The Final Countdown on FLOPPOTRON 3.0
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Europe - The Final Countdown played by The Floppotron 3.0, computer hardware orchestra. Which song would you like to hear next? Write it in comments!
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You can't even see this as a silly funny project anymore. This is now a serious music production device / instrument.
you're right!
That level of skill . Machine timing n control. Big brother from 1984 might have a job for you lol. Definitely turned this hobby into a proper 11:)
Very impressive
It's basically a digital organ. So many moving parts to this. It's quite amazing.
and it is still a beta 😁
It just goes to show, having fun really turns a passion project into something perfect, that over time grows and becomes greater
I love how the different colored disk drives are arranged to resemble piano keys.
I'm embarrassed to say how long it took me to realize that's what was going on with the coloring 😆
@@bmartin427 Don't worry, it took some other people a while, too.
Source: I only realised about 2 videos ago.
@@not-on-pizza I can confirm that. It took me a while as well.
Ohhh, of cause! I was thinking about what pattern it was.
Sure with the ones on the left that may be the case, but with those on the right it more closely resembles a harpsichord IMO where the couloured are more typically inverted.
I'm super impressed by the accurate instrumentation, the "guitar riffs" and the "vocals" are my highlights.
Vocals are so goodamn well detailed that it's insane, you could really feel the echo of the voice Joey Tempest in it. Neat as hell.
@@andrzejnadgirl2029 Leaving Ground "leaving ground"
I am still not sure that the guitar solo was just that
Imagine through the fire and the flames 🤤
The emulation of vibrato was the kicker for me.
Photonic induction, printer of doom, floppotron. So many lost, but not necessarily dead. I hope Pavel is still among us.
styropyro at least disappeared both with warning and with cause [actually he undisappeared and i did not notice]
Photonicinduction evidently was around when youtube switched how usernames work, which was a while after the last video, so, not dead
@chri-k photonic induction came back briefly, but after the explanation of why he was gone so long, I don't expect him back really. It's a shame but he never did his videos for any kind of money, and he needed to make money so he just focused on work. Good bloke
i just thought of you recently and realised I haven't seen a notification in months.
It's been 8 months, I hope you're doing okay, mate.
Yeah been 11 months now
Same. Hope he's alright.
Just hope this video really isnt his final countdown.
I hope that life happened in a really positive way. I wish Pawel all the best no matter what he is doing right now.
It's been like a year now
Man this never gets old. Long live Floppotron!
it's getting old to me. not unsubbing just yet though
@@ionymous6733 you're just boring then
@@tripwire3992 *bored
@@ionymous6733 No. :-)
@@ionymous6733 while your to board I realize that I’m a moron for not noticing this, time to die I guess.
Ironically, I’ve never once heard any song on the Floppotron that I thought flopped. Excellent work, impressive as always.
It's always floppying but it never flops and never has flopped.
@@metallurgico It's a quantum superposition of both flopped and not flopped.
Well, the years start floppin' and they don't stop floppin'
Flop to the rules and I hit the ground floppin'
Didn’t make sense not to flop for fun,
Your brain gets flopped but your head gets flopped
@@HiddenWindshield but don't look to closely
Amazing arrangement as usual!
I loved the BSOD after the countdown LoL!
noticed
Yeah, that was the icing on the spindles!
bro after hearing the song for the third time i finally saw the BSOD XD
Unexpected nostalgia for the Energy Star logo 😍
Just like Apollo 11 having a green reboot of death (error 120x) multiple times during the landing!
Keep checking back in on the channel every now and again, hope you're still working on projects like this
It's been 7 months, so Pawel is either working on a VERY complicated song or preparing to unveil a Floppotron 4.0 or something. I hope he's okay...
Wishing everyone the best for 2024!
He’s gone totally silent since this video, looks like on Patreon and FB too. I hope it’s just other life priorities taken over and he’s still alive & well.
Low key miss when his videos would pop up with something new
I don't wanna start rumors so Please keep in mind this is just speculation. He did talk about having some health issues 4 years ago hoping that didn't catch up to him.
Yea @@estelyen
HOW AM I ONLY DISCOVERING THE FLOPPOTRON NOW???? This is a masterpiece.
Do the reverse journey and watch the evolution of this beast from a couple drives to this, it's impressive (this one has previously been done with the Floppotron 2.0, you'll see the difference)
👍 Same. Only just now. 😂
unlucky... :(
because you didn't use youtube to its full potential ,
@@mehere3013 do not blame the user for the weakness of the algorithm!
SO sick. This is like, a fully functional electric organ now, practically. Also, why does it make me... weirdly emotional to see all those little floppy disk drives all working in tandem like that? I'm just so proud of them. :')
These are survivors.
Totally felt the same way, reminded me of upgrading my Amiga 1000 to 512kb of Ram with a big metal plate.
me too
I lost it at the boot sequence... :-)
they've found new purpose after years of collecting dust as a result of technological advancement
it's heartwarming
I find the IBM pc blue screening in the middle of the song more funny than it should be.
Listening to a song written for synthesizers being redone by a master artist of synthesized sounds just sends shivers everywhere. So wish I had extra hardware to donate to 4.0!
somebody needs to commission a factory to begin restoring/producing more units for the next version i want future generations to see the floppotron from dammed space
How about some Vangelis or Jean Michel Jarre (synth music)
u know whats made for this beast? the Portal 2 soundtrack
I hope this person is just preparing a huge project so that when we go to his channel we will immediately see a new video and be surprised at how big this project turned out and it looks great I hope he hasn’t abandoned his channel
Англичане не поправлять это переводчик так переводит если тут конечно будут ошибки
Послание автору последнего видео...
I'd love to hear the entirety of Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd on the Floppotron. That guitar solo at the end would be so sick!
Freebird is eternal.
oh my god YES! Freebird would be amazing, and super relevant right now!
so... freebird if it was a video game soundtrack
OH MY GOD YES
At the end? Bro it’s literally half the song.
That solo tone is so amazing, that it's possible to emulate an overdriven guitar so perfectly - with flatbed scanners.
Guess an overdriven guitar comes relatively close to a square wave. What makes it perfect is the arrangement with all subtleties, quite amazing.
Now, let's try to read a floppy disc with a guitar
It feels like 8-bit, but it's technically full mechanical. Love to revisit this and its revisions once in a while. Long live Floppotron!
As an electronics an programing guy, i must say this is absolutely incredible feat of engineering, most people can't imagine how much work and time is invested in just a "funny" project. Hats of to your work, well done!👏👏👌
I can, and I bow before this artist!
the time testing each new part to see what sound it makes alone has to be staggering
As a system engineer I do know ... humbled
I just hope this isn't the *FINAL* countdown, I love the floppotron.
The third version of floppotron is incredibly detailed compared to its predecessor.
Can you make "Bad to the Bones"?
Considering this all started with 2 drives.
I can't even imagine what the 4.0 will be like
@@Sciguy95if it even happens
It's nice seeing old tech like floppy drives still in operation.
I also still have computers with floppy drives.
Dude, this is amazing, you should add an old dot matrix printer to the mix. Those things can make the flopotron even better
Daisy Wheel printer for real percussion!!!
*FlopPOtron
@@jameswyatt1304 Did any computer printers actually use daisy wheels?
@@lightdark00 Yes. And also (mostly) typewriters.
IBM had a particularly glorious line of daisy wheel printers.
We miss you!
I remember being emotional when this was first uploaded, having followed since nearly the beginning
For whatever reason, this registered with me like a send-off, and now it's been almost 1.5 years since it was uploaded
I hope my intuition was wrong
The bridge starting shortly after 3:15 is just brilliant. Introduced by those drums into heavy synths, and afterwards a breakdown and build up to the chorus again. Floppotron captures and reproduces the epicness of it. I'd pay to hear this in a museum.
The fact that the ‚notes‘ to all those brilliant Floopotron performances are stored on Floppy disk themselves just puts the cherry on the top!
Congratulations!
I'm not sure that is actually the case. Because I'm pretty sure, that (with floppotron2.0 at least) the drivers couldn't actually read data and the Floppy drives needed to be inserted for the Floppy drives to actually work.
@@keit99but he did insert it in the pc instead of the floppotron drives so it could be possible
@@engineprojects ah OK, so yeah that might be possible then
@@engineprojects I think it's just for the video, there's nothing on the floppy disk
👍COOL MAN ❤. TIME WILL NEVER BE OUTDATED..
Love it! The floppotron's sound signature is very well suited for electrical guitar sounds :D
It took me listening back to the older versions of this song on older versions of The Floppotron to understand how far ahead this one has gotten. Only after listening to those do I fully appreciate the richness and the expressiveness of Floppotron 3.0. Bravo, my dear friend. I take my hat off.
I'll miss the old floppotron 2.0 though. The scanners had a slightly distinct sound that tended to stand out on some songs unlike the 4 now that are basically just the same model and have the same sound.
And this might be me but the hard drive drums and floppy drives are more faded into the background and harder to hear.
Kids today will never understand, nor appreciate the mastery of hardware and software encompassed by the Floppotron.
What an improvement for this song on Floppotron 3.0 vs the 2.0! This sounds amazing with so many layers!
Massive improvement 😀😀😀
Oh my god I was already wondering when there was another awesome tune again!
Edit: wow this tracks composition is just brilliant, especially the different lines overlaying each other. Outstanding job as always! Thanks a lot for your efforts to please our ears
That blue screen of death was epic, what was even more epic is that the Floppotron kept playing! 😂
It was the final countdown
yes it was
I like how the pc blue screened at the end of the countdown
And that energy star logo, lol.
what bluescreen, i didnt see one
@@kitty.x3at the 2:10 mark
this is sooooo fantastic, and i also like how the percussion is done, with the head-bang of the hard disks. My first computer was a C64 with the VC1541 disk-drive, this drive had no sensing of its first track so when the controller lost where the head was positioned, it would pull the head outwards more tracks than there actually were to make sure the arm is repositioned; this made a typical loud ratterratterratter sound and i thought in the mid 1980s as a youth ..... one could actually make music with that! And here you are now! And the timings are all so acurate! thanks!
This is the equivalent of the late 1800, early 1900's 'Calliope', but with late 1980's to 90's tech. There were some amazing musical machines back then, as this one is now. Absolutely amazing to listen to in how each part or bank of parts produces its elements of the song. And watching them all move in concert, producing sounds in ways never intended, brings me great joy. I used to work with all this kind of tech, both hardware and software, back in the early days of the PC Revolution and the dawn of the Internet. Seeing these old drives and printers being put to good use instead of rotting away somewhere makes me happy. Thank You!
Awesome cover, the "drums" sound so great
May I suggest a cover of "holding out for a hero"
Yes! And if there isn't a picture of Johnny Five on the screen at least once then instant fail!
Yes! Also thinking of this, after the excellent covers of that track in the Tetris movie.
I don't know about you, but...
I'm holding out for a floppy
I'm holding out for floppy till the end of the night
and it's gotta be fast
and it's gotta be strong
and it's gotta to be fresh from the disk
When I hear this level of quality, I really think the Halo theme would sound well with the Floppotron treatment !
It is just mindblowing and astonishing when you imagine the whole path from first steps of Floppotron to its 3.0 reborn version! This amount of sound design, all the small details, arrangements, whole music producing level ... I have no words for this. All these percussive sounds and vibrations for reverb emulation are EXTREMELY hard work for precise tuning step by step. This man is THE legend, genius, maestro !!!
Does anyone know if he's alright? The long time gap has me worried about his health and safety..
I don't think theres anything out there
Goodbye, Paweł. It was nice hearing your dulcet tonez.
Hahahaha, that ending! XD
Also, love the blue screen/reboot sequence on the monitor, lovely touch! Musically, so accurate to the original, you're an absolute legend!
Thank you for all you do!
Having gone back to listen to the awesome Floppotron 2.0 version, I can't believe just how much you've improved in 6 years with the 3.0 version.
Absolutely, 3.0 sounds much more "complete" than 2.0 does
Oh wow, I’d never realised how intricate the intro chords were until now.
Been a guitarist for 25 years lol
This is awesome.
I hope you and yours to be well. Miss your songs. Best regards from Brazil
hey it's been 16 months dude where are you we want to see more music why has everything stopped
Rise and shine, Mister Pawel. Rise and... shine. Not that I... wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a rest... and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well, let's just say your hour has... come again.
The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mister pawel. Wake up and... smell the ashes
Pavel, gdzie zniknąłeś? Bardzo tęsknimy za Twoją fantastyczną muzyką. Mam nadzieję, że masz się dobrze. Przesyłam ci promienie życzliwości i wsparcia.
That little "solo" at 3:20 brought a smile to my face. I also feel, few dot matrix printers could add a bit of, je ne sais quoi. Jazzy. Yes.
Also, nice touch with the piano key floppy drives.
The most impressive must undoubtedly be in the room to listen to it live.
I'd like to hear True Survivor by David Hasselhoff (The Kung Fury song).
We need through the fire and flames on this version of the floppotron
Floppotron man I hope you are doing well
the world needs you
Thank you for your dedication on this project, i might forget this thing ever happened sooner or later, but let these videos be the time capsule for future generations to come.
o7
Where are you? Are fine?
Really was the final countdown after all.
@@arw2008 oof
We love you floppotron
Final indeed
I just found this guy today and he’s not doing these anymore nooooo. He is brilliant!
I don't know how to explain that I love everything about this video
the "electronic" way in which the scanners sound to simulate voices.
The click of the hard disks to simulate percussions, the growl of the floppy disks simulating what would be the guitars and basses.
I love the detail at minute 2:09 of the pc crashing and restarting.
I honestly love everything about this video, I really do
Keep it up, man you rock.
What’s more impressive to me is that The Floppotron 3.0 is able to continue playing, even if it has blue screened… 😅
I absolutely love how the computer actually blue screens at the end of the countdown
The Floppotron is growing and growing. Where the hell did he found so many more floppy disc drives?
And it's still amusing to have this flashbacks of old devices, which did make weird sounds for no reasons.
And here now we have the floppotron who, however, managed to get all the codings so the devices make sound into recognizable music.
The song is perfect for the floppotron. I feel like the song was made for that.
All instruments, tones... everything is exact to the song! LOVE IT! 👍😎
I absolutely love that you are still making new content and expanding the Floppotron's capacity as a music-making device. Thank you for all the work you do--it adds to our lives.
Ive always been fascinated in the sounds floppy drives make despite not having lived around them and i was hooked when i came across the OG floppotron way back, i hope you make a return in the future maybe with the 4.0! ❤
i love that windows bue screened around mid way lmfao
This, in my opinion, is one of the best covers by the floppotron. The sounds produced are just so fitting for the final countdown. I think next, that a few different songs would sound really good on it. Free Bird i think would be interesting, don't bring me down i feel that the guitar in it would sound amazing like the final countdown, and we didnt start the fire.
I remember a time where this song was actual magic... If you could play the opening riff on a piano you were transformed into an instant rock star, at least for a few minutes! 🤘
There’s something about when it really gets going that almost has a Knights of Cydonia vibe. I wonder if there is mashup potential there.
Wowowow, what a glow up this song got! Super full sound!
I think the synth-heavy '80s that tends to not reach _too_ deep into the percussion range has some hot tunes that could work really well with this machine. I think the thing I *most* want to see is *ELO's **_Twilight_** (with the **_Prologue!)_* Though that whole album is straight fire and I'd love to hear _From The End Of The World_ and _Yours Truly, 2095_ on this instrument too! Asia's _Time Again_ or _Sole Survivor_ are honourable mentions, I think.
What a sendoff, god speed man. This shit ROCKS!
3... 2... 1... BLUE SCREEN!
I think that Heart of Glass by Blondie would sound great on the floppytron
Myślałem, że już mnie niczym nie zaskoczysz ale... wywołałeś u mnie więcej radości niż w latach '80 kiedy to pierwszy raz usłyszałem ten utwór w radio 👏
This really was his final countdown.
I came here to find more videos and i hope you're not right, it's been a year. The final floppy
@@jellef4704 *sad doots*
Russia Ukraine war maybe?
It would be amazing to see the soundtrack of TOPGEAR (Super Nintendo Game) on Flopotron 3.0
Amazing. As next song, the force theme from Star Wars would be great for the 40 years of Return of the Jedi. Or Back to the future
Already know this will be a banger.
Просто неймовірно! Наблюдав давно. Все починалось з флопіка, який "навчився" грати музику. Павло зібрав цілий оркестр! Удачі і надхнення тобі, друже!
The musical attention to detail is superb. Excellent stuff!
8 months ago, let's hope this wasn not his final count down.
An amazing rendition by an amazing machine. As usual, I'm putting in my recommendation for Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode.
Wow, the guitar riffs sound exactly like in the original, good job! Sounds amazing!
Amazing as always! 👍
I had left a RUclips tab up playing a "Chill music to work to" and when it finished THIS came up, and I was going "WTF IS THIS KLAXON SOUNDING STUFF!" till I found the tab, lol!
Nice! I have a request, just for the heck of it (maybe even a little trip down memory lane, for some): the "The Muppet Show" theme song.
It looks like something produced by aperture science! Absolutely amazing! xD
It is amazing how those who grew up around these now-old machines can feel nostalgia from any song played on the Floppotron.
Jedno pytanie : jak długo zajęło konfigurowanie całego sprzętu oraz ile programuje się jeden utwór???? Super robota :)
Na Srpskom jeziku:
Jedno pitanje:
Koliko dugo je trajalo konfigurisanje celoga hardvera i koliko se programira jedan nastup?
Super rabota.
“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
I remember when i watch the impirial march like 10 years ago!!! Man do i love this tipe of thing
Yay another song from Floppotron!
Sounds amazing as usual! =^_^=
Amazing, from Brazil 🎉🎉
so i've listened to this song normally about a hundred times and never payed attention to the lyrics, i didn't realize it was a lament from space travelers leaving earth forever to explore the universe. damn.
This is inspired and reminds me of my tabletop CNC mill, the servos used to make lovely music-like sounds running some programs.
My 9-year-old daughter loved it She was humming along throughout. She also spotted the piano design in 0.5 seconds.
Waiting for more
I can listen to this music for hours. You are doing really great work. ❤❤❤❤❤
it was for real, The Final Countdown :(
It's incredible the sounds you've been able to pull from these old drives
I didn't know what I was expecting when I clicked into this rabbit hole...but I'm not even remotely disappointed and now I need more.
A masterpiece