This Custom Synth Packs in the Sound with 200 Modules
John Karbassi is a synth nut who founded Modular Addict to make the hobby more accessible for other makers.
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Polyphonic Drum Machine
Sebastian Tomczak’s DIY Polyphonic Drum Machine and Rhythm Looper is powered by a Teensy micrcontroller. I’ve made a simple drum machine / looper. It is for Teensy but it can be easily ported to Arduino. It has four sounds, a 16-subdivision pattern, variable sample rate and can playback all four sounds at once.
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LushOne Synthesizer Kit
Iain Sharp built a single-board, open source modular synth packing some pretty cool features: The LushOne kit is designed to provide the core functions of a modular synthesizer in a low-cost single board design. The LushOne can be controlled from a MIDI keyboard or PC interface to allow you to play the instrument with equipment […]
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Maker Faire New York: Molecule Synth Musical Instrument
The Molecule Synth offers the elemental components of a traditional keyboard synthesizer — a speaker & amp, a sound generator, and a pitch controller — but presents those elements as pieces that you arrange (and rearrange!) in various combinations to create your own musical device.
Continue ReadingMusical Hacks For Raspberry Pi
Peter Kirn writes about the first wave of musical hacks for Raspberry Pi over at Create Digital Music: Apple may have started the conversation about the “post-PC” age. But part of what this means is that a “computer” doesn’t necessarily have to be something costing hundreds of dollars, in a conventional desktop or laptop form […]
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Singing Speech Synthesizer With Theremin-Like Controls
The embedded video is a collection of soundbytes that give a good general background of the Glove-TalkII system from Sidney S. Fels and Geoffrey E. Hinton.at The University of British Columbia. But the brief samples of the system in operation that it includes are, frankly, not a great advertisement for its capabilities or its potential. […]
Continue ReadingNew Stackable Arduino Synth Shield
Long-time MAKE pal Jim Frize of UK audio OSHW kit-maker Sonodrome (past coverage) just sent us this preview vid for their soon-to-be-released Ronin 8023 shield. Me wantee. Check out the deets over at the Sonodrome home page.
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