they took being a nerd to the next level, clarinet and robots. i've been playing clarinet for 6 years and i'm 2nd chair in my band but seriously. DA FUCK, get laid guys
"the robot explodes"... Oh God I laughed so much and still laughing, so funny! The poor sound is obvious in the upper register. On the other hand I feel happy.. someone has worked and focused on what we love so much!! The result is very impressing, we all know how difficult it is to play the instrument correctly (still laughing). As for loosing our job, don't think so! normal people want to connect with the player as well.
@xnightreaperx: I'll admit the tonality isn't good, but "not legato at all"? I hear no separation between the notes. Legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, in transitioning from note to note, there should be no articulation. If you mean "vibrato", well, there's not a lot of room for that in a piece that is in 16th notes at 144 BPM and the 8th notes are marked staccato.
What orchestra competition did this clarinet compete in? Because I want to know what clarinet players were incompetent enough to not be more musical than a freaking robot.
@chocotastic , It didn't beat a human player, it was a robot orchestra competition as it clearly says in the description under the video: "The robot, which performed The Flight of the Bumblebee and Bolero in the final, beat a Dutch developed guitar-picking robot and a Finnish piano-playing machine.
Staged in Athens, the goal of the Artemis Music Orchestra competition is to raise awareness about the growing capacity and applications of embedded computer systems."
Bad....this robot is obviously still a beginner, as it still doesn't know the correct way to play altissimo. You have to lip it up a bit, and the robot is unable to do that. How on earth did it make it to first place? The legato was also horrible...they should have gone for something a bit easier than Flight of the Bumblebee when taking this on.....Hot Cross Buns comes to mind in the case of this clarin00b.
This is definitely not ready for Shosty's Festive Overture, though...
@imgame2121 - I am impressed. You must have had quite a beginner band with that technique and fast moving little fingers! I think it's a neat project.
In the technical aspect...Id say its decent, but not more than that.
what we have to keep in mind is, this is a robot, It has no emotions, no passion, it just plays, its basically a MIDI instrument. The tone is awful.... Sorry, but its true
I think its a good concept, but sorry science, youll never replace us.
the low notes sound fine, but those high notes are torturous to my ears. and finally! someone who agrees with the theory that playing the clarinet is hard. i've been playing for 7 years, and ever since i've started, people who don't play the clarinet and know nothing about it say that its so easy. yeah, well if its so easy, i'd like to see them pick one up and play it.
That video was made when the robot was just a week old. A few weeks later, its tone and interpretation had improved a lot. Have a look at the duet with a human player by searching 'robot clarinet'
Now, with your eyes closed so you can't see the fingers, can you *always* tell which one is the human?
You can also read the motivations for making this machine, and a lot more about clarinets and clarinettists.
@RossiniSoprano look dude im the 1st clarinet at a music arts school many aspects are difficult but you can learn how to play a lot easier than you can say the oboe or french horn or guitar or piano etc im saying its easy for me
@johnythanj Look, dudette, you could be first chair of the NY Philharmonic...it doesn't matter. When you learn what the clarinet can really be, you'll know it's not easy. Perhaps I am giving you too much credit.....you may never get to that point, but I hope you do.
@johnythanj really? do you play clarinet? it's not easy, and it takes a lot of hard work and time to play it with a beautiful tone. then after you get the tone you have to work on moving your fingers to songs that have a lot of 16th notes, sometimes 32nd notes. not only do these songs have that, but most of the time the song has a really fast beat. then you have to account for accidentals in those runs. in a band, clarinets and flutes have the hardest parts because we're almost always doodling
@perfectsen10rs2010 I play clarinet shut up i play in an orchestra a symphonic band and i solo on clarinet in jazz i know its hard its also one of the easier instruments to learn
@xnightreaperx: I'll admit the tonality isn't good, but "not legato at all"? I hear no separation between the notes. Legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, in transitioning from note to note, there should be no articulation. If you mean "vibrato", well, there's not a lot of room for that in a piece that is in 16th notes at 144 BPM and the 8th notes are marked staccato.
Robots will never be able to replace humans in musical performances. They will never be able to put the emotion that humans do into their music. They can play at whatever speed they want, but what's the fun in that? If there is no emotion, what do you have?
Nice display of intellect and technology. However, this just demonstrates the superior ability of humans to create, interpret and perform art. Great computer programming!! I give it a 10+ on technology. But, .5 on artististry.
I'd like to think we'd never be able to capture the sound or skill of a person who's studied their whole life to become an accomplished musician. It wouldn't give people a reason to play instruments and would result in even lazier people than now.
Thats how society felt when machines first outperformed life long craftsmen and builders in terms of precision, speed, strength and consistency.
Now its just our ego that we remain supreme in mental matters too, but the fact is one by one, things considered 'only the realm of humans' are being knocked down faster and faster: accounting, checkers, theorems, scheduling + optimizing, chess, face recognition, language, etc. Clarient playing will soon be no more creative than long division.
WOW THIS IS AWESOME!!! but im sry, the hardest is still the trumpet. even tho i dont play it, i understand that w/ all that emboursches, its difficult to produce so many notes on only one fingering. im a pianist and a saxophonist and i have to say, btwn the 2, piano is so much more difficult. i believe it'll b more impressive when some1 designs a robot for a piano to actually play it (not those electric pianos that play by themselves). now THATS impressive!
This is true; technology may get to the point where the robot will perfectly identify changes in voiceings throughout the register. Perhaps it could be the clarinet itself. Are you the maker of this video, what model of clarinet were you using? They come in all different models, ranging from student to professional level. Were you guys using a professional model for the robot? Either way, amazing job!.. It's rare that scientists create AI that can play music at this level of virtuosity:) Bravo
but i'm sorry....machines will never be able to play as well as a human does...if you were to take a machine and a human to play the mozart adagio...and if both play it perfectly...the human would win...
why? because there is no emotion behind the machine...music is about emotion behind pieces...and every piece has some sort of emotional-type background to it....only a human can deliver the nice, warm, and dark beautiful tone that comes out of the clarinet
this was the robot's mistake. No matter how much technique the robot had, you still need to be aware of your air stream while going through the registers. The amount of air you put through the instrument and the position your tongue is in all matters in maintaining perfect control. Machines can't think about the sound, they can only be programmed.....
actually it looks like the robot can press all the keys it needs. It doesn't need alternate/chromatic fingerings if it doesn't need to worry about fingers.
there was a -1 but i pressed +1 so now its zero but anyways your right this seriously sounds like a game of pacman or one of those low graphic games no expression at all
Es impresionante oir eso por la rapidez con q ejecuta, pero como dicen no tiene emociones y se escucha como falso.. asi q colegas clarinetistas no os preocupeis q seguiremos ejecutanto ese hermoso instrumento y no podran reemplazarnos....
jamas las maquinas van a competir con los humanos...que invento tan estupido...por que la musica es el lenguaje del hombre y jamas van a poder igualarlo....
It's hard to tell how the tone of the instrument sounds based on the piece selected... but from what I could hear, it was not the most pleasant of clarinetist sounds. You could probably not figure out it was a robot on hearing, but the difference is quite obvious between a very good clarinetist and that sound (a mediocre one). It is still very impressive--especially considering all the input the player needs to give the instrument for it to play properly.
obviously this isn't supposed to be making good music. they even say in the video that what's particularly impressive is that they could get it to make any sound at all. it's definitely an accomplishment to take something like a clarinet mouthpiece--designed for the flexible, organic human mouth--and play it with any sort of machine.
Could have been more interesting if the performance was expressive. This reduced the sound of the clarinet to that of computer MIDI - digital, choppy, flat and lifeless.
It's easy to say that kind of thing, but if you heard a sound file and didnt know whether it was human or robot, would you have guessed? This is quite impressive.
Let me not detract from the fact that this is an interesting technical achievement for robotics; however, I do thing that someone could discern based on the audio that it is computer controlled.
I voted "poor"! Toyota robots playing Trumpet and violin (search youtube) are WAY more expressive! And it's more realistic because the robots are humanoids, not like this kind of "masturbation machine".
The Toyota robots have modified musical instruments to make the sound as good as the real thing. NICTA's clarinet is unmodified, and therefore I think is more impressive than what Toyota did and made their own "similar" violin.
Music is really, much, much more than just playing the notes - that's why it sounds so awful. What makes it interesting is the push-pull of the tempo, the volume changes, the give and take of the various members, the imperfections, etc - all those factors produce "emotions" in the song, and make it appealing to humans.
Other than a certain brutality of drum machines, computer played music is usually uninteresting.
Interesting, but it looks as though it wouldn't be able to make it into the altissimo register. You can hear a bit of scratchiness and squeakiness as it approaches high c, as if the reed is too dry, but impressive nonetheless.
hm... the air-flow from their mechaning "mouth" causes a certain cutting sound that a skilled clarinet player know how to avoid. i am not impressed :/
Very good. And the computer doesn't have to take any breaths either. As a clarinet player, they have the keying down (if a little clicky), but the mouthpiece still needs work. That's the tricky part, changing the mouth tension depending on where you're at in the register. It's hard to know how or even if they doing the tonguing.
Ok, it's so curious,but I prefer human clarinetists, a robot clarinetist plays can't convey me any feelings and a human clarinetist has more merit.
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It sounds good for a machine...
rcfrenzydude 3 weeks ago
they took being a nerd to the next level, clarinet and robots. i've been playing clarinet for 6 years and i'm 2nd chair in my band but seriously. DA FUCK, get laid guys
PacoLlamacco 3 months ago
really amazing..... looks like stam engine and very very complicated
tramrunner 6 months ago
Huuy Comoo?
MegaJeniiffer 6 months ago
"the robot explodes"... Oh God I laughed so much and still laughing, so funny! The poor sound is obvious in the upper register. On the other hand I feel happy.. someone has worked and focused on what we love so much!! The result is very impressing, we all know how difficult it is to play the instrument correctly (still laughing). As for loosing our job, don't think so! normal people want to connect with the player as well.
Melsi1979 7 months ago
Porque ele não enfia no cú esse clarinete de merrrrrda!!
picadurapraquememole 10 months ago
Robot, sir, work on your embouchure.
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@xnightreaperx: I'll admit the tonality isn't good, but "not legato at all"? I hear no separation between the notes. Legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, in transitioning from note to note, there should be no articulation. If you mean "vibrato", well, there's not a lot of room for that in a piece that is in 16th notes at 144 BPM and the 8th notes are marked staccato.
Phaedriatica 1 year ago
omg its a robot, thats pretty damn impressive, calm down
BrynSmith1 1 year ago
Sounds terrible!
NsrSince01 1 year ago 2
it sounded so horrible. any player will sound better if they take the effort to master this song
Hydrogenes 1 year ago
Pretty sure they stole this from the music episode of "LOOK around you"
quietthomas 1 year ago
i like the dynamics that robot has... On and Off
tydydpony93 1 year ago 3
What orchestra competition did this clarinet compete in? Because I want to know what clarinet players were incompetent enough to not be more musical than a freaking robot.
chocotastic 1 year ago
@chocotastic , It didn't beat a human player, it was a robot orchestra competition as it clearly says in the description under the video: "The robot, which performed The Flight of the Bumblebee and Bolero in the final, beat a Dutch developed guitar-picking robot and a Finnish piano-playing machine.
Staged in Athens, the goal of the Artemis Music Orchestra competition is to raise awareness about the growing capacity and applications of embedded computer systems."
puddingpimp 1 year ago
All I heard was clicks.
xXBloodbatXx 1 year ago
I want to make a robot orchestra with all instruments like this, just to hear how it would sound...
KiyoKenshin 1 year ago
YOU IDIOTS!!!
ARE YOU CRAZY?!
THAT TAKES AWAY THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF MUSIC!!!
music is for everyone to enjoy! not some stupid robo technological thing..
animeluver4evah 1 year ago
awful.
TenSax34 1 year ago
Hey! White boy play da blues!
SteveTheCart 1 year ago
this sounds horrible. they should just destroy that robot whatever machine and let people play it, like is suppose to be
nicegirl12315 1 year ago
it has no feel, no emotion to it. that defeats the purpose of music
sangreiti 1 year ago
Bad....this robot is obviously still a beginner, as it still doesn't know the correct way to play altissimo. You have to lip it up a bit, and the robot is unable to do that. How on earth did it make it to first place? The legato was also horrible...they should have gone for something a bit easier than Flight of the Bumblebee when taking this on.....Hot Cross Buns comes to mind in the case of this clarin00b.
This is definitely not ready for Shosty's Festive Overture, though...
FAIL
Clarinerd617 1 year ago
this sounded nice
XclusiveChiq 1 year ago
This is so bad, that it's not even funny.
FrankOnAPlank 1 year ago
As impressive as the speed of the note playing is, the tone quality is horrible
weepingangels22 1 year ago
poor clarintet
syctenor 1 year ago
hmmm, it sounds robotic?
PrettyFli4aWhiteguy 1 year ago
this is a really bad playing of the upper register. even the ones that are lower sound bad...
CandiceLoveUForLife 1 year ago 3
a perversion, though technologically amazing (oops he squeaked).
klarionc 1 year ago
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klarionc 1 year ago
Is clarinet really that hard to play? I played clarinet for 3 years and I think I'm pretty good at it.
disgaea03majin 1 year ago
what song is that?
DjPaPi96 1 year ago
@DjPaPi96 Flight of the Bumblebee
arturoleonardo147 1 year ago
Sounded like me in beginner band..
imgame2121 1 year ago
@imgame2121 - I am impressed. You must have had quite a beginner band with that technique and fast moving little fingers! I think it's a neat project.
KenKathy1 1 year ago
@KenKathy1
Yes i did actually, thank you!
imgame2121 1 year ago
@johnythan The clarinet is harder to blow than the saxophone.
@perfectsen10rs2010 Agreed :D
nadrojohk 1 year ago
In the technical aspect...Id say its decent, but not more than that.
what we have to keep in mind is, this is a robot, It has no emotions, no passion, it just plays, its basically a MIDI instrument. The tone is awful.... Sorry, but its true
I think its a good concept, but sorry science, youll never replace us.
kisekxikoe 1 year ago 2
Roboclarinet's playing is so mechanical! :-)
You guys need to work on your voicing....those register breaks are getting you!
RossiniSoprano 1 year ago
it sucks! it sounds like an effin computer. this insults clarinetists everywhere.
PrettyFli4aWhiteguy 1 year ago
pretty good.... for a robot.
frikken20 1 year ago
The sad thing is that they couldn't program it to play it in the right key... Or not squeak...
musicmanson 1 year ago
the low notes sound fine, but those high notes are torturous to my ears. and finally! someone who agrees with the theory that playing the clarinet is hard. i've been playing for 7 years, and ever since i've started, people who don't play the clarinet and know nothing about it say that its so easy. yeah, well if its so easy, i'd like to see them pick one up and play it.
perfectsen10rs2010 1 year ago
wow... i want my hands to move that fast....
cLaRiNetLoVer503 1 year ago
That video was made when the robot was just a week old. A few weeks later, its tone and interpretation had improved a lot. Have a look at the duet with a human player by searching 'robot clarinet'
Now, with your eyes closed so you can't see the fingers, can you *always* tell which one is the human?
You can also read the motivations for making this machine, and a lot more about clarinets and clarinettists.
inalaofhuon 1 year ago
Could you please post a video of playing roboclarinet itself, without all that talking?
JedrzejP 1 year ago
ahh that's crazy although the moments it starts getting to high loses all tone haha
sillydottaco 1 year ago
dude clarinet is one of the easiest instruments known to man
johnythanj 1 year ago
@johnythanj No, it's not
GameOver201 1 year ago
@GameOver201 i play clarinet and its easier than piano or any saxaphone
johnythanj 1 year ago
@johnythanj If you think the clarinet is easy, then we all know what kind of player you are!
RossiniSoprano 1 year ago
@RossiniSoprano look dude im the 1st clarinet at a music arts school many aspects are difficult but you can learn how to play a lot easier than you can say the oboe or french horn or guitar or piano etc im saying its easy for me
johnythanj 1 year ago
@johnythanj Look, dudette, you could be first chair of the NY Philharmonic...it doesn't matter. When you learn what the clarinet can really be, you'll know it's not easy. Perhaps I am giving you too much credit.....you may never get to that point, but I hope you do.
RossiniSoprano 1 year ago
@johnythanj really? do you play clarinet? it's not easy, and it takes a lot of hard work and time to play it with a beautiful tone. then after you get the tone you have to work on moving your fingers to songs that have a lot of 16th notes, sometimes 32nd notes. not only do these songs have that, but most of the time the song has a really fast beat. then you have to account for accidentals in those runs. in a band, clarinets and flutes have the hardest parts because we're almost always doodling
perfectsen10rs2010 1 year ago
@perfectsen10rs2010 I play clarinet shut up i play in an orchestra a symphonic band and i solo on clarinet in jazz i know its hard its also one of the easier instruments to learn
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KaelaFaerfax8 1 year ago
flight of the bumble bee :D
KatherineAraya1 2 years ago
excellent work!
1888junkteam 2 years ago
near the end, it plays so even and well that it sounds robotic or like a keyboard playing with the clarinet sound option.
xCHOCOLATEBEARx 2 years ago 2
the tone quality of that clarinet is so...poor...
not legato at all XD
PWNED robot
xnightreaperx 2 years ago 39
@xnightreaperx: I'll admit the tonality isn't good, but "not legato at all"? I hear no separation between the notes. Legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, in transitioning from note to note, there should be no articulation. If you mean "vibrato", well, there's not a lot of room for that in a piece that is in 16th notes at 144 BPM and the 8th notes are marked staccato.
Phaedriatica 1 year ago
technology cant take band way from us i hope that the robot explodes
idrobyn 2 years ago 14
Music is already digital, didn't you know?
Those who wish to hear human-created music
will always appreciate the real thing.
Relax.
shas1814 2 years ago 3
technology cant take our music away you stuck robot thingy i hope it asplodes
idrobyn 2 years ago
0:44 haha
middlebrow89 2 years ago 4
Hax
halfbreedangel 2 years ago
holy crap awesome
teddytyphoon 2 years ago
holy crap. I can play better than a robot but i like the invention lol
angelkitty2009 2 years ago 5
Now teach it to play the duduk
formivore 2 years ago
I can play WAY better than that robot
davkilla101 2 years ago
0:26
Hahaha fail.
Bagurk93 2 years ago 5
faster !!!
reglisse2003 2 years ago
way cool!
check out:
the trons - self playing robot band
jamesha175 2 years ago
end note fail.
canadadiabolo 2 years ago 3
Robots will never be able to replace humans in musical performances. They will never be able to put the emotion that humans do into their music. They can play at whatever speed they want, but what's the fun in that? If there is no emotion, what do you have?
zwazii 2 years ago 5
Wait untill you see my robot band! I'm gonna have 2 clarinets one a b flat soprano and the other a a flat piccolo
trainguy111 2 years ago
agreed... there was no emotion in that...
cavalierfan2008 2 years ago
no soul. fail.
thejugglerrr 2 years ago
Exactly No soul in it it does not sound good at all the instrument sounds like a robot it's self! Epic FAIL!
redKELLYMHRCH 2 years ago
That's cool, but kind of sad. It'd kind of implying that people will soon no longer be needed to play real musical instruments. T.T
Watabird 2 years ago
it so kills the song
syctenor 2 years ago
that was amazing!!!
xthemusicroomx 2 years ago
I plan to have a robot clarinet in my robot band. It will be a b flat soprano called Clara
trainguy111 2 years ago
Kenquien would like seeing this.
trainguy111 2 years ago
Definitely well done and good innovative work but it sounds very mechanical.
Gilleece666 2 years ago 7
I agree
Gadonis69 2 years ago
sorry but the robot doenst play the clarinet, it only plays notes... no expression, no music, just notes.....
FvNeRaL 2 years ago 2
*sigh* "But is it art...?"
candlehawk 2 years ago
Nice display of intellect and technology. However, this just demonstrates the superior ability of humans to create, interpret and perform art. Great computer programming!! I give it a 10+ on technology. But, .5 on artististry.
joetighe 2 years ago
sorry, not the hardest instrument
RealizeReality 2 years ago
Yo! play the Mario theme with it!!!
ultraconform 2 years ago
oh tecmology. =p
AstroScorp1 2 years ago
haha WOW.....I play clarinet, and I must say that is like the most fantastic things Ive seen yet. lol. Soo cool.
Mousehhh 2 years ago
hahahahaha great !!!!
Aassaaffbb 2 years ago
Never will replace the sound of an experienced musician.
johnkidd3 2 years ago 3
Maybe not this year or the next, but to assume we will not be able to encapsulate our knowledge and beyond in non biological systems is folly.
rbairos1 2 years ago
I'd like to think we'd never be able to capture the sound or skill of a person who's studied their whole life to become an accomplished musician. It wouldn't give people a reason to play instruments and would result in even lazier people than now.
johnkidd3 2 years ago
Thats how society felt when machines first outperformed life long craftsmen and builders in terms of precision, speed, strength and consistency.
Now its just our ego that we remain supreme in mental matters too, but the fact is one by one, things considered 'only the realm of humans' are being knocked down faster and faster: accounting, checkers, theorems, scheduling + optimizing, chess, face recognition, language, etc. Clarient playing will soon be no more creative than long division.
rbairos1 2 years ago
That's some deep shit.
johnkidd3 2 years ago
WOW THIS IS AWESOME!!! but im sry, the hardest is still the trumpet. even tho i dont play it, i understand that w/ all that emboursches, its difficult to produce so many notes on only one fingering. im a pianist and a saxophonist and i have to say, btwn the 2, piano is so much more difficult. i believe it'll b more impressive when some1 designs a robot for a piano to actually play it (not those electric pianos that play by themselves). now THATS impressive!
lijunxing0773 2 years ago
mm, nice sir
seanph1 2 years ago
ya baby hardest instrument
nbafaninny 2 years ago
sounds like a fucking nes
pyramidheadthingy 2 years ago
bad tone but AWESOME TECHNIQUE!
rankfrankrank 2 years ago 5
ya i know the tone of the high notes are very bad
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This is true; technology may get to the point where the robot will perfectly identify changes in voiceings throughout the register. Perhaps it could be the clarinet itself. Are you the maker of this video, what model of clarinet were you using? They come in all different models, ranging from student to professional level. Were you guys using a professional model for the robot? Either way, amazing job!.. It's rare that scientists create AI that can play music at this level of virtuosity:) Bravo
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rubiks899 3 years ago
lol haha unite
2dayfmrules 2 years ago
its all rong making robots to play music is not natruqll. i wont ,ie it cool but muscians will never be able to have feel like humans will
arrowdan 3 years ago
Yes, but you're illiterate.
huntbot 2 years ago
it sounds really nasty in the upper register
Penguinfreakusuk 3 years ago 21
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rubiks899 3 years ago
this is pretty cool :D
but i'm sorry....machines will never be able to play as well as a human does...if you were to take a machine and a human to play the mozart adagio...and if both play it perfectly...the human would win...
why? because there is no emotion behind the machine...music is about emotion behind pieces...and every piece has some sort of emotional-type background to it....only a human can deliver the nice, warm, and dark beautiful tone that comes out of the clarinet
wontoneggs 3 years ago 4
this was the robot's mistake. No matter how much technique the robot had, you still need to be aware of your air stream while going through the registers. The amount of air you put through the instrument and the position your tongue is in all matters in maintaining perfect control. Machines can't think about the sound, they can only be programmed.....
jazzgod101 3 years ago
yeah the clarinet messed up not the robot......props to college kids making a robot. I bet you got an A...
sevor1189 3 years ago
Hey it makes mistakes!!! And it has no musical, or emotional value either!
flamebird3313 3 years ago
LOL it sounds like the clarinet messed up at 0:26 !
Still cool though
PianoManTyler 3 years ago
Not bad! Work on your embouchure.
Carus0e 3 years ago 2
I can play like that only with more feeling.
jazzgent 3 years ago
ha even the roboclarinetist has a hard time crossing the break!
licoricestic 3 years ago 2
Haha
lookatmytoes93 3 years ago
Very impressive
zartonis 3 years ago 2
I wouldn't purchase the album, but it's a very impressive feat nonetheless!
HighNortherner 3 years ago
flight of the bumble bee ftw
StephenAndLeo 3 years ago 3
its amazing!!!!
musochikk 3 years ago
this sucks!!!! bad sound
and if you ask me the robot sucks to it cant even play the chromatic keys
syctenor 3 years ago
actually it looks like the robot can press all the keys it needs. It doesn't need alternate/chromatic fingerings if it doesn't need to worry about fingers.
kazaana1990 3 years ago
This robot has not got a spirit like a real clarinet! ;)
maciek152900 3 years ago 6
What is the point?
FilmPA 3 years ago
That is very impressive! It's amazing what robots can do now, and I'm excited to see what they will be doing in the future!
TheSongsOfTheWind 3 years ago
its a robot for gods sake. its not gonna get the right tones. YOU SUCK
Iambillsjumbie 3 years ago
there was a -1 but i pressed +1 so now its zero but anyways your right this seriously sounds like a game of pacman or one of those low graphic games no expression at all
ttay1122 3 years ago
Well of course its not a good tone its a fucking robot all of you people are so desperate to put out to the world how good at clarinet you all are.
its impressive.
You build a robot that can play a musical instrumet.
gymrat709 3 years ago
Es impresionante oir eso por la rapidez con q ejecuta, pero como dicen no tiene emociones y se escucha como falso.. asi q colegas clarinetistas no os preocupeis q seguiremos ejecutanto ese hermoso instrumento y no podran reemplazarnos....
Jesse0287 3 years ago
OMG! That is F...... horrible!!!! if my clarinet teacher heard this he would simply die
dristigedan 3 years ago
ANNOYING!
0Judgement0 3 years ago
This just goes to prove, robots will never take over music LOL
Gandalfgrayhame 3 years ago 2
sounds like a video game that is losing battery power
HoboTehOboe 3 years ago 5
jamas las maquinas van a competir con los humanos...que invento tan estupido...por que la musica es el lenguaje del hombre y jamas van a poder igualarlo....
joelgdl1000 3 years ago
gay
dazedandcold 3 years ago
That's the worst clarinet tone I have ever heard!
tomsancton 3 years ago 3
as far as actually playing notes that was impressive, but it was mediocre because the tone was nothing special and there was no expression
down2lyfe 3 years ago
I was surprised that there was no expression, computers are usually very expressive and able to show human like qualities.
LukeWratten 3 years ago 6
and now i'll stop studying clarinet
youJakino 3 years ago
lol i know
down2lyfe 3 years ago
lol. I like that last note when the machine can't quite get it out so it's just air... lol
- John
DarkLeprechaun89 3 years ago
Nice finger wiggling. But the bot needs a stiffer reed and firmer embouchure. Tone is kinda middle school.
bstuts7914 3 years ago
I couldn't agree with you more!
jeffvlarson 3 years ago
this is clearly impressive... i couldn't help but smile as i heard the keys clicking so fast...
it's cool how they got a robot to even get a decent sound out
SRivera83 3 years ago
It doesn't like going over the break does it?
xcracer2 3 years ago
It's hard to tell how the tone of the instrument sounds based on the piece selected... but from what I could hear, it was not the most pleasant of clarinetist sounds. You could probably not figure out it was a robot on hearing, but the difference is quite obvious between a very good clarinetist and that sound (a mediocre one). It is still very impressive--especially considering all the input the player needs to give the instrument for it to play properly.
bene951 3 years ago
obviously this isn't supposed to be making good music. they even say in the video that what's particularly impressive is that they could get it to make any sound at all. it's definitely an accomplishment to take something like a clarinet mouthpiece--designed for the flexible, organic human mouth--and play it with any sort of machine.
needmachine 3 years ago
Could have been more interesting if the performance was expressive. This reduced the sound of the clarinet to that of computer MIDI - digital, choppy, flat and lifeless.
ideahunter 3 years ago
It's easy to say that kind of thing, but if you heard a sound file and didnt know whether it was human or robot, would you have guessed? This is quite impressive.
CaeruleanXII 3 years ago
Let me not detract from the fact that this is an interesting technical achievement for robotics; however, I do thing that someone could discern based on the audio that it is computer controlled.
ideahunter 3 years ago
Fair enough. A trained clarinetist could.
CaeruleanXII 3 years ago
It's a common mistake to think something is better because you're used to it.
Digeridude 3 years ago
I voted "poor"! Toyota robots playing Trumpet and violin (search youtube) are WAY more expressive! And it's more realistic because the robots are humanoids, not like this kind of "masturbation machine".
ceztko 3 years ago
The Toyota robots have modified musical instruments to make the sound as good as the real thing. NICTA's clarinet is unmodified, and therefore I think is more impressive than what Toyota did and made their own "similar" violin.
nessa0213 3 years ago
yes, perhaps a robot playing some cannibal corpse or as blood runs black on an electric guitar would be cool...
gonzobrains 3 years ago
A human can still do better. The robot has a couple of problems with some of the notes it sounded like.
bigred2989 3 years ago
Music is really, much, much more than just playing the notes - that's why it sounds so awful. What makes it interesting is the push-pull of the tempo, the volume changes, the give and take of the various members, the imperfections, etc - all those factors produce "emotions" in the song, and make it appealing to humans.
Other than a certain brutality of drum machines, computer played music is usually uninteresting.
orthopod666 3 years ago 4
And having said that, it's interesting that they haven't incorporated some kind of "groove" algorithm to give it some personality.
l0gically 3 years ago
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I want to see a robot guitar damnit.. Something cool. aka not a clarinet
NoUsez0r 3 years ago
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ur aka idiot.
stubert311 3 years ago
To NoUsez0r:even though this roboclarinet BEAT the guitar picking robot presented in the same competition?
*check the full description*
Drag0ncl0ud 3 years ago
Interesting, but it looks as though it wouldn't be able to make it into the altissimo register. You can hear a bit of scratchiness and squeakiness as it approaches high c, as if the reed is too dry, but impressive nonetheless.
lastomega7 3 years ago 2
Now, if they'd done a piece requiring changes in dynamics and some articulation, I'd be more impressed--say, the intro to Rhapsody in Blue?
jejones3141 3 years ago
too cool !!!! yeh embedded systems
lakeoftea 3 years ago
hm... the air-flow from their mechaning "mouth" causes a certain cutting sound that a skilled clarinet player know how to avoid. i am not impressed :/
stolendata 3 years ago
Very good. And the computer doesn't have to take any breaths either. As a clarinet player, they have the keying down (if a little clicky), but the mouthpiece still needs work. That's the tricky part, changing the mouth tension depending on where you're at in the register. It's hard to know how or even if they doing the tonguing.
bytehead 3 years ago
Yeah, it sounds pretty mechanical. It is a rather mechanical-sounding piece, though, regardless of who plays it. Impressive nonetheless!
mcrumiller 3 years ago
It's a pity they could not add more expressiveness into the music. The resulting sound is mechanic and lacks musicality.
georgH 3 years ago 3
it sounds like 8bit games
sthorn 3 years ago 2
wow that was music? ha
guitrain 3 years ago
Yeah. It's called "Flight of the Bumblebee" by Korsakov.
pgllama 3 years ago 2
It's by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
RossiniSoprano 3 years ago