http://vimeo.com/5411878 Here’s something that you’re not going to see showing up at the Summer NAMM Show – a musical typewriter: The musically challenged are never going to understand the need for inventing new ways to bring out the notes. For those who love creativity, discover this unique way to play music using the typewriter. A… Read More Strangest Instrument Of The Week: The Musical Typewriter
The “Guitare à crayon” is a custom instrument for painting and playing music. The idea behind “la Guitare à crayon” is to be able to paint and play music with the same instrument. It’s a custom USB guitar with open source software: namely, pure data (sound) and gimp (visual). La Guitare à crayon is free… Read More La Guitare à Crayon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkrFgYpmXfo 2009 Summer NAMM Show: Beat Kangz Electronics has announced a shipping date for the much-hyped Beat Thang, an MPC-like, Hip-Hip production center. The Beat Thang is expected to ship in October 2009, with a list price of $1,299 and retail of $999. The Beat Kangz are also putting the finishing touches on The Playa… Read More Beat Kangz Beat Thang To Ship In October
http://vimeo.com/5523677 Julian Lage and Brett Comeaux stopped by the Moog Factory and checked out The Moog Guitar. This was right next to the Voyager production line. You can hear Voyagers being built in the background.
http://vimeo.com/5512505 This is a comprehensive collection of video tutorials for the Moog Music Little Phatty synthesizer. In the first part, Jordan Rudess gives a quick overview of the sonic magic possible with a Moog Little Phatty, FreqBox and CP-251.
http://vimeo.com/5510797 Linda Lafferty from Moog Music explains what a theremin is and then gives a demo of Moog’s Etherwave Plus theremin and its control voltage capabilities at Sweetwater’s GearFest ’09.
Instructables has published a tutorial on building the Prism – a DIY laser guitar synth: I suppose I should clarify what the Prism is: It’s a bit like a guitar with some synthesizer mashed in. It has aspects of a theremin and a laser harp thrown in to boot. In short, it’s not like anything… Read More DIY Laser Guitar Synth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gQV1KKYw94 Brian Green has put together a free sample pack (Mediafire link) of circuit-bent sounds from a Yamaha PSS-7: I decided tonight that i would try to do some bending stuff with my pss-7 again since i have only messed with it once and never really did much, after awhile of messing around i found… Read More Free Circuit-Bent Sample Pack
[flickrvideo]http://www.flickr.com/photos/chachijones/3711494925/[/flickrvideo] Eric Barbour of Metasonix demonstrates a prototype vacuum tube drum machine at Robotspeak in San Francisco. [flickrvideo]http://www.flickr.com/photos/chachijones/3712320648[/flickrvideo] Check out BeerNotBombs’ Flickr set for more photos and videos from the event. So – what do you think Barbour should call his vacuum tube drum machine? After the AssBlaster & the Butt Probe, the obvious name… Read More First Look: The Metasonix Vacuum Tube Drum Machine
The Roger Linn & Dave Smith LinnDrum II, formerly the BoomChick, appears to be officially on hold.
