@rebornmedia Haha! thank you very much!

I have a whole channel over on https://makertube.net/c/lofiorchestra/videos

It gets a bit random, but I still think my #LoFiPlanets is my favourite :)

@MakersHour @[email protected] A1 Hello #MakersHour, Kevin here. I've been fiddling about with LEDs and things recently and now am just pondering where to go next.

Re title - I think it would have to be "Major Nonsense" in honour of one of my favourite YouTube comments, this one on my #LoFiPlanets

Or "Come on, do better" which is a close second.

@_thegeoff (looks guiltily at a Lo-Fi, 8-bit Arduino synthesized version of the entire seven movements of Holst's Planets Suite arranged note, by note, from the original orchestral score... )

#LoFiOrchesra #LoFiPlanets

By the way, if anyone is interested, then opening the midi files I produced in MuseScore3 for my #LoFiPlanets with python's mido module gives me the following note counts:

Mars = 12315
Venus = 2965
Mercury = 6210
Jupiter = 15238
Saturn = 5991
Uranus = 7850
Neptune = 4860
Total Note Count = 55429

This is counting NoteOn messages in all the tracks in each file :)

(more here: https://diyelectromusic.com/2024/12/14/counting-the-notes-in-a-midi-file/)

#MIDI

Time for the final part of the Lo-Fi Orchestra's interpretation of Holst's Planets Suite - Neptune, the Mystic.

From the gentle rocking 5-in-a-bar chords throughout, to the surprisingly busy celeste/harp/woodwind parts - there are a lot of notes in this, what feels like, quite a calm piece! And of course finishing off with that fading voices thanks to the MT32-Pi.

https://makertube.net/w/1wi9RDSRTrGPrbTp8NwK2k

#LoFiPlanets #LoFiOrchestra #MusicAdventCalendar #Arduino #RaspberryPi #MIDI

Now onto my favourite of the Planets - Uranus, the Magician.

From the opening chords to the bumpy, jostling, almost comical tunes, the fluttering "woodwind" again, building to the climatic almost-finale where in the organ part, you can see a ffff glissando - which seems like Holst is saying "fall on the keyboard"...

The Lo-Fi-ness breaks through with a bit of MIDI "ticking" that I actually quite like!

https://makertube.net/w/5RtdgBEJoj4S7xcmAZTEeC

#LoFiOrchestra #LoFiPlanets #Arduino #MIDI #MusicAdventCalendar

Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age.

From the gentle rocking chords in the opening through the ponderous bass line, then off-beat timpani, to the complex cross-rhythm floating runs near the end, Saturn is often overlooked.

https://makertube.net/w/69RmCPvRsLt7oT5Mrvmoh9

#LoFiOrchestra #LoFiPlanets #MusicAdventCalendar #MIDI

And so on to Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity.

This is one of those pieces that is so overplayed that we tend to stop really listening to it. The finale really is quite something :)

So here is my Lo-F Orchestra version. Listen out for the MT32-Pi timpani and relay "tambourine" as well as the very busy "woodwind" in the finale.

https://makertube.net/w/tyQPtB27q6jtYkEPTrZF7y

#LoFiOrchestra #LoFiPlanets #MusicAdventCalendar #MIDI #Arduino #RaspberryPi

Mercury, The Winged Messenger.

I love the continually alternating Bb and A (one harp has two flats, one has three sharps!) throughout much of the moving passages and the interplay between the tone and flute sounds in this one.

In fact, after Uranus, this might be my next favourite of the set...

https://makertube.net/w/a3fbQKvmdxorQmibfetyfh

#LoFiOrchestra #LoFiPlanets #MusicAdventCalendar