Comments on: Arduino-human synthesizer

By: johnzy

johnzy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:49:02 +0000

You’re all do nothing haters. Wheres your lame projects. Thats right lamewads!

By: gilbert wham

gilbert wham — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:46:36 +0000

The fact that Calvin Harris is not already on fire is a constant source of disappointment to me.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:15:02 +0000

This is actually really stupid. The idea is so unoriginal and easily using barely clad women as just a gimmick. This article deserves to get buried.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:41:41 +0000

@Sean: Yeah, that was my thought exactly. It should be pretty easy to do this without the conductive paint. It doesn’t even look like the paint works all that well—looks like it takes pretty solid contact for it to trigger.

Of course, making it work without the paint would take a little bit of understanding and electrical engineering—the lack of which makes a lot of Arduino hacks like this pretty boring.

By: amk

amk — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:39:29 +0000

Wow. “It’s just contact switches”, “There’s nothing new about contact switches”, “I ate contact switches for breakfast when I was in third grade”. Way to miss the boat hack-a-day commenters.

By: tantris

tantris — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:57:20 +0000

art? okay.

- but no, the human contact switch isn’t new, as sean pointed out. years ago, i taught intro into electrical circuits by using a good continuity tester: students would stand in a circle and hold hands, if someone lets go, the sound stops. you can demonstrate serial, parallel, and even 3-way switches that way.

By: grovenstien

grovenstien — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:10:25 +0000

People can dance in time to music! People can dance to make music! I prefere the piano choir on Dave Gormans Genius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTnKUOjQvaU

By: Hitek146

Hitek146 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:54:30 +0000

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger… :)

By: James

James — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:40:16 +0000

@dan – I spotted how they were doing it, but I’m just not convinced that a pair of people forming one switch with 2 limbs each can be sufficiently well timed as to make that production. Of course if anyone can it’d be a group of professional dancers, but it still seems hard to believe! Take, for example, the two girls doing the foot-swapping move with 4 pads and clapping hands at the same time. In the test run shown they were miles out timing-wise and missed at least one beat.

By: Pog

Pog — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:03:25 +0000

The technology (Max MSP and Ableton Live) is well understood. The “human contact switches” is a novel idea. But the real deal is getting the right choreography so that the music is in time. If this was really played live, then it would be impressive as a piece of choreography. Nice idea. Would it work on stage?

By: dan

dan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:58:32 +0000

@James
>I’m not even convinced that was entirely real, it’s far too perfectly timed for a bunch of non-musicians controlling triggers with all limbs.

the video says they’re quantizing the hits using Ableton Live

By: gally

gally — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:56:02 +0000

old :)

By: James

James — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:41:35 +0000

Glad it’s not just me that thought it was just human contact switches! And I’m not even convinced that was entirely real, it’s far too perfectly timed for a bunch of non-musicians controlling triggers with all limbs.

By: markii

markii — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:26:43 +0000

babes and wires :)
if there were no babes in this post, i wouldn’t have read it.

By: PidGin128

PidGin128 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:59:27 +0000

So does SONY give you an STD to makes sure the samples played aren’t copied?

Fucking rootkits! people.