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.
Jan Wante built this slick WiFi radio. He started with Jeff Keyzer’s excellent instructions, then added a custom wood and metal case, LCD interface, and encoder wheel to build it into a finished product. Looks great! [via Mighty Ohm]
MAKE subscriber Colin Mann of Los Angeles, CA, created a light organ that uses antique bulbs. 12 light bulbs correspond to the 12 notes in an octave (minus the octave note). The rectangular box unfolds to position the light bulbs vertically for display, while at the same time providing a platform for the keyboard in […]
Moritz Waldemeyer wrote in to share his interactive laser harp sculpture. You will be happy to hear that this is my very first installation actually using an Arduino to link the lasers via light sensors to a netbook which is running an Open Frameworks app. We created some weird and wonderful sounds from various sirens […]
This is a velocity sensitive MIDI isomorphic keyboard. 192 total keys. The project came out of Louisville Soundbuilders, a fortnightly meeting of circuitbenders, synth engineers and experimental musicians. After seeing a couple of my failed variations of a single-bus isomorphic keyboard, Tim was intrigued enough to design one even better. He designed multiple PCBs that […]
If you ever wanted to see a NES guitar in action, here’s your chance. The one-man band is called The Gizzards and he packs lots of circuit-bent goodness. [Via GetLoFi]
If you’re a maker that likes to let your inner Michael Bublé or Beyoncé out, How-To Geek has a step-by-step guide to using Audacity to remove the vocal tracks from your favorite song. Here’s how it works: Vocals are normally placed in the “center channel.” Stereo tracks have two channels, but not all of the […]
Eric Ameres of Troy, NY, has a quick tutorial on how you can control music sequencer Ableton Live with a Danger Shield and Arduino.
