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.
Melka’s using a MIDI track in Ableton Live software to control an LED matrix through his Processing/Arduino setup – The notes are sent to a Processing sketch, which loads an 8*8 animated gif different for each notes. This gif is processed and the datas are sent to an Arduino board which in return lights a […]
The Voice of Saturn line of synth kits welcomes a new family member – the Modulator features … […]VCA (voltage controlled amplifier), triangle and square wave generator and AR (Attack / Release) envelope shaper. Together, they can be used to add tremolo or AM (amplitude modulation) effects to audio signals, and also add attack and […]
There’s still time to vote for your favorite garden instrument over on Oddstrument.com. There are some really creative entries!
Make pal Mad Maxine sent me this video of musician T.J. Hill playing his electric musical saw – a 26″ Stanley hand saw with a contact mic, run through his guitar effects and amped to 11, I believe.
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Ranjit posted this excellent video of his wind-driven string insrument, Trumpet Marine, performing at Gevernor’s Island NYC as part of the Figment festival. Those sparse notes make for an interesting contrast to the corwded Manhattan skyline, no? – trumpet marine at figment 2008
A bunch of cool MIDI projects have shown up in our photo pool of late, time to catch up on the goings-on – Recotana posted this new controller design sporting an ATMEGA16 and transparent case. – USB MIDI controller trial make D.St-Amand is currently working on this sleek and compact controller design – the board’s […]
Create Digital Music’s Michael Una posted a nice roundup of Arduino sound synth projects, including Octopusss circuit bend seen above and even one from myself :) There’s definitely a lot of interest interest in this area of Arduino dev, which makes sense considering the platform was developed with artists in mind. I’m sure we’ll be […]
