How do people make songs from hard drives/floppy disk drives?

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How do they make them produce different tones? Do they write up a code? Are there different types of drives? Is it like when you blow into a bottle and depending on how much liquid is in there it’ll make a different sound so the heavier to disk is the deeper the sound it’ll produce?

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It’s servo motors (not the spinning ones, but the ones moving the arm to different spots on the disk). Depending on how fast you want to move them, you send them more steps per second – they move in steps, like a person moves in steps. A little distance at a time.

Music works with frequencies.

If you move the motor 440 Steps per second, that’s 440 hertz, or an A. Move it at 220 Steps per second, and it’s an A, just an octave below.

Truly explaining this like you’re five would take a lot longer, but i guess you should get it this way 🙂

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