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Can’t afford a new drum machine?

Then check out the d-touch drum machine, a free DIY alternative that lets you make beats using a piece of paper, a webcam and some walnuts:

The d-touch drum machine is a drum machine with a tangible user interface: it is controlled by placing and arranging physical objects on an A4 piece of paper, which we call the interactive area. The interactive area is arranged in 11 rows, each row corresponds to a different sound, as indicated by the text labels. The horizontal position of the blocks on the interactive area determines the timing of the sound trigger within the loop.

Is this awesome, or what? Now, if we could just print out a paper bassline synth, we’d be set.

If you give d-touch a try, leave a comment and tell us how it works for you!

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Sunday Synth Jam: This video features a Reactable jam by Carles López at El Grial in Ibiza, as part of the Ibiza International Music Summit.

More Reactable jamming below! Read more…

This is a demo of the Tangible Sequencer:

A simple musical instrument. Colored blocks are associated with sounds. Pressing the play button plays a sound. Putting blocks next to each other plays back a sequence of sounds in the direction of the play arrows.

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