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Organ update! Pt6

Uncompressed first ever time we jammed!

here it is. pretty much the first ever 10 minutes we tried to play together haha. 

Organ blog pt5

Thanks for all the comments this past day on posts I’ll make sure to get through and reply! I have had my hands tied a bit trying to get through the boring bits so can get to shooting the interesting parts of the project!

Big machine resto vid part 4

So hopefully will have the first vid up tomorrow basically of the whole removal which we got loads of footage. But here is a little vid looking at the opulent at the museum!

Just an update on big mumma!

This was earlier today. 14 hours later and it’s all in the van it all fitted in a long wheelbase transit :D. Let’s get it singing

The plan with the big mumma new machine

Maybe I’m being optimistic. But I recon 2 months 3 vids and all the pipe stops are in and hooting

here we go the cat is out of the bag......

A New Rabbit Hole Might Be Opening

so after this weeks project I will be jumping back into a musical project and its quite a big one! and I really hope it will make some entertaining videos as I don't feel this certain type of music machine has been covered enough in technical videos on youtube. So it may be quite fun and entertaining to delve into.

variety is the spice of life so hopefully this past week of Strowger project talk has not been too much on here. the project is nearly done, the video is still not quite ther...

Strowger stream

Ok so! Not the best connection for a few annoying reasons however it’s enough to test it as it stands now the number is 01843808393 and it’s a U.K. landline.

It maybe engaged currently only 2 lines at the same time. Next week it’ll be 4

To dial just dial some numbers.

Dial # to hang up in the exchange

Not everything is wired back in yet but enough to try

6900 phone and answering set

6901 a different blue phone you can...

ITS ALIVE SORT OF

so yeah its ready to be called, currently only 2 inbound lines, 4 not till next weekend as I broke a couple of chips while building oops. but you can give it a go! ill try livestream tomorrow too like I mention in the video

01843808393 UK landline number (not premium, but be aware it would be an international call)

6900 green phone

6904 jingle on tape announcer

6907 answer disk

5820 tech moan announcement

5813 other announcement

6902 toilet phone

the code is done! and its all nearly ready!

so here it is the code! infant it has progressed somewhat since I shot this. I have plugged it up to a single line of the exchange so you can actually try it. international phone fees may apply, mebbbe double check what it costs to call a UK landline. 

01843808393

hangup within the call is #

some things that are currently wired in :-

1. 5813 for the other one
2. 6907 for that flat tape floppy
3. 6904 for the answering set with the jingle
4. 69...
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Checking out the different approaches to the problem

code in order of mention :-

the group Code for the initial Arduino and dtmf converter

https://wokwi.com/projects/331384958810587730

keiths https://github.com/keith-aykira/DTMFToPulse

Pauls teensy code :- 2022-05-11 21:43:35 +0000 UTC View Post

And the physical side to this weeks project

Let’s this this finally sorted. It’s going to be good to finally have this project done. It’s all go as got a pretty big musical machine project coming after!

I’m aware this may make zero sense

Hello so this is the week for finally wiring it all up to the net, however I have one piece to the puzzle that is still looming the dtmf to pulse converter.

The video above outlines what it is. And a few ways to go about it. I was wondering if anyone was able to aid in this code at all. The inputs and outputs are simple but it all has the possibility of getting a bit messy

So looking for pointers.

Maybe I make the code in my stupid way. With...

WAV TRIGGER SEQUENTIAL PROPHET SAMPLE BANK

hey so this is where this project is at! making use of this rather interesting oddity of the 1990's in the toilet! also attached is a sample bank you can drag into the wav trigger to use, its nice and easy to use as a midi box to plug in and forget if you like the samples! nice bit of reverb on the samples sum up together nicely. 

here's the links from the video  :-

info on midi to wav trigger 2022-05-06 19:08:22 +0000 UTC View Post

ONSHAPE 3d Printing CAD design How To 1.0

I have been asked about this before, and I needed to make a very simple mount today so I thought id share the process on a simple item. 

A Handful Of Sounds To Use From An Upcoming Video

so  currently in the process of doing a video on this machine! its quite interesting. it has other sensors and is from the early 1990's made originally for accessible music control. its really cool! what's the plan! well its hands free so this is going to make the toilet musical. I forgot it was a bank holiday today so no deliveries which puts it all back by 1 day as I wait for a couple of pieces to turn up for it, but ETA this Thursday! for this one :) here are some arpeggios for you to...

EXPLORING A 70's DIY SYNTH ANOMOLIE

I drove for about 8 hours today to pick this thing up. lets find out more in this livestream.

.wav Song download From The Next Video!

I just shot this using the last patterns saved in from the livestream last night to show off the machine in the next video! the record player

Look Mum No Livestream has to be Saturday

unfortunately this is postponed till tomorrow, I have had some problems with everything today but will have it ready in time to roll tomorrow, also the fact I hadn't announced the public stream, very sorry if this is of inconvenience. but it will be 23rd at 7:30pm. the link will work which is above.

CIRCLE DRONE OF DOOM SOUNDS

I hope these sounds are useful for something! use these sounds for any old thing. some nice bits in there.

Look mum no livestream warm up

hello so! back on it like a car bonnet, I have numerous livestreams planned in the coming weeks. first off after realising the last setup just wasn't working tomorrow 7pm BST /GMT I have no bleeding clue hopefully the youtube time will tell you! I will be doing a livestream for a bit music wise. this is to get it all up and going again for a public livestream on Friday, and also a few gigs gotta warm them jack sockets up. got a few machines back up and going, including the valve synth! and &n...

Baudot kosmo! and super dodge song

here kosmo is! massive shoutout to marcnet, and also Felix Geiger for analysing the baud code in the first place. this is the forum thread about it all if you are interested :-

https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/baudot-minicom-5000-stuffs/3895/24

it will soon be hooked up to online so anyone can call in and interact with it! I have heard curious Marc has ...

Many a things!

first off if you call 01843 808 393 itll reach the museum. Its the beginning of getting everything wired in so you can call and play and what not. its not a premium number but it does play something if you call it!

there is now space for a descriptive synth display! ill use it as an opportunity to do another synth DIY series, ill try go super simple for it. but strip board layouts again and builders livestreams! starting in a week or so

music livestreams! 2 next week ill mention t...

BAUDOT KOSMO IS DONE

Not finished the video and stuff yet but let’s have a chat with Kosmo.

Get Blown Away Cover

here's the song I hinted at a few days ago. by the time I had setup and played the first take to warm up the powertran decided to die!! I still need to fix it. luckily the warmup take wasn't that bad only a few duff notes and wrong words ha. 

This is a cover so I have just set it as public. 

baudot Kosmo next!!!

BAUDOT KOSMO PROGRESS

Test Equipment Rock Rebooting

So back on the test equipment malarkey at some point. the big project this week is baudot Kosmo! more on that very soon. but the time has come. somewhat spurred on by hainbachs visit to get thetest  equipment going a full proper room setup for the museum. not fully interactive but open for people to use when its coming together. the bottom of this rack is a digitimer 4030 a pretty mad pulse machine that does all sorts of stuff. mainly centring around 1 pulse with 4 delays from it, 2 sepa...

Working on a cover to shoot this week

going to go to the place I usually shoot the white room performance vids to do a cover later this week, worked it out today, simple. but I realised I got a couple of chords wrong oops. still working on the vocal bits. its one of my personal favourite songs of all time. its not an obvious one. but here's. the synth part (minus the wrong chords lol tbh you'd only know if you have played the song before haha) 

POWER TRAN POLYSYNTH SAMPLES

finally! this video is done and up! this synth was a journey I definitely recommend taking a look at the documentation about it I have attached below. among with some samples of notes and chords and slides and swooshes.