Instantly reminded of the stylaphone, from the over all look of it, the form factor I suppose and sounds pretty similar to, I really love the very noise vocals, works well. Was thinking a virtual instrument playing sounds entirely from the mechanical keys squeaking would be interesting
I was thinking the same. Especially when he turned it over. I bet if you take it apart someone ripped the Stylophone circuit board and just made a keyboard overlay instead of stylus
I have the same organ(?) but it's branded as a WOC100. I thought it was broken until I heard yours. Love that you managed to make something with it, I've just kept mine as an oddity but you've inspired me. Love your work.
Well, organs usually have some timbre control, especially electric organs like the hammond are basically additive synthesizers with the drawbars allowing you to play around with the harmonics. Very few organs have envelope controls though, they tend to just be on when the key is pressed and off when you let go of the key, though that's not quite true for 100% of them either, as some electric organs have a short decay envelope for upper partials creating the percussive organ sound, and some have release controls.
Good stuff magpie. You should look at making an IR of that speaker then attempting DI through your IR. Might be interesting to have some IRs of your older synths/etc as well.
i bet its not even just the speaker having a weird ir, i bet its the literal driver circuitry having an effect on the synthesis, like its loading down the power rail or something like that lmao
That's a Stylophone innards with a "proper" keyboard. Even the board layout is the same by the look of it. Even has the crusty "note not quite connecting" sound. If you really want to capture sound without the key squeak, you could relocate the speaker somewhere externally.
Simon, thank you for the smile & laughter on a Saturday morning. There is as you mentioned, a " bad cool" element to alot of these synthesizery analog instruments, and you allow them to speak naturally on these vids.
Some organ and synth things can’t music very well. It doesn’t music. You can build a sound barrier over the keyboard but not over the speaker. That could help block out the key noise.
I absolutely LOVE instrument noise, that’s freakin’ awesome. (Also I’m very glad to see others make all kind of gestures whilst musicking, it’s not just me! Hahaha!!!)
Superior Organ reminds me that years ago working at Radio Shack, I played with a toy that was so bad it was good... It was kind of a kids karaoke thing and if you dove the mic into the speaker it made the best sound ever
Sounds like the tone generator was of a type that eventually made its way into the Nintendo Gameboy. Preferring its speaker over the output reminds me of what I read about the EDP Wasp and how Dave Stewart placed a mic up to *its* speaker in the studio. Happy as I am with my Guild models, I still have to admit I’ve long been tempted by the like of your acoustic guitar.
Let's face it this is very similar to the stylophone as used by David Bowie on the hit Space Oddity. PS You can get a great filter effect by cupping your hand or mouth on the speaker.
Thank you! I have a plan on starting to release whatever I get done in a video as a demo track for patreons. But I like to take my time and create entire albums instead of releasing singles when it comes to my proper releases. Just released an album a few months ago if you want an entire hour of music to tune in to 😁😁 links are in video description
If it wasn't for companies making things like this back in the 70s, we wouldn't have SYNTHESIZERS nowadays and the World would be a very different place!
I’m not sure how with these type of things but have been discussing it with my friend a bunch. Maybe email through the email in description and consult to make it happen? And youll get it for free of course 😁
@@SimonTheMagpie Ah maybe its that. I have a cheap chinese components tester and it shows the voltage of the 9v battery, and after testing a few times the voltage drops quite a bit. Hopefully a power supply will work or at least help a bit. But the problem could just be bad electrolytic capacitors. It seems quite a cool toy/keyboard.
Decent Sampler instrument, yeah! The warbling intermittent stuff should be captured somehow.
My thoughts exactly!
Have you figured out how to do it?
Set it next to a Casio SK-1, and activate the SK-1’s sample feature.
Kidding.
Instantly reminded of the stylaphone, from the over all look of it, the form factor I suppose and sounds pretty similar to, I really love the very noise vocals, works well. Was thinking a virtual instrument playing sounds entirely from the mechanical keys squeaking would be interesting
Yeah like a strange asmr instrument 😄
I was thinking the same. Especially when he turned it over. I bet if you take it apart someone ripped the Stylophone circuit board and just made a keyboard overlay instead of stylus
“Harness the crap” sounds like good life advice👍
Superior video
I used mine as a bass, and organ (through a lot of pedals) in the 70's! Have it on a lot of old reel to reel sound on sound tunes.
fuck yes, that final solo was perfect
I have the same organ(?) but it's branded as a WOC100. I thought it was broken until I heard yours. Love that you managed to make something with it, I've just kept mine as an oddity but you've inspired me. Love your work.
Maybe look into replacing some of the capacitors. If it has electrolytic capacitors, it's probably worth changing those for new ones
Really great to see you making lots of content again! 👍 Great tune, by the way!
In regards to the question of "what makes a synthesizer": I think it's the ability to design your own sounds.
Reasonable!
Well, organs usually have some timbre control, especially electric organs like the hammond are basically additive synthesizers with the drawbars allowing you to play around with the harmonics. Very few organs have envelope controls though, they tend to just be on when the key is pressed and off when you let go of the key, though that's not quite true for 100% of them either, as some electric organs have a short decay envelope for upper partials creating the percussive organ sound, and some have release controls.
That's a nice little synth. If I had to guess, I'd say that maybe it's all the failing components that give it's sound its cool quirkyness.
Yeah probably bad capacitors
Good stuff magpie. You should look at making an IR of that speaker then attempting DI through your IR. Might be interesting to have some IRs of your older synths/etc as well.
I’ll ask analog about it and send it to him then, hehe. I’m such a technical n00b!! 😅
i bet its not even just the speaker having a weird ir, i bet its the literal driver circuitry having an effect on the synthesis, like its loading down the power rail or something like that lmao
love the creativity that you bring into this world!
8:50 this melody hit me in the soul
especially that chord change
It kinda sounds like an even crappier version of the Otamatone. 😂
The vocals genuinely sound great, how do you get them like that?
Just sang through the casio keyboard. And then a stock pitch correction plugin in cubase. But yeah distortion and all is just the casio
Sound a bit like broken bagpipes. It's pretty fantastic.
LOOOOOOOOVE this song, that casio sound on the vocals is amazing
Just wanted to let you know love your work I too love to make music and I definitely appreciate your eclectic and bizarre. Take on music. Love it.
I really dig the glitchy wonky sound of it. I would love to sample it
Anything in your hands can music 🎉
That's a Stylophone innards with a "proper" keyboard. Even the board layout is the same by the look of it.
Even has the crusty "note not quite connecting" sound.
If you really want to capture sound without the key squeak, you could relocate the speaker somewhere externally.
Oh mannnnnnnnnn I love this, especially when you add your voice, great work. You are a true master.
Just lovely! I don't know how you do it, time and time again.
I keep rewatching the last half of this video. I woke up with the song in my head this morning.
The band Ween call things 'brown' to mean 'bad, but in a good way'
If that instrument is superior I would be afraid of hearing an inferior... you make great use of that thing in the end though!
Simon, thank you for the smile & laughter on a Saturday morning. There is as you mentioned, a " bad cool" element to alot of these synthesizery analog instruments, and you allow them to speak naturally on these vids.
That was actually a pretty decent bop. Nice work.
Its very unique and I like it. The effects help though haha
Some organ and synth things can’t music very well.
It doesn’t music.
You can build a sound barrier over the keyboard but not over the speaker. That could help block out the key noise.
So happy to see more Simon videos so often!
Sounds like a stylophone. I sampled one and cut it to single cycle waveforms. They sound amazing through good analog filters!
kinda sounds like an otamatone played by someone who cant hold it tightly enough haha
It looks like one too, instantly reminded me of it. Does sound a bit different though, but then there have been a few different stylaphones anyway
only 2 mins in but i really dig those lower notes on it!
You are so flipping inspirational
I like hearing the key squeaks though, they're amusing and charming in their own crappy way. :)
Yeah I agree I think 😄
Wow that was so sick love the vocals at the end!!
So cool man. You're such an inspiration
I absolutely LOVE instrument noise, that’s freakin’ awesome. (Also I’m very glad to see others make all kind of gestures whilst musicking, it’s not just me! Hahaha!!!)
Superior Organ reminds me that years ago working at Radio Shack, I played with a toy that was so bad it was good... It was kind of a kids karaoke thing and if you dove the mic into the speaker it made the best sound ever
Sounds a bit like a geiger counter that got a bit too much radiation
You're just proving again that a bad sounding synth can sound good in the right hands. That's why I bought your album
Very true, as the saying goes "Rock what you have got".
You proved that one can make any shitty instrument sound great, as long as he's creative, again!!! 🎉
Idk what you are talking about, it sounds fine to me!
This is absolutely awesome! I'm happy to have discovered your channel; what a gem❤❤❤!
Sounds like the tone generator was of a type that eventually made its way into the Nintendo Gameboy. Preferring its speaker over the output reminds me of what I read about the EDP Wasp and how Dave Stewart placed a mic up to *its* speaker in the studio.
Happy as I am with my Guild models, I still have to admit I’ve long been tempted by the like of your acoustic guitar.
Gotta be a piezo in there! The sound seems sooo close to failing piezo beepers I remember from childhood.
Let's face it this is very similar to the stylophone as used by David Bowie on the hit Space Oddity.
PS You can get a great filter effect by cupping your hand or mouth on the speaker.
hello mr. magpie, i honestly love these series of crap toys you bring a second life to.
Sounds like a keyed Stylophone. I love it.
The bagpipes of EDM.
You have the best endings.
Thank you 😁😁😁😁 I like it!
Liqui Molly dry Teflon spray makes wonders for these squeaky plasticy thingies
Through the speaker it sounds a lot like a child on a violin. I love it.
Finally some good old content
From a kind of rebellion/bored sounding synth to a great song at the end. Love it!!
The final tune tune is awesome ! !
Very nice Jamerola Magpiper!
2:39 need to run it thru amp/cab or simulation!
With some other fx inline, otherwise its own speaker is pretty cool
wow that was amazing!
i died on the last note when you shook it lololol
Glad to see some classic content. :)
Excellent!
that last part was INSANE
I have a Bontempi PK11 Organ
Hook up the, Miku pedal to this and see what comes out. Add a distortion pedal in the mix, with one for wah and it might sound like magic.
Your creativity is really great to see and heard.
I've really liked the music, is that avaible somewhere ?
Thank you! I have a plan on starting to release whatever I get done in a video as a demo track for patreons.
But I like to take my time and create entire albums instead of releasing singles when it comes to my proper releases. Just released an album a few months ago if you want an entire hour of music to tune in to 😁😁 links are in video description
Porter robinson vibes
If it wasn't for companies making things like this back in the 70s, we wouldn't have SYNTHESIZERS nowadays and the World would be a very different place!
Fanplastico!!
this is magical
Loved the song at the end :)
...btw... Awesome track in the end there 😎
this rules
Bet you could do some cool circuit bending with it!
Did you make an IR of that speaker? And if so, is it for sale?
I’m not sure how with these type of things but have been discussing it with my friend a bunch. Maybe email through the email in description and consult to make it happen? And youll get it for free of course 😁
its beautiful
I have something similar in my storage room. My brother won it at Liseberg in early 2k and it sounds just as awful. :D
Strangely looking like a bloated Stylophone (but with a "real" instead if touch keyboard)
Are there no tuning potentiometers inside on the circuitboard? I would have thought there's a way to get it all working in tune
My theory now is that it just cant do it on a 9v battery. Like it needs more juice for higher pitch. So gonna try with power supply!
@@SimonTheMagpie Ah maybe its that. I have a cheap chinese components tester and it shows the voltage of the 9v battery, and after testing a few times the voltage drops quite a bit. Hopefully a power supply will work or at least help a bit. But the problem could just be bad electrolytic capacitors. It seems quite a cool toy/keyboard.
Stylophones werid uncle
Missed you bro
Looking in comments for Analog Weapon
[walks up behind you]
AMAZING!
Cool as fuck.
It sound like a Atari 2600.
And others 80's toy. Like the War noise sound generator.
Atari 2600 had actually worse intonation than this device but was much more deterministic and reliable :)
@@adam_sporka It sound like the engine noise from "Grand Prix" on atari 2600.
Sounds like a dying NES.
YAY MORE TOY SYNTHS 😈
Would a shotgun mic recorded up close help with the squeak?
Maybe! Since the tone is maybe loud enough
My dog hated this video!! 😂😂😂
It might have bad capacitors in it, making the sound go weird like that. I reckon with some new capacitors it might be a whole different instrument.
Perhaps! I’m not sure I will have time to investigate in quite a while. But one day!
Sounds more like a stylophone
Amazing song!
2:48 I almost thought you were about to play the Bamse theme song...
Ooh love the bamse theme song!!
Fin!
it sounds like a analog version of NE555
mikeoldfield taurus II
sounds almost exactly like the Otamatone
Is it a 3d printed addon on a Stylophone?
Could you remove the screws to see what is inside there?
Yeah sure! I’ll get an original stylophone as well to check diff I think. Had one ages ago but long lost
Dopppeeee!!!!
awesome