Song of the Ancients but with floppy drives

I'm back. Now featuring the world's first singing hard drive duet.

Wew. So, I have virtual surround sound headphones. Every floppy drive video I've ever made, I used these headphones to edit the audio. With virtual surround sound enabled. And I recorded all of the audio I used for mixing with a stereo recorder. This resulted in...some interesting results with the audio balance. I had absolutely NO idea that all of my previous videos sounded like absolute trash with the incredible inbalances between left and right audio.

After discovering that, I felt pretty heartbroken because I put so much work into those other videos and in terms of quality, they were awful. It discouraged me from wanting to make more. Plus, recording the audio in general is a very lengthy, time consuming process. Edit the MIDI, send it to the drives, record, mix, listen, change the MIDI, send it to the drives, record, mix, listen, etc.

This song took 4 hours of recording and editing just to get it to where I wanted it. This isn't including the time I spent time stretching the vocals (...both vocal tracks) to the MIDI I planned on using. Lots of scrapped recordings, lots of scrapped ideas on what should play what. It's all experimentation until I get the right sound, and nothing is worse than when I have to scrap an entire recording because someone talked a little too loud, or my stomach grumbled, or a car drives by. In the months between January and now, I have been collecting a number of MIDIs of various songs from NieR and NieR: Automata. I also wanted to use the vocals from the songs I was able to find, and luckily, both NieR and Automata have stems for many of the songs in their soundtracks, just have to rip them from the game files. I knew the vocals would sound haunting through the hard drives.

Hard drive audio is now substantially better because I have learned the optimal way to record them. The vocals you're hearing in this are being played back by the hard drives and recorded by my microphones. Compared to my other videos featuring singing hard drives, this is far and away the best. Actually, this entire song is far and away the best one I think I've made so far.

Anyway, if you bothered reading this, thanks.

[cokeMONSTERps]

Nier: Yokorunner

The year is 11XXX. The Bunker's servers are being flooded with 1, 000, 000 Terabytes of Yorha Unit 2B's ass by untraceable anonymous blackhats. Corrupt machine corporations keep the android populace sedated on E-drug, all the while keeping up the farce that Route B was completely necessary and couldn't have been cut or combined with Route A for a more enjoyable experience. The Council of Humanity has tasked You, Emil #3257, with tracking down the rogue Emil clone known as "Yoko-san", and preventing even more waifus from suffering under the weight of unlimited timelines and the infectious logic virus known as "Existential Dread".

Glory To Mankind.

Cool music btw.

[AexisRai]

It's a while since I last visited this channel. I appreciate the effort you put in to improve quality. Floppenkranz has a special place in my memories, and you have good taste. Hope you're well.

[cnt]

As someone who also repairs electronics, has a degree in audio engineering, and loves all things tech, this is super interesting and I wish I would have found this sooner. I have an arduino collecting dust, perhaps I'll try to source some floppy drives and see what I can do! Thanks for the content and your frequent explanations to other commenters.

[AUser-]

Glad to see an upload from you! Sorry to hear that you felt really discouraged about the quality of the others- clearly by their popularity though, they are still quality. I really enjoyed both portal renditions and never personally was bothered by any audio imbalances or distortion, but maybe that's just me

[omnithewolf]

Welcome back Spartan, good to see you putting your floppy in our faces.

[Eva]

Absolutely masterful. After hearing this, can I say floppies are one of my favorite instruments?

[mmmdpro]

I LATTERLY WAS CHECKING IF YOU UPLOADED A VIDEO YESTERDAY!! And then I checked the bell :D

[clayben]

Yes bro! I've been waiting so long for this!

[virii.win]

This is beautiful! I hope you make more...

[Blueshirt]

I had to click on the channel name when I saw the email because I forgot who this channel was lol

[dekufer]

This is something special, great work, keep it up.

[devildarlin]

This is amazing. Why haven't I found this sooner?

[fokjohn]

Holy shit an upload! And Nier Automata of all things!

[edgeeffect]

Wow... seen plenty of floppy disk and scanner music before.... not seen a hard-drive sing before though!

[shujin]

This is insane how do you even make an harddrive sing O.o

[Michael_Schumacher]

*Helping someone after ending E*
Ahh I see, your a man of culture as well.

[Paddy]

You should do Halo CE’s Perchance to Dream, or Halo 3’s.

[CrimsonRifle]

I would become a Patreon if you were to ever start one up just sayin. ( and i would like to make a request if youre short on ideas)
Keep it up dude! you do you

[dudgag]

i dare you to do ludwigs theme from bloodborne, if even possible on hard drives

[CPS-]

Do you happen to have any tutorials as to how you get the hard drives to sing?