The making of a drum synth
Swiss synth builder Philipp started a new blog to document his progress designing a drum synth/sequencer. Watch the process unfold – Making of a drum synth
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, 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.
Guitar papercraft
Nathan writes – Paperguitars.com has loads of free papercraft guitar models. You cut out all the pieces and glue them together to get the guitar of your dreams (at least a minaiture paper version of it). They may not have quite the same tone as the originals but you sure can’t beat the price – […]
Portable record player will let you be a DJ in the wild
This “Portable Vinyl Record Player” will probably get you noticed at a rave, especially if you start scratching in the middle of the crowd chaos and add some amplification. Pretty nice build on this as far as it’s shoulder strap portability, we just wonder how often it will skip. via Dark Roasted Blend
HOW TO – generate MIDI from a theremin
Charles Martin’s wrote a program for use with Pure Data which converts an incoming audio signals pitch and amplitude into a MIDI control value. In addition to the theremin it seems this could be used with a number of different audio signals – Theremin to MIDI control in Pd [via Create Digital Music]
Review – Gakken analog synth kit
MAKE Japan editor Hideo Tamura was kind enough to send us one of the new Gakken SX-150 Analog Synthesizer kits. Needless to say I was very pleased to receive it. The kit comes as part of the latest issue of Otona no Kagaku (Science for Adults) magazine/book(aka ‘mook’). Though unable to actually read the issue, […]
The Electric Western Phantastron kit
Folks who were at the Bay Area Maker Faire may remember Lorin Parker and Electric Western. They were in the steampunk area, next to The Contraptors Lounge. Now the man who brought you the tube theramin and the steam-driven synthesizer is about to unleash his Phantastron kit on the world, a tube-based voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). […]
Juke Box Zero
The Guitar Zeros turn plastic and programming into real hard rock.