One of my favorite pieces of music! I do not have the skillset to understand how this is done, but I appreciate the amount of work, programming, engineering, and musical ability must go into such a creation! Sharing!
I can't believe it sounds so absurdly good. Is this really just sound made by the steppers or are you cheating and mixing the step pulses into the recording?
smeezekitty, it's just the steppers vibrating as they rotate. In the video they are on a large cardboard box to amplify the vibrations. I'm currently working on a more permanent amplifier box.
It'd be really cool to have the song finish with all pointers up Just start the song with them in the up position, take note of their angle and flip it horizontally (90 becomes 270, 30 becomes 330, etc..) Start the song with those mirrored positions and if it was all done right they will all end pointing straight up
I wonder if you could connect every motor to a contraption with a pen and a paper moving along, to get them to write the music out in notes. That would make it full circle.
Realistically a good stepper motor can exceed the pitch that we humans can hear, but the one limitation is that the pitch of a stepper motor is directly tied to the speed of the motor. It's either on, and spinning at a set speed (or pitch), or off. If you wanted to simulate fading volume by slowing the motor down halfway through a note, you'd get a note that slides down instead. What you could do is set the stepper motor on a rail driven by a silent motor, and have that move towards and away from the microphone.
you could also change the volume by keeping them in a cabinet with shutters and automating the openness of the shutters - thats one of the ways organs change volume
@@MajatekYT You can control the volume by setting the holding current on the motor windings. That not something many drivers can do in software (most have potentiometers for this task), but some high quality drivers can do it.
This comment sort of got away from me, it's all just my opinion, and as with all things, especially musical, if you disagree, then it's your instrument and you should do it however brings you joy, but I've been thinking about this for a week or two now and I thought an outside perspective, either to be taken in any form or thrown away, might have some value. with all kindness to your current setup and the effort you put into it, I think acoustically this old cardboard box with hot glue is still my favorite of yours. If I may be permitted to speculate a little here, in my experience building and tinkering with violins, a violin bridge that sends all the frequencies efficiently from the strings to the body sounds absolutely awful (A friend did it with computer simulation and generative design, it's like nails on a chalkboard). If you look at a well made bridge, you should see that there's no straight path from the strings to the feet. There's always flex built into the system, whereas if you look at a cello or a bass bridge, you'll find a much straighter system. On higher range instruments I think the upper harmonics become too shrill after a certain point. I'm inclined to believe this flex in a violin bridge is there to eat those nasty high frequencies and upper harmonics. My theory here is that this cardboard box and hot glue sounds better to me because somewhere along the line, those harsher higher frequencies are being eaten by... Something. Maybe the glue, maybe the cardboard, maybe just how the weight is sitting. All that being said, watching your more recent videos it's obvious that you've done a lot of work on the software side to get the tuning just right, and that is greatly appreciated.
If Bach had one of these setups just imagine what the state of music might be right now. Maybe we wouldn't have Rap or Hip Hop. How scary is that. No mindless Rap what a bummer. We would have to go back to music that actually had a beat instead of some filthy words spoken like a nursery rhyme to a beat that is totally incoherent but then again how else would we placate some talentless idiots. I say rock on dude you have attained the panicle of boring me to death award.
Just normal NEMA 17 motors and allegro A4988. The difference is that I've tuned the pitches carefully for each note. Also using a resonator chamber (large cardboard box) which improves the body of the sound. I made a test wooden box, but not as good. I'm working on something that I'll actually be revealing in the coming weeks.
These motors move by pulsing coils on and off in a certain way to create the magnetic feilds necessary to turn them. This happens at certain frequencies depending on the speed the motor spins at. That frequency is what you are hearing because generally they are quite noisy.
*ACME Stepper Motors, Inc.:* _"This year, we introduce our new Silent Series!"_
*Aerospacesmith:* _"And I took that personally."_
what’s that
I’m too distracted by your profile picture to understand what you’re saying
@@adriaansmit81 a silent stepper motor has drivers that drive the motor more smoothly basically so you can’t make sounds with it :(
Me at the start of the video: Thats a CANON, why are there FIVE Motors?
Me at the end: The poor fith Motor didn't get to participate :(.
It's amazing how this sounds so rich!
cardboard box helps
Yeah they're more expensive compared to the dc or simple brushless motors
@@integrationofmanandmachine4714 Lol, I mean in terms of timbre, not in terms of the actual cost of the motors! HAHA! 😂
He amplifies it with paper, which is the same material as Reed instruments, so it'll sound rounder, like wood winds.
@@MikelSyn handy info brought there pal
I feel bad for the far right stepper motor who didn't get to participate :(
To be fair, Canon in D is traditionally played by a string quartet. Last motor got cheated.
I feel bad for the cellist motor (4th). Playing the same 8 or so notes over and over and over.
@@MikelSyn Not true, the original is for 3 violins, 1 cello, 1 organ, 1 theorbo ;-D
i didn't know this stuff and i'll probabaly forget it in a few minutes but thanks anyways
@@MikelSyn Na, we need a bell ringer
This is absurdly amazing. From concept to application , it's truly brilliant
One of my favorite pieces of music! I do not have the skillset to understand how this is done, but I appreciate the amount of work, programming, engineering, and musical ability must go into such a creation! Sharing!
I've always liked this piece of music. From a young age
Beautiful.
I need to make one of these to play when my daughter gets married.
A loving father like Steve Martin 1991 in Father of the Bride. :)
Pachelbels Canon is perfect for wedding ceremony!
Brilliant sound! This tune is beautiful and timeless.
Is it just me patiently waiting for the far right motor to move?
Nope! I kept waiting for that low pedal note that never came. ☹️
Nope. I expected it to come to life on the last note at least...
This is so creative. They sound so good and perfectly synchronized
😍😍🥰🥰
I adore this piece of music, especially the Jazz rendition played by Jaques Loussier. May he rest in peace!
nice job, very good sound, sounds like actual musical instruments. big thumbs up
They sound so soft and warm
I can't believe it sounds so absurdly good. Is this really just sound
made by the steppers or are you cheating and mixing the step pulses into
the recording?
smeezekitty, it's just the steppers vibrating as they rotate. In the video they are on a large cardboard box to amplify the vibrations. I'm currently working on a more permanent amplifier box.
That's super cool! What kind of microphone are you using then?
smeezekitty the microphone on my Galaxy S8. That's what I recorded these videos with.
I'm also designing a PCB for the electronics. Right now it's all on a breadboard and the poor connections are introducing signal noise.
Well it works well. I just subscribed. Hopefully you'll make more stepper music soon!
Imagine taking this back in time and playing it to Pachelbel a day or two after he'd finished composing the piece.
Control board: "What the heck is this guy 3D printing?" as the other guy commented.
Would be really cool if this somehow turned into a shape on a 3D printer..
5D printer?
@@integrationofmanandmachine4714 right, we can't figure out 4D yet, You are in the future, lol
@@integrationofmanandmachine4714 i did it 😎
@@integrationofmanandmachine4714 non planar 3d printing with swivel head could be a 5D 3d print
Still 9000 times better than I could do!
Все відео дивився та чекав коли гасне грати мелодію п'ятий мотор!
Brilliant, sounds like a zx spectrum, great emulation
Sound really nice. I just get started into servo and stepper, have the steppers not yet delivered. Didn’t expect this use case. Very creative.
wouldnt work so well with silent stepper drivers haha. nice work!
how come the last stepper motor not being used?
It's a canon. They only use 4 instruments
I'd love to make a request that you do Widor's 5th organ tocatta. I want to see those motors spin. But I always enjoy watching and listening..
Woooww! How they can resonate so satisfying sounds!
It'd be really cool to have the song finish with all pointers up
Just start the song with them in the up position, take note of their angle and flip it horizontally (90 becomes 270, 30 becomes 330, etc..)
Start the song with those mirrored positions and if it was all done right they will all end pointing straight up
It's so... Nostalgic for some reason
Well done, that was beautiful.
I wonder if you could connect every motor to a contraption with a pen and a paper moving along, to get them to write the music out in notes. That would make it full circle.
Someone should do this with a scanner and call it "Scanner in D".
Wow. This is great. What's the highest pitch you can get? And has anyone been able to change the volume?
Realistically a good stepper motor can exceed the pitch that we humans can hear, but the one limitation is that the pitch of a stepper motor is directly tied to the speed of the motor. It's either on, and spinning at a set speed (or pitch), or off. If you wanted to simulate fading volume by slowing the motor down halfway through a note, you'd get a note that slides down instead. What you could do is set the stepper motor on a rail driven by a silent motor, and have that move towards and away from the microphone.
going from normal steps to microsteps is more quiet.
you could also change the volume by keeping them in a cabinet with shutters and automating the openness of the shutters - thats one of the ways organs change volume
@@MajatekYT You can control the volume by setting the holding current on the motor windings.
That not something many drivers can do in software (most have potentiometers for this task), but some high quality drivers can do it.
It's freaking sweet.
Put into words how we hear from those who are no longer here☢️
Any chance we could get a schematic? Code maybe? I love it!!!!
Musically this works very well. I guess it's like "switched on Bach". Who knew steppers were so melodic?
real electronic music!
(About half way through I was thinking how nice they'd sound doing Norwegian Wood...)
Le moteur de droite aura entretenu un suspens insoutenable 😅. Cette musique est bien choisie 😍
Can you do a video showing how you are driving these and what sort of software / programming is used to create the sequences?
We should just use a stepper motor so the cello players don't have to suffer at weddings.
Cembalo and alto violin, so medieval hi-tech.
1:13 amazing drop
This is how our robot overlords..uh I mean protectors, will sing us to sleep.
What kind of steppers are you using and where can I buy them ??? I will make from them my morning alarm XD
-What you doing Step-motor?
That is certainly *a* statement, I'm not going to say whether it's a good one or a bad one, but it's definitely one of those
In my opinion it is a new gen instrument. Like a Hamond in '60. IT is something new, it is a real sound, not synth. Good Job!
It's so nice. Can you release the code for it? Are you using an Arduino?
literally my 3d printer at 2am
This would be a nice doorbell, if you would attach it on the doors.
excellent broadcast in the language of stepper motors!
Is it handmade or some kind of software?
Polophonic ringtones right here
Next video: review for the best sounding driver.
This comment sort of got away from me, it's all just my opinion, and as with all things, especially musical, if you disagree, then it's your instrument and you should do it however brings you joy, but I've been thinking about this for a week or two now and I thought an outside perspective, either to be taken in any form or thrown away, might have some value.
with all kindness to your current setup and the effort you put into it, I think acoustically this old cardboard box with hot glue is still my favorite of yours. If I may be permitted to speculate a little here, in my experience building and tinkering with violins, a violin bridge that sends all the frequencies efficiently from the strings to the body sounds absolutely awful (A friend did it with computer simulation and generative design, it's like nails on a chalkboard). If you look at a well made bridge, you should see that there's no straight path from the strings to the feet. There's always flex built into the system, whereas if you look at a cello or a bass bridge, you'll find a much straighter system. On higher range instruments I think the upper harmonics become too shrill after a certain point. I'm inclined to believe this flex in a violin bridge is there to eat those nasty high frequencies and upper harmonics.
My theory here is that this cardboard box and hot glue sounds better to me because somewhere along the line, those harsher higher frequencies are being eaten by... Something. Maybe the glue, maybe the cardboard, maybe just how the weight is sitting.
All that being said, watching your more recent videos it's obvious that you've done a lot of work on the software side to get the tuning just right, and that is greatly appreciated.
If Bach had one of these setups just imagine what the state of music might be right now. Maybe we wouldn't have Rap or Hip Hop. How scary is that. No mindless Rap what a bummer. We would have to go back to music that actually had a beat instead of some filthy words spoken like a nursery rhyme to a beat that is totally incoherent but then again how else would we placate some talentless idiots. I say rock on dude you have attained the panicle of boring me to death award.
What stepper motors are you using?
This is so stupid, yet so awesome.
0:17 The left motor is spinning to the tempo!
using canon is smart, you can just reuse the same code for all four with a delay
Did they miss steps during the performance?
Very cool! what are you using to drive it? A raspberry pi? Did you write the code yourself? Is it on github? :'D
Deffo need to do kerncraft400, 'zombie nation'
Caaaaarl
Oh hey
Caaaarl
I didn't do that
Caaaaaaarl
Caaaaaaaaaarl
When you've never heard most of the song:
😐 this sounds nice 🙃
Very nice tone! What steppers and drivers are you using? Yours sound so much better than others I've seen online :)
Just normal NEMA 17 motors and allegro A4988. The difference is that I've tuned the pitches carefully for each note. Also using a resonator chamber (large cardboard box) which improves the body of the sound. I made a test wooden box, but not as good.
I'm working on something that I'll actually be revealing in the coming weeks.
This is good
Excellent drivers
The poor center motor that had to play the cello part. :(
Next: Flight of The Bumblebee.
Google search what is a stepper motor and what is pachebell canon
i'm crying.. why am i crying
Art = emotions.
This is relaxing what.? 🥴
...i don't see any connection between the sound and the movements...how does it works.....need a schematic for to understand it....
These motors move by pulsing coils on and off in a certain way to create the magnetic feilds necessary to turn them. This happens at certain frequencies depending on the speed the motor spins at. That frequency is what you are hearing because generally they are quite noisy.
Short answer: higher pitch = higher angular velocity
I just wondering, how to do that?
Solo nos querías presumir que has comprado unas repisas.
Damn if been infected already but I have only watched 2
5D printer?
Nice
Wow @@
I know this music
Imagine how many pages this has in arduino ide😂
Very few actually. I'll get the lines of code count after work. The majority of the "heavy lifting" happens on the computer side.
???
Waited 3 minutes and 20 seconds for the 5th to hit the drums... sadface
The leftmost motor was slightly out of tune
eh, pachelbel is following us all, , he's like the creepiest musical stalker, , ,
fake