SomethingUnreal | Caramelldansen Piano Attempt [HD] @SomethingUnreal | Uploaded 15 years ago | Updated 4 hours ago
There are at least 4 very obvious and cringe-worthy mistakes which make me think I shouldn't be uploading this, but after trying for quite a few hours over 2 days, this was the best I could do. Maybe someday after more practise I'll try it on a real piano.
This is me trying to play Caramelldansen as I've learnt it from memory, to a metronome at 165 BPM.
Also, my Remi plush fell onto the keys many times during failed attempts but didn't during this "most successful" one, so I had to force her to. =P
Technical stuff:
The keyboard is a Yamaha PSR-E313. Played music can be recorded onto internal memory. While playing this, it was recording, and later I played it back while its headphone output was connected to my soundcard, to have a nice clean recording of just the piano sound without the metronome, key presses, and my sniffing due to hayfever (except for when I laughed at my failure). xD
There are at least 4 very obvious and cringe-worthy mistakes which make me think I shouldn't be uploading this, but after trying for quite a few hours over 2 days, this was the best I could do. Maybe someday after more practise I'll try it on a real piano.
This is me trying to play Caramelldansen as I've learnt it from memory, to a metronome at 165 BPM.
Also, my Remi plush fell onto the keys many times during failed attempts but didn't during this "most successful" one, so I had to force her to. =P
Technical stuff:
The keyboard is a Yamaha PSR-E313. Played music can be recorded onto internal memory. While playing this, it was recording, and later I played it back while its headphone output was connected to my soundcard, to have a nice clean recording of just the piano sound without the metronome, key presses, and my sniffing due to hayfever (except for when I laughed at my failure). xD
![Caramelldansen Piano Attempt [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EW9sZL3_9Vs/hqdefault.jpg "Caramelldansen Piano Attempt [HD]
There are at least 4 very obvious and cringe-worthy mistakes which make me think I shouldnt be uploading this, but after trying for quite a few hours over 2 days, this was the best I could do. Maybe someday after more practise Ill try it on a real piano.
This is me trying to play Caramelldansen as Ive learnt it from memory, to a metronome at 165 BPM.
Also, my Remi plush fell onto the keys many times during failed attempts but didnt during this most successful one, so I had to force her to. =P
Technical stuff:
The keyboard is a Yamaha PSR-E313. Played music can be recorded onto internal memory. While playing this, it was recording, and later I played it back while its headphone output was connected to my soundcard, to have a nice clean recording of just the piano sound without the metronome, key presses, and my sniffing due to hayfever (except for when I laughed at my failure). xD")
![[Download] All my SC-88Pro MIDIs!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EnZnmfuRoVc/hqdefault.jpg "[Download] All my SC-88Pro MIDIs!
It only took 5 years, but you can finally download all the MIDIs Ive 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, Ive already uploaded videos of all of them.
I mention this in the video and on the download page, but these wont sound so good on non-Sound Canvas synths. Ive 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 its very time-consuming and not always possible to even make it sound half-good, so I didnt do this for all of my MIDIs. They should sound fine on the newer SC-8850 too, and Id 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 youd 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...")
![Spring Breeze -afternoon- (Clannad OST) and BaWaMI [rev 106]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Eo_JJn1Mbbg/hqdefault.jpg "Spring Breeze -afternoon- (Clannad OST) and BaWaMI [rev 106]
Heres the latest version of Bawami, my MIDI player, playing Kamotos MIDI of the theme 「東風 -afternoon-」, from the visual novel Clannad.
This video is both to show off some new things in my software, while letting you hear how it performs with this particular MIDI file. This is the biggest update since I first released Bawami to the public, and I changed even some smaller things such as the character of the reverb (theres now damping, so that hihats and treble such as the shakers in this MIDI dont sound painfully loud anymore).
Download and full list of changes I made in this version (over 30!):
http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/blog/?p=847
Bawamis usual page:
http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/blog/?page_id=84#bawami
MIDI used in this demo:
http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/F_s_t_v2_copy/Clannad%20OST/kmtcla11_88p.mid")
![2nd Touhou Piano Medley Attempt [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G8Uj37IrHwE/hqdefault.jpg "2nd Touhou Piano Medley Attempt [HD]
Well, I tried again... and failed again. xD
I know the piano isnt perfectly in tune, but it was the best I had access to. Plus, if it had been really good, I might not have been allowed to have the front cover off it.
By the way, the piano happened to be in a building attached to a church, so I thought there was a nice irony to starting the medley with the theme of a vampire.
EDIT:
You can find Touhou sheet music at the Japanese site http://easypianoscore.mad.buttobi.net/sheetList.php (no spaces in URL, thats just YouTube messing up as usual). However, I cant read sheet music. orz")
![Singing stepper motors - Motto ☆ Hade Ni Ne (Kannagi OP) [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GLmv2fAfOG8/hqdefault.jpg "Singing stepper motors - Motto ☆ Hade Ni Ne (Kannagi OP) [HD]
Apologies for the sucky sound quality - it seems these stepper motors arent ideal for music, since theyre so quiet.
A program of mine running on my laptop is sending the frequencies of notes from a MIDI file (which I didnt make) to an Arduino, which in turn controls 2 stepper motors and shows the frequencies on an LCD. The music is the opening theme to the anime Kannagi, 「motto☆派手にね」.
I suppose this is a step up from the singing motor videos I uploaded in 2007/2008. With stepper motors, the pitch can be precisely correct! However, the ones I have cant get very high-pitched, so theyre better for bass (not what theyre doing in this video). At around 00:14, you can hear what happens if one tries to go faster than it can - it just vibrates.
Maybe Ill try to get some stepper motors which are louder / higher torque / have more steps per revolution, when I have the money to spend on such random things...")
![Osu! - IOSYS: Hakurei Jinja on graphics tablet (100%, Normal) [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HbvlZUSjEaM/hqdefault.jpg "Osu! - IOSYS: Hakurei Jinja on graphics tablet (100%, Normal) [HD]
On a graphics tablet~.
I was recently introduced to the rhythm-based game osu!. Since its a clone of a game from the Nintendo DS which takes advantage of the touch-sensitive screen, I decided to try to emulate that playing style.
I know that this beatmap is really not hard compared to most, but my Yes! was due to the fact that this was the first time Id got a 100% accuracy rating.
The songs full name is 「博麗神社町内会音頭」 (Hakurei Shrine Neighborhood Association Marching Song).
The wires coming out of the pen are soldered to the battery terminals inside, and have a D-size battery (which you can see on my desk) connected on the other end. I did that because the internal battery compartment of the pen had a connection so bad that the tablet was simply unusable when using it.
I dont think I have the input/song sync set correctly since there is quite a noticable delay between pressing the pen and the game detecting that (you can see, and even sometimes hear the tapping at times, in the video). I set the offset to the same as what I set StepManias to, and, since both games use DirectSound, I thought that that would make the offset perfect here too, but clearly thats not the case.")
![Animecon 2011: R/C Yukkuri Yumekuri Compilation (incomplete edit) [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J7227cAAD-E/hqdefault.jpg "Animecon 2011: R/C Yukkuri Yumekuri Compilation (incomplete edit) [HD]
Just a few clips of Dnstjes remote-controlled yukkuri at Animecon in the Netherlands last weekend. It never fails to entertain. This time, he made a Yumekui Merry (Merry Nightmare) hat for it, making it a yumekuri!
(Is comedic swearing in Dutch safe on YouTube? xD)
Apologies for the incomplete editing - this was not originally going to be the final edit, but my computers CPU died (of all things), and Im not able to continue editing using my netbook. This was just going to be a test render, but since I wont have any money to get my computer up and running again for about a month, Im uploading the video now in its incomplete state.")
![~Shining In The Sky~ (Clannad OST) on Bawami [rev 93] [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JUL0bJQpCTc/hqdefault.jpg "~Shining In The Sky~ (Clannad OST) on Bawami [rev 93] [HD]
Ive added support for reverbs to Bawami, my MIDI player. Also, theres a new internal view here - scrolling text which shows every MIDI message played, and how it is interpreted. There are dozens of other changes, too, but the only other one audible in this video is support for the maracas percussive instrument (actually a tambourine in the original music).
This is my MIDI software synth BaWaMI (Basic Waveform MIDI), so-named because it makes all its sound from one of 6 basic waveforms (sine, square, triangle up/down, saw or noise) with one low/high-pass filter applied (and now, reverb too). Ive not yet released it yet*, as there are still issues that need to be fixed before it goes public, but Ill keep uploading these preview videos as I make improvements. =)
Here, its playing a MIDI (which I didnt make) of the music 「空に光る」 (Shining in the Sky), from the anime Clannad (I believe its from the anime rather than the visual novel).
Channel 9 is supposed to play as percussion here, but my program currently only supports percussion on channel 10, so I told Bawami to at least play it as something percussive-sounding (a taiko drum).
*BaWaMI is released now! See lots of info and download it here:
http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/blog?page_id=84#bawami
MIDI used in this demo:
http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/F_s_t_v2_copy/Clannad%20OST/O_Clannad_33.mid")
