Collaborate Disseminate
Some projects you come across simply leave you in awe when you look at the thought and the resulting amount of work that went into it, not only for the …read more Continue reading LMN-3: Putting The ‘OP’ In Open Source Synthesizers
MIDI has been a great tool for musicians and artists since its invention in the 1980s. It allows a standard way to interface musical instruments to computers for easy recording, …read more Continue reading Guitar Effects With No (Unwanted) Delay
If you’re into creating music, you’ll have a surprisingly large variety of open source options at your disposal, ranging from Audacity as rather simple audio editor to Ardour as a full-blown, studio-worthy DAW — and LMMS, Rosegarden, MusE etc. for anything in between. With [Thomas Tortorini]’s GridSound project, you’ll have …read more
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Fans of MaKey MaKey may find this project similar, but there’s a lot more to the Mini Automat than making music from fruit.
The idea for the Mini Automat (which is an off-shoot of the original Automat project by [Dada Machines]) is to make music accessible to anyone. The device …read more
You made it to part 4! Here’s a quick overview of what we have broken down so far. We started with some basic vocabulary for cryptographic building blocks and talked about hash functions in Part 1, were introduced to symmetric ciphers, keys, and … Continue reading Ease Me Into Cryptography Part 4: TLS – Applied Cryptographic Foundations
[Michael Sobolak] has a penchant for pianos, concern for capacitive touch, and special sentiment for solid state. This alliterate recipe results in a DIY PCB piano that leaves out the levers and is barren of buttons unless you count the stock RESET button on the Teensy. A real stickler might …read more
Welcome to Part 3! A quick recap of where we’ve been. In Part 1: Buzzwords and Hash Function we talked about some foundational cryptography vocab and were introduced to hash functions, how they’re used, and some drawbacks. In Part 2: Symmet… Continue reading Ease Me Into Cryptography Part 3: Asymmetric Ciphers
Back before we all pirated FruityLoops, before ProTools, and before VSTs and DAWs, audio recording was much, much cooler. Reverbs were entire rooms. Sometimes they were springs. Sometimes, in the high-end music studios, reverbs were plates. These plate reverbs were simply a gigantic sheet of metal mounted in a box about ten feet long, four feet high, and a foot thick. Inside, you had some transducers, some pickups, and not much else. Send a signal into the plate reverb and it will bounce around on this flexible membrane, and emerge through the output in a suitably reverberant form.
Of course, …read more
In the first article in this series on the basics of crypto, “Ease Me Into Cryptography Part 1: Buzzwords and Hash Function”, we learned some lingo and talked about the different aspects of hash functions. Remember that hash functions are one-way ̵… Continue reading Ease Me Into Cryptography Part 2: Symmetric Ciphers
On-screen controls in a digital audio workstation expand the power of a DJ or musician, but they are not intuitive for everyone. The tactility of buttons, knobs, sliders and real-world controls feels nothing like using a mouse, trackpad, or even a touchscreen. Unfortunately, devices meant to put control into a DJs hands can be unavailable due to location or cost. [Gustavo Silveira] took charge of the situation so he could help other DJs and musicians take control of their workstations with a customized MIDI interface for Traktor DJ software.
MIDI is a widely used serial protocol which has evolved from …read more
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