Blow keyboard bagpipe mod
Got a blow-powered keyboard but weak lungs? Take the Saturday’s Specimen blog’s advice and make a foot pump and bladder attachment for it which works like bagpipes to keep the tunes flowing.
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.
Add MIDI to your TV dinner
The “MIDIFY” is a pretty interesting, small board that lets you add MIDI to anything you can think of. In particular it, allows you to add MIDI to any Nintendo handheld game console such as the DS, DS Lite, GameBoy, GameBoy Advance, and others. It even can generate MIDI from Microwave ovens as seen in […]
NES synth drum cartridge & interface
ElektroKraft created a new NES cartridge dedicated to percussive electro-goodness. Super Synth Drums turns the NES controller into an 8-bit sound triggering tap pad. And if you’re underwhelmed by the cramped retro-style interface, check out this video of the DrumAxe touch countroller created for use with the cartridge. – Super Synth Drums cartridge at Electrokraft
The Midibox SID V2
Can you believe the Midibox SID V2 started out as a Commodore 64? I have seen a few mods of the old c64, but this one is really nice. Check out the site for links to make your own Midibox. The venerable Commodore 64 is well known among the electronic music community as a synthesizer […]
Programmable guitar effects pedal
Imagine using a stompbox that can be programmed with your own custom effect via open source software. The Coyote-1 aims to be just that – The OpenStompTM Coyote-1 is an open source audio effects processor built for guitar players. With the Coyote-1 users can develop custom audio effects in software (like distortion, echo, chorus etc.), […]
Wear your Wii and create some noise
This “WiiMote Music Controller Suit” (called the “W_space”) by Israeli-born, Netherlands based composer Tom Tlalim uses eight Nintendo Wii controllers to create and manipulate sound in realtime. Connected up to the body, each Wiimote senses a different aspect of the wearer’s movement to produce songs in the sound software “SuperCollider”, as he or she dances […]
Noise box will scare you and the neighbor’s cat
This “Noise Box” is based on the gating properties of the 4066 Quad Switch and is amplified with an LM324 Quad op-amp to produce some truly horrifying noise. “Sound” would be too pretty a word to call the sonic mess this device creates. The project runs off of two sets of 9 volt batteries while […]