Previously we discussed how the synthesizer started to come to be from its earliest days as the 200 ton teleharmonium up until the creation of the trautonium (and mixtur-trautonium) in the 1930s and 40s, but …
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Charlie Visnic has a blog where he’s committed to do “one creative thing per day”. Well, on day 101 he decided to create…. a ghost synth!
… well, maybe note quite, but what he’s done …
I’m not sure entirely what to make of this, but it sure got my attention. Velosynth is a DIY kit for “an open-source bicycle interaction synthesizer” that attaches to your bike, playing sounds interactively.
Made …
A couple of days ago, Roland released the Gaia SH-01 with great fanfare. It’s basically a 37-note virtual analogue subtractive synthesizer aimed at the mid-market. It’s one of Roland’s knobbier synths recently, so …
I love drum machines – from the boooom of the tr808 to the snappy kick of the tr909, to all the weird an wonderful sounds from early analogue boxes. Well, here’s a completely different …
I’m always searching for new sources of sound, but astronomers at the University of Sheffield have come up with a great one. They’ve managed to make an audio recording of the magnetic fields present …
If you’re a regular reader of SynthGear, you know that we love the Korg Monotron. Heck, we’re even giving them away for free!
Korg themselves have put together a bunch of cool mods (some commercial, …
Franz Keller has come up with Metal frame into which you clip an ipad and/or other music gear, turning it into a keytar.
From their promo material:
Sturdy hand cut plexiglass body holds iPad, Kaoss Pad and …
Presented with no comment, as the picture is self-explanatory:
This explains so much about the keytar and the platupus. The image is from a t-shirt design by Tenso graphics.
via reddit.
With all the football (soccer for Americans) coverage going on all the time recently due to the FIFA World Cup, we’re seeing more and more vuvuzela’s deafening people everywhere.
The vuvuzela (called a “lepatata” in its …
Robots have never exactly been thought of as the grooviest types, but the “Juke Bot” is really trying hard to change that image.
The Juke Bot is a pair of Kuka industrial robots – each one …
Have you heard about the newest headphones from Wicked Audio called the Solus which is Latin for “be yourself”. Thanks to Wicked Audio for a review pair.
These DJ style headphones were create by Wicked Audio …
MrSolidSnake745 has put together eight floppy drives, an Arduino, some cabling, a computer and software created by Sammy1Am to make something incredible – the stepper motors from eight floppy drives playing the Dr Who theme!
Basically, …
Here is an interesting Performance Synth, an app that turns your iPad into a real time performance instrument.
This $5 app allows you to carry a complete, full featured, real time synthesizer around with you and have …
