Remix the washing machine drummer and win Ableton Live
August 6, 2010 – 12:05 pm | 102 Comments

OK, I was just so infatuated with the washing machine drums video, that it would be criminal not to remix those drums into a song.
So we’re going to have a remix contest! Ableton has …

Read the full story »
Synthesizers

Synths, keyboards, and anything with a keyboard that can make bleeps

Audio Gear

Audio equipment, effects, drum machines, speakers, amps, and sound gear

Everything Else

Articles and stories about anything related to audio, electronic music, and synthesizers

Reviews

Reviews of synths, audio gear, and anything that you have to plug in to make noise

Strange and Weird

The odd, the weird, and anything that makes you wonder what planet it came from

Home » Archive by Category

Articles in DIY

DIY mind-controlled synth
September 3, 2010 – 10:36 am | No Comment
DIY mind-controlled synth

Robert Schneider is the singer for the indie rock band “The Apples in Stereo“, hailing from Denver, Colorado. Not happy with trying to play synthesizers with and actual keyboard, Robert modified a Mattel Mindflex(The …

Steam powered sequencer
September 1, 2010 – 10:09 am | No Comment
Steam powered sequencer

Dabbler & experimenter Paul Bower was browsing eBay looking at vintage steam engines one day, and decided to do something fun with it: he built a DIY steam-powered sequencer.
Using an old 1920′s steam engine …

Build your own electronic instruments
August 30, 2010 – 8:53 pm | One Comment
Build your own electronic instruments

In 1979, a book written by P.K. Sood called “Electronic Musical Projects” was published that contained plans and instructions for building all sorts of DIY electronic musical devices. It’s got plans for projects …

Trombone + flamethrower = all kinds of awesome.
August 30, 2010 – 7:44 pm | No Comment
Trombone + flamethrower = all kinds of awesome.

Trombone players often get a bad rap, so trombone player/DIYer Jonathan Crawford decided to really step up to the plate and do something about it.
Jonathan took a barbecue ignition system, a propane tank and …

How to pirate a vinyl record
August 8, 2010 – 9:00 pm | 9 Comments
How to pirate a vinyl record

Here’s a great DIY method to copy a vinyl record, making a copy that you can actually play on a turntable. The German website Zeit.de had this article up in German, however it’s now unavailable, …

Cutting a record with a laser
August 6, 2010 – 8:51 am | No Comment
Cutting a record with a laser

We’re covered Niklas Roy before, and he’s got a new DIY project that synthesizes sound in a pretty interesting way. Niklas and Jari Suominen had a chance to play with a laser cutter for …

Swizzle stick thumb piano
July 14, 2010 – 10:34 pm | One Comment
Swizzle stick thumb piano

Robert Patterson Collier, a musician and DIY-er has built a thumb piano (or kalimba, mbira, lamellaphone, likembe) with coffee swizzle sticks for tines. And guess what – it sounds fantastic.
Here’s what it looks …

Skull Synthesizer
July 13, 2010 – 9:08 pm | No Comment
Skull Synthesizer

John Richards is a “Dirty Electronics” artist, exploring the music and electronics with an approach that is “designer trash, ugly, cheap, heavy, hand-made, designed to be handled or to come in contact with the body, …

The Drumssette: drum machine made from an old 4-track
July 13, 2010 – 5:46 pm | No Comment
The Drumssette: drum machine made from an old 4-track

The Drumssette is a programmable drum machine built by musician and circuit bender Mike Walters.

A very creative DIY use of an old four track recorder, it was built using the innards of a Tascam MF-P01. …

The MicroMoorg
July 2, 2010 – 5:11 pm | 2 Comments
The MicroMoorg

khoral is a 32 year old musician based in Nantes, France who uses his synths to write music in the pop/electro/folk/funk/whatever styles. He’s done a great DIY mod to the Korg Microkorg, installing it …