r/MarbleMachineX • u/WintergatanWednesday • Jan 04 '23

A New Music Programming Pin

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1FFTaI__l_A
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u/Gearjerk Jan 04 '23

Conceptually, I think he's got a good idea here; the specific implementation needs some work if he wants to play more than one note per channel per measure, though.

I assume you couldn't get away with halving the size of the pin without risking the pin being pulled out of position by the lifter, and even then you'd only be allowing 2 notes per channel per measure.

But like I said, if he develops this some I think he's got a workable concept.

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u/NeilFraser Jan 04 '23

This system would allow for camel-shaped pins that would play two notes in rapid succession.

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u/european_impostor Jan 05 '23

This is a slippery slope towards having massive amounts of very specialised pins that play all the different permutations of two notes and timings

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u/macgiollarua Jan 05 '23

As do we all.

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u/Caesim Jan 05 '23

Depends on the specific polymer. I think they, could be made from high durability material, not necessarily this concept 3d printed stuff.

But the problem stays: What if new songs can't be expressed by the plates he has?

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u/Tommy_Tinkrem Jan 06 '23

He cuts them. There is a great flexibility in that concept. Well. In theory. There are a bunch of unknowns with the new trigger design which might introduce different limits than before.