Minecraft music blocks - Tutorial thing

[kovi1996]

i luw tetris *w*

[fedidle]

Holy crap if u dd do that by hand that's fricken huge :)

[DenHalteFaan]

i dont think you made that by hand.. i mean the box ofc, as Mcedit makes IDENTICAL boxes.

the funny thing is that ive got that redstone thing in a box 2!

mut still... AWESOME job dude!

[Roxfox]

@DenHalteFaan Identical down to the fact that I mined all the ores (and all the gravel near the top layer if I remember correctly, as I still had to make the road from my base to the open mine) and sealed the resulting holes, as well as all the natural caves, with cobblestone all the way down to the bottom? Why would I bother with that if I had an editor? You can also see some of its earlier stages in my "Minecraft silliness" video, during the music parts.

[RobloxFunVids]

Nice

[jelmer351]

It makes another sound every time..

[michelange3]

how the heck do you make piano sound!!!??

[Roxfox]

@michelange3 It's funny because I explained it in the video.

[michelange3]

@Roxfox nvm .. i understood, thanks for the video!

[ussmidget]

can you now use repeaters instead?

[Roxfox]

@ussmidget Correct. Repeaters made everything a whole lot better. I've been working on a tutorial for that, but uh... It's on hold at the moment, let's call it. Feel free to check out my Tetris v3 video for a repeater version.

[Gamme111]

TETRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:D

[giganitris]

@Gamme111 DEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWDDDDDDDDDDD..­. you spelt Tetяis wrong! YOU DISRESPECT Tetяis!?

[DriegoGB]

gracias, ahora gracias a ti hise un a trampa de arena automatica XD, no tiene absolutamente nada que ver con esto, pero asi parendi yo

[Roxfox]

@DriegoGB ... Sure thing, mate.

[creeplosion]

can i please have the sheet music or a link to where i can find it

[Roxfox]

@creeplosion Goddammit, you people and your asking... I'm trying to work on a tutorial for the new version I made, but I haven't gotten anything done with it lately. Once that is done, and I can't tell you when that'll be, it will have very specific instructions on how to make what I made. I don't have sheet music because I play by ear, but I'll try to transcribe it in a familiar format in the tutorial.

[creeplosion]

@Roxfox Mkay, thx anyways. I made my own today and i love it.  you should use repeaters though, they are much easier.

[Roxfox]

@creeplosion Heh. Yeah. Feel free to check my channel for the newer version I made some time ago, after repeaters came out... That's the one I'm trying to make a tutorial for.

[Eqvaliser]

@creeplosion google

[lmao680]

when i put note blocks down and hit them they make snap sounds

[Bazatage]

@lmao680 if you want them to play piano sound you need to place the note block on dirt or wool or something

[ilife11]

is that u stuttering or is the video sticking

[links212]

@Roxfox Wait, you didn't use any modding??

[Roxfox]

@links212 Nope. Vanilla for life.

[Roxfox]

@joystickers Maybe those hours of "work" was the whole point of doing it in the first place.

[kingcobrajh]

@Roxfox hey, i dont mean to bug you but do you plan on posting any videos soon? i dont really meen a repeater tutorial maybe just and update video or no. just wondering

[Roxfox]

@kingcobrajh I'm trying. It's hard! I've got so much junk going on right now. My "fun things I want to do for the fun of it" list is like a dozen items long, and Minecraft stuff's kinda slipped to the bottom of it because it takes so long. I've barely even played any in the last month!

[dakatubes]

thank you this was so helpful

[grassboarder3001]

i see so its basically a huge circuit board

[wallofdeath123]

do beathoven!

[TheTehchosen1]

You gotta love minecraft, the dumbest thing can be so over size

[CompactDisc7227]

@TheTehchosen1

Redstone repeaters! =D

[TheMegaMilotic]

TETRIS!!!!!

[23Firejet]

@Roxfox gives me a feeling that u usd mcedit and pressed the create world,but if not.. GOOOD JOB

[Roxfox]

@23Firejet I have no reason to lie!

[23Firejet]

@Roxfox ok so.. that means.. GOOD JOB MAN *CLAP CLAP CLAP*

[Wololo1337hax]

I watched this while listening to Dave Brubeck Quartet :D

tyvm for the guide thingy, I'll get to it later today.

[Roxfox]

@Wololo1337hax I wouldn't follow this particular tutorial if I were you. It's obsolete now that we have redstone repeaters.

[Wololo1337hax]

@Roxfox tbh I suck at using them :|

the whole article on them is TL;DR and those pics seem useless imo.

I did manage to get a doorbell working so I'm semi-motivated to continue experimenting with redstone though!

[Roxfox]

@Wololo1337hax A repeater works exactly like one set of two NOT gates the way I use them in this tutorial. Instead of two blocks and two torches with redstone between them, you just need the one repeater block. Stay tuned for another, much more in-depth tutorial I'm working on!

[kingcobrajh]

@Roxfox dont want to sound pushy or anything but when do you think you'll makes the tutorial with repeters? this is the best tutorial ive seen but i suck with repeaters

[Roxfox]

@kingcobrajh That's perfectly fine, seeing how I've been talking about it for so long, now. I'm trying to get it done, but it's getting a lot more expansive than I originally planned, requiring that I make a lot more material, and I haven't been able to record anything for some three weeks even if I wanted to. I'm stuck with this reoccuring cold that absolutely refuses to go away, so I can't really use my voice... I'll TRY to get it done soon, but I honestly can't promise anything.

[kingcobrajh]

@Roxfox ok, thanks for responding

[HarzzoGaming]

amazing

[killerboyestudios]

use fly mod, it's better then waterfall or boat

[Roxfox]

@killerboyestudios I could also use FL Studio or Reason. They're better than Minecraft. But then what's the point?

[chaosweapon1]

hey buddy if you use a boat on your waterfall it will push you up so you dont have to swim. just thought you should know :D

[Roxfox]

@chaosweapon1 Hey buddy, that's exactly why I have a contained waterfall to begin with.

[chaosweapon1]

@Roxfox oh ok, it looked like you were swimming up it at the end and i was thinking "does he honestly swim up that every time he wants to get up?" so i mentioned it just in case :P

[UncertainEarth4]

help my first torch always goes out

[kunstderfugue]

@UncertainEarth4 you need to set a longer delay to the circuit, because if the delay is 1/3 or 1/4 of a second, the torch burns out.

[dragonboyh7]

subbed man ur awesome!

[SiunZoxdi]

Nice, this is very help full

[tedost]

Umm thats something called MCedit....

[Roxfox]

@tedost Nope.

[rtm1137]

jesus why would you dig all that out by hand? TNT man, TNT.

[Leafshinoby]

@rtm1137 No, Real men uses hand, Real men use raw power, "Arrrrggghhhh, crunch the stones!!"

[joshjooh]

@rtm1137 Or McEdit.

[501stlegioncommander]

:D 2pm, tetris!

[DudeIAmSoHigh]

Can I ask you a question? Why did you dig out that huge hole instead of just doing it on the surface? o.O

[Roxfox]

@DudeIAmSoHigh I already had the hole. It was the biggest, flattest area I had available to experiment with redstone on.

[kirak95197]

This is epic.

[okke1337]

I like levers too! Mostly because they seem overly dramatic and also they go... Yea, like that.

[Snoofalah]

Skwisgaar gives music lessons.

[Roxfox]

@Snoofalah I'm qualified to teach musics blocks because of my superior Scandinavian ecocation.

[kenshinepik]

HOLY FRIGGIN ITS TETRIS'D :D!!!!!!

[AVgal461]

YAY TETRIS. But seriously, this is awesome.

[Starioshka]

Negative + negative = positive? DAYUM!

[chillaah2000]

EEEEEEEEEEEEPIC

[UnladeHint]

I actually LOVE you.

[bkla93]

couldnt you just place the note blocks on top of the output torches..?

[Roxfox]

@bkla93 Note blocks make different sounds depending on the surface underneath them, so no. All of this is obsolete thanks to the new repeater block, anyway!

[Tripwire4]

Thank you good sir!

[Roxfox]

@Foxtrotwolfwhistle No clue. I still suck at everything redstone. You should ask someone who knows anything about this stuff! Maybe the wiki knows something about it, I don't know.

[Roxfox]

@Foxtrotwolfwhistle That's exactly what I did. Every 8th of a beat has its own note block slot, even if there's no note there, so there's always an even tempo. However! The last Minecraft update has an awesome redstone repeater block that can be used to great effect! With that, a music sequencer will take up a LOT less space, and a single repeater can be adjusted to have varying degrees of delay, so you no longer need a bunch of empty non-note space.

Time to go re-redo my music room.. again...

[killmajaro1]

First! there was an 8 bit computer! NOW! there will be FL Studio 1!

[Manda175]

<3

[ACIIfreak]

YEAH

[UkanIos]

Thanks a lot. This video has tought me how to do something that's surprisingly more simple than I ever imagined. It's all about the sections of redstone wires that add delays.

[TheeVideoGamer]

for me there is no delay the notes just play at the same time

[megakid39]

Great, but doesn't it matter which way you make the not gates face? What with the north/south quirk. Or perhaps you could use it to create more advanced music with trills or something.

(search MC wiki for redstone circuits, scroll down to north/south quirk if you don't knkow what I'm talking about)

[IsaacLJ]

Thanks for helping me out! I've been wanting to make music for a LONG time now, but never figured it out. XD

[frank0127]

Great tutorial.

The fact that you tuned this all by ear is what amazes me the most.

[h0lsh0ls]

you are so awesome :D great video + great work.

[MinecraftOnFire]

Hu?

[Rukaribe]

Haha, I love the ending!

[JunkieCinema]

Bro, I love you. Notice the 0 dislikes. Before this, I didn't understand the concept that well =)

[Beforerise]

You're mad :D

[Run3viperz]

HOLY SHIT 0 DISLIKES!!

[imaspazz1]

your the nicest guy on youtube.

[Roxfox]

@Snikkeldarm Not really. It would have taken out the step of counting how many clicks I needed, but that process made the whole thing take a mere few seconds longer, at most. Mind that I made this before any of those tutorials and helpful programs existed!

[MrSurface94]

Make a doorbell that activates this stuff... people must be like what the F....

[MrSurface94]

I looked really carefully, and all I saw was a bunch of redstone torches and blocks o.o'

[Eqvaliser]

Awsome :D

[loganoatmeal]

this is so cool!!!!!!

[Maximus2864]

OHMYGOD BOW TO THE MIGHTY ROXFOX§!!!!!§!§§!§!§!

[oOMathiasSOo]

Best outro ever!!!

[josephw390]

"I like levers, they go *click, clock, click, clock*." XD ROFL!

[MarkSKristensen]

Subbed :D

[Cadiuro]

So I was trying to make tetris ingame (the general tune though, not the bassline), looking for a tut on how to wire, and found this wiring tut playing tetris.

Awesome tutorial, 'twas very helpfull ^^

[DavidWolfeLive]

so are the intervals for the outputs quarter notes or eighth notes?

[Skater3ful]

thank you i can do  it thank you

[Legirian]

I fail to understand how an OR-gate with only one input would solve anything. Nice vid though.

[Roxfox]

@Legirian Heck if I know how those things work! That's why I never used anything like that in the first place. But if you go to the Minecraft wiki's redstone circuits page and look at the "design B OR gate", that's basically what I'm referring to. One of those with only one input will act exactly like two NOT gates after each other, but take up less space and redstone. For some reason...

[Legirian]

@Roxfox Thanks. I am actually using those gates when I'm making songs, but I thought they were called ''double inverters'' or something like that.

[Roxfox]

@Legirian They probably are! Again, I know nothing about this stuff!

[lilmrstewy]

how do you make a turn to go back like a u turn so you get a zigzag for the line

[deathward4]

This actually really helped me.

Just like you, I'm much more visually oriented, I use a lot of music trackers, so really, as long as I know the tempo, I can re-create any song. I just had no clue how to use the redstone wire, as you just showed me c:

Thanks!

[Dragonit12]

tetris theme? :D

[jonassvensson4]

How did you know all the sounds ? Like notes

[Roxfox]

@jonassvensson4 I understand that a lot of people want to mess with Minecraft's music blocks, and a lot of them use note charts and weird click-to-note diagrams that people made for the note blocks... But that's where the "musically inclined" bit comes in. I don't have any problem recreating simple melodies by ear, and this tune is very, very simple.

[doritoface123]

I'm making a song.

[TheDeadeyearcher]

awsome

[darkiboy2]

how big is ur quarry thingy?

[Roxfox]

@darkiboy2 32x32x75-ish.

[darkiboy2]

@Roxfox nice mine is 50x50 took me a looooooooooooong time to do

[narutodkt]

Wii Tetris :D

[Phluffey]

How do you add a bass line? I'd like to have more than one block playing at a time using this method.

[Roxfox]

@Phluffey You could either set it up to be a series of chords, put the bass on one note and the melody on the other. I did it by hooking up two redstone wires to the lever, one wire going to the first floor where the melody sits and the other going to the third floor where I put the bass parts.

[tegopilover567]

ive got one row but i cant seem to connect it to another row beside it D:

[IroniMan100]

Thanks, a good tutorial and it helped me a lot :)

[MrPizazo]

This wqs very helpfull now im off to figure out how to make not crap music

[mmillss]

Thanks for this!

[MrStrobeck100]

how du you make 1/4 notes?

[2dividedby3]

is there a way a not can be held sory if my termonoalgy wrong but lyk make the note a quaver insted of a semi-quaver. p.s love ing the huge music box

[flibitybop]

HAHAHA I loved the "outro"

[dojorune]

While you won't share the schematics, will you share a link or something to sheetmusic for the tetris song?

[LightEffexor]

This is really cool man! I assume that with the design you used, you could essentialy make a song that was in double-time compared to what you have now?

[shaynebilodeau]

@Roxfox Awh, too bad your not ready to share, great video and I really enjoyed it.:)

[TypatTV]

what song was this

[E2controlledPlayer]

There is amazing program called synthesia (on-screen piano), it can take in midi's and it display notes on labelled keys. May be useful for figuring out notes, you need to google for midi file of song you want and open it in synthesia.

[Pwnapple123]

how can u make it loop or repeat?

[E2controlledPlayer]

@Pwnapple123 To make it repeat connect last output to input, instead of swith, you may need to 1 more gate to make it work as number of gates have to be odd.

[bmc0607]

Rather than a separate floor for each instrument, couldn't you link multiple instruments into a single "chord?" For instance, if on the first beat, the "piano" is playing an A, and the "bass" is playing a lower A, just have one of each note block connected to that beat.

This would ensure that notes on separate instruments that should happen at the same time always receive input at the same time, because it's from the same source. Any problem in tempo would be shared by all instruments.

[Roxfox]

@bmc0607 Absolutely. If you're willing to plot the song out as you go, that's definitely the most efficient way of doing it. But like I said, I had a graphical sequencer in mind, and I put the whole grid down before I started placing the notes, so I couldn't do that. I'm making a new grid right now, and I'm still going with the same system as I haven't decided what song to put on it yet!

[dudeglove]

You, sir, are insane.

...keep it up.

[jodelahithit]

WOW!!!

[TypatTV]

What surface did u use like a 4x4, i think it was a 12x8 but plz verify.

[Roxfox]

@TypatTV I'm afraid I have no idea what you're asking.

[tegopilover567]

@Roxfox how many blocks S x S like 12blocks x 8 blocks

[SandburgSpartans]

@Roxfox I think he meant the song in the beginning of the video

[Roxfox]

@SandburgSpartans That still makes no sense...

[SandburgSpartans]

@Roxfox The song the fricken blocks were playing.

[Roxfox]

@SandburgSpartans I got that that's the song you were talking about as it's the only song in the video. I'm not sure whether I should be insulted or feel pity for you for feeling the need to clarify that. In any case, the original question still doesn't make any sense. Are you sure you're replying to the correct thread of comments...?

[SandburgSpartans]

@Roxfox Haha, wtf are you talking about? The only thing people want to know is the name of the song that the blocks were playing. And I don't know if you just joking or what, but what song was playing?

[Roxfox]

@SandburgSpartans So you weren't replying to the correct thread, as I suspected. The question I was replying to was "what surface did you use, I think it was a 12x8". And your answer to that reply was "the song in the beginning of the video". I see that the same person asked about the song later, but that's not the comment I was replying to. Most people viewing this know what song it is because they found this via the other video I made about the song. Check the video responses for that one.

[SandburgSpartans]

@Roxfox Oh okay, thanks

[Tinsterr]

I like the outro

[maxmaxuyao1]

Levers look like a dick when u place it on a wall. click it, u turn it on. click it again and turns it off. You'll also notice how the lever moves when u click it. ;)

[skalla1000]

Thanks! great video!

[N2tZ]

Great instructions.

But I'm more amazed by the fact you dug all that out by hand

[ZachariasClub]

@N2tZ that's the easy part, the easiest.

[Roxfox]

@ZachariasClub Digging the hole, you mean? That easily took a thousand times longer than collecting and setting up all the redstone! If I counted the hole as being part of this project, it would've been the most difficult part by far!

[ZachariasClub]

@Roxfox hmmmm.... I must have way way way way more time than you to randomly dig holes... or your hole is much bigger than mine...

what are it's dimensions?

[Roxfox]

@ZachariasClub 32x32x75-ish. Every week while listening to the Giant Bomb podcast, which is 2+ hours long, I'd go dig in it for the entirity of the podcast and then some, and it took several months to reach the bottom.

[ZachariasClub]

@Roxfox yeah... I do about the same thing... I have a suggestion, though. If you break it up into smaller segments (like 10X10) you can get to the bottom quicker, and thus feel better about yourself as you expand to whatever size desired.

well done!

[TheMisantrop09]

@N2tZ Its made with world edit ( i know that you knew that)

[Roxfox]

@TheMisantrop09 False.

[N2tZ]

@TheMisantrop09 1:14 "I dug this whole thing out by hand"

And I like to trust people.

Also, the cobblestone in the walls indicates filled in caves or ore veins.

[TheMisantrop09]

@N2tZ I dont believe you , the cake is a lie!

[mastermax7]

Could you at least link the SHEET MUSIC or something? Much appreciated if you do.

[Roxfox]

@mastermax7 I can't even read sheet music! I'm sure you can google it. It's not exactly an unknown song.

[bigger46]

Make the Saw Theme song and a dispensor that shoots you while it plays

[DENIEDx7]

Wow, nice Video!! Btw, "Life chad hall and country six thank you for the whole thing because that's just what happened."

[ItchyyHD]

Is the song only at that floor?

[shalara1123]

hahaha I love your accent and the outtro should have been you riding up the waterfall =3

[BorisWatkiss]

I love your accent, and this is really informative. It makes the redstone thing much easier to understand. 

[ZaXy77]

Great! Really cool. But it would be even easier to learn if you uploaded your world. Would be AWESOME if you did! Thanks! :)

[Roxfox]

@ZaXy77 Sorry, I'm not going to do that. My save file's pretty huge (Windows claims 70MB) and has lots of fun things on it I'm not sure I want to share yet. I suppose I could start a new world, set up a new tutorial there and upload that, but that's a lot of work I don't really have time for right now. I have lots of unrelated videos to edit and render, an art commission to deal with, and I've already started a new music project in Minecraft that I want to finish before I do anything else...

[ZaXy77]

@Roxfox Ah, k. Nps. :) Thanks for the quick tutorial thing tho! And good luck with your next projects! :)