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Not content to rule the world of digital watches, Casio also dominated the home musical keyboard market in decades past. If you wanted an instrument to make noises that sounded approximately nothing like what they were supposed to be, you couldn’t go past a Casio. [Marwan] had just such a …read more
We have seen a fair share of unusual items being turned into musical instruments. Luckily, with a little bit of hacking it is possible to turn almost anything into a MIDI controller. [William Sun Petrus] just converted a 1920s typewriter into a drum machine and delivers a hell of a …read more
Continue reading Drumming a Beat on a Hundred-Year-Old Typewriter
It may look like a strange version of Reversi, but the Striso MIDI controller from Piers Titus van der Torren out of the Netherlands is designed to offer players the same kind of musical expression that you might find with acoustic instruments.Continue… Continue reading Striso MIDI controller looks to offer acoustic instrument playability
Joué Music Instruments has launched the next generation of its modular music-making interface on Kickstarter. Where the original was designed with pro musicians in mind, the Joué Play has been developed so anyone can make music.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Joué Play opens up expressive music-making to everyone
The end of every 3D print should be a triumphant moment, and deserves a theme song. [FuseBox2R] decided to make it a reality, and wrote tool for converting MIDI tracks to G-code that uses the buzzer on your 3D printer.
The tool is up on GitHub, and uses the M300 …read more
Continue reading Signal The End Of A Print With MIDI Of Your Choice
Instrument maker Frank Piesik has built a three-string robotic music machine called Greg’s Harp where three different actuators excite the strings in different ways to produce sound controlled by a MIDI keyboard.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, Technol… Continue reading Robotic string exciter makes for polyphonic music-making fun
The bandoneon, known as the tango accordion, is quite a loud instrument to practice within the confines of an apartment, and could possibly lead to some neighborly disputes. [HLB] enjoyed playing his but wanted a way to turn down the volume a bit without, in consideration to his neighbors. Instead …read more
Continue reading Quieting Down A Bandoneon Accordian With MIDI
Since the first of our ancestors discovered that banging a stick on a hollow log makes a jolly sound, we hominids have been finding new and unusual ways to make music. We haven’t come close to tapping out the potential for novel instruments, but then again it’s not every day …read more
Continue reading Unique Musical Instrument Defies Description
Musical instruments come in all shapes and sizes. For sheer scale and complexity though, you can’t beat pipe organs. [Rob Scallon] visited the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago to look at their massive pipe organ which boasts over 8000 individual pipes. He also discovered that it has a MIDI interface, …read more
Continue reading Controlling A Building Sized Pipe Organ With Midi
Created as a visual element for stage performances, the latest project from Love Hultén is an audiovisual sculpture called Slagwerk-101 – a set of percussion instruments driven by MIDI-controlled solenoids.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, TechnologyTag… Continue reading Swedish retro designer turns MIDI percussion into boxy art