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.
For her Masters thesis at the MIT Media Lab, Anita Lillie created a music library visualization tool called MusicBox. The project will analyze the songs in a music library and group them based on a number of different dimensions – stuff like song length, tempo, ID3 genre information, and more advanced spectral properties of the […]
Optigan aficionado Pea Hix created a homebrew sound disc for the awesomely obscure instrument – the first expansion for the instrument in 34 years! It’s the news you’ve been waiting for! We are now ready to release the first in a series of new, high quality Optigan discs. We’ve listened to your feedback and have […]
Prolific podcaster jetdaisuke shares this super-simple recipe for a talkbox upgrade to Korg’s Nintendo DS synthesizer – using straw + tape.
From the MAKE: Flickr pool The Botomless Paddling Pool constructed this excellent freeform APC circuit – I’m taking a paper in the first semester coming up on making your own synth from scratch and I thought that I’d better polish up on my electrical knowledge as it’s been a while since I’ve done anything that […]
This project attempts to physically represent the amount of “rock” at a concert. It uses an Arduino and pressure sensors on the floor to measure the movement of the audience. It takes that data and creates a visual representation of the “rock” factor. An idea popped out of Radio 1 Interactive a while ago. This […]
What’s the quickest way to add the capabilities of iPod Touch to your guitar? – try mounting 2 of them to your ax’s body! (hey, I said ‘quickest way’, not ‘cheapest’) The ipod closest to the guitar pick ups is running Itouch Midi’s Martix app which im using to send midi to Ableton Live on […]
Youtuber sycmuzak posted this demo/explanation of his breadboarded sound circuit – My homemade 555 timer synthesizer. I made it in about 2 hours from 2 555 timers, 4 capacitors, 1 resistor and 3 potentiometers. Schematic can be made available if demand is high enough. This is one of my first 555 timer projects, and I’m […]
