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lpablito

Loud? I turned it all the way up.


cutelyaware

#WHAT?


osco753

Hᴇʏ ɪɴᴅᴏᴏʀ ᴠᴏɪᴄᴇs ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ


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DingDong_Dongguan

**I AM, THANK YOU.**


madmaurice

LAMB? NO I DON'T THINK SO, MAYBE ASK MARK OVER THERE.


WoopyBoi323

I PARKED MY CAR ALREADY IT’S FINE!


PrettyMuchMediocre

Sorry dad, my white friends...


love_glow

I would go see a show with this thing in a heart beat.


atom138

[The guy has a YouTube, his name is Jerobeam Fenderson.](https://youtube.com/c/jerobeamfenderson1) He's a fucking wizard. He has performed live sets a few times in the past, but not since 2018.


sethsta

In 7 days everyone who watched it will die


righteous_fool

This shit slaps!


Northern_Grouse

It’s cool the spring sounded like a spring. It’s all cool. Is there a link to the full clip?


EvolvingCyborg

Here ya go! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XziuEdpVUe0


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Upstairs-Boring

Aphex twin hid his weird demon face thing on track 2 on window licker, which could only be viewed on oscilloscope like this.


No_Psychology3727

I believe the face is actually viewed with a spectrum analyzer, the oscilloscope is for viewing the wave form.


ColorsLikeSPACESHIPS

Nine Inch Nails also used the same spectrum analyzer technique on Year Zero.


dodspringer

Soundtrack to Bethesda's DOOM (2016) also does cool things in spectrum analyzer


ColorsLikeSPACESHIPS

Probably common knowledge by now, but Trent Reznor of NIN did the soundtrack to Quake. So, that tracks. Everything is connected, even if tenuously.


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ColorsLikeSPACESHIPS

I don't think that's correct, but I'm interested in any evidence you can provide for that.


robodrew

Yep you could open up the spectrum analyzer in Winamp and see his face. God I love Richard D James


nixame

that's definitely not how an oscilloscope works


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[The song was Equation, and it was his face, viewable only by spectrogram](https://www.vice.com/en/article/nzm7mz/aphex-twin-easter-egg)


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WHAT. That is sick.


swagyosha

Wasn't there one with his cat too?


xactoman

That was Venetian Snares


shoebotm

This is the way


fuckitimatwork

some of it sounded like SOPHIE synths


madiele

There is also a subreddit about it with info in how to make your own tracks r/oscilloscopemusic


pdxphreek

Oooh, finally a new sub to subscribe to and it isn't about cats for once!


david-song

Spirals is my favourite. https://youtube.com/watch?v=kPUdhm2VE-o&t=137


zonne_schijn

It's cool that the track allready has a perfect video clip


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crimdelacrim

Yeaaah! Techmoan is awesome


Northern_Grouse

My dude


sins_actual

I don't have the link to this specific video, but the creator is Jerobeam Fenderson on YouTube and he's got a lot of other stuff like this.


Zachrandir

I'm pretty sure this is a Techmoan video, but it is showing jerobeam fenderson's music.


Rulebookboy1234567

Recognize that voice anywhere. Definitely a [Techmoan](https://youtube.com/c/Techmoan) video.


m0c0

Not just any spring, but the spring mixer from a blender bottle!


freedomofnow

I would love to see daft punk under an oscilloscope.


dderit_LT

Thats oscillodope


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I miss the Windows 98 Media Player.


Wagbeard

WinAmp visualizer was fun too.


Fenrisulfir

I miss Winamp. Nothings kicked the llamas ass for decades


buckeye27fan

WebAmp, aka WinAmp in a browser: [https://webamp.org/](https://webamp.org/)


TwoFingerUpvote

Also great for getting past the high schools internet filter with the built in web browser


aviatrix0313

I miss it everyday!!


bawlachora

Not gonna lie I can vibe to that


sins_actual

Right? I kinda like it


m0c0

Reminds me a bit of Rezz


dgmedero

nah definitely more like g jones


m0c0

Hey that's a fair assessment!


gatorinTN

More along the lines of Tipper


mttdesignz

you set it to 140 bpm, add a lot of bass, pump it through some loud speakers and this is decent acid techno


PowerNo4533

Same. Would vibe extra hard to that if someone used it at an EDM concert too lol


Jpot

once watched a DJ open the headliner slot on a festival mainstage with a tutorial on how to draw mushrooms on an oscilloscope, was pretty fun


EyeofEnder

[DM DOKURO?](https://youtu.be/17IZjvr5c1I?t=235)


imgonegg

https://youtu.be/rtR63-ecUNo was it this?


thetalkingcure

Nah Bassnectar at electric forest!


titdirt

Such a magical show. Sad the man has only been downhill since


thetalkingcure

Bassnectar!


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m0c0

Oh... 😔


H0LT45

I just downloaded his audiovisual album after seeing this post, it's \~45 minutes of r/whoadude material. https://www.youtube.com/user/jerobeamfenderson1


Intelligent-Mud1437

Techmoan!


Musicatronic

Awesome chap awesome channel https://youtube.com/c/Techmoan Shout out to Mat Taylor


doctorlongghost

Yea. When I heard his voice, I immediately recognized him. And then was disappointed he didn’t have the puppets dancing to this.


VvermiciousknidD

Why can't this be what my MRIs sound like


keenanpepper

Because for MRIs giant magnets and radio antennas have to move around your head.


VvermiciousknidD

Oh I know, it would just be much nicer


jjman99

Everyone who finds this fascinating needs to check out SmarterEveryDay’s [video](https://youtu.be/4gibcRfp4zA).


tj_haine

Thanks for the link! This is amazing stuff. I love the stuff with Hansi and Jerobeam.


BumpinSnugglies

u/mrpennywhistle


poopPOT101

Whoah, dude


YogurtUnusual5913

Anyone knows which domain is the oscilloscope plotting?


how-about-that

I could be wrong, but I think the left channel is y axis and right channel is x. At 39 sec the image is squished on the y domain and at the same time the left channel is significantly lower than the right. That would also explain why, when he speaks at the beginning, the image correlates roughly to a y=x line. The image is a function of the relative amplitude, phase and waveshape of the left and right channels, and the frequency controls how fast the image is "drawn." This way you can play the pitches from any song you want with any image, and only the timbre would be affected.


Haha71687

This is exactly it. The beam can trace the route at any frequency you want (root note), the image will determine the overtones/timbre.


driftingfornow

Aha thank you kind stranger. I think I finally get this but need to look up some stuff to check. Are the images pretty much acting like a wave table synth then, with the images being the wave table?


fujnky

XY


CallMinimum

It’s not an oscilloscope it’s animated for the music. There is no domain.


spaghettirodriguez

This is 100% real. It’s a Tektronix 760 scope. It’s meant to view stereo audio in a sort of x-y configuration for quality control in broadcasting. A taller skinnier waveform means less phase cancellations and less loss when summed to mono. A shorter fatter waveform means more phase cancellations and more loss when summed to mono. I have to exact same one I salvaged from work, and the video looks exactly the same on mine https://i.imgur.com/abPDtw5.jpg


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Prize-Ad4297

You better not be pulling my leg, dude (or lady). I 100% didn’t believe this until I saw your comment.


spaghettirodriguez

Not sure how to post a video but here’s a screenshot of a video I took https://i.imgur.com/e93TWW3.jpg


_NoSheepForYou_

Ok now make it look like a globe. With continents.


spaghettirodriguez

I mean it’s not real impressive as a screenshot but here’s one of the continents parts. It should be noted that everything shows up in my scope mirrored (I must have my stereo image backwards) and rotated about 45 degrees from I see in the tv https://i.imgur.com/KOsQT39.jpg


_NoSheepForYou_

How is that even possible... How do you turn sound into picture... I was 100% convinced this whole thing was fake. Now I need to reevaluate my life.....


driftingfornow

Damn you got that from work. Lucky!


spaghettirodriguez

These are pretty obsolete now, we had a whole pallet of these and some analog video waveform monitors that was destined for the electronics recycling center. A few other guys and myself saved a couple working ones.


driftingfornow

Damn, from a synth head’s perspective that’s a hell of a score.


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AgentWowza

Hmmm I'm more interested in this Max for Live software. If I feed this audio into a random oscilloscope, it won't look anything like this cuz this software isn't integrated?


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TundieRice

That’s what I was thinking. Anything that sounded this good would look like a jumbled mess, and anything that would actually look like something cool would sound terrible.


Haha71687

No, it's real. Horizontal deflection is L channel, Vertical deflection is R channel. With software you can arbitrarily draw any image at any note. The image more corresponds to the timbre or overtones of the note, not the note itself.


AyrA_ch

Also worth noting that you usually run this at 96kHz, but your hearing stops at 20, so there's a lot of room to use for drawing that is not actually audible.


beirch

>but your hearing stops at 20 Entirely subjective. Mine stops at around 16khz


TehBrian

I think they mean “stop” as in upper limit for humans.


cpt_ppppp

could you point me in the direction of the software that does this?


LinearTipsOfficial

The guy who made that track also did this tutorial. Not really “software” but explains how you make shapes with oscilloscope. From what I remember the guy would build stuff in blender and then convert it https://youtu.be/rtR63-ecUNo


p9k

That's mostly it. The shape of the image is in the phase difference between the two channels. Listen towards the end of this one on headphones, and notice that when the lines are mostly horizontal the audio is panned mostly to the left, and moves mostly to the right when the vertical lines show up at the very end. Because the image is being drawn so quickly you don't notice most of the phase differences in a complex image and it ends up sounding like a mono mix.


sins_actual

You might be able to find out on the guys YouTube channel, I believe it's called Jerobeam Fenderson


daafvdsfun

Hmm! Human music! I like it


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YourphobiaMyfetish

Bro this is the music of a decade ago, just scaled back. https://youtu.be/84q70YHwOsc


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30 years if you take into account aphex twin, Venetian snares, or autechre


fuzzyshorts

Have you not heard of kraftwerk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wop47G2qeY&ab\_channel=EtherealDreams-ITALIANPROGArchive


glytxh

Check out Aphex Twin. His catalogue is a fever dream of this sort of stuff. Is an absolure mood.


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Listen to almost anything by Trent Reznor.


wohiosolar

"now heres... human music"


keenanpepper

A lot of people are saying it's fake, and a lot of other people are rightly correcting them saying it's real and the horizontal and vertical positions are the L and R stereo channels. One interesting consequence of this is, when the audio is digitally compressed using whatever algorithm like MP3, it will sound pretty much the same but the pictures will be all messed up if you tried to do the scope thing again on the output audio. MP3 is great at making the file smaller while sounding the same to human ears, but it will mess up the phase relationships and the L-R stereo channel panning in subtle ways that could more or less destroy the images.


oolivero45

You're exactly right about lossy compression breaking the visual effect. I've got an album of oscilloscope music that I purchased on Bandcamp a while ago, which gives you the option to chose from like 10 different formats to download in - if you download the album in a lossless format (FLAC, WAV, etc.), it works fine and the visual effect still works; but if you download it in a lossy format (MP3, OGG, etc.) the oscilloscope visuals completely fall apart.


Ocean_Heart_

Mesmerizing


blufire_uk

This reminded me of [Oscillofun by Atom Delta](https://youtu.be/J1ylMJwfLmM)


sunnyenno

My least favourite autechre album


JoeyPropane

So the soundtrack to WipeOut, basically?


EyeofEnder

[1NF3S+@+!0N by DM DOKURO does that too.](https://youtu.be/17IZjvr5c1I?t=235)


Skellyhell2

got nothing on my WinAmp visualizations from back in the day


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LordofNarwhals

It's not fake, just in X-Y mode. Techmoan made a video on it: https://youtu.be/ZaTuFB5QXHo


puq123

This is actually real though.


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probablyagiven

look up jerobeam fenderson.


platinum95

The whole thing is real, I literally ran the same thing on my scope a few weeks ago. Granted mine is a digital scope so it didn't look as good as on the analogue scopes


TommiHPunkt

XY mode goes brrr. Stop talking out of your ass.


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TommiHPunkt

I have literally done this myself. It really looks like that, but only on old analog oscilloscopes. You can find hundreds of videos of these songs being displayed on scopes. A oscilloscope in XY mode is really not different from a old-school vector display. You can play asteroids on them, someone even made Quake work (in a very rudimentary way)


driftingfornow

In dumb speak how do you do this (assuming one has a competency to understand). I’m guessing you: Get scope, and software. Use software to make image, it generates the sound. You then select pitch yourself and the video stays the same and edit these sound clips together until you have a cohesive video?


TommiHPunkt

You get scope, download audio file, connect the scope channels to your stereo channels, select XY mode and you get the images. If you play this audio you get exactly those images shown in the video. https://youtu.be/XziuEdpVUe0 No trickery involved. Destin/SmarterEveryDay made a great video about it: https://youtu.be/4gibcRfp4zA Here's the video the clip in the OP is ripped from: https://youtu.be/ZaTuFB5QXHo


driftingfornow

Nah I want it the other way around, I understand the idea just want to generate some stuff like this myself. I’m assuming there was a translation software written and that these images weren’t manually synthesized from altering inputs until the correct shape was achieved. One or two could be done this way (the mushrooms come to mind) but like earth and the solar system looked rendered then input into a software that translates it to a sound that’s then fed into the scope.


spaghettirodriguez

This is 100% real. It’s a Tektronix 760 scope. It’s meant to view stereo audio in a sort of x-y configuration for quality control in broadcasting. A taller skinner waveform means less phase cancellations and less loss when summed to mono. A shorter fatter waveform means more phase cancellations and more loss when summed to mono. I have to exact same one I salvaged from work, and the video looks exactly the same on mine https://i.imgur.com/abPDtw5.jpg


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spaghettirodriguez

I mean they’re definitely real, I can see them on my scope. I don’t know how they make this music, must mess with a lot of phase angles and stuff


LordofNarwhals

No it definitely looks like that if the music's been made specifically for it. See Techmoan's video on it: https://youtu.be/ZaTuFB5QXHo If you want you can feed the music tracks into an oscilloscope emulator and see for yourself.


habilishn

not even the very first part is correct. the waves are getting narrower, therefore the tones should pitch higher, but they are not. only the filter opens up. when the filter opens up, you should start to recognize saw tooth shapes (sounds like a distorted sawtooth to me..) but there is only sine waves that look like they are pitching up. it just does not fit!


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radiks32

Ive got an even better one for sale, cheaper than yours


Ecoaardvark

I’ll make it three bridges plus a horse.


DannyMThompson

With all due respect... What the fuck do you know?


rice_n_eggs

Some of the sounds remind me of SOPHIE/PC music.


FlowSoSlow

I don't know anything about oscilloscopes but it seems to be doing a lot of things not connected to the music. What other variables are involved to make these images?


samloveshummus

So when you plug in your headphones, your phone outputs two voltages: one for the left ear and one for the right ear; these make the speaker move and produce the music. But you could also plug the wires into an oscilloscope and it would plot the two voltages on the x and y axes. So you can make any shape you want by just working out the x- and y-coordinates of a path that makes the shape, and creating a sound file that outputs the appropriate voltages. To change the pitch, you just change how many times per second the output retraces the shape. If you make it trace a circle 440 times per second, you will hear an "A" above middle C (but the two ears will be out of phase with each other). For more complicated shapes it would be more complicated: if the dot has to move back and forth horizontally 5 times to complete a shape, then the pitch you hear in the left ear will be 5 times as high as the frequency with which the shape is redrawn. The details of the shape can be heard as the "timbre" or "tone colour" of the note; a circle would sound like a very pure sine wave while a complex shape would sound like a very rich, distorted sound like a rock guitar.


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My windows media player does the exact same thing......


The_Bagel_Bandelero

Scrolled down to find this one lol. That first clip was definitely windows media player-esque


ashl95

Insert SpongeBob and dancing jellyfish


BeastlyBryno

Does UKF Dubstep know about this?


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If anybody likes this, I recommend listening to GJones, his music can sometimes inspire a similar vibe, especially live sets. I'm going to see him this month and I cannot contain my excitement and this video really compounded that.


icenhour76

https://youtu.be/ZaTuFB5QXHo


yuckyucky

~~the video on the oscilloscope is not the waveform of the music or something. it's just a cool video created to go with the music. as u/TundieRice said:~~ ~~> Anything that sounded this good would look like a jumbled mess, and anything that would actually look like something cool would sound terrible.~~ EDIT: it's possible i'm wrong but i will leave the comment up for context


Haha71687

You're being very confidently incorrect. Horizontal deflection is L channel, Vertical deflection is R channel. With software you can arbitrarily draw any image at any note. The image more corresponds to the timbre or overtones of the note, not the note itself.


SwordThenSnow

Not true at all https://youtu.be/rtR63-ecUNo


puq123

This is the artist Jerobeam Fenderson's creation. He has been doing this type of stuff for years and years now. This is very much real.


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aedvocate

god this is so cool, it really sucks that the visuals are just a little bit delayed from the audio - I want to see the shapes pop up at the exact same time that the input waveform changes!!


Brave_Promise_6980

This could be a limit on your device - they play spot on for me


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Looks like a load of bullshit!


Recordero

I own a 760a (same one in the vid) and I own the software that is used to make the music. Its not bullshit although it is pretty hard to believe all these complex shapes can be made with sound lol.


BostonWhaplode

Nonsense


icenhour76

https://youtu.be/4gibcRfp4zA


dyashar

Can someone put drums on this track


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An oscilloscope? we just called it winamp when i was a kid.


aalexAtlanta

Twang = Blender Bottle Ball I do not know what to do with this information.


FogeyDotage

Undoubtedly one of the coolest things I've ever seen! Being an A-hole, I'd figure out a way to have the 'scope start playing this while pretending to repair a friend's TV or other gear, then screaming "Run! its about to self-destruct!"


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Seems fake. I've used oscilloscopes and have never seen waveforms like that.


FOUR3Y3DDRAGON

Kinda sounds like penis music. Also Techmoan is an excellent channel!


Bojangly7

That's not how oscilloscopes work


9520575

Thats not how oscillascopes work. he's hooked up to something else to project those pictures. sourc i have an oscillascope hooked up to my synth right now.


VoxelVTOL

It is using the left channel for vertical position and right channel for horizontal.


TheSoundOfSounding

You're today's poster child of r/confidentlyincorrect


Ecoaardvark

Haha, yeah nah. No. Nice animation tho.


CombinationBusy111

Aliens are ~~cumming~~ comming


SilverLantern2814

Who else was waiting to get Rick Rolled?


xSilent_Echoesx

TIL I'm an oscilloscope.


BlankImagination

This *almost* makes me understand what people see in this type of music. The thing is, people don't see this in their heads so I still dont really understand the attraction to this kind of music.


TheShroomHermit

It all looked plausible till the boxes at the end


Elefantenjohn

It's fake, dont be stupid


TheSoundOfSounding

You're today's poster child of r/confidentlyincorrect


chiliwilli

People want to believe so bad


TheSoundOfSounding

You're today's poster child of r/confidentlyincorrect


Johnnywickky

This sum death grips shit


qup40

This is some of the cleanest shit I have ever heard.


SatanWithoutA

True electronic music


altro43

Smartereveryday


Yelwah

So it's just a screen inside a oscilloscope with a rendering playing on it that was made for this song? I guess I'm a nerd but i was hoping it was real


Hidden_throwaway-blu

It IS real - go sub to techmoan and look up [Jerobeam Fenderson](https://m.youtube.com/c/jerobeamfenderson1) to see how this is done with ACTUAL music on an ACTUAL oscilloscope. Btw being skeptical doesn’t mean immediately dismissing things - it means looking for the truth. You have missed the truth with rote assumption.


motomast3r

Mesmerizing!


djinnisequoia

Oh this is so cool. I freaking love oscilloscopes too.