Marble Machine X

This week you will get a deeper introduction to how the muting system of the MMX works. I also stumble upon some tweaks that needs to be fixed to make the MMX wourld tour and recording ready. As always the tedious number 38 is there to remind us how the simplest task becomes time consuming. Thanks for all your amazing support last year and happy 2020 to you all! Take care and good luck with everything you are doing / Martin

"Happy to be back in the workshop! Take care and good luck with everything you are doing / Martin Video edited by Chris Check out Maureen Krauth's animation of the Kinetic Fingers: Meticulae Design ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBEk…"

"I am attaching an electric Motor to power the Marble Machine X, The primary reason is to exclude human errors in the power input while calibrating the musical timing. The Electric motor provides a constant torque and will increase the accuracy of these timing tests. The Motor is placed on a temporary location just to make these tests. (i wouldnt put it there in plain sight if it was included in final design) The secondary reason to include a motor in the would be the extra tightness of the music, enabling stage dive mode and frees up my hands to control the machine. Or play guitar solo with the Marble Machine X backing me up. Adding an electric motor permanently to the drive train changes the identity of the Marble Machine X quite a lot and it is not a decision i make easily. I have been actively against this during the whole development process but perhaps, perhaps, the identity change is for the better when all pros and cons are added up. Steam punk level decreases, musical tightness increases. And what cons would actually outweigh the stage dive mode pro? Do we want nostalgia or do we want groove? Do we want to be very principal about aesthetics or do we want to go for functional? These are the eternal questions we can entertain ourselves with in this process. With the motor hidden away inside the machine and with Alex CNCs magical electric skills allowing the motor to act as a helper maybe we can have the best of both worlds. The longer i work on the project the more i tend to go for function over form - we have built so much attitude into the design already that we wont risk killing it all by making things a bit easier at this stage. But again, motor is a fundamental change. Huge thanks to Alex: ►Alex Füßl | Alex CNC | Munich, Germany https://www.youtube.com/alexcnc https://www.youtube.com/AlexCNCen But for the timing tests that are up next there is no question - this motor will be a game changer for MMX accuracy. Even when onl

"How tight music can the Marble Machine X actually play? Thats a question i been asking myself everyday during this project and today we are getting a bit closer to an answer. We have built in a lot of calibration possibilities in the design of the MMX and the goal with this video is to show you how we can calibrate the timing in several ways. Next up is bass guitar and funnels, when all the funnels are connected the machine is almost completed in its basic design There will be a lot of small things that needs to be added here and there before we can move on to the final stage which is audio. In this video you are hearing the machine sounding through a variety of non intended recorded methods, most often played through my speakers and then into the wireless mic sitting on me and things are booming a lot in my ill sounding stone room. We are doing a total overhaul acoustic treatment of my studio this spring together with https://www.id-acoustique.com which will deal with this in a wonderful way. Thanks for following the build and good luck with everything you are doing! // Martin"

"A 2-year darling project in the MMX Process has crossed its finish line, a huge thanks to the whole Funnel Team for going that extra distance with these Stainless Steel Marble Catchers. After trying out Silver brazing to join these funnels we ended up using Silicone Bronze TIG Brazing and it worked out great. Silicone Bronze TIG Brazing was an instant favourite joining method, which is great since i still have 13 funnels to assemble... Here is the links to the fantastic US-based funnel team: ►Jacob LaRocca | Rocket Props | Somerville, Massachusetts https://www.rocket-props.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-tN... https://www.instagram.com/rocketprops/ ►Tim Keller | Inventopia | Davis California USA https://www.aggie.industries/ ►Ecco Pierce | All Things Ecco | Oakland, California, USA https://www.allthingsecco.com ►Philip Brown (solo banjo) Winston Salem, NC USA https://www.wakeforestinnovations.com... ►David Lewis CAD/CAM, Design Optimization & Fabrication, https://www.instagram.com/veteranbicy... Machinist@ SpaceX ►Pensa Labs & the DI Wire CNC Wire Bender https://www.pensalabs.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/pensalabs"

"Playing the CYBER BASS This Custom Bass guitar for the Marble Machine X is a 4 string bass built on a 5 string neck, 4 Mics (one per string) and today I am adding the FUNKALIZER. An adjustable felt pad that can be pushed onto the strings and dampening the sound. This is designed to shorten the notes when the Cyber Bass is played by the Marble Machine X. Take care and Good luck with everything you are doing! Martin The 3d printed Metal Wings/marble guides you can see is printed by Desktop Metal and designed by Phillip Brown, i will cover them more in upcoming episodes! https://www.desktopmetal.com/ Special thanks to Carlos Montoro & Tim Keller for this collaboration: ►Carlos Montoro | Anjuda Guitars | Madrid, Spain https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR9W... https://www.anjudaguitars.com ►Tim Keller | Inventopia | Davis California USA https://www.aggie.industries/ Support the Marble Machine X Project: ► http://www.patreon.com/wintergatan ► teespring.com/stores/wintergatan ► https://www.youtube.com/wintergatan20... #marble #machine #4K"

"The first ever Marble Race on the Marble Machine X! Who will Win? The Marble Track Loop on the Marble Machine X is finally ready for an improvised Marble Race on the Marble Machine X. As we say in Sweden, a Loved Child has many names and regardless if you call it Marble run, Marble Race or Marble Rally or Marble Track or Marble Racing the thrill of this action packed sport is flooding our dopamine receptors. I am a huge fan of the following Marble Channels: Jelle's Marble Runs (I actually met Jelle once! Awesome meeting) Marbula One: 2020 Short Circuit GP (S1R6) - Marble Race by Jelle's Marble Runs ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JJWQ... Kaplamino Magnets and Marbles ! ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ9gs... DoodleChaos The Lucky Yellow Marble ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytV76... Also from DoodleChaos: Line Riders - Beethoven's 5th ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcBn0... Also from Jelle's Marble Runs Marble Run Machine with 11,000 Marbles! ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmh_u... Video edited by Cap and Tony A.K.A Hannes and Martin Hannes Knutsson ►https://www.instagram.com/hannesknuts... Thanks for all the inspiration have a great day and good luck with everything you are doing, take care/ Martin"

"Trying to make my Music Studio Room sound better with a temporary fix by making some Acoustic Panels from Plywood Scraps. This went OK but wasn’t a huge success, the room will sound much better after the real makeover from https://www.id-acoustique.com All the best! Martin Video edited by: Marius Ihlar https://www.mariusfilm.com/ Hannes Knutsson https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson And Martin"

"First ever Marble Drops on the Cyber Bass for the Marble Machine X! Many thanks to Desktop Metal, Phillip Brown and Alex CNC for your contributions to this part. Take care and Good luck with everything you are doing! Martin"

"The Cyber Funnel for the Cyber Bass! I will finish this as soon as i have new Argon Gas for my TIG Welder. Thank you for following this long crazy project, good luck with everything you are doing! // Martin Check out the MMX Print by DiResta here: www.wintergatan.net"

"Laser Focus = Cyber Progress Too Focused on MMX Progress to write a longer description :) Good Luck with everything you are doing! / Martin Learning How To Focus and Achieve My Goals"

"Check Out the Spanish Version of Wintergatan, Wintergatan ESP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_76... A Victorious Moment with a somewhat suspicious aftertaste, the Vibraphone Funnels of the Marble Machine X are Completed! Good luck with everything you are doing/ Martin Video Edited By Hannes Knutsson: https://www.instagram.com/hannesknuts..."

"Custom Bass CYBER CAPOS from Linear rails! Is it a CNC machine or is it a Bass Guitar? Neither, Its a C Y B E R B A S S Capos have been used in music since the Dark Age but not until today can we enjoy the sound of C Y B E R C A P O S Huge shoutout to everyone in the team helping out with the cybercapos! See links below to all the team members. Thanks for watching! / Martin"

"Hey! We are opening up some new contact surfaces for the Wintergatan Community, scientifically proven to be the best community in the world. Check it: Wintergatan Community Submissions Upload Instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E... Wintergatan Community Discord Server Invite: https://discord.gg/wintergatan Wintergatan ESP - Spanish Speaking Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_76... Wintergatan Facebook - The whole backstory in Daily videos Curated By Hannes https://www.facebook.com/wintergatan/ We hope this can be a building block that we can keep building on for the future , All the best// Martin & Team Wintergatan"

"Marble Machine X is not working... Here's how I'm going to fix it Marble Machine X Project Management Masterplan: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... Shout out to Andy for coaching me in a great direction: https://www.integralstrategysolutions... JOIN THE WINTERGATAN COMMUNITY: - Discord: https://discord.gg/wintergatan - Community submissions upload instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E... - Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wintergatan - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wintergatan Community Corner Credits: https://www.youtube.com/crazylilman771 Frédéric Druppel Instagram: hhtps://fred.corp.8888 Graham Thomas TK Simon Meie"

"In episode 127 of the Building Marble Machine X Series Olivier and Vincent from www.Id-Acoustique.com and www.showroomaudio.com carry out acoustic measurements to help design the Studio. JOIN THE WINTERGATAN COMMUNITY ► If You want to be part of Tim Kellers Monster CAD Project and help make the open source MMX-cad model, go to Wintergatans discord server and hit the angle grinder reaction on the related post in the #idea-vault channel https://discord.com/channels/64916597... ► If you want to be part of the MMX build in the crossing of the finish line please let us know about your skills in the ""skill-vault"" here: (thanks Tim Mitchell!) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA... ► Discord: https://discord.gg/wintergatan ► Community submissions upload instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E... ► Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wintergatan ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wintergatan Video edited by Hannes Knutsson https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson"

"Dream Music Studio Build! First installation of 3 of what will eventually become my dream music and video studio. Thanks to Olivier, OKA ;) and Elio for a really nice time, Check out the custom built studio desks here: https://www.showroomaudio.com/brand/s... Check out Elios band TARLD here: https://www.tarldtheband.com/ Have a nice day everyone, Martin Community corner: Haptolin: bzqp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C2lT... iSax Laboratories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1vO... JOIN THE WINTERGATAN COMMUNITY ► If You want to be part of Tim Kellers Monster CAD Project and help make the open source MMX-cad model, go to Wintergatans discord server and hit the angle grinder reaction on the related post in the #idea-vault channel https://discord.com/channels/64916597... ► If you want to be part of the MMX build in the crossing of the finish line please let us know about your skills in the ""skill-vault"" here: (thanks Tim Mitchell!) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA... ► Discord: https://discord.gg/wintergatan ► Community submissions upload instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E... ► Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wintergatan ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wintergatan Video edited by Hannes Knutsson https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson"

"Rubber coating might be used at several places of the machine to reduce the high frequency metal on metal sounds everywhere! After this successful test I want to dip the whole Marble Machine X in a 3 meter diameter pool of plastidip. Have a nice day everyone, Martin Chapters 0:00 - Funnel sound test 05:05 - Martin CAD session 10:12 - Christofs Vibraphone Fishnet 13:25 - Community Corner 17:21 - Wintergatan ESP - Spanish Language Youtube Channel 18:28 - Thank YOU! Video edited by Hannes Knutsson https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson Wintergatan ESP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_76... Community corner: Benton Collins Photography - Music by: New Wave Solar Powered Robots Przemek Pytel Thomas Schmidt / exergia https://www.youtube.com/user/exergiaD..."

"Reparing the Conveyor belt into ""World Tour Safe"" condition. Lots and lots and lots of work like this to do on a machine that has more parts than a car and is designed by an optimistic amateur mechanical designer. Im back at building on the machine itself after taken care of the project management part of the machine - so now while i have been repairing the conveyor the team has been busy all over the world working on other aspects of the build. The multiplier in efficiency i wanted to achieve has become real. Very happy for this. Expect more build videos over the summer. All the best/ Martin Video edited by Hannes Knutsson https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson"

"I challenge myself to finish a long to-do list for the Marble Machine X - can i tick all the boxes? Video edited by Hannes Knutsson and Popple Productions https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson https://www.poppleproductions.com"

"Making some organically flowing marble Tracks for the Vibraphone marbles - with these in place all the marble tracks of the whole Marble Machine X are completed! The lingering cloud on the marble track sky is that i designed these tracks to look like marbles could easily fall out and i did my job so well so some marbles do actually fall out. Some extra fencing here and there and some extra bending of the plywood is needed. Quite annoying but par for the course for the MMX and my special brand of over optimistic designs. Tweaking this is added on the to-do list which means it will be fixed. In spite of this i am happy to have reached this milestone, thanks for watching! /Martin Video edited by Hannes Knutsson https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson Wintergatan ESP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_76..."

"The Marble Machine was always at risk of becoming a spider web of audio cables with 24 microphones spread out everywhere - Christof Bruning has come to our rescue and designed the ""Audio Central"" of the Marble Machine X and this week i am installing it onto the Machine. 28 Audio Channels in one cable makes for really great cable management :) Thanks Christof and also thanks to https://ehrlund.se/ for supporting the Marble Machine X with contact microphones and preamps. I love these contact microphones and have always done - so thanks Ehrlund Video edited by Hannes Knutsson, Marius Ihlar and Popple Productions https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson https://www.mariusfilm.com/ https://www.poppleproductions.com"

"My Home Music Studio has just been upgraded. Installation 2 of 3 is done and the studio is ready to record the Marble Machine X. I had a great week with Olivier and everyone in the team from www.id-acoustique.com. Thanks for watching and take care, good luck with everything you are doing! / Martin Video edited by Hannes Knutsson https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson "

►Check out the new Wintergatan free download/pay what you want section of our Website here: https://wintergatan.net/collections/d... Finally fixing the mechanical sound of the Funnels with Liquid Rubber dip. Thanks everyone for following this sisyphus stone creeeeeping up the mountain, have a great day! // Martin

Check out the Wilson / Angle Grinder t-shirt design project here: https://wintergatan.net/pages/angle-g... Tried to invite you a little bit more behind the scenes of the cooking show in this one. Redesigning the Marble divider and a lot of other parts for the Marble Machine X was not an easy decision to make - but absolutely necessarry to make the machine function. Still after years of working with marbles I am still underestimating the impact of the amount of repetitions of marble drops that are needed to work flawlessly on the marble machine X, if the fail chance is 0000,1 % and we have 100 000 repetitions the chance of failure is too high. Designing something that fixes this might seem like a backlash but after accepting facts it is the fastest way forward. thanks for following the build have a great day// Martin ????/????

"The Previous Cybercapos had some issues so we fixed them! A huge thanks to the collaborators on this project who delivered something truly amazing: Carlos Montoro built the bass: https://www.anjudaguitars.com Richard Southall did the Cad design: https://www.stringheart.co.uk/ Ace Krystal Manufactured the Wheels: https://www.acecraft.eu Watch Ace Krystals video on how he made the wheels here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJtPz... Thanks to everyone following the build good luck with everything you do! Martin Video edited by Hannes Knutsson and Marius Ihlar https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson https://www.mariusfilm.com/"

I set my self another to-dolist challenge to complete 12 items of fixes on the Marble Machine X. Thanks to: Richard Southall https://www.stringheart.co.uk/ Alex Füßl https://www.youtube.com/alexcnc https://www.youtube.com/AlexCNCen George Pickering https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqnY... Philip Brown https://www.wakeforestinnovations.com... Desktop Metal https://www.desktopmetal.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLUG... https://www.instagram.com/DesktopMetal/ Good luck with everything you are doing! / Martin Video edited by Hannes Knutsson and Marius Ihlar https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson https://www.mariusfilm.com/

Meet the amazing MMX Cad Team on the Wintergatan Discord server: https://discord.gg/wintergatan Check Out Maureens Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyim_... Check out Tim Kellers Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9GGr... In this episode I am building what I hope will be “the beginning to the end” - the new Marble Module. Next step for me is to cad & manufacture the continuation of the marble paths from the module out to the channels and later assemble this solution on the machine. Inspiration levels are high in the studio today. I am using time correctly and the community are pushing the CAD model which will take the MMX on a new adventure into the future. Have a nice day everyone and good luck with everything you are doing! / Martin P.S. I explained the non-concentric misalignment inside the video but we edited that part out so for the machining interested: The plywood stock was undersized - designed the cad for 18mm thickness of the ply but didnt care to check the ply stock size. the IRL thickness was surprisingly off - much thinner than 18mm causing the misalignment (birch ply have higher quality in sweden then the ply i have found in france). Rookie mistake, measure your stock by yourself - dont take the 18mm for granted just because it says on the package... Video edited by Hannes Knutsson and Marius Ihlar https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson https://www.mariusfilm.com/