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.
Novation’s new Monome-lookalike gets the take-apart treatment over at Illuminated Sounds – For those of you that are curious like myself, here are some images of me disassembling the Novation Launchpad.  I hope this inspires some of you to do some cool modifications to the controller, and make sure to send us some images of […]
DJTechTools’ upcoming solder-free MIDI controller kit provides users with 16 arcade button triggers + LEDs and will apparently be released as an open source product at launch – • Release Date: November 30th • Price: Aprox $125 for the Kit + Arcade Buttons ($2.50 each) optional wood case- $40 • Plug and Play-compatible device, compliant […]
Troy Davis created some very awesome recreations of Devo’s signature Energy Domes. Beginning with a tiered stack of fiberboard for the mold, through to vacuum forming, paint job, and padding – a thorough explanation can be found in his project pictorial. sweet.
Instructables user garagemonkeysan made this guitar amp from the popular Little Gem circuit, and put it in this useful little case with a cord reel on the back. Nice work! More: Flashback: The $5 Cracker Box Amplifier
MAKE contributor Michael Una posted a review of Highly Liquid’s MD24 kit which converts MIDI events over to an array of 24 +5V outputs – The new MD24 falls into the latter category. It takes a MIDI input and gives you 24 discrete +5V outputs that can be used to drive relays, transistors, or servo […]
Synth DIY’s amphibious mascot, better known as “Mr. Braska”, has been visiting a series of home labs via postal transport. The photo galleries of his modeling efforts serve as a nice way to bring together otherwise unconnected, private workspaces – plus he’s getting pretty good with an iron – See a whole lot more from […]
TP students Hana, Ania, and Greg built this augmented xylophone, the multixylophoniomnibus.
