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.
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Ranjit’s workshop seems to have gone very well – some great sounds can be heard from these resulting instruments. Time for a handmade jam! From the pages of MAKE: MAKE:09 p.115 Strung Out – make a one-string electric guitar
An interesting sort of update to the classic player piano design – The sequencer plays the notes as a arpeggiator, i chose for this playback method because i dont have a midi device that can play 24 keys at the same time.. There are 2 different arpeggio modes. One rearranges the playback sequence to the […]
Kyle writes – A friend of mine wanted a bitcrusher/samplerate reducer pedal for his guitar — I thought “you could probably do that with an Arduino”. The quality turned out surprisingly reasonable. I’ve released the code, which sets up the pins on an Arduino for doing 10-bit DSP at reasonable sample rates The design includes […]
The circuit artiste known simply as “bwack” has created what is probably the most excellent sampler I will see in this lifetime (unless a giant-sized trend begins after this). Instead of taps, this things accepts punches as input – he was commissioned by our good friends from the band family force 5 to construct the […]
Jamoflage made this incredible pitch bending thumb piano! It sounds kind of like a steel guitar when it’s plucked, then kind of like twisted steel drums. And you can change out the blades. Totally cool. Via Oddstrument Collection
This project called “Last Manoeuvres in the Dark” by artists Fabien Giraud and Raphael Siboni currently on display in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo, employs hundreds of Darth Vader masks equipped with microcontrollers and speakers and connected to a computer which spatially composes one of the “darkest” musical pieces of all time. This video […]
The SX-150 was just released today and there’s already an excellent mod! Frankie writes – Today Gakken released the kit of the SX-150 analog synth (a perfect match for the new Nintendo DS Korg DS10 analog synth card!). RJ, a Japanese MAKE magazine reader, a couple fo weeks ago posted a guide to create a […]
