[LAU] OT: printers

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 23:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 23:32 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 23:24 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > > > This ink cartridge issue is caused by criminal companies, we should burn
> > > > > their factories down and lynch the management and marketing.
> > > > 
> > > > But if we did that, no one could make the cartridges anymore ... ;-)
> > > 
> > > Okay, just let us lynch management and marketing and let us keep the
> > > factories.
> > > 
> > > > Message: 20
> > > > Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:05:16 -0700
> > > > From: sevol <sevols.ear at gmail.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: [LAU] OT: printers
> > > > To: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org
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> > > > On 9/15/11, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:55:29AM -0400, Luke Peterson wrote:
> > > > >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:25 AM, immanuel litzroth <ilitzroth at gmail.com>
> > > > >>  wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:12 PM, <maex at firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >> is this now, a how to equip my computer list?
> > > > >> >>
> > > > >> >>  No, we eventually plan to use the printers to make music -- bear with
> > > > >> >> us.
> > > > >> > Immanuel
> > > > >> >
> > > > >>
> > > > >> In that case, dot matrix is your best bet:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> http://youtu.be/Ht96HJ01SE4
> > > 
> > > Wow, sometimes better than the C64 bump floppy drive music friends and
> > > I've written. I suspect it of being a fake, since it's too perfect. The
> > > C64 disk drive bump could be perfectly used regarding to the
> > > frequencies, but the sound wasn't that cute, as the sound of this
> > > printer video.
> > 
> > Polyphonic? And such a cute sound? Suspect!
> 
> In the video there's a BreadBoard, so I guess it's not a fake but, it's
> not only software, but a combination of software and hardware
> manipulation.
> 

Anyway, it's amazing, everybody who ever composed stepper motor music,
as I did, should be ashamed, regarding to this stroke of genius, assumed
that it isn't a fake. Perhaps it's possible to do polyphonic music and
to produce cute sounds by using a matrix printer, my friends and I only
used one stepper motor and we only let the stepper motor bump the head.
I guess talented people might be able to control the frequency
additionally to the kind of waveform and they thought about a matrix
printer's hardware. It might be not a fake. Incredible.