Electronic Peasant has posted a great series of photos detailing his very cool SynthCase synth DIY project: This project is the first in a series of synthesizer “multi-modules” that will be built in heavy-duty equipment road cases. A friend had passed on to me a bunch of used cases from obsolete equipment that were being… Read More Incredible Synth DIY Project: The SynthCase
A short film, by Martin Shoeneborn, about having an annoying roommate with a lot of synths. Best line: “Dude! Fucking recording!”
Here are a set of video demos of the Starkey Hearing Science modular synthesizer: Starkey Hearing Science modular synthesizer Pt 1 Here’s what poster scienceforce has to say about the system: Starkey Hearing Science analog modular synthesizer laboratory. It is a scientific instrument, with many particular synthesis features… with this gear you can also process… Read More Starkey Hearing Science Modular Synthesizer
Slapyak has an interesting tutorial on creating a Guitar Hero MIDI controller. With the current version you can: play 2 octaves of an 8 note scale at a time change the starting note anywhere in the range of a regular keyboard change octaves change keys change tonal modes (Ionian, Mixolydian, Lydian, Dorian, Aeolian, Phrygian, Locrian)… Read More Guitar Hero MIDI Controller
Here’s a couple of video demos, via ripe909, on the Genoqs Octopus Sequencer: Genoqs Octopus Sequencer 1 This is a short tutorial on the Genoqs Octopus that shows how to use custom direction maps and step events to perform a simple modification on how a sequence plays.
Cornell sophomore Cameron demos his muscle-controlled music synthesizer. It’s kind of like a theremin, except for the part where you shave your arms and send electricity through your muscles. Note that “it only burns a little”!
Remember Wireless Sound Objects? We didn’t have too much to go on before, but Assault with Sugar has the details: Wireless Sound Objects are like the modules of a modular synthesizer, exploded into individual physical objects that provide an engaging way to experience unique, collaborative, musical process. They exist as a variety of objects that… Read More Wireless Sound Objects
This MIDI DIY project looks at making a MIDI glockenspiel, aka Quasimodo’s Revenge The idea was to take a child’s toy xylophone and get the computer to play it. Now I know that the computer is capable of making noises electronically but it is much more interesting to watch an instrument being automatically played. I… Read More MIDI Glockenspiel Plays Philip Glass
This is a video demo of the Future Sound Systems Decade Counter DC1: The module sequentially counts through ten outputs (this can be cut down by patching a step output to the reset input), which can then be used to trigger envelopes, etc. in a modular system. Here, the module is used to process audio… Read More Future Sound Systems Decade Counter Synth Module
Marc Doty’s introduction to a new series of videos about the Korg MS-20. Doty plans on posting the videos to the new SonicState.tv site, which is a sort of YouTube clone focusing on music. Here’s the first episode of the series at SonicState.TV:
