If you are a music composer, or just use your PC to record your musical instrument, you know how useful a MIDI controller can be in order to change certain parameters on the fly. Let’s see how to build one at home with potentiometers, buttons and an Arduino. To use an Arduino as a MIDI…
The author’s goal was to build a huge floor piano using readily available and inexpensive materials. The result is astounding considering it was built entirely at home. The current version cost him $ 300 per octave (mainly due to the wood and translucent acrylic, and about $ 50 for electronics) and $ 50 for the…
Control any MIDI parameter value of your DAW through hand movements. The first controller was made using the knobs of a potentiometer, however the functionality of the knob is only to send values from 0-127 and this can be done by any means, so we thought of using the ultrasonic sensor. This design has been…
I built a small midi decoder based on Arduino UNO, to signal when the stops was turned on and off in the GrandOrgue (or Hauptwerk) software. Arduino reacts to incoming messages from MidiON and MidiOFF on any channel, lighting or extinguishing LED connected to pins 2 to 13 and A0 to A5. To simplify…
https://youtu.be/7rnk2qte4-I SunVox synth software allows you to create electronic music on a wide variety of platforms. Now, with his ZT-2020 project — which resembles a miniature arcade game — YouTuber “fascinating earthbound objects” has a dedicated input scheme. This cabinet prominently features a wide array of buttons, a directional input from a PlayStation controller, and…
QuNeo is a break-through 3D pad controller for electronic musicians, digital DJs, VJs & DIY hackers providing multi-touch control. While it covers all of the functionality of other pad controllers, QuNeo adds the power of touch recognition in other dimensions. Each of the 27 pads, sliders and rotary sensors are pressure, velocity, and location sensitive….
Having a good software drum machine is easy and cheap today but using a mouse kills the fun for me. This is why I realized what initially was intended as a pure 64 steps hardware MIDI drum sequencer capable of triggering up to 12 different drum elements (parts), but then evolved in a rhythm section…
James Bruton built a pipe organ using a Henry vacuum cleaner, a canister vacuum with a silk screened face. He adapted cheap children’s plastic recorders to a Henry vacuum cleaner with a few 3D printed parts, some servo-controlled valves, and a bit of plastic tubing, allowing it to play a full octave and the melody…
Zynthian is a new fully open source Raspberry Pi synthesiser which provides a new class of machine, equipped with multiple engines, filters and effects. It is completely configurable and upgradable and offers an open platform for Sound Synthesis based on the awesome Raspberry Pi SBC and Linux operating system making the synthesiser fully hackable. Features of the Raspberry…
Traktorino is a fully open source DIY MIDI controller based on the Arduino platform. Created by Músico Nerd, the DIY MIDI controller is equipped with a wide variety of different sliders and knobs as well as LEDs which can provide customised feedback. All the electronic components are safely protected in a laser cut wooden outer…
If you’re thinking of getting into DIY synths, the mini-TS could be your ticket in. Built by Janostman, the mini-TS pushes the limits of completely stripped back sound synthesis. The adorable synth shares the same basic sound-generation firmware with his previous TinyTS, but features a lot more keys (2 octaves), an OLED, and MIDI in/out, while…
With more than 20 days to go, the m!Tone, is going to hit the market. It uses Arduino compatible electronics to that you can hack the system but, unfortunately, it’s not open source in terms of electronics and design. Maybe this be an inspiration for some music hackers! The m!lTone is an open-source synth &…
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