Subj : Re: Big nostalgia hits
To   : Nightfox
From : Bob Worm
Date : Fri Nov 17 2023 23:55:08

  Re: Re: Big nostalgia hits
  By: Nightfox to Bob Worm on Fri Nov 17 2023 13:23:30

Hi, Nightfox.

 > Years ago, I found a YouTube channel where someone has made a setup he calls
 > the "Floppotron", which plays music with floppy drives.  He has a bunch of
 > floppy disk drives connected to a computer that uses software to engage the
 > floppy drives' motors to produce various tones, and it looked to me like the
 > software can load a MIDI file and play it with the floppy drives.

I remember that, yes. The first few of those seemed really well done, a lot of effort put in to remake tracks around the limitations of the medium. Then I ran into more videos years later which included stepper motors and played multiple tones at once. It just seemed like analogue audio was being fed into the motors, not so much art to it, kind of spoiled it for me.

Maybe I'm just grumpy.

BobW
BobW
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