MIDI foot
Designed by Paul Sobczak, Peter Arendt, and James Pachan — The Midi Foot is a foot controlled switch box that interfaces with a computer via Midi (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) – Link.
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.
End of the weekend, watch Weekend Projects
Have you made a flower out of currency this weekend? Get to it! I’m still waiting to see some creative currency in the Make: Flickr Pool Video – Link PDF – Link Subscribe – Link In other news, I posted an mp3 of the music I made for this video and some folks sent in […]
Making Arduino sing, Part Two
uC Hobby has posted the second installment of their Arduino sound articles. This is the second in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The first article covered the various methods available for sound generation with an Arduino. In this article we take a small step; “Hello World” for Arduino sound. We […]
Wavetable synth on an ATtiny45
A Make: Blog reader, garydion, posted this in response to my Making Arduino sing piece: On the topic of music on microprocessors, be sure to check out this site where a wavetable synthesizer is programmed into an Atmel ATtiny45. Amazing! I had to download the code and program a chip to confirm it really does […]
Making Arduino sing
On uC Hobby, they’re beginning a series on bringing sound to Arduino: This is the first in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The goals are to generate good quality sound which can be used to play simple tones, stored music, sampled sound, and even act as a MIDI synthesizer. I […]
Winners of the Circuit Bending Challenge
Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music Writes: We’ve completed the Circuit Bending Challenge, a collaboration between CDM and GetLoFi. In just one day, people whipped up wild and crazy circuit-bent creations, from zombie Jesus to gun zapper things, playing guitars and keyboards, an infant performing circuit-bent music (really), the requisite bent Furby, and more. Full […]
Balloon organ
Fran Holland’s amazing “Balloon Organ” – [via] Link.