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Join us on Wednesday, March 24 at noon Pacific for the MIDI All the Things Hack Chat with Tim Alex Jacobs! In our technologically complex world, standards are a double-edged …read more Continue reading MIDI All the Things Hack Chat
In the world of homebrew synthesizers, there are plenty of noiseboxes and grooveboxes that make all kinds of wacky and wild noises. However, common projects like the Auduino and Atari …read more Continue reading Homebrew Grain Synth Has A Rad Step Sequencer
In the world of homebrew synthesizers, there are plenty of noiseboxes and grooveboxes that make all kinds of wacky and wild noises. However, common projects like the Auduino and Atari …read more Continue reading Homebrew Grain Synth Has A Rad Step Sequencer
Google’s Arts & Culture platform and YouTube have launched a new online exhibition to celebrate the history of electronic music, part of which is an augmented reality experience where classic synths from Moog, ARP, Roland and others can be played onlin… Continue reading AR Synth lets you play five classic synthesizers on your phone
[Tommy]’s POLY555 is an analog, 20-note polyphonic synthesizer that makes heavy use of 3D printing and shows off some clever design. The POLY555, as well as [Tommy]’s earlier synth designs, are based around the 555 timer. But one 555 is …read more
Continue reading Peek Into This Synth’s Great Design (And Abandoned Features)
Audio and video synthesizers have been around for decades, and are pretty much only limited by one’s willingness to spend money on them. That is, unless you can develop your own FPGA-supercharged synthesizer to really get a leg up on …read more
Continue reading Free to Good Home: FPGA Supercharged Audio/Video Synthesizer
Here at Hackaday we’re no strangers to the colorful glow of LEDs. But what if there was more to appreciate beneath the surface? Back in 2011 [Windell] over at Evil Mad Scientist dug into a certain variety of LED and …read more
Korg released its fist mass-produced monophonic synthesizer in 1973, which was followed a year later by an improved version, and it’s this latter model that’s provided the inspiration for the limited run miniKorg 700FS.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, … Continue reading Korg dives into its past for miniKorg 700FS synthesizer
At one end of the synthesizer world, there stands commercial instruments designed for the ultimate in sound quality and performance, tailored to the needs of professional musicians. On the other, there are weird, wacky prototypes and artistic builds that aim to challenge our conception of what a synth should be. …read more
Continue reading We Bet You’ve Never Seen a Pink Denture Synth
Modular synthesizers, with their profusion of knobs and switches and their seemingly insatiable appetite for patch cables, are wonderful examples of over-complexity — the best kind of complexity, in our view. Play with a synthesizer long enough and you start thinking that any kind of sound is possible, limited only …read more
Continue reading Remoticon Video: Intro to Modern Synthesis Using VCV Rack