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.
The RjDj music generator software uses sensor data collected through your iPhone’s mic, accelerometer, etc to alter its audible output. The way in which it uses this data is determined by the particular ‘scene’ loaded – one scene uses ambient noise levels to modify a simple melody, while another triggers breakbeats via movement. I’m guessing […]
Rob sent us this vid from the Atari Punk Console workshop he tought @ Interaccess. Is it just me, or is the cacophony of 15 APCs noising at once actually kind of nice? The students look pretty enthralled by what they’ve made – very well done. More: Atari PCB console End of Summer special – […]
Bit-music loving Arduino users – I ported (and modded a bit) one of the Noise Toy programs over to the lovely and talented Arduino platform. Just add a couple of momentary switches to pins 8 and 9 and connect stereo audio to 3 and 4 – you’re done. Loud Objects’ code proved quite fun to […]
The Aurora USB control surface has just been released in kit and prebuilt versions. It’s aesthetics and synchronized light effects definitely set it apart from the usual retail offerings – and the open source design means it’s quite friendly to modification. Create Digital Music had a sit-down with the device’s creators and gave took it […]
Swiss synth builder Philipp started a new blog to document his progress designing a drum synth/sequencer. Watch the process unfold – Making of a drum synth
Nathan writes – Paperguitars.com has loads of free papercraft guitar models. You cut out all the pieces and glue them together to get the guitar of your dreams (at least a minaiture paper version of it). They may not have quite the same tone as the originals but you sure can’t beat the price – […]
This “Portable Vinyl Record Player” will probably get you noticed at a rave, especially if you start scratching in the middle of the crowd chaos and add some amplification. Pretty nice build on this as far as it’s shoulder strap portability, we just wonder how often it will skip. via Dark Roasted Blend
