This is a video demo of the Formant Synthesizer, a synth DIY project published in Elektor magazine between 1977-1979. It was the first mini analogue synthesizer around with modular construction that could be built at home at an affordable price. A tribute article appears in Elektor, April 2008. via Elektor
Oberheim Matrix-1000 Analog Synthesizer by RetroSound was uploaded by: retrosound72
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Livid has put together a couple of cool videos demoing AudioCube basics: Percussa Cubes Basics Impressions and demonstration of using the Percussa Audio cubes with the tutorial Ableton Live set. The center cube detects the faces of the other cubes to send MIDI notes to Live to change loops. Percussa Cubes with Resonant Synth Here’s… Read More Percussa AudioCubes Basics
Remember Synthwood – the company that offers custom woodworking for synths? They are also offering a pitch/mod wheel colorizer mod: Available for the synthwood Pro-One wood case conversion kit Comptabile with the DSI Prophet ’08 (shown), DSI Poly Evolver, Moog Voyager User selectable colors: Red, Green, Blue, White, Violet, Yellow, Turquoise and off Colors can… Read More Cool Custom Mod Wheels
At the 2008 Maker Faire, IEEE Spectrum caught up with Andrew Turley, who had turned a microfiche into a musical instrument. Using a simple photodiode, the keyboard plays notes based on how light the center of the screen is.
Limor Fried, aka LadyAda, has introduced Wave Shield, a way to add audio output to Arduino projects: Adding quality audio to an electronic project is surprisingly difficult. People tend to end up either using low-quality ISD chips (you might get 8Khz sampling rate for 30seconds out of these, if you’re lucky!) or mucking around with… Read More Wave Shield Adds Music To Arduino Projects
Yamaha’s Tenori-On is getting a prominent introduction with Björk’s latest tour. The new controller/synthesizer is part of the rig of Damian Taylor, above, who uses the Tenori-On on the track Who Is It?. “Björk felt it would be cool to feature the gear,” says Taylor, “ to make it part of the stage set rather… Read More Tenori-on Joins Björk’s Band
Speaker Synth is an interesting synth DIY project – a five-speaker array with no external audio input, created by Lesley Flanigan. The only components in the system are the instrument’s speakers, piezoelectric microphones, amplifying circuits, and the hands of the performer. Speaker Synth is played by positioning individual piezo microphones with their corresponding speakers and… Read More Speaker Synth
A quicky video demonstrating the sonic mangling capacity of the Wiard Wogglebug. The Wogglebug is an analog electronic instrument designed by Grant Richter, and inspired by Don Buchla. Grant has made the circuit available to the synth DIY community, and versions are showing up in all types of modular formats.
A little modular synth porn flic demonstrating the polyphonic “switch on time” feature of the Moon Modular M563: People asking: “What is SWITCH ON TIME”? at the M563 trigger sequencer. With SOT you can define and optimize the width of your trigger/gate output signal.There are more creative possibilities: e.g. the SOT function manipulates the envelope… Read More Moon Modular Switch On Time Action
