Solenofon

[syncmaster710n14]

AXEL F!!!!!!!!

[Janigut]

Thumbs up for Beverly Hills Cop!

Relly cool.

[mfc51]

Very cool!

Where did you get the solenoids? Were they expensive?

[MortalShitGr8]

Exorcist, Smooth Criminal, Final Countdown and beberly Hills Cop I recognize xDD

good work! it's awesome

[FerralVideo]

Awesome! That took some work to make, I bet. Nice to see such intelligent uses for simple electronics. I'm recognising a chunk of the tracks too. ^.^

[mikadams]

the intro is Tubular Bells:) this is soooooo awesome. HAHA "Axel F!" I'm just strating to play with puredata and really want to learn this stuff..

[zooto68]

An Arduino card?

[solenofon]

Indeed. Running PDuino and PD on the computer.

[zooto68]

I've heard of Arduino boards but not Arduino cards.

[solenofon]

in this case, used synonymous.

[rbolo29]

A few tones remind me of the 'Final Countdown" or something similiar.

[solenofon]

good catch. See other comments for full (and pretty much correct) track listing.

[hkrivell]

Excellent! The first song reminded me of Friday the 13th or Exorsist.

[thelightguy1]

great songs! very cool, The final countdown!!!!!!

[Jenspeder]

The songs are as follows:

0:10 Tublar bells

0:23 Popcorn

0:39 *don't remember*

1:07 axel f (beverly hills cop theme)

1:37 smooth criminal

cool to see so many people watching :)

This is the result of a schoolproject at our university, a mandatory class called "experts in team". A class with the purpose of learning to work together with people with different expertise. So we decided to have some fun, and made the "Solenofon" (solenoid+phon)

[stiffcookie]

1:45 you missed final countdown :)

[thedefog]

Where did you get the Solenoids? I'm trying to track down good ones for something like this that are cheap.

[WaCiesT]

me too!!

[walikai]

old VCR's have many solenoids mostly older electronics.

[chiquito112]

old photocopyers are chip and have a lot. someones almost 10

[chiquito112]

cheap i mean, sorry

[batista6590]

Great!

[tetavo]

tracklisting, please?

[Mastermax345]

Take that into a subway, put some fake buttons on it, and see how much you make by "playing" it with the buttons.

[warinmymind]

I wuuhhn pleah!!!!

[jkkjjkl]

dere er norke cool the first song is extorsist nice.

[jkkjjkl]

Norske*

[Realilluzon]

second song was Popcorn

[kill4fun218]

first song = halloween theme

[ITAmich]

Nope, it was Tubular Bells by Michael Oldfield, used for the movie "Exorcist"

[rbrianhall]

0:39 -- Beach Boys "Sloop John B"

1:07 -- "Axel F", Theme from Beverly Hills Cop

1:39 -- Michael Jackson "Smooth Criminal"

1:45 -- "The Final Countdown" by Europe

Not sure about the first two. Well done, though.

[TWEB17]

its not by Michael Jackson its by alien ant farm

[gundam436]

lol..

[aampudia8]

ummmm... no.. its michael jackson's... alien ant farm took it and made a cover.. but the original was jackson's

[finalfilipino]

holy crap that's awesome

[AfroFugi]

this is freaking sweet good job

[FLCLnaota]

another awsome one!! sweet make more!

[warinmymind]

O.M.G Michael Jackson's Smooth criminal 0.0!

[warinmymind]

when it started it sounded like the original exorcist music (0.0)

[jkkjjkl]

yeah i nice

[Shyssirixus]

What song is this?

[mccanard]

so annoying must be american

[Shyssirixus]

Your an idiot.

[BriggoTheKat]

Actually the girl in the first few seconds sounds German. Furthermore, many of the songs in your "Favorites" collection are by American musicians. Please don't generalize- not all Americans are "annoying" barbaric boneheads like so many people seem to think.

[kiralita]

she is not german, she is norwegian:)

[mccanard]

steppenwolf is canadian and led zeppelin is from england, as said you are annoying

[mattbetts01]

funny.

we say the same about you.

=D

[villelayo]

woooo smooth criminaaal!XD

[First2ner]

haha beautiful!!!!! graet stuff, nicely done!!

[JoannaBri]

fan frikin tastic

[clarr3]

popcorn!

[Trublhappn]

I think I also heard some Micheal jackson's cold criminal in there O_o

[CapricornSuave]

smooth criminal

[Trublhappn]

Crazy frog XD!!! Okay, you're officially my favoritest person in the world XD

[JShawtyKim]

its those little things, so cool

[muggycheetos]

awsome

[maxpain70]

bravo bravo

[Tootoe]

wow thats reall friggin awesome

[cappinchainsaw]

that was magnificent

[superextramegagiga]

wow... you people rock my world...

[Keijz74]

:o)#

[SRMnM]

The first was Tubular Bells init..

[skoragzi]

Yeah - Tubular Bells

[albertogoser]

awesome

[tomewr4]

loool cool nice! so nice!

[tobiasbas]

You Nerd! its so freakin' cool! :D

(Nerd is someone that have an interest to something, "Different" Not evil Means!..)

[NIGHTMAREuki]

nice

[emo5derf]

Instead of "electronic" or "automated" this kind of music can be called "Electo-Tech" or "Gizmo".

[emo5derf]

> and your method would be the "solenoid" instrument or Solenofon as you have.

[FrannitoX3]

Jajaa sooo nice

Lovee it ~♥

[mycurse333]

Name of song is final count down by europe

[MysticalPotatoe]

Not at all.

[Vortex93]

the last one is final count down

[busterpiggle]

I recognized "Popcorn" and "Axel Foley" in there...

[wineguy1962]

Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield is the opening sequence.

[sanchobustamante1]

hi solenofon,

I am looking for someone that can hook up 80 or more solenoids (that will lock small doors) to one board and connect to a PC. Its a paying gig.

Are you interested.

Thank you

Sancho

[wollewolfsson]

so cool! I have tried to get my Arduino to read midi data, but with no success. I suspect that the optocouplers I use aren't fast or precise enough, to create a edge that is destinct, or sharp, enough to be read as serial bytes by the Arduino. I would be very happy if you would point me a little further in the right direction, by letting me know what you use.

[solenofon]

We don't use MIDI directly on the Arduino. The arduinocard is using PDuino and we're supplying puredata with midi-in which it maps to pins on the arduinocard through PDuino (google it).

[wollewolfsson]

Thanks. I'll check out about PDuino right away, and start getting into PD too. It might be interesting & rewarding to try that route too, though my primary aim is to build something that don't need to be connected to a computer, but can be run from a hardware midi sequencer or drum machine.

[solenofon]

Ah. This instrument is 100% dependent on a computer as all the parsing and logic really is in PD and not on the arduino it self.

We originally thought about going down that route, but implementing it like this was much easier and allowed us to use "off the shelf" (i.e. internet) software.

[cerealkillerds02]

What's the name of the song from 0:23-0:38? I've heard it a few times before but I've never seen the name.

[solenofon]

Popcorn. Look up "Popcorn (Song)" on Wikipedia.

[allen21478]

Wow, this is very impressive. That looks like a lot of fun. Now you need to make a video showing us how it works. I would love to know. I'll be looking forward to it.

[Preston84]

Thats pretty cool - how is it done?. Have you programmed a sequence into Cubase or something then using the midi outs (different channels for bass, snare etc) to trigger the triggers if you will? If so, how the hell do you make a MIDI message move a beater or hammer to play the chimes or drums, is there some sort of converters you can buy or modules? Great instrument by the way.

[solenofon]

Hi! The sequence is programmed into cubase and plays on a MIDI out (midiyoke) connected to PureData which then interacts with a Arduino-card that triggers the right pins based on which NOTE ON is sent in the MIDI-Message.

The drums are for the moment just low notes (C0->) while the chimes are a an octave higher.

Basically you need an arduinocard, a few solenoids and some simple electronics (and some spare time :-)

[davaeron666]

nice sound !

[Jenspeder]

awsome!