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There’s a scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where a little flap in the wall flips down to reveal a small organ embedded there. Gene Wilder plays a …read more Continue reading 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: A Piano-Controlled Smart Home
The hurdy-gurdy is a fascinating string instrument dating from sometime around the 10th century. There is an active community of modern enthusiasts, but one can’t simply walk into a music …read more Continue reading Ancient Instrument Goes Digital: The Digi-Gurdy
Once upon a time, a watch was just a watch. These days, though, smartwatches have all kinds of tricks built in, from heartrate sensors, to accelerometers, gyros, and tons of …read more Continue reading Bluetooth Wearable Becomes Rad Synth Controller
For an older standard, MIDI has remarkable staying power in the music industry. It remains the de facto digital interface between computers and instruments thanks to its open nature, but …read more Continue reading High-Resolution MIDI Controller
What do you do when you’ve carved out a niche for yourself as a builder of small and useless synthesizers? Why, build an even smaller and less useful synthesizer, of …read more Continue reading The Small and Silly Synth Now Even Smaller (But Just as Silly)
When someone gives you a crappy little toy keyboard, what can you do? Sadly plunk on the thing one note at a time? Well yes, but that’s not going to …read more Continue reading Pico Makes a So-So Keyboard Neat-O
The Yamaha DX7 was released in 1983, with its FM synthesis engine completely revolutionizing the electronic music world at the time. It didn’t come cheap, and still doesn’t today, but …read more Continue reading A Yamaha DX7 On A USB Dongle
Most of the time, if you’re looking for a MIDI controller, you’re going to end up with some kind of keyboard or a fancy button pad. The saxophone is an …read more Continue reading Turning a Saxophone Into a MIDI Controller
If you have an iota of musicality, you’ve no doubt noticed that you can play music using glass bottles, especially if you have several of different sizes and fill them …read more Continue reading Pour One Out for This Bottle-Playing Robot
Following last year’s release of the Rise 2 expressive digital instrument, the UK’s Roli has launched an updated version of the Seaboard Block controller, which “promises to bring infinite expressive possibilities to musicians everywhere, whether at ho… Continue reading Roli takes Keywave expression for another spin around the Block