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.
Derek writes in with this awesome ribbon controller that could be hiding in your wallet… – “Using the magnetic strip on the back of my driver’s license to make a ribbon controller which then controls Autofilter in Live 6 via MIDI. 5v is connected to one side of the license’s mag strip, ground to the […]
Speaker built into lid of a large cookie tin. Sitting on the speaker (6 inch, 8ohm), the bottom of the can is free to vibrate. Using reverb, overdrive and a compressor, the can hyper-resonates making extended metallic wails. – Link
Tom writes – “Proximasolaris, who claims to be a 41 year-old living in France, spent 250 hours on this incredible piano casemod – installing the guts of a $2,300 Korg Triton Extreme, $300 of motors, $500 of assorted mechanics and blue LEDs.” [via] – Link.
Check out this midi concertina made with a pic microcontroller. I researched concertina building — but only for a couple of hours. It took just that long to see that such a project (valves, reeds, bellows…) is WAY beyond my ambition. Then in one of those “sychronicity” epiphanies, a lot of things at once suggested […]
DIY-Central shows you how to make your own XLR, TRS, studio cables “Looking to save some money? Create your own cables! By spending a few dollars on jacks, shielded cables, solder and soldering iron, you can save a ton of money in cables. It’s easy. Here are some step by step photos. At the bottom […]
Ned writes – “Chris Johnson’s audiophile studio – mainly from scratch, with an emphasis on non standard audio assessments. Or something.” – Link. Related: “Speaker icon” speakers – Link. HOW TO – make folding speakers – Link. HOW TO – Build wireless speakers from RF headphones – Link. Fold-Up Speakers – Link. Easy mount speakers […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Devowski writes – “Latest keyboard… thing. Controlled by a record player. In the arm of the turntable there are 3 photo cells (light sensors) that are wired into the circuitry of the casio. The record on the player has three red leds mounted on it… when the leds pass under […]
