MAKE Japan editor Hideo Tamura was kind enough to send us one of the new Gakken SX-150 Analog Synthesizer kits. Needless to say I was very pleased to receive it. The kit comes as part of the latest issue of Otona no Kagaku (Science for Adults) magazine/book(aka ‘mook’). Though unable to actually read the issue, […]
Simon writes – This is a little music box I created using a HK828 voice recorder and playback IC. This one chip allows you to record and play back 30 to 60 seconds of audio (depending on the quality) with a minimum of components quite easily. I made a simple ‘A Team music box’ but […]
Some screws, a cardboard tube, and a half-pound of dry lentils and you’ve got yourself a Shamanic sound-maker. How to Make your very own Rainstick! More: DIY Rainstick
A maraca with built-in piezo mic played through delay-looper & pitch-shifter effects can make for some good sounds … but upgrade that shaker with mannequin-limb enclosure and you’re in for some stylistically enhanced neo-surrealist good sounds. [via GetLoFi]
Brooklyn musician Moldover shows his approach to converting a standard MIDI controller into something more suited to the fast-paced live loop manipulation – aka ‘controllerism‘. For a more in depth info on his hardware and software techniques be sure to check out Moldover’s Approach to Controllerism part 1 & part 2 [via Matrixsynth]
If you’ve used a Korg Kaossilator, you may have noticed the device’s 2-bar loop length can wear out a melodies welcome quite quickly. David Battino shares info on a simple hack which extends that length to a relatively luxurious 4 bars – If you power up the Kaossilator while holding down the Tap and Loop […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Flickr user [fluxa] put an Arduino board to work outputting control voltage to a DIY SoundLab synthesizer. While the PC software has yet to be released, the Arduino code is pretty straightforward – using a pulse width modulated output through a simple resistor/capacitor filter. – CVAirSequencer Project on Flickr […]
