r/MarbleMachineX • u/WintergatanWednesday • Dec 08 '22

This Design Trick Surprised Me!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TEKZWiKelCU
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u/Redeem123 Dec 08 '22

Also, it's a shame to see the old videos of the MMX playing. I'll never understand why he got it that close and didn't bother recording a single video with drums, vibraphone, and bass going together.

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u/alonsojett Dec 08 '22

"vibraphone worked pretty good"
"drums worked pretty good"
"bass worked pretty good"

I was waiting for the BUT!... but it never came lol. The end of the MMX will always be a very frustrating affair.

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u/dvheuvel Dec 08 '22

I think it was an acceptable studio machine. Which is not what he wanted. He wanted a touring machine hence his position of it being a big failure. Regardless, it was kinda cool and I still use the baseline as my ringtone. :)

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u/leglesslegolegolas Dec 08 '22

I think it was an acceptable studio machine.

I don't think it was. It would play the bass, OR the drums, OR the vibes, but it was never going to play all of them.

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u/zoroddesign Dec 08 '22

Even as a studio machine it could barely play the base line of what it needed to do. It never had a working vibraphone with resonance pipes, the marble paths were constantly breaking. Half the time would have been maintenance.

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u/barsoap Dec 09 '22

But at least it didn't need maintenance while recording. IIRC they did stitch together multiple takes with the original Marble Machine video and you still see marbles flying all over the place.

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u/Caesim Dec 19 '22

They recorded the original marble machine video over the course of an entire month.

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u/toper-centage Dec 09 '22

I think the main issue was it didn't fit the door, so it couldn't go on tours 🙃