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.
Stanley Lunetta’s CMOS-based instrument designs have earned a strong following among the synth-diy crowd – and for good reason. The circuits can be relatively simple and the resulting sounds quite interesting. Bchris1776 shares details about his above-seen super-patchable unit – This Lunetta is built primarily from 4000 series CMOS integrated circuits with inputs and outputs […]
What goes better with a Cigar Box Guitar (MAKE Volume 04) than a Cracker Box Amp? Author Ed Vogel presented us this project in MAKE Volume 09 for just that reason. It’s like chocolate and peanut butter, really. Ed linked up with Blind Lightnin’ Pete, who shared the design for the amp and let Ed […]
Make some crazy sounds from a teensy-tiny musical instrument. From Make, Volume 15.
The Axio music controller designed by Brad Cariou at the University of Calgary back in the early 90s. From the YouTube description – I designed the electronics and firmware for the chording keyboard in this alternative MIDI controller in the early 90’s. It was made using a set of Yamaha DX7 key contacts. These contacts […]
MAKE contributor Steve Lodefink has posted the details on the building of his recent cigar box guitar. Cigar Box Guitar Speaking of cigar boxes, check out this cool cigar box amp posted (sadly, with no additional info) on Cigar Box Nation (via Dinosaurs and Robots). More: See all of the cigar box projects on Make: […]
Gijs writes: This sequencer scans images, and plays the image as midi notes. It uses LDRs to measure the gray-scale of specific point of a image, and triggers midi notes from a selected threshold. When the threshold is reached the velocity will be set by the darkness at that point. the darker point the higher […]
Seems the Lizards Liquid Lounge in Chicago is the place to be this Saturday – The Midwest Experimental Electronics Showcase features a nice lineup including several sound makers we’ve mentioned here in the past – Tim Kaiser (as seen on Make: television) Talking Computron (of GetLoFi) Todd Michael Bailey (EE madman, creator of the WTPA […]
