Take your creations beyond the workshop and onto the stage with diy music instruments! Let us show you how these creations range from simple, basic setups that produce beautiful sounds to more complex projects that require a greater level of engineering knowledge. With these tutorials and examples, we’ll guide you on this journey to make your own musical instrument for experimental, artistic or everyday use – so whether you’re starting out new or a seasoned sound creator, come explore the wonderful world of making your own music.
Who said patch bays were just for analog gear? … well someone at some point did, I think. Mike’s styling MIDI controller sports a re-reoutable panel full pots and photocells fed through a MidiTron board – The controls on the instrument include 20 assignable potentiometers (knobs), 5 assignable photocells (at varying resistance), and a patch-bay […]
Devin created a digital version of the classic ondes Martenot electronic instrument using a USB Gametrak controller – Like the Ondes, I wanted the controller to give continuous and fluid pitch adjustments, a deep volume control, and offer a range of timbres. All of the materials needed for this project are a Gametrak video game […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Matt’s long unfulfilled dream of an explosive audio player has finally been realized with help of a hacksaw, 1GB mp3 player and a inactive(pretty sure) hand grenade – Final form of the mp3 grenade… playing music albeit with a busted ground on the 1/8th inch.. .easy fix… will finish that […]
This video shows Joseph Melnyk “playing around” with a 256 button Monome. If you are unfamiliar with the open source Monome project check out Monome.org. There isn’t much more about this amazing 256 button Monome, but you can read more about Joseph on his website. If you though that video was cool, check out this […]
”Minimum_Module” by Limiteazero is an open source sound installation (you can download the source code for it at the link below) built with Processing where 4 frequencies are generated by 4 laptops and played through a subwoofer which creates vibrations on 4 steel plates which are picked up with microphones as visualized as a wave […]
Califaudio points out this rather unique synth designed and built by Mr. Skot Wiedmann. It’s inner workings remain a bit of a mystery as its maker only specifies it being an analog/digital hybrid with feedback circuitry … and a whole lotta banana jacks. Well no matter what’s inside it looks quite killer. Visit Skot’s site […]
This might be the next Diet Coke & Mentos… real or not, very fun to watch.
