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.
Barry @ HeadFuzz writes – “This project details the steps to build your own Open Source (musical) keyboard which connects to a computer via USB and sends MIDI signals. This is achieved using an AN2131 development board. The AN2131 is now discontinued, so development boards can be bought cheaply on eBay. Alternatively you could use […]
Brad Fuller over at the O’Reilly Digital Media blog pointed to a new Bob Moog memorial foundation established by the Moog family that is going to have scholarships, a Bob Moog memorial museum, outreach programs for disadvantaged students and special events for electronic music – [via] – Link & check out the documentary series podcast. […]
If there are any Makers in the South Bank in London, you might want to check out this sound installation – ” PLAY.orchestra will be based outside the Royal Festival Hall for 7 weeks this summer starting this weekend! 56 plastic cubes and 3 Hotspots are laid out on a full size orchestra stage, each […]
Here’s a free DJ app for Macs with real time audio mixing and recording – “djay is the groundbreaking new software for Mac OS X. It takes full advantage of Apple’s latest audio and graphics technologies, and runs natively on both Intel and PowerPC processors. It supports all common file formats, such as mp3, aiff, […]
MAKE pal Peter Kirn @ Create Digital Motion (who also wrote a great MIDI primer in MAKE 07) is teaching a class in NYC, he writes – “I’ll be teaching a class on using the free Mac developer tool Quartz Composer to build DIY projects and interactive visual art driven by music, sound, and video. […]
Here’s a DIY MOD player you can build (MOD is sorta like a MP3, popular in the 80’s with Amiga computers) – “TRAXMOD is a small digital audio player using the Philips LPC2103 ARM7TDMI-S high speed microcontroller chip (prior versions were based on Microchip dsPIC DSPs). Currently, the ARM port can play raw wave audio […]
Aw man, this TEAC GF-350 Turntable/CD-Recorder/Radio is almost awesome – it’s a record player that can record to CD, but according to the review it has some wonky DRM (Serial Copy Management System) on the CDs, requires “special” CDs, doesn’t have audio outputs and doesn’t seem to automatically make tracks so well — that’s too […]
