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, weโll 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.
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 […]
Want to really crank up your music? Make a DIY headphone amp… and of course, put it in a mint/candy/sour-tin… Thanks Macaba! – Link. Related: Tons of mint tin projects – Link. Mint tin project archives – Link. Mint-Tin Amp – Pocket amplifier punches up headphones. MAKE 04 – Page 131.
Here’s a quickie – like peanut butter and chocolate, peas and carrots, sodium and chloride – homemade headphones and open source MP3 players go great together… Somehow I’ve managed to acquire boxes of cheap headphones, probably from airplanes or from some gadgets that came with them. You can get “safety headphones” at thrift stores, or […]
Peter’s knowledge of all things MIDI… is intimating writes in with a collection of homebrewed MIDI controllers– Using DYI kits from makers like Doepfer, you can build your own custom controller for music software and other MIDI-compatible applications. (Just in time for Make 07 hitting newsstands!) David Cross has built this gorgeous DJ-style controller – […]
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra is a nine piece orchestra with instruments made from vegetables – like saxophones made from a cucumber and a double bass made from a pumpkin – [via] – Link. More: Vienna Vegetable Orchestra – Link.
