I’m writing this knowing that I’m not the only person that became a bit sad ever since I found out that 3d printers can produce music with their motors almost at the same time as finding out that bambu printers except the A1 are amongst the few printers unable to do so.
There isn’t any hardware reason why they would be incapable of doing so, it’s just that the midi to gcode tools available require knowledge about some steps in the motors which in our case is proprietary knowledge.
Now I’m not asking for that proprietary knowledge, I guess if it was possible it would have been always available. What I’m asking instead is for this community to engage with this post if you care about this silly little thing like I do so we can ask Bambu Lab together for a firmware update that includes this cool feature.
Today I just received an OTA firmware update on my X1C so I know there is virtually no chance to get another one soon, but I really hope you can find the time to include this functionality in the next one at least.
I’m making a poll so that maybe we can better gauge the interest for this.
I also love the idea of playing noisy and distorted music on my expensive printer.
I am decidedly against having fun and would prefer a 0.02% increase in some boring printing performance metric rather than having Bambu Lab spend time on this.
I had the A1 for almost a month and was able to print a minion extruder cover, change the song the A1 played at startup and successful print and will forever miss the nozzle changes. The nozzle changes I’ll miss the most, remove the extruder cover, unstap the nozzle retainer and swap nozzles.
Oh, I own the X1C now and realize this printer in on another level than the A1.
Resurecting this topic becuase Bambu Lab just announced in the Bambu Studio V1.9.2 release notes:
“The start and end G-code for X1 and X1 Carbon have been updated, adding G-code to play audio for start and end of printing. This function will be available in the future firmware.”
This is the only time in my life where it has paid off to get forum notifications in my email. I love the news and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that there is a decent degree of customization and playing around allowed with this new feature.
I was just thinking the same thing. How strange that Bambu was like 90% of the way there and just abandoned it. I’m hearing it’s because they are focused on their next big printer, but still, couldn’t you just spend 4 hours to wrap up that loose end please? @Rocky
yeah this is just insane how they dropped the ball on it. walk and chew bubblegum, or don’t start something halfway and not complete it. It would have been easier just to dedicate half a day for a dev to ship the feature 6 months ago.
It just needs the firmware. I thought we were testing that on the last beta release but it was a very light release, nothing major on the firmware side in a very long time. Just release it, keep it disabled by default and let us tinker with. it.
So, bambuneers, it’s christmas time, 24.12., 6 months+… I hope for a christmas gift - still waiting for update. I want to hear my 1300€ printer singing right now. The printer for 200€ can do it. My printer must do it better!
Still nothing. And the odd thing is they have updated the start sound gcode in Bambu Studio twice in the last 9 months, but refuse to release the firmware that supports it. Really frustrating how slow this is. @SirWill3D any updates on the midi support?
So the latest beta STILL DOES not include support for the startup sounds on X1 firmware. Still has the code in the startup, but 9 months now and no change. @chuan.yang
Please note that some update features might have a lower priority compared to others. Our team has a certain list of features that they are working on to make available.
I will share your concern about this, and remind them about this feature, but please note it can take a bit of time until it becomes available (if possible).
Well I think it’s 100% fair to assign a low priority to this feature. It’s really cool that you got in touch with us on the forum and I personally appreciate it a lot.
So says you. I for one cannot have a successful print unless I hear a tune first and do a dance. But seriously dude, what a throw away comment. We’ve been trying to get attention on this for almost 9 months and you come along and basically say “nothing to see here, move along” …thanks for that… yeah it might only be important to a few of us, but did you really need to pop our party balloon?
I’m sorry, maybe you can forgive me for getting excited that bambu support left a comment on this, I just wasn’t expecting it at this point.
So bambu please treat this issue with the urgency it requires, the people have spoken and we need silly music from our printers.
If you delay too much, I will be remembered as an attention seeking traitor, so don’t do this to me, even if I did it to myself.
What happens when we’re forced to build worse versions of the floppotron in order to enjoy mechanical sounds? What if we have so much fun with it that we change hobbies then and no longer stick to 3d printing? I’m sure nobody wants that.
