The Auduino project turns Arduino into a PWM based sound synthesizer – Sound is generated by playing the same noise (‘grain’) repeatedly at very high speed. This merges into a tone that is an audible hybrid of the repetition rate and the original grain. The grain consists of two triangular waves of adjustable frequency, and […]
The PICSynth project uses 2 digitally controlled oscillators along with analog waveshaper and a voltage-controlled filter resulting in some very sweet sounds. Dual oscillator mono synth Really easy to build using just 1 custom programmed PIC chip, 4 ICs and single 12v supply All circuits built on veroboard – no printed circuit board making skills […]
Create Digital Music’s Michael Una posted a nice roundup of Arduino sound synth projects, including Octopusss circuit bend seen above and even one from myself :) There’s definitely a lot of interest interest in this area of Arduino dev, which makes sense considering the platform was developed with artists in mind. I’m sure we’ll be […]
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 – […]
MAKE Japan editor Hideo Tamura was kind enough to send us one of the new Gakken SX-150 Analog Synthesizer kits. Needless to say I was very pleased to receive it. The kit comes as part of the latest issue of Otona no Kagaku (Science for Adults) magazine/book(aka ‘mook’). Though unable to actually read the issue, […]
Folks who were at the Bay Area Maker Faire may remember Lorin Parker and Electric Western. They were in the steampunk area, next to The Contraptors Lounge. Now the man who brought you the tube theramin and the steam-driven synthesizer is about to unleash his Phantastron kit on the world, a tube-based voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). […]
While not conventionally musical, the Electrochemical Synthesizer’s process for generating sound is unusually interesting – Pressing a key causes salt solution to flow over a copper and aluminium connection generating a low signal which is filtered by a capacitor and then amplified, creating a complex white noise, with amazing fluctuating oscillations. The device demonstrates how […]
