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.
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool In an effort to not only control but to actually feel the rhythm, Recotana has crafted an elegant and visually impressive device in medical white. The panel-hidden numerical display alone is sweet, but the electro-shock stimulation interface is straight up awesome – with optional footswitch, for drummers, of course. […]
Justin Frankel of Winamp fame has been working on REAPER a $50 alternative to Pro Tools… Anyone use this? REAPER is reasonably priced Windows software for multitrack audio production. REAPER requires no dongle, has no copy protection, and can be evaluated with full functionality. Learn more about REAPER
“Wire Button” by Jaehyung Hong – a clever way to store headphones while you wear them, nice re-make potential! via DVICE.
Reader Kevin wrote in to point out an excellent resource for DIY synth makers – Ken Stone’s Modular Synthesizer site offers an excellent selection of schematics for all manner of synth building, and sells PCBs for most of the circuits listed – some very cool unusual stuff too like the V8 simulator and Stompbox adapter […]
The Beatmachine software uses video input to create sample playback sequences. Looks like you can use pretty much any contrasting objects around 1/2″ in diameter as markers against a grid divided up via software settings – quite sweet. Check out the translated site for the Windows download – Beatmachine
This electric Guitar Laptop mod by Ben Lewry called the “LCDetar” is a really nice hack that makes you look even geekier on stage than you thought was possible. The onscreen visualization is directly connected to the sound generated by the guitar,, check out the video! Electric Guitar Laptop Mod is Pretty Sweet
This guitar has a replaceable custom designed “wooden heart” that can be exchanged for another design to give it a new sonic identity. Interesting idea, with lots of potential to shape the future of acoustic design of instruments. AMIT ZORAN, [via]
