Music

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, weโ€™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.

AC/DC รขโ‚ฌล“Rock N Roll Trainรขโ‚ฌย รขโ‚ฌโ€œ music video in an Excel spreadsheet

AC/DC รขโ‚ฌล“Rock N Roll Trainรขโ‚ฌย รขโ‚ฌโ€œ music video in an Excel spreadsheet

AC/DC รขโ‚ฌล“Rock N Roll Trainรขโ‚ฌย รขโ‚ฌโ€œ music video in an Excel spreadsheet via Waxy. Like PowerPoint, once everyone has something it’s abused, used and eventually art comes of it. Excel drawings. Spiral Star art made in Excel. Games developed in Excel. Use Microsoft Office Excel to read live RSS stock …

Low budget ringmod

Low budget ringmod

Little-Scale shares this tutorial for building your own ring modulation filter for guitar – cheap, but effective! This circuit is made up of two main functions – a square wave generator and a switching mechanism. By using the square wave generator to control whether an electronic pathway is open or closed (ie. whether electricity is […]

DIY turntable sequencer

Justin writes – Hi! With a little inspiration from your blog, I made a sequencer from a turntable and some tin foil. I connected a homemade 555 oscillator and cheap keyboard so that they would be triggered by the strips of tin foil rotating on the turntable. Nice contacts sequencer – always great to hear […]

Atari Punk Dreamcast

Frostedminipete housed an Atari Punk/noise synth inside of an old Dreamcast game console, making good use of most of the case’s features – This is my first atari punk console, housed inside a dreamcast. Photo cell is demonstrated with a strobe light in the second half of the video. Extra features include… -Internal speaker with […]

Control a rave with your iPhone

Control a rave with your iPhone

This app called “BeatMaker” for the iPhone is one of a huge list of cool new music creation applications that are out for the device. This one doubles as a portable music production center with a drum machine, sampler, and sequencer that usually only exists in desktop applications. Check out the link for the list […]