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.
I’m happy to announce that the Gakken SX-150 Analog Synthesizer kit is now available in our Maker Shed. This sweet little synth is about the size of a large sandwich but sounds a whole lot more awesome. It sports controls for resonance, attack/decay, cuttoff filter, pitch envelope, has an external control input along with built-in […]
Paul Slocum’s “Pi House Generator” creates an evolving soundtrack of house music which goes on forever(almost) – The software progressively calculates the sequence of digits in pi, starting at 3.14 and progressing towards infinity. As the program calculates the digits, it feeds the results into an algorithmic music generator containing my structural criteria for house […]
Percussionist and Metal Sculptor Steve Hubback creates gong instruments in many varied shapes and sizes – often exploring medieval and gothic themes. Check out the gallery pages on his site – Very metal!
Guitar effects manufacturer Line 6 collaborated with Freescale semiconductor to develop a Windows-based programming interface for their modular digital effects pedals. They’ve just released the software along with a writable hardware module as the ToneCore DSP development kit. This could be a great and relatively affordable way to experiment with DSP for those interested. The […]
Jimmie P. Rodgers explains his Creepy Cave Crab light/noise synths – I made these for the Willoughby and Baltic Halloween show at the Charles River Museum of Industry. They use a single Hex Schmitt trigger inverter IC to generate the sound, and two RGB color change LED to generate the lights. I then encased them […]
Strannik converted 2 big ol’ fire extinguisher tanks into a pair of cylinder speakers. I bet they sound pretty hot! … ahem. A ton of build pics available in the original forum post
Remain Calm has a nice little roundup of homebrew music applications for use with Nintendo DS – ds music apps [via Matrixsynth]
