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.
This is a really nice passive multitouch input by Randall Jones. It was designed to be an inexpensive, and extremely expressive, musical interface. I really like the simplicity, and it only cost about $50 to build. [Thanks Dan] Physical modeling synthesis has proven to be a successful method of synthesizing realistic sounds, but providing expressive […]
Mics + motorized motion can create some very unique recording sessions – This Instructable describes how I made a rotating microphone using just a few basic electronics and some common household items. You can use a rotating microphone to simulate the doppler effect like that of a leslie speaker cabinet. The rotating microphone is the […]
The Synthesia “Open Synth Hardware Platform” uses a Gumstix board, FPGA chip to create a anaolog modelling synthesizer with touchscreen interface – The synthesia platform is a project whose purpose isto create an Analogue modelling musical synthesizer; that is, a synthesizer implemented using both analogue and digital components that intends to emulate the sounds of […]
Luis did some circuit bending on what appears to a sound box from a talking stuffed animal or similar. The light sensitive effect is likely controlled by a photocell put in place of the unit’s timing resistor. In other words – cool. [via Matrixsynth]
Navs built a big ol’ box of birthday noise for a friend – Introducing the Trobetronic40 – my first DIY synth project, built for a mate’s 40th birthday out of parts sourced from a knackered Korg PolySix, Thingamagoop box and various cheap components. Must be a good friend to ransack a Polysix and a Thingamagoop […]
We’ve blogged about the Midify module before here on MAKE, and here’s another good way to use this simple chip that will add MIDI to pretty much anything you can think of. This hack shows to to add MIDI to a GameBoy Advance SP with only basic tools and soldering skills needed. Check out the […]
This hack shows how to pitch-modify a Casio electronic keyboard using the LTC1799 Precision Oscillator kit. Read more about this interesting build at the link below. via GetLoFi
