Mammoth Modular Synthesizer At MIT Museum
Joe Paradiso has installed his homebuilt mammoth analog modular synthesizer in the MIT Museum and has completed a fairly epic patch which you can listen to (24 hours a day)
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Collin’s Lab: Atari Punk Console
A true classic for DIY synth makers and circuit benders, the Atari Punk Console can kick out some ear-catching square waves. It’s easy to build and a lot of fun to play around with. It may be challenging to make traditional music with an APC, but hey-, there’s enough of that around already, right?
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Make an Atari Punk Recipe Box
Hey, you want to make some chunky 8-bit music? In a recipe box? With Atari paddles? Using a Dremel tool? We thought you might. The “Atari Punk Con- sole” is the name given to the wonderfully retro- sounding stepped tone generator, designed by hobby electronics pioneer Forrest M. Mims III. It is a 556-based timer circuit oscillator that generates a square wave. More importantly, it sounds like Atari 2600 music and is fun to build into a cool enclosure.
Continue ReadingGuitar Hero controller synth
What do you do with that little plastic axe once you’ve had your fill of Guitar Hero? Turn it into a real instrument, of course. Arizona maker Justin Bread added just enough components to convert his.
Continue ReadingIn the Maker Shed: MidiVox shield for Arduino
The MidiVox shield turns a basic Arduino board into a standalone MIDI synthesizer with parameters tweakable via MIDI CC messages. Hook up a MIDI keyboard controller via the onboard 5-pin DIN (aka MIDI) jack, upload a sketch and play. You may be surprised what sweet sounds can be generated by a single channel of 12-bit […]
Continue ReadingControlling a MIDI synthesizer with light
I like where Youtube user DanieleMattei is going with his video Filter control via light blob tracking in Processing. Using OpenCV and Processing (what else!), he rigged up a way to control the parameters of his synth by waving a flashlight around.
Continue ReadingHeavily bent mini-keyboard looks & sounds quite nice
Tanner of Noystoise demos a rather sweet little synth he’s housed inside of what appears to be an alarm clock’s former enclosure – mini keyboard heavily modified to make synthesizer sounds. frequency divider triggers an envelope generator that modulates the vcf with resonance at 1/256? of the vco. the vco is divided in 1/2, 1/4, […]
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