

Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Pretty soon, we might known him as an FDD DJ. Recently, he also tweaked the Moppy code so he can build playlists. He's thinking of making the setup more mobile. Jain's eight-piece orchestra currently sits on a table in one of his spare bedrooms. He doesn't get paid to do this, although he makes a little money from YouTube advertising. High, long notes don't play well, he says. From time to time he will rearrange songs so that some notes are one or two octaves lower. Jain has perfected his methodology over the years, so the most time-consuming part of the process now is filming and editing the video. "But with a little finesse it works out pretty well." "Not everything is meant for floppy disks - it's not an instrument," he said. 2 is best for producing echo effects because it's the quietest. 7 drive, for example, is best with bass tones. Some drives play certain notes better than others. Only one note can be produced at a time by each drive. The floppy disk drives are equipped with microcontrollers which receive that data and whirls at different rates to play a note. He then uploads it to Moppy, which stands for "Musical Floppy." It's an open-source software program hosted on GitHub. The two motors in the device - the stepper motor and read/write head - can be told what rate to vibrate using software.Īfter Jain selects a song, he finds a MIDI file, which translates music into computer commands. The same thing happens with floppy disk drives. When you pull a bow over a string, or strike it, it vibrates at certain frequency. So how does it work? Floppy disk drives emit sound similar to the way a violin operates. The song was produced using just three floppy drives, and is far less advanced than his current setup, which involves eight drives. His first cover was 'The Imperial March,' from the movie Star Wars. Each month Jain spends 10 to 20 hours on a new floppy disk drive song. The 26-year-old lives in Coconut Creek, Florida, and he's a full-time developer for a home healthcare software company. His 2-minute long floppy disk drive version of 'The Game of Thrones' theme has gotten over 1.8 million views on YouTube since he first published it in 2012.
