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.
Ben made another really cool guitar effects pedal. This time he used a cheap voice recorder and an Arduino to sample and continuously loop a recording. You can read all about it on his website. He even posted all the code so you can make one yourself. DIY Loop effects pedal Related: Ben made this […]
Ah, the sweet sounds of the doppler effect – The rotating Leslie speaker design has a unique way of giving sounds a sort of warm temporal quality. There are many electronic simulations attempted but designing and building actual mechanical effects is plain awesome. Update: As a commenter pointed out – the above video doesn’t reflect […]
This little yellow-tracked robot roams around looking for something to drum on. It samples the sound, makes sure it is good, and creates little rhythms. There are more videos on the web site that are definitely worth a look. Drum machine robot
Dave writes in to tell us about his LED color-shifting Guitar A bass guitar I made with LEDs that pulse and color shift while I play. The LED control is just a few programs and uses Pulse-width-modulation to control fading and color selections. You can use whatever you want to control these. This isnt really […]
Robot-turned-Synthmaker Stanley gives an awesomely quirky video demo of his new sound-making device. (WARNING: contains a little cursing, smoking, and lovable condescension) Stanley Povoda, the worldfamous “Robot Man” is now creating all kinds of sound-devices for Metamorphosis. He built countless robots in his life and just recently decided to take again a more musical direction, […]
Mike Disher makes custom acrylic turntables – About 5 years ago I decided to try my hand at building a custom turntable. Turntables and mechanical watch and clock movements fascinate me. I view them as functional pieces of kinetic art. I based my turntable design on the legendary Rega P3, and I created a new, […]
You may have read about it in our recent Made in Japan post – but now Korg’s DS-10 Synthesizer/sequencer/drum machine is headed for an international release! From the DS10blog [via] – For those of you out there wondering the release of DS-10 other than Japan, well, here’s a good news. YES, we will release DS-10 […]
