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Short | 4 years ago

[Download] All my SC-88Pro MIDIs!

It only took 5 years, but you can finally download all the MIDIs I've made for the Roland SC-88Pro synth!

Well, I actually started making a lot more than 12, but most of them got abandoned, and these are all the ones that managed to survive my short attention span and make it all the way through to completion. If you just want to hear them, I've already uploaded videos of all of them.

I mention this in the video and on the download page, but these won't sound so good on non-Sound Canvas synths. I've made special versions of a few MIDIs, which are designed to work better on simpler synths (simplifying percussion and moving it all onto one channel, emulating slower attacks by using "expression" control changes, etc), which are included in the downloads where they exist, but it's very time-consuming and not always possible to even make it sound half-good, so I didn't do this for all of my MIDIs. They should sound fine on the newer SC-8850 too, and I'd be curious as to how they sound on an older Sound Canvas like the SC-55.

BaWaMI, my MIDI software synth, can sound acceptable playing most of them - at least if you spend a minute or two adjusting volumes and instruments. You can also use it to see what the MIDI Unfortunately, it would take a lot of work in a MIDI editor to get them to play well on a Yamaha XG synth, though.

You can grab the MIDIs from here: http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/88pmidi/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230606064954/http://robbi-985.homeip.net/88pmidi/

You can also download BaWaMI from here, if you'd like: http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/blog/?page_id=84#bawami https://web.archive.org/web/20230606064951/http://robbi-985.homeip.net/blog/?page_id=84#bawami https://web.archive.org/web/20230430225434/http://robbi-985.homeip.net/hosted_programs/update/bawami/

I just hope that the people who wanted me to release these are still around to be able to have fun with them now...

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[Download] All my SC-88Pro MIDIs!

Short | 4 years ago

It only took 5 years, but you can finally download all the MIDIs I've made for the Roland SC-88Pro synth! Well, I actually started making a lot more than 12, but most of them got abandoned, and these are all the ones that managed to survive my short attenti...

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Arduino MIDI Synth Demo Preview (square + noise) [download]

Review | 7 years ago

Up to 15 notes at once on an Arduino using no timers! Well, the quality drops a lot as the number of playing notes increases, but still! This is a demo of a MIDI synth I'm developing for the Arduino. Its sound is currently very basic - it has no concept of ...

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Dojikko v2

Guide | 8 years ago

I've given my little robot a huge upgrade - she can now see the world properly! This video is just an introduction, and there'll be a proper demonstration of her path-following abilities later. Her brain is now a Raspberry Pi instead of an Arduino, and she ...

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Neural Network Tries to Generate English Speech (RNN/LSTM)

Guide | 9 years ago

By popular demand, I threw my own voice into a neural network (3 times) and got it to recreate what it had learned along the way! This is 3 different recurrent neural networks (LSTM type) trying to find patterns in raw audio and reproduce them as well as th...

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Noob Pancakes

Video | 10 years ago

This isn't going to become a thing on this channel - I was just hungry and wanted to record it... I think I should stick to computer stuff. If I hadn't put any effort into editing this, I would've put this on my other channel.

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CrowdSound Retro Rock-ish Remix

Video | 10 years ago

I started playing around using the melody and chord progression that a huge number of people created together at CrowdSound, and ended up making this little arrangement for Bawami, my MIDI synth. It took a few hours over 3 nights. CrowdSound is a site where...

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Arduino PID motor speed controller - Extra fun bits (part 2/2)

Video | 10 years ago

[STROBE WARNING!] These are a few of the bits that I cut from the main video because it was too long, including running it at full speed and a comparison with a super-simple system! You might want to watch part 1 if you haven't already, so that this makes m...

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Arduino PID motor speed controller - Casual demo (part 1/2)

Video | 10 years ago

[STROBE WARNING!] I threw this together from an old toy's motor, old printer's iR sensor, pizza box and some other things, to try out the PID controller algorithm after discovering it on Wikipedia and seeing that there was pseudocode, meaning that I didn't ...

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Neural Network Learns to Generate Voice (RNN/LSTM)

Video | 10 years ago

[VOLUME WARNING] This is what happens when you throw raw audio (which happens to be a cute voice) into a neural network and then tell it to spit out what it's learned. This is a recurrent neural network (LSTM type) with 3 layers of 680 neurons each, trying ...

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Random Old Rubbish (Part 2)

Video | 10 years ago

The second and much-shorter part, as I clear out some random rubbish (and come across some non-rubbish!) in my room. There are a few more old electronic devices, including a ~25-year-old LCD game, plus some paper stuff... This time, I didn't throw away or d...

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Server that actually looks (and sounds) like a server

Video | 10 years ago

I was recently with a friend who runs a server which is a lot more impressive than mine, so I thought I'd show it off. It also sounds like a jet engine. For a start, it's actually in a rack-mount case (2U), with ~17TB total disk capacity and 20GB of RAM (it...

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Random Old Rubbish (Part 1)

Video | 10 years ago

I was going through and throwing away a load of random rubbish (mostly toys), and some of it was interesting, so I decided to record it. Some of it's around 14 years old. I didn't intend for 50% of the video to be about Beyblades.

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