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We’ve seen a few gadgets that turn a user’s movement into music, including the Interactive Music Battle, the Motus and the Mictic. The latest entry comes from German startup the Instruments of Things, which takes the form of Bluetooth-enabled wearable … Continue reading Wireless wearable sensor uses movement to play or control music
We aren’t sure if you really need lasers to build [HoPE’s] laser harp. It is little more than some photocells and has an Arduino generate tones based on the signals. …read more Continue reading Harp Uses Frikin’ Lasers
When a new project type starts to get a lot of exposure, it’s typically not long before we see people forking the basic concept and striking out in a new …read more Continue reading Musical Cyberdeck is Part Synth, Part MIDI Controller, and All Cool
Back at the NAMM 2019 music gear expo, Denmark’s Noatronic took Best In Show for a box that allowed players to control stomps on a board directly from an electric guitar. Now the company has teamed up with RTX to take the system wireless.Continue Readi… Continue reading Noatronic lets players control effects pedals wirelessly from a guitar
A popular tool in chiptune software like LSDJ allows the user to draw a waveform and use it as the basis for a wavetable synth. It’s fun and it can …read more Continue reading Touchscreen Makes For A Neat Wavetable Synth
When Spain’s Ramon Mañas moved to Berlin to study music, he started learning the saxophone. But as the sax is a loud instrument, he couldn’t do so when and where he liked. This led to the development of the small and light Travel Sax, which could be pl… Continue reading Travel Sax 2 lets players practice without disturbing others
It’s an old misconception that digital musicians just use a mouse and keyboard for their art. This is often far from the truth, as many computer music artists have a …read more Continue reading MIDI Mouse Makes Marvelous Music
Inspired by leaps in the development of electronic music controllers and the visual and tactile appeal of knitted fabrics, Irmandy Wicaksono from MIT’s Media Lab has combined the two to create the KnittedKeyboard II, kind of like a Roli Seaboard you ca… Continue reading MIT Media Lab knits an expressive wearable MIDI keyboard
It’s fair to say that the Nintendo 64 and GameCube both had the most unique controllers of their respective console generations. The latter’s gamepads are still in high demand today …read more Continue reading Turning GameCube & N64 Pads Into MIDI Controllers
Back in the early days of the musical synthesizer, some designers who wished for polyphony in their instruments would simply build multiple tone-generators for as many notes as they wished …read more Continue reading 12-Arduino Orchestra Plays Star Wars Fanfare