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, …
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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 …
Jeff Mills has taken a pretty interesting approach to his latest limited release, The Occurrence. The record is released on a “hybrid CD”, meaning that the CD and the vinyl record are one of …
This is a really interesting effect – 5 metronomes all placed on the same piece of material will eventually synchronize themselves ‘automagically’:
Very fascinating to watch, I even got a little rush when they all clicked. …
Guitar Squid published a 12 step program document for guitar player gear junkies, but I thought that it applied to synth played just as much even more, since we seem to be frequent GAS (Gear …
The cactus in the video below seems to be special – it can be played! Yes, this cactus is a playable musical instrument. In the video below, you see someone playing …
Korg has released pictures of a new product called the “korg Monotribe”. Based on the name, it sounds like some sort of cross-breeding of the Korg Monotron and Korg Electribe. The picture seems …
