Check out the Drum Buddy, an awesome electroacoustic drum machine: [display_podcast] Only 10 Drum Buddies were made – all in New Orleans, Louisiana – and the one for sale (in the photo above) is serial #1. It is also the instrument which was originally intended to belong to Quintron. He has decided to let this… Read More Awesome Electroacoustic Drum Machine
Podcasting News has a 2007 Holiday Guide To iCrap. Our favorite: Rock My Teeth – The Next Generation In Tooth Whitening Want a clean, healthy smile, but don’t want to hassle with mainstream tooth-whitening solutions that are proven to be safe and effective? If so, then Professor Bocelli’s Rock My Teeth may be what you’ve… Read More The 2007 Guide To iCrap
The Commodore 64 has developed a cultish fan base, especially among electronic musicians. Twenty-five years after Commodore introduced the C64 computer, productiehuis ON invited Rob Hubbard to make orchestral arrangements of the game music written by him and Jeroen Tel for some of the most popular C64 games. Now it’s been released as a two… Read More C64 Orchestra Plays Commodore Game Classics
Just when they figured out that synths weren’t going to kill the demand for traditional musicians, now musicians have to worry about getting replaced by robots. Toyota’s new personal robot is a 152-centimeters (5-foot) tall two-legged robot capable of playing violin. It makes use of its mechanical fingers to push the strings and plays the… Read More Forget Synths – Robots To Replace Musicians Now
Krischall demonstrates how to use brain power to control a modular synthesizer. By connecting a biofeedback helmet to a 1970s E-mu Matrix synth, the device is able to generate sounds just by thinking about them. Actually – although this looks well within the realm of possibility – Krischall’s mind bullet experiment owes more to Photoshop… Read More Dude Controls Modular Synthesizer With Mind Bullets
‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ by Alex Leopard was uploaded by: Dazaroonie
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The Roland FR-7 V-Accordian brings Roland’s synth might to one of the world’s least loved instruments. You can see the FR-7 in action below. FR-7 features: PBM (Physical Behavior Modeling) enables true sound reproduction and dynamic expression. Realistic tone and expressive simulations of a wide range of traditional accordions. 22 onboard Orchestral sounds and 7… Read More Roland FR-7 Brings Synth Technology To The Accordian
Enrico Costanza is doing some interesting stuff with tangible interfaces and even intimate interfaces. Check out this tangible virtual drum machine interface: Here’s how it works:
Daft Punk – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (A CAPPELLA!?) was uploaded by: daftpunkalive
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Tyler Freeman, aka odbol, liked drumming on his pants so much that he added MIDI triggers, hooked his a** up to a computer and created Drumpants. DrumPants are a set of pants that enable the wearer to produce drum sounds by hitting various parts of the pants with his hands. The wearer thusly becomes a… Read More Drumpants Turn Your Pants Into MIDI Instrument
