It’s turning out to be an interesting week for modular synths. First, littleBits introduced the Korg Synth Kit – a set of basic snap-together analog synth modules. Now developer Sebastian Heinz has introduced Patchblocks – hardware modules that you can program with your Mac or Windows computer. Here’s the official video intro:
Touch Board is a DIY toolkit designed for letting you use the world around you as a sensor. Touch Board lets you connect anything conductive to one of its 12 electrodes and trigger a sound via its onboard MP3 player, play a MIDI note or do anything else that you might do with an Arduino or… Read More Touch Board Lets You Create Projects That Turn Touch Into Sound
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a synth jam by reader Rene Splinter that features the relatively rare STEIM Kraakdoos (or Cracklebox) with more traditional synthesizers. The video begins with a demo of the Kraakdoos by Splinter. His track, Modern Ruins, starts at about 3:34.
The Terpstra Keyboard Concept – 280 Color Changing Continuous Controllers was uploaded by: What Music Really ?s
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Nord has released a free update for the Nord Drum 2 modeling percussion synthesizer. Here’s what’s new in Nord Drum 2 OS v2.10:
Nintendo audio played by player piano and robotic percussion was uploaded by: roboband
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Reader Jonathan Wise has been experimenting with the Korg Monotron Delay, using nearly-dead batteries and ‘circuit-starving’ the device to see if it would create interesting sounds. The YouTube embeds above capture the result of his experiments. Here’s what he has to say about it:
Reader Matt Fellers writes, “I saw this amazing installation at the Church of San Lorenzo in Venice Italy this summer.” Cordiox, by Ariel Guzik, is a complex machine, four meters in height, which describes the environment through sound. This is due to its two complimentary elements: on one hand, 180 long, tense chords distributed throughout three… Read More Cordiox ‘Describes The Environment Through Sound’
DSI Tempest as a 6-voice polysynth module was uploaded by: tblv9300
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Synth DIY provider Music From Outer Space has introduced a new vocoder project. Features: Built in White/Pink Noise Source Built in Square/Pulse Oscillator Mic/Line Inputs for Control and Audio Good Dynamic Response To Voice Control ‘Reasonably Intelligible’ Speech Processing
