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.

Ready, willing, and Abletonator!

Ready, willing, and Abletonator!

Woah – music meets gaming interface in a major way! The Abletonator incorporates a full Ableton Live music making workstation into an arcade cabinet. (don’t worry game fans, it was just a bar-style quiz/trivia machine) Create Digital Music gives a rundown on the specs: PC running Windows XP, Ableton Live 6 (hmmm… may want to […]

Game console guitars

Game console guitars

In the quest for ‘ultimate tone’ many designs have been attempted, but few know the musical potential held within an old game console such as the above NESpaul & Dream-tele-Cast-er. Seriously, these makers have gone to impressive lengths in order to convert classic plastic enclosures into instrument bodies (which could be a blasphemous process to […]

Arduino MIDI sequencer

Beamer writes – I’ve been working on a sequencer project for a while and I got some good footage of my good friend Scott Hansen from Tycho and ISO50 playing with it. It’s based off of the Arduino right now. The first row is your standard note assignment The second row is velocity (turned off […]