Bleep Labs has introduced the Thingamakit – a DIY project that lets you build your own anthropomorphic noise maker. According to Bleep Labs, the Thingamakit features “all the sounds of Thingamagoop plus triangle wave LEDacle with shape and speed control. Second photocell patchable to modulator and photocell rate. Square and Triangle wave output. The satisfaction… Read More Bleep Labs DIY Thingamakit
Here’s something fun I saw highlighted at the Califaudio blog – the Theremug, a DIY project that turns your cup of coffee or tea into a theremin, of sorts. Here’s Kyle McDonald’s explanation of the Theremug: 1 Prepare some tea 2 Expose the L/R leads on an 1/8″ cable 3 Immerse leads in tea 4… Read More Turn Your Coffee Cup Into A Theremug
IK Multimedia and Muse Research have teamed up to offer the Total Workstation Rack, powered by SampleTank and Receptor. The Total Workstation Rack is a combination of Muse Research’s unique Receptor hardware plug-in player with IK’s Total Workstation line of Powered By SampleTank instruments: SampleTank 2.5, Sonik Synth 2, Miroslav Philharmonik, SampleMoog and SampleTron. These… Read More Muse Intros Nice Rack Workstation
If you need any more proof that interesting synths can be made from just about anything, for very little money, check out the Sonic Picnic Set: the sonic picnic set is a low tech modular system connections are made as needed using crocodile clips these pictures show some of the boxes You gotta love this… Read More The Sonic Picnic Set
Akai has announced that they are now shipping the MPC5000. Akai’s MPC5000 is the first MPC to permit eight-track streaming hard disk recording for real-time capture of individual tracks or even entire songs. A 20-voice, three-oscillator analog synthesizer with arpeggiator, a new sequencing engine with 960 PPQ resolution, pad and track muting and mixing, 64… Read More The Akai MPC 5000
Jooris Benny has shared some great pictures of an ARP 2500 synthesizer. The ARP 2500 is a synth classic, and it was the first synth I ever used, at the University of Kansas, before I could afford my own! It uses a combination of patch chords and matrix switches to create connections. Each module’s panel… Read More Arp 2500 Synthesizer
via Chip Collection: You can now place advance orders for Dave Smith & Roger Linn’s LinnDrum II drum machine. There are two models: the all-digital “LinnDrum II”, available from Roger Linn Design and the “LinnDrum II Analog”, which adds four analog synth voices and 32 dual-function voicing knobs, available from Dave Smith Instruments. Pricing is… Read More Dave Smith & Roger Linn’s LinnDrum II Now On Sale
Omer Yosha’s AirPiano is a new musical interface which lets you play and control software instruments by moving hands in the air. Above the AirPiano is a virtual matrix of keys and faders, each assigned with MIDI messages and ready to be triggered. The length of a triggered note is equivalent to the time a… Read More AirPiano Lets You Control Music With Wave Of Your Hands
This video demos the string interface or “lasercello” invented by designer Jonas Ericsson/ No Picnic (SE) perfomed by Helene Berg. What this track needs is a little sprechstimme, don’t you think? via Peter Kirn
This video demos a cheap dub siren, made from a circuit bent sound generating keychain. Full instructions at GetLoFi.com.
