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.
Brian writes in – Most musicians who have tried to make money performing and selling CDs know how hard it can be to get people to take a chance and purchase music from smaller, independent artists. My band, The Highway Beautiful, saw a need to have potential customers listen to our CD before they purchased […]
Collin writes – Because I know there just aren’t enough Arduino projects, I thought I’d tell you about my stab at an Arduino Synthesizer. It’s currently monophonic with pitch control and a simple hardware low pass filter. I’m working on adding MIDI-in and hopefully vibrato in the future. Thanks for the inspiration, Make! Narbotic » […]
If the Maker movement had a soundtrack I think there might be couple songs from Lullatone & Loud Objects / Tristan Perich/1-Bit Music. I went to Glasslands Gallery in NY, it’s a warehouse-like space in Williamsburg that had a few bleepity-bloop electronic sampled music acts in one evening. Loud Objects being a live soldering show […]
Here’s an ATMEGA168 based MIDI recorder: SD card with LCD, IR remote and full FAT16 support, it also has a SD card bootloader – [via] Link.
These boots were made for wah-wah-ing and that’s just what they’ll do… Link.
Beautiful wood practice amp, check out the build gallery… Link.
Ruel Oquindo writes about his DIY preamp for under $100 – $100 DIY preamp – Link.
