you need the deluxe with the line out to do this out of the box.
Simon: Technique Suggestion: make a collection of things (pedals and/or mixer and whichever else thing you’d like) to generate the audio (I suggest you add a matrix pedal which changes the feedthrough of L/R channels so you can change the nature of the feedback). Then pass the output through something which controls the gain (to reduce the gain) so you have a “before gain” circuit and “after gain” circuit. Add controlled effects “after gain” and have one output which feeds the controlled “after gain” back into the “before gain” (creating yet another feedback, but without overload) you can choose if you want to amplify the controlled output before adding it back to the “before gain” circuitry. Enjoy!
I’ll save this comment. It’s like a proper manual 😄 thank you!
@@SimonTheMagpie You are welcome. Enjoy! :)
Don't forget there is a way to add your own custom phrases. It works as text to speech. This would allow you to have variety of tones/phrases but have a bit more control of the output and not be completely random output. It is mentioned in the manual, I believe it is accessed through an iphone app. I'm not sure if there is any other way.
Best use of the Miku pedal I've heard so far is in Jack White's Into The Twilight, off one of his recent albums. Great vid as always.
You proved the point of the no input technique so well! No input feels like it opens a whole other world of signal!!!
It remaind me of people using a modular synth as a guitar pedal; this is people using guitar pedals as modular synths.
Whatever purpose a person has in mind to get a Miku pedal, there is no justification for the price people are asking for it now. Keep in mind the Piapro Miku software pack for the whole Japanese language is $160, not just a minimal set of random Japanese syllables. Your use here was very cool, but not for googolplex dollars*.
*actual eBay price
7:14 almost ended up in lavender town for a sec there
The look of ecstasy on your face @9:00 was hilarious. Watching someone this genuinely happy is something you don’t see often 👍
This is the best series of Simon The Magpie videos ever in the history of Simon The Magpie-ngdom..
Thank you very much 😄 the lore, haha
There were some great industrial sounds in here, but I loved what you were able to do near the end. Incredibly fun !
The fun part is that it has a pretty strict copyright license where people cannot make any commercial music with it
Meanwhile Vocaloid itself is perhaps the most chilled copyright stuff provided you bought it all first from Crypton/Yamaha lolol.
@@jesseroberts1041 really depends on the voice. Crypton future media vocaloids are only usable commercially if you don't mention their name and don't use their design (so saying "feat hatsune miku" in an album you sell isn't allowed without a dedicated contract with them, you also can't have miku on the album cover art)
Also in piapro studio NT, miku has a new license and here no commercial use AT ALL is allowed without contract
I thought Thom Yorke was gonna start singing at some point.
Been lovin' this training arc. Looking forward to the next phase!
Yeah excited to start just randomly doing it with stuff when producing music! 😄😄
These were the nicest sounds I have ever heard come out of a Miku
"Weirdcore" producers need to get on that pedal. I feel like it fits that aesthetic a lot.
This is about as experimental as it gets, somehow this sounded amazing
no input fart pedal?
Do it! 😄 I wont, hehe. Miku at least is a pedal I will use a ton. I dont buy gear I wont ever use again for the memes, haha. Too poor 😅
@@SimonTheMagpie How about a no input gamechanger pedal like the plasma or light pedal?
That was my immediate thought as soon as Simon said "... super s||Itty pedal ..." - I mean, "Came to s||!t but only farted", right?
7:19 is magic and then when the bass drops it sound so cool!
I love this, it reminds me of many years ago when I was working in a music store and we got snowed in, were incredibly bored and decided to have a contest to see who could make the best crazy synth out of our stock of guitar pedals plugged into themselves.
Please don’t stop with the noise content! 🔥🔥🔥
you're like a mad scientist who lives in a basement but with music
7:24 this is what I imagine Oompaloompas play when they're not being forced to sing
Boss Flanger: Adjust the two internal trim pots. I think one on 0 and one on maximum. Then you get a feedback loop synth with a completely controllable note with one knob and a bit of a noise gate type control with another knob. Super musical. I mounted mine on a drum pad screwed onto a cymbal stand so I can stand up looking cool while I use it on stage.
Now that there is Miku, in the mix, why not get a multi channel mixer and add more pedals? It could be, some serious, polyphonic madness.
5:15 POV: you listened to Miku music for 48 without sleep and the voices start to settle in.
5:46 that sounded like something you'd hear at the beginning of an "Incubus" song.
This was brilliant! Really liked the jams you created with that unlikely combo. Bubbling Mikuzone!
At 5:05 the automatic captions literally detect Miku saying, "Oh my god."
Lol 😄😄😄 I gotta printscreen that
Man that jam at the end, so trippy, industrial but chill. I was definitely not expecting such musicality going in!
By the way, I learned this from Hainbach, you can send aux outputs from the mixer into pedals and back into the mixer (a pretty normal send-receive setup) then send the pedal return channel back into the aux, creating a loop. That way you can do yes-input loops, and your mixer becomes a console for feedback experiments. Choruses become flangers and reverbs become screeching horrors.
Miku's soul is TRAPPED inside that pedal and she wants OUT
Fantastic vid as always Simon~ :3
I'd love to hear this combo into a Boss SL-2 Slicer!
I'm so glad happy excited these new videos you've been putting out about total experimentation everything else be damned huh? And I'm only halfway through this one and I'm loving it so far. I was really hoping you were going to say the Miku is the coolest pedal ever and then you said it and it really probably is the coolest better pedal ever again I'm super stoked on the new video-ish directionalish path you seem to be going down I've always loved your videos still do Loving me more keep rocking in the free world
I love that we’re going down the rabbit hole with you since the first video with the mixer
I think a lot of people have tried that but if you haven't, the metal zone is fun and good when inserted in the FX loop of the amp (it does not sound like grilled cheese that way).
Bro you have found your niche this is phenomenal
OH YES ❤. Your pedals are perfect for this kind of stuff.
At 5:00 starts the sounds of nightmares, 7:13 is right up there with lavender town theme 😂😂
This reminds me a lot of the improv noise album I made with a coupla friends. One was chittering and screeching into a mic and holding it to the speaker, and the other was twiddling a mixer. I had my electric guitar and a loop pedal plugged into the mixer to create big walls of loops.
I’ve been looking for your channel! Watched a good number of your videos five years or so ago. Glad to have stumbled upon your musical wizardry!
Thats wild 😆 glad you found your way back!!
Sounds like Gesang der Junglinge by Karlheinz Stockhausen
That Miku pedal is completely ridiculous, but it really seems to work in that setting.
Pro tip: this is a demon from metal miku hell, and needs to have its exorcism filter replaced every 3 months.
She is great at palm fading.
Actually with that third pedal in there? Suddenly she actually sounds like something potentially otherworldly.
"Aaand, the language of love."
Awkward wink right back at yah pal.
I recorded some noise albums using a metal zone and miku stomp, glad to see the combo getting some love!
That is wild! Best combo 😄😄
Sounds fk great 😂
I was a big Miku fan in my teens and now im a big fan of Buckethead, who also does a lot of glitchy and dissonant stuff. (Also RLY love primus)
This scatched an itch i didn't know i had 🤣
4:40 shit, i didn't know i came here to watch miku cover pink Floyd's echoes
Omg, it sounds like Stockhausen's "Gesang der Jünglinge"
I just tried this with my Axe-fx III and got some really good results.
Thanks for the excellent content.
There's a Miku module in there now??
@@editingsecrets Hahaha!...no.
@@johnnylucid What actual modules did you patch together?
@@editingsecrets Send and Return blocks to create the feedback loop. A Volume block tied to a sequencer. A Drive, PanTrim, Plex Delay, and PEQ blocks in series. PEQ has multiple notches sweeping via LFO1. Pitch set to Cyystal Echos with both Pans sweeping opposite directions via LFO. Same for the PEQ notches. A Reverse Delay, Pitch, 2nd Plex set to shimmer, Reverb, MultiDelay, and RingMod ran in parallel. RingMod freq sweeping via LFO. With Block channels and Scenes, I'm sure it could be a performance all in 1 patch.
Current patch is sitting at 64% CPU usage.
@@johnnylucid Thanks, that gets me intrigued! I could imagine footswitches to bring things in and out, pedal for LFO rate/depth, delay time, EQ frequencies or resonances etc. I don't currently have an AxeFx at my disposal. Got a demo video?
Now this... THIS... is ART.
6:25 Miku had enough, she wanted to get out of the metal box
No input mixing with Boss SY1 is my favorite. That pedal is sort of disappointing as a guitar pedal but using it to do other things like no input mixing works so well. Was using it for a while with a cheap Casio keyboard and a "not synth" synth
The way the audio of the next clip is showing and it's still showing the old clip makes this video hard to watch
That is the most cursed Miku I've ever heard. I love it
4:39 “stop it, stop it… OHHHHH”
This was my only innovative noise technique and you’ve exposed it on youtube how I am going to be able to make a living now
Possibly my favorite video of yours to date, and that's saying something. Great work as always.
Thank you!!
Miku : Wowowowoh! Pipe Pomb. So cool! I wonder what happens if I... 4:44
I had to special-order my Miku stomp as it was only available in Japan, lol. What a hilarious effect, it's one of my faves. I HAD to subscribe to this.
This what aliens would sound like I'm sure of it.
omg i was just thinking about this
I've got one of these and running one of those drum beats from a KORG keyboard into miku, with a hall of fame reverb, into a beat up orange amp was a lot more fun than I expected.
Its so unpredictable since its tracking is bad, and it cant make chords. but thats what makes it cool.
Reminds me of Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" an absolute classic!
This video gave me so many ideas of things to try with no-input signal chains. Holy cow.
This is fantastic. I actually have the standalone synth version of Miku, the Gakken NSX-39; it's basically a Stylophone with the same Miku-in-a-chip as the pedal.
(Gakken is a Japanese company that's sort of half science magazine, half STEM treat box; they make various electronics kits and suchlike. If youve seen Teenage Engineering's recent vinyl record cutter, it originally a Gakken machine.)
Same! Did a video on it a couple years back 😄
Gakken makes absolutely everything when it comes to educational stuff. Manga, dictionaries, equipment, online lessons, building blocks…you name it, Gakken makes it.
@@tokumei99 that's cool to know! I'd only encountered their Otonanokagaku publications - I've also got their SX-150 synth - so I figured that was their main line. (I suppose a lot of companies are more diverse than the context in which you first meet them.)
real haunting content thank you magpie 👍
Dude needs to be CAREFUL. Who knows what alien race will pick up those signals, thinking we said something terrible about their mothers.
So BBLS is like a sequencer type thing. You know what would be cool, get an envelope filter or whatever kind of envelope pedal. Maybe reverb and swell effects. Those are like an envelope. Then a filter which is like a wah wah. Maybe two. A couple of oscillators. You see where I'm going with this. Build a whole synth out of pedals. If only there was some way of making a keyboard control it. I'm sure there is SOME way but I mean, in an uncomplicated way. Anyone else have any ideas?
I think EHX makes a clock pedal. That could help with hooking it up to drums and stuff.
Yeah syncing stuff is where it could get reaally interesting possibly
@@SimonTheMagpie I'm glad you saw this one. It might make a cool video. No pressure. That's up to you. But it might be cool.
I’ve had a miku for so long and this is the first good use case i’ve seen for it
you actually created so many awesome scary intros for metal songs
I absolutely love those immensly terrifying sounds completely penetrating my body, gave me goosebumps 10/10
6:49 the initial scream and the mix you made afterwards both sound like something that'd either be in a horror version of Portal, or maybe in just a more terrifying section of Aperture, especially given some of the creepy music Valve put in Portal 2 (Robot Ghost Story, Ghost of Rattman for two great examples)
This sounds absolutely amazing, I have a collection of boss pedals, I need to try this!
Sounds like Miku losing her virginity.
You essentially created an "At the Drive In" intro generator when you first added BBLS. I love it!
この発想はなかった！
どんな音でも初音ミクの声に変換するミクエフェクターだからこそ出来ることですね！
打ち込みとはまた違うミクの調教方法が開拓出来そうですね！
惜しむらくは、このエフェクターが生産完了品で、プレミアがついていること…
This has to be a new music genre: "Miku-synth"
7:59 fantastic 🤘🏼. Definitely my style! Great work my dude
Ps. Oh yeah, forgot to mention Death By Audio has a pedal that does this.
Ooh which dba?
@@SimonTheMagpie Total sonic Annihilation 2. It does similar aspect of feeding your pedals into itself, you can adjust the feedback which creates drones etc. Its not totally a "synthesizer" but the concept is quite close! Great latest album btw 🤘🏼
I love the Metal Zone. As our Lord Josh Scott showed us recently a humble tricked out Screamer Clone can sojnd like almost any other drive, due to its bigger eq. The Zone has a full channel strip eq, with its parametric mid. You can dial in lots of clasdic distortion types andcysing it for feedback gives you massive scope. One thing to remember when pedals in feedback loops is those with buffers, Boss for instance will add to the sound even when "turned off", which they never fully are.
Isn't a keyboard just a big collection of different value resistors? Wouldn't you then in theory be able to exchange the variable resistor(s) you use to control the pitch of the feedbacked metalzone with a keyboard?
This is a very silly idea but it would be very funny if it worked.
at that point youve just made a synthesizer
@@sengroagers1111 that's precisely why it's such a silly idea haha