Electro Faustus Blackfly Perfect For Doom Drone Noise Death Ambient
This video demos the Electro Faustus Blackfly – a spring activated instrument that delivers a wide spectrum of sonic textures.
Category: Electronic Instruments
How To Use LinnStrument’s Channel Per Note Capabilities With Cubase
Developer Geert Bevin (Moog Music) shared this video tutorial, which looks at using LinnStrument’s ‘ChannelPerNote‘ feature works and how it can be used with Cubase to play VST 2 synths that support it.
Open Theremin Project An Open Source DIY Theremin
The Open Theremin is an open source hardware and software project, with the aim is of building a next-generation, DIY theremin. Two Open Theremin designs are available: The Open.Theremin.UNO is a full Arduino-based theremin that offers both audio and control voltage outputs. The Open.Theremin.RC is a more basic one-antenna (pitch) design. The project is documented under a creative… Read More Open Theremin Project An Open Source DIY Theremin
Fusion Guitar Proves That People Really Want An iPhone Guitar Thing
The Fusion Guitar is a new electric guitar design that features a built-in 20W amp and speakers and iPhone integration. If there’s any doubt that there’s interest in a hybrid guitar amp/guitar/iPhone thing, the project’s IndieGoGo campaign is nearly half-funded, two days into the campaign. The Fusion Guitar leverages the wide range of iOS guitar… Read More Fusion Guitar Proves That People Really Want An iPhone Guitar Thing
Sexy Translucent Instrument Powered By Arduino + Plexiglass
Exp.Inst.Rain, created by Balam Soto, is a futuristic experimental instrument, combining sound generation and visual projection. By touching the box at various points, players create different sounds. The sounds also generate changes in the projection. Here’s a video demo:
Live Looping With The World’s First 3D Printed Violin
This video captures violinist Laurent Bernadac doing a looping jam with the 3D Varius, described as the first playable 3D-printed violin. Bernadac uses a BOSS looper, along with a variety of playing techniques and effects, to create a layered looping performance.
New Style Of Guitar Shredding Cuts Between The Past & Present
This video, via Jeremy Bell, demonstrates his ‘Bipolar Guitar’ system, which takes a DIY rocker switch – originally created for his ScrubBoard tape scratching system – an applies it to effects switching.
Peter Kember Interview On Patchblocks, Delia Derbyshire & More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fwUgKl3zck In this video, Pete Kember (Spacemen 3 / E.A.R. / Sonic Boom) talks with Patchblocks about the Patchblocks programmable modular synthesizer, the influence of Delia Derbyshire and more.
An Introduction To The LinnStrument & Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (MPE)
In this video, inventor Roger Linn gives a concise introduction to the LinnStrument – a recently released MIDI controller that supports 3 dimensions of expression, for each note that you play.
Crudlabs Intros Crudman – A ‘Walkman Mellotron’
Crudlabs has introduced the Crudman – a monophonic Mellotron-like instrument, designed around a single cassette Walkman. The Crudman, above, is based around a Walkman which has been elaborately hacked so that a tape of a looped or droning sound (or any other sound) can be precisely sped up or slowed down, via MIDI or 1v/octave CV,… Read More Crudlabs Intros Crudman – A ‘Walkman Mellotron’
