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Learning to play a musical instrument takes a major time commitment. If you happened to be stuck inside your home at any point in the last two years, though, you …read more Continue reading Learn To Play Guitar, Digitally
These days, live music performance often involves electronic synthesizers and computers rather than traditional instruments played by hand. To aid in his own performances, [alekappa] built a special interface to …read more Continue reading A Gameport Joystick to USB-MIDI Converter
MIDI is a standard known by musicians and instruments all over the world. The basic twist on regular serial has helped studios around the world to work more efficiently. [Kevin] …read more Continue reading Sending MIDI Wirelessly With The nRF24L01
The Musical Instrument Digital Interface has a great acronym that is both nice to say and cleanly descriptive. The standard for talking to musical instruments relies on a serial signal …read more Continue reading You Can Send MIDI Over I2C If You Really Need To
[Love Hultén]’s latest piece of interactive art is the SYNTH#BOI, a super-clean build with something of the semi-cyberdeck, semi-vintage computing vibe to it. The device is a combination synthesizer and …read more Continue reading Synth and Visualizer Combo has Retrocomputing Vibe
For a standard that has been in use since the 1980s, MIDI is still one of the most dominant forces on the musical scene even today. It’s fast, flexible, and …read more Continue reading Guitar Pickguard Adds MIDI Capabilities
Displaying notes live as they are being played can be a really powerful learning tool, but it’s usually used to learn how to play a specific instrument. This take on …read more Continue reading Spiral Music Visualization
Displaying notes live as they are being played can be a really powerful learning tool, but it’s usually used to learn how to play a specific instrument. This take on …read more Continue reading Spiral Music Visualization
Jamming live with synths and drum machines can be fun, but for [Christian], there was a little something missing. He was looking for a way to keep everyone in the …read more Continue reading Live Jam Kit Helps Electronic Musicians Stay In Sync
Some of the coolest sounds come from wild instruments like orchestra strings, fretless basses, and theremins — instruments that aren’t tied down by the constraints of frets and other kinds …read more Continue reading Teensy MIDI Air Harp Sounds Huge