Not just a great harpist, but a creative electronic musician as well! Way to go Emily!

@emilyharpist

Жыл бұрын

thanks Bill!

I don't plan on ever doing this but I'm thankful you're being so thorough with the instructions. A lot of tutorials just say "plug your thing into your thingy and you're good to go!"

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! ❤️ ❤️

The guy who originally created the arduinoboy (Trash80) and released the schematics so other people could build it has also recently built a new device called the M8 Tracker. It's not cheap, but it's really cool. It's designed to be held and used like a gameboy but is a fully functional tracker capable of various forms of synthesis and can easily connect to other hardware. I totally want to get one some day as long as they're still being made (my understanding is that he's building these things by hand and shipping them out to people, what an awesome dude).

@bretthiorns9237

2 жыл бұрын

I've got an M8 on preorder, but probably won't see it until some time in September. ☹️ If you want to mess with it, you can set up a headless M8! Buy a Teensy 4.1 and install the M8 firmware. Plug the teensy into your computer (with a couple bits of free software) and use a USB game controller for navigation. Now you have an M8 for about $40!

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

OMG I’m gonna try this!!! I’ve wanted an M8 Tracker for SO long so badly :(

@AntFactoryMusic

2 жыл бұрын

If you want to go EVEN cheaper you could try getting LSDJ! (Maybe just to run on an emulator if you don't have a GB/flash cart/etc), since the M8's basically LSDJ on ultramega steroids and really good enhancements, I feel like you could have a go on LSDJ to get the hang of the whole workflow with the more limited OG experience - might feel less overwhelming, even? And then jump-start your experience with the M8 already knowing all about how to start making tunes with it!

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

@@AntFactoryMusic LSDJ is definitely next on my list!!

@DJDiskmachine

2 жыл бұрын

The handheld sure ain't cheap, but the headless only costs you a teensy and an SD card! 🥰

I love the sound of taking it through Microcosm - it shows how it goes well beyond just a nostalgic toy (which isn't bad!) into a very real tool for musical expression that can go well into workflows.

@linkenparis9562

2 жыл бұрын

yeah same, i love this part. i wish there were more

That pokemon intro is gold! I LOVED IT 👍👍👍 And amazing how you turned the gameboys into midi controllers 👍🤘🤘🤘

This is how I got into electronic music a looong time ago, and I've just realised how much of a failure it is that I can't/have never tried to play the Pokemon intro theme on keys. Sweet video. Subbed.

You two have some of the best freaking intros for your videos. Instantly hooked. Emily's joy as she finds the right notes, that's something any non-pianist musician has definitely experienced while playing the piano 😂

@LCOmusic

2 жыл бұрын

+1 good cold opens are a gift

@RC_Cola2020

2 жыл бұрын

She is a good pianist though

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Travis!!!! I appreciate you :)

All that the section following 3:30 to 4:47 needed is a slappin' DnB drum beat, some subs and off you go. Banger!

I love your cartoon character voice and this guide was RAD

Love the production quality of this video. Super solid y’all

Love those moody chiptunes you made, the effects pedal one reminds me of Disasterpeace. And just generally your format is great, solid tutorial but then you really dive in and actually make great music with whatever you're showing!

3:30 this sounds fascinating and hypnotic.

gotta say those GB noises are really iconic. I never had one myself so im not that attached to it. But its that synth retro sound I simply adore.

@emilyharpist

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Anna!

So cool and such a throw back with that intro music

Thanks for another interesting audio adventure Emily, this was a hoot. Loved hearing it through the Microcosm

This is exactly the type of video I was looking for! I was looking at some reels on Instagram and when I found you and you had a video I had to come and see it!! Thanks for the high quality content!!

That's some pretty cool tech... The joy you two have with your videos is apparent and infectious. Happy Wednesday and be good to you (both!)!

@emilyharpist

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Scott!

That sound.... is Absolutely Amazing! I'm partial to square waves, and the GB used them beautifully!

It sound so good through some effect, beautiful:)

no explanation needed for why it's cool lol it just is! especially with that EQD pedal and then the Chase Bliss? wow that was awesome

You're just tugging at my love of geeking Nintendo tunes, takes me back. Still have my GB classic but its been through the ringer over the years and needs a complete re haul! Love the opening Pokemon playing, takes me back to many hours playing Red when it came out!

Great job!!! Definitely inspiring as that's exactly the sound im into atm. Old 90's games. Absolutely loved it. Liked!!

My 2 fave things right now are old video game sounds & effects pedals, so this hit me right in the feel goods. Excellent!!

The Microcosm section was cool!! Thank you, Emily!

I bought one of these a while back- they are totally fun to play with! Also really cool with a looper so you can build up a bit more sounds and even use the noise channel for percussion sounds.

Youre so dang talented dude ❤ Edit: frog voice yaaaaasss

That's awesome. 💛 Sounds amazing.

Omg that first tune took me back to my simple childhood!

That's an instant subscribe from me, fantastic content. Can't wait to dive into more of your videos! Thank you!

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks will!!!

@369TurtleMan

2 жыл бұрын

Hey it’s the Reddit guy

@WillHatton

2 жыл бұрын

@@369TurtleMan caught in the wild

@369TurtleMan

2 жыл бұрын

@@WillHatton when’s the lofi harp collab EP dropping?!?!?

@WillHatton

2 жыл бұрын

@@369TurtleMan I’d love to collab with Emily if she was ever game!

Sweet and creative video! Your studio setup still impresses me when I see it :) You 2 are awesome!!

This is your best video so far. I've wanted to do this for years and haven't put the effort into figuring this out. Super cool. Also wii shop music.

Just want you to know that I love synthesizers so much, nice to see you roll your sleeves up and dig into them things :)

Whoa! That's freaking awesome!!! I love it!!! :)

I love this so much!! What a cool and fun way to make chiptune music!

That's so cool1 And the sound is amazing! Love it, thank you for sharing this geeky gear!

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris 😊

OMFG!!! This is the greatest thing ever

it's really cool. and the pedals you hooked it up to are awesome choices too. very nice

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks George!!

THAT'S SO BADASS! Love you guys!

Making music with a Gameboy is dope. It truly is the sound of our childhood, at least for me. I want to do some chiptune-y music but having to do stuff all the time in a daw kind of sucks... That voice you used for the plugins line was awesome XD #noplugins

@agit5270

2 жыл бұрын

You should try lsdj with a gameboy emulator/cartridge

@toastsawdust9814

2 жыл бұрын

Or a tuned famitracker if you want to use a PC, although intended originally for NES emulation the 2A03 is very similar in sound and architecture to the GB's PSG

This so so much fun and ugh could listen to the microcosm tunes on a loop forever.

I love everything about this video.

Oh man, so many possibilities! Going through the Microcosm made me think of using it for djent and electronic music (jungle in particular).

Your videos are always very enjoyable! Thanks for making music even more fun than it already is!

Retro composition... may the fermata be with you!

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

😊

Okay, okay, okay, *okay* ... How the hell did I miss this?! So much nostalgianessness love it. ❤️

@emilyharpist

Жыл бұрын

okay okay okay OKAY how did i miss THIS comment?

@soveriegn777

Жыл бұрын

@@emilyharpist 🤣LMFAO

This is fantastic. Thanks for the vid!

Very cool. Always great content. Watched this twice

I'm a musician heavily inspired by the 1990's, and this is an awesome idea! This would be fun to experiment with

I wish everything on youtube was explained like this. Or in life.

Thanks Emily. As soon as I saw these were available I snagged one. Always looking for small, cool gear to compliment my setup. 😎

I'm so happy that yt recommended this vid cos It's exactly what I was wishing for to sequence gameboys with keys and piano roll sequencers! ❤️

thats realy awesome .... uff i like it so much ... Much love from Germany ♥

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

❤️

Sounds amazing!

Awesome! Dream come true

Wonderfull set of two nice gameboys

Okay 7 months later and I can neither confirm nor deny that I have just purchased a modded backlit custom GB DMG and arduinoboy just because this awesome video finally made me cave …..happy holidays everyone!!!

This is really cool, I love chiptune so freaking much. Thank you Emily and the youtube algorithm. xD

Love your channel. I have gained an appreciation for the harp. Just not really thought of a harp in a modern sense before.

amazing stuff

So cool!! Love it!!

Cool! It gives me nostalgia flashbacks of LSDJ on the Game Boy. Such a cool little music tool.

This is so sick

Arduinoboy Pro will be my next thing to buy, for sure, I didn't know it's existence. It's funny that somewhere in 2007/2008 KZread barebone algorithm showed me for the first time what Chiptune was all about, and 13/14 years later the same grown up algorithm showed me this video out of the blue, like I was rewatching a mix between Trash Theory and GVMERS videos when the algorithm put this video into the mix

Oh wow. This is some 8bit nostalgia. Great stuff.

Really Cool!

This is SO COOL. Also hearing you play that Pokémon red & blue song was transcendently nostalgic.

Thats actually beatiful

the gameboy with da fx pedal sounds insane 🔥🔥🔥

Nah this is hella cool! thanks for sharing :D

Noice use of that arpanoid!

I'm half expecting a video where Emily converts a Game Boy into a time machine that's powered by a potato. Another excellent video, I always enjoy the stuff you come up with.

@LCOmusic

2 жыл бұрын

That section was cut for time, unfortunately.

@vanntooot

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds awfully like she's about to become an alternate reality version of GLaDOS

Sounds nice :D

I think it's awesome too. Awesome performance as well! Oh and I love your silly voice.

sounds wicked 🎮

This is cool!

More synths, and drum machines! ...Closest thing I have to that, is the Nanoloop FM device. Also very fun, and quite powerful. This was a fun video!

Heck yeah! 🙌

Dope AF !! That's some knarly synth tones from that GameBoy. Very chiptune-esque. The Arturia is great for sequencing stuff - I got the KeyStep Pro last year which is loads of fun. Maybe worth looking at clocking the Microcosm via MIDI at the same time and taking advantage its clock division options.

Well now I'm definitely getting these for soundtrack composition.

thats so freaking cool oh my godddd

Great video Emily.

Thank you for making this vid, I've been wondering how to do something like this for a while. Thank You !

Wow, this is so cool!

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

I had so much fun with it!

The habit is so sick.. definitely gonna have to pick one up soon.

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

I love habit!!!’

That was a much needed hit of nostalgia

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I do love nostalgia!!!

Brilliant. ❤

"custom neon sign" this is the ironic-funniest joke I've seen on youtube in years, subscribed.

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

Haha thank you 😊

Yaaaasssss!! So AWESOME to see this Emily!!! I also recently just got one of these from Catskull and posted a jam controlling it with an Arturia Keystep Pro on my channel!! lol Freaking killer video from you, that sounded so sick with that Microcosm pedal, OMG!! Always enjoy your content, but this video was especially right up my alley! lol 🤣😁🙌🐀

@StephenMcLeod

2 жыл бұрын

I thought I might find you lurking here haha

@LabRatWarfare

2 жыл бұрын

@@StephenMcLeod Hahaha! Yaaasss! Glad to see you here too man! Emily is AWESOME, love her pedal reviews and harp performances... So you know when I saw this video drop I was on it like a rat on a Cheetoh hahaha 😁🤘🐀

You're my hero.

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

No u

Best thing I have seen all week! I wish this would be done at baseball games for an inning or two instead of the organ.

Oh heck, this is rad.

thank goodness catskull is back

The level of Nerdness in this video is off the charts, and I love it!

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Pauly!!

Incredible!

That is amazing!

wicked setup

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

That's so cool!

@ObsidianContraption

2 жыл бұрын

You should totally make an album with this!

Hahaha! The voice is back! It’s great and so is this demo and i love chip tune cuz its total nostalgia. I am Atari OG so ya i go waaaay back with all the consoles. The EQD pairing reminded me of my fav game called “a boy and his blob” theme song. I hear it and i get super happy seriously. It’s really koool one can do this and here i am thinking how do i make my guitar do this now hahaha

@soveriegn777

2 жыл бұрын

*ATARI* REPRESENT!!🤘😎And a midi guitar with that setup would be SICK👍

@PedalPlayhouse

2 жыл бұрын

@@soveriegn777 yesss with a band name like the Atari Chiptuners 😆

so jealous that you actually got an Arduinoboy - Catskull has been soldout of them for ... years? but this video just reawakened my interest in getting one. guess its time to learn how to solder! thank you for such an inspirational video!

@emilyharpist

2 жыл бұрын

They recently restocked their shop which is when I got one!!! Maybe last month? I was so happy hahaha

@kassiacomposer

2 жыл бұрын

@Bobby Hutter They're back in stock now! I bought one earlier today!

@bobbyhutter5654

2 жыл бұрын

@@kassiacomposer i can't thank you enough for alerting me. i've been wanting one of these for years and even started teaching myself electrical engineering and PCB design just to try to make it (like Emily - i still kinda wanna make it). just placed my order - all thanks to you! now i'll at least be able to compose music and maybe even perform while i'm figuring out what ICs do exactly haha. this is so cool - the musician side of me hasn't been this excited in years! Cheers!

OMG THIS IS AWESOME!!! BTW LOVE the desk!!! I think my kid left some kind of old gameboy in my studio... Hi Russ!