Starting a band and writing an album’s worth of songs with your own MIDI control scheme is cool. Using video game controllers as your interface is very cool. Doing all that with a fresh style that people can actually get into – that’s pretty much unheard of! The San Francisco Guardian describes them – Like […]
Matrixsynth points out this nice little collection of relatively simple music synthesizer schematics – hmmm, the IR/CV Light Controller looks quite interesting. Building circuits @ home is a great way to learn about electronics. One doesn’t need to know how every component works at first – it’s a lot of fun to learn by ‘doing’. […]
Coming soon to the Maker store – The Pocket Piano Arduino Shield, from Critter and Guitari – This is a board for making the Arduino into a portable stand alone music synthesizer. It plugs directly into the Arduino board and provides 25 multiplexed keys (2 full octaves), 4 pots, status LED, reset switch, digital to […]
This would be a blast for music-parties! (I trust I’m not alone in wanting more of those) Easy to imagine a MIDI version with piezo triggers as well. – Musical Rumba series tables [via]
Woah – music meets gaming interface in a major way! The Abletonator incorporates a full Ableton Live music making workstation into an arcade cabinet. (don’t worry game fans, it was just a bar-style quiz/trivia machine) Create Digital Music gives a rundown on the specs: PC running Windows XP, Ableton Live 6 (hmmm… may want to […]
Built for use with Ableton Live, the “Ambassador” controller board is one beast of an interface complete with trackball! Finished Ambassador pics [via]
Beamer writes – I’ve been working on a sequencer project for a while and I got some good footage of my good friend Scott Hansen from Tycho and ISO50 playing with it. It’s based off of the Arduino right now. The first row is your standard note assignment The second row is velocity (turned off […]
