Collaborate Disseminate
[Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial problem: only half of the keys worked. Each and every C#, D, D#, E, …read more Continue reading The Mystery of the Messed-Up Hammond X5
Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we may never know of its existence due to the cacophony of all of the various keytars, …read more Continue reading The Math Behind the Music of the 80s
In this tremendously educational video, [Linus Åkesson] takes us through how he develops a synthesizer and a sequencer and editor for it on the Commodore 64, all in BASIC. While …read more Continue reading Linus Live-Codes Music on the Commodore 64
[Bea Thurman] had a retro music conundrum. She loved the classic Greengate DS:3 sampler, but couldn’t buy one, and couldn’t find enough information to build her own. [Bea’s] plea for help …read more Continue reading Solving a Retrocomputing Mystery with an Album Cover: Greengate DS:3
Although it’s still possible to grab a couple of friends, guitars, and a set of drums and start making analog music like it’s 1992 and there are vacant garages everywhere …read more Continue reading Digital Audio Workstation In A Box
We’re not sure exactly what Tulip is, because it’s so many things all at once. It’s a music-making environment that’s programmable in Python, runs on your big computer or on …read more Continue reading Tulip is a Micropython Synth Workstation, in an ESP32
MIDI as a standard has opened up a huge world to any musician willing to use a computer to generate or enhance their playing and recording. Since the 80s, it …read more Continue reading MIDI Controller in a Cubic Inch
The world’s largest music gear expo is set to open its doors next week, and Yamaha has popped up early with a groove machine called the Seqtrak that could have jumped straight out of Teenage Engineering’s design playbook.Continue ReadingCategory: Music… Continue reading Yamaha gets in the groove with compact all-in-one music machine
Brit musical instrument maker Dubreq has released a number of key upgrades to its iconic pocket synth over the years, but the Stylophone CPM DS-2 is something of a departure from the usual playbook.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, TechnologyTags: Synth… Continue reading Stylophone goes pro with DS-2 Analog Drone Synthesizer
The physicist Lev Sergeyevich Termen may not be a household name, but the eerie sounds of the synthesizer he invented are instantly recognizable. Now Dubreq is inviting music makers to wave their arms about for its own take on the Theremin.Continue Rea… Continue reading Budget-friendly Theremin gets players waving their hands in the air