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Synthtopia regular MirlitronOne created what could be the low-budget music hack of the year – turning a $6 LED kit into a 8-stage step sequencer.

He started with a Vellemen MK107 LED kit – which are available all over the place for less than a fast food lunch, making the kit a great risk-free starting point for music hacking.

In this video, MirlitronOne shows you how he did it and how this DIY music sequencer works. Read more…

This can’t end well.

You create a synthesizer-controlled Frankenstein robotic dog, and pretty soon you end up as dog food. Read more…

Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Project) gives a quick demonstration of using the Moog Minimoog Voyager’s Touch Surface CV outputs to simultaneously control two Moogerfoogers.

He does this using the Touch Surface CV outputs on the VX-351 Output Expander.

The X-axis CV is sent to a Mult, where it outputs two identical copies of the CV. One copy is sent through an inverting attenuator on a CP-251 Control Processor. Both CV are sent to the Mix inputs of the Moogerfoogers.

Since one of the CV’s is inverted, positive Touch Surface “X” values increase the mix of one. Negative “X” values increase the mix on the other.

via MoogMusicInc

Brian Green, who’s always coming up with strange and bent electronic music gadgets, put together this iPod touch guitar and demos it in this video.

Green explains:

Its something i basically did for fun, its not something i would use live and i don’t use the guitar in a normal sense for my music so it really would serve me no purpose.

Ok the main the i would like to clear up is NO NO NO i did not glue the itouch(s) to my guitar, there were several blogs that did a post about this and it seemed like one of the first ones that did said that i glued them to my guitar, this is false.

I seemed to get a lot of hate for the fact that i “glued ipods” to my guitar and that it was a dumb idea and so on bla bla bla, well i mean the whole idea of it was kinda a joke to begin with but my point of doing it was to do something inovative, i got the idea to try it after i seen a guy who added a guitar hero neck to a real guitar and then i made this.

Green’s iPod touch guitar appears to be more of a mashup than an instrument per se.

Leave a comment with your thoughts on the iPod touch guitar.

via BrianWilliamGreen

If you’re into theremins, you probably already know that the new Moog Etherwave Plus theremin has control voltage outputs, so it can be used to control analog synths.

This is a demonstration of the Etherwave Plus controlling the MiniMoog Voyager Analog Synthesizer.

Part 2 and details below. Read more…