Impossible Piano Physics Simulation - In the Hall of the Mountain King | Black MIDI

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Published 2022-04-28
I built a simulation in Unity to visualize black MIDI files with physics! Every note note is a rigidbody which magnetically locks into position, presses a key, and spawns a glowing orb. This project pushed my abilities (and my PC) to the limit. The first portion was recorded with raytracing, so be sure to view in 4k resolution.

Fun facts:
- Thirty two gigs of RAM was not enough to hold the required game objects in the scene, so I upgraded to 64 just to make this video.
- Each frame was taking so long to load it was causing my GPU drivers to time out and crash. I had to edit a registry value called TdrDelay to resolve this.
- The final image sequence recording was over 100GB. Good luck youtube compression haha.
- My computer was rendering nonstop for over a week to capture the ray traced portion before the crash.

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I believe this MIDI file was created by a user named @Sir Spork. Unfortunately, it seems they have deleted their YouTube channel, and I can't find a link to properly credit them. If anyone has a link to Sir Spork's social media, please send it my way so I can give the credit they deserve for this amazing MIDI arrangement.
EDIT: I think this is the new channel:    / @tobach_  

Huge shoutout to my friend Colin for building the Patron plinko at the end of the video. Here is a link to his channel:    / @colinfritz  

All Comments (21)
  • @mikan2d
    I like how it gradually becomes more and more chaotic! And the crash in the middle made me think my computer had crashed lol
  • @BlackPlatino
    I love how at some point you just have to trust that in the middle of that chaos there is a piano playing and it's not just random particles jumping at your screen
  • @Funnymoney101
    "Thirty two gigs of RAM was not enough to hold the required game objects in the scene, so I upgraded to 64 just to make this video." What an absolute legend
  • @The_Jumping_Box
    I love how the notes counter slowly starts to get faster and faster, seeing it visualised as numbers really puts into perspective how insane this would be to play
  • @SuuSinator
    Your Computer: "They told me there's nothing worse than Rush E..."
  • @cornifer5261
    Imagine showing this to the original composers and just saying, 'This is music nowadays'
  • @Nthoonvr
    This is “I bought the whole piano and I’m going to use the whole piano” to a whole new level, just wow
  • @Wavetune
    Us with our pitiful phone screens and ordinary laptops can’t begin to comprehend the effort and computing power this took…
  • @cholsreammos
    This one is really easy to see the keys with, im gonna use this one to learn the song! Loved the ending at 4:40 i finally understand how to play the song!
  • @zows4
    That ending gave me some mild vertigo lmao, loved it. Very impressive, I'm praying for the life of your computer.
  • I love how at the end it just gets to being this avalanche of orbs cascading down the screen. Crypto mining never burned GPUs as much as I'm sure this did. If before the crash took a week, this whole video would have easily taken a month +. You absolute madlad.
  • @tetrik6499
    I feel intense sympathy for your poor computer
  • @enigmatic2878
    2:32 this put a giant smile to my face. I keep forgetting that you deliver more than we expect.
  • @Ishan.khanna
    He's finding ways to go even crazy with his physics each day
  • @Xeractyll
    The most impressive part of DoodleChaos is the patience they have to wait for these masterpieces to render
  • @teddytron2000
    Dang, you really lived up to the “chaos” part of your name with this one!
  • @RobinClower
    I'm just impressed you were able to count each note, I lost track around 20
  • @loggat3804
    Ok but, that giant wall of blocks is more terrifying than its music sheet equivalent could ever dream to be
  • @1pre1
    This is such a classic black midi, it looks so good in this program!