Some Old Audiovisualizers and new synthesizer sounds

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"Late 1980's LYTE audiovisualizer, large VU meter, and small LED VU meter all responding to some new synthesizer sounds I made. Except I didn't make the LYTE.

If you like the sounds, you can download an mp3 of them at:
http://www.onanother.net/ViRandom_Syn..."

1985 digital sound voice synthesizer demo AN ORIGINAL DISK

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"In 1985 I wrote this in BASIC and a few bytes of ASM for 4 different brands of computer and if I was known for doing anything in high school, this was it, the only thing mentioned about me in my yearbook. I would also leave these disks at computer stores and computer club. Although it is now known that the synthesizer is (capable of) higher quality than MP3, my means of programming sounds into it in the 1980's never had a reasonable explanation for why it worked at all, (and I now know that it simply didn't!,) and in the 1990's other unique methods were tried while this one was considered to be the worst kind of digital sound ever invented. The disk "apparently" has male female and robotic TTS voices, 2 songs, and a few talking games on it. But it seems to have been proved an accidental illusion, especially since it is known to be inaudible through a telephone line.

In other words, I still have the right to make random noise and call it music."

Predictive Music Synthesizer - Plays all possible digital sounds without a computer

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"Unlike the "Pandora's Box" Synthesizer, which is more melodious but exponentially redundant, this axiomatically rather than theoretically generates all binary strings at a break-even point. Starting at zero and counting until it reaches a state that would fill all of a computer's memory with bits that are all ones, it is guaranteed to generate all possible binary strings in order, including programs and data, but here applied only to the digital sound of all of those strings. It sequentially outputs each digit of Champernowne's Constant using logic. Discovered in 1927 by David Champernowne and Alan Turing, the CC is known to contain all possible digital data and is obviously prior art to all possible digital sounds. Which means, no new digital sound was ever invented nor recorded nor ever will be. Although this demo doesn't sound very good, math is known which has actually been used to find music by calculating and playing a specific series of digits of this number. The number's intrinsic sound has musical characteristics that are not easy to hear in this video, with rhythm more prominent than melody. A small knob is turned to adjust the very high sampling rate, the prominent buzzing sound is actually the rate at which this circuit is playing unique sounds (as each string of digits, which is each a unique whole number counted in order) in fast-forward. I think most people would agree that this demonstration does not play any good music in this video, but nonetheless it is a matter of fact that the process in progress does generate all possible digital music by definition. Inspired by the millenium music copyright controversy, this method of generating sound seems turn the idea of digital copyrights into complete nonsense, since it needs no memory nor copies to extract all possible data from a number already known to contain the entire infinite set of it."

1994 Human Voice Synthesizer Calculator Prototype

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"This is one of two prototypes. The other had a display, but was given away and then sadly thrown away. It uses the same kind of speech synthesis as my "awful" disks from 1985, but the method of programming sounds was reasonable in this case. This project was cancelled without ever being tested by for whom it was being designed, and is in a very early and peculiar state. It calculates arithmetic using it's memory as a virtual blackboard, exactly as a person would do it, but has a precision of 14 digits. It has the voices of two people, which were copied from my other projects, because I had not yet gotten around to making a voice specifically for it. The synthesizer was hastily set to work below telephone quality and below worst-case MP3 sample rates but I don't think it sounds bad in this video, especially compared to the "1985 disks".

The video ends as the battery "croaks"."

SR0 Eternal Monolithic "Pandora's Box" Automatic Fractal Numeric Synthesizer and Radio Transmitter

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"Digital sonification of a fractal at millions of samples per second generates an ultrasonic and radio frequency melody that never ends and theoretically will eventually transmit any sound on any frequency from baseband audio to ultrasonic octaves and shortwaves. Discovered in 1981 by the author of this video, and further ongoing research into hundreds of similar simple algorithms were inspired by the millenium digital music copyright controversy. These algorithms can predictively generate by accessing vast intangible supersets of all possible sounds as an original string of binary or decimal data without storing them in any media. SR0 = "Space Radio Zero". Interesting question: What rights could I have to an invention that transmits a practically infinite set of all digital sounds? I assume that this can only be public domain."

ViRay's Inspiration (2009 Numeric Synthesis)

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"A new short song made to sound like the one that inspired me to try to make synthesizers as a child.
Played first as a "musical number", one that sounds like music when sent through a serial port directly to a speaker, then as synthesized using the same functions as the 1985 Speech Synthesizer Original Disk. This is a new variant technique that may enable everyone to write new songs that can have the same "energy" as their favorite songs. 30 years after the inspiration, this has been done."

A Vintage 16K Music Demo (William Tell Overture)

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"This was made by Garry and Linda Howard in 1982. There was a 32K version... but... The code was published in a magazine and the terms of use were to type it in and save it on a tape and then run it as is, which is what I did, having to push either 30000 or 60000 keys, I only had 16K so I typed in that version. The longer version had the less interesting part of this melody.

Before it plays you can hear what the program data sounds like on the tape as it reads almost 16K of data from the tape at about 1200 baud.

It's not a copyright violation to run it and show it to people as it is, because that is what it is for.

I can describe the USUAL musical sounds from this machine as sounding very much like the buzzer on a game show when someone gives a wrong answer. This program probably made the best sounding music ever with the TRS-80, and I show it to you because it's on an 8-bit 16K machine with usually crappy sound, like my 1985 synthesizer disk for the Apple II, and it's a historic demo that was famous with people who had TRS-80's but is almost forgotten now.

And also it is either evidence or proof of concept of getting a lot of high quality sound or music without much memory, certainly much less than an MP3 of it would need."

Computer Motherboard Fractal with Sound

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"Hundreds of fractals have been discovered and tested for musical qualities. This one resembles an infinite plane of circuit board and in the process of displaying it, each pixel plotted is also output to the speaker at the same time. This one was discovered and labeled XAX(23,13). Another, XAA(23,13) differs by only one logical function operator and looks like an alien hieroglyphic font. These were discovered, ot designed. Any resemblance of the fractal to an electronic circuit board is entirely unexpected."

Gingerbread Man Fractal with Sound

"Experiment. The gingerbread man fractal is demonstrated both visually and with audio output. The sound of this fractal obviously lacks any pleasant musical qualities. Hundreds of fractals have been discovered and tested for musical characteristics like this."

ROBOTIC SINGING VOICE & KARAOKE KODE on Parallax Propeller

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"This is nothing new, except for me. My voice synthesizer experiments are mostly unique and ignorant of the way other people do it. I am interested in using voice synthesizers to make songs. My music technology is unique but it could use more work in the parts involving lyrics. I didn't make THIS speech synthesizer, but I just gave it some words to sing and display them with my "Karaoke Code" because the voice isn't very clear. I wasn't sure if "99 bottles of beer" was copyrighted, but although it would be easy to make it sing the whole thing, it also seems to me that a lot of people think that would be very annoying... SO I DID SOMETHING ELSE.

I'm still annoyed at the music police and inventing lots of cheap easy ways to make new music.
I could have easily added instruments to this, I guess, but I didn't.

Vocal tract emulator by Chip Gracey of Parallax
Speech phoneme synthesizer by Phil Pilgrim
Karaoke code and demo song by me"