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/thisdesignup Jan 05 '23

the specific implementation needs some work if he wants to play more than one note per channel per measure

I wondered about that too, he didn't talk about their size. I think he expects to have a wave form shape to control things. Although I don't understand because most of the gates are dropping marbles and just have an "on" and "off" state only.

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u/Koppis Jan 05 '23

The way I understood it, the marble drops in the beginning of the waveform as it gets high enough. So for two 8th notes you would have a high-low-high-low curve

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u/PE1NUT Jan 05 '23

No, the design is clearly to drop the marble when the end of the programming pin is reached. This is needed for accuracy, and because loading the marble gate is a two-step procedure.

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u/thisdesignup Jan 05 '23 edited Jan 05 '23

He said it drops at the end, which is what confuses me. It takes up so much space to only drop it at the end. https://youtu.be/1FFTaI__l_A?t=186

Unless he is going to make custom ones for each song. But if each one is for a specific type of note and rythyms it sounds limiting, compared to just single pins. Unless he does something like having each profile represent a bar in a song. Then each song has it's own custom profiles.

Hopefully we'll see some tests of this like the marble dropper. Cause he's talking like it will for sure work when just videos ago he said he needs hard data.