Audio and Video Illusion called the McGurk Effect
December 19, 2012 – 2:05 pm | No Comment

It is true, music is best heard when your eyes are closed or if you can get really really close to the stage performer.
Everyone knows this because visual cues can at time be distracting. …

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Arduino drum machine + synth module with MIDI input
January 10, 2013 – 8:45 am | No Comment
Arduino drum machine + synth module with MIDI input

Arduino MEGA was used for the drum machine and Arduino UNO for the synth module with a MIDI input. Both are enclosed in a “groovebox”.
Two outputs (one for the drum machine and one for the …

3rd graders with a Roland TR-808
January 13, 2011 – 1:03 pm | 3 Comments
3rd graders with a Roland TR-808

Selwyn House School is an all-boys school in Westmount, Quebec, Canada. For computer class, one of their teachers brought in a 30 year old Roland TR-808 drum machine for the students to play with.
Here’s …

Dave Smith/Roger Linn Tempest drum machine
January 13, 2011 – 10:37 am | 5 Comments
Dave Smith/Roger Linn Tempest drum machine

Dave Smith instruments (Dave smith is the guy whop created the legendary Prophet 5 analogue synth) just released at NAMM 2011 the details of his new analogue drum machine, the Tempest.

A collaboration with Roger Linn, …

Remix the washing machine drummer and win Ableton Live
August 6, 2010 – 12:05 pm | 157 Comments
Remix the washing machine drummer and win Ableton Live

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 …

Washing machine drum machine
August 6, 2010 – 11:14 am | 3 Comments
Washing machine drum machine

“Shoes in the dryer” is one of the best ways to describe a beat that is going off-kilter, or the sound of a DJ who just can’t seem to get two songs beatmatched. That …

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. …

LEGO Mindstorms drum machine
June 28, 2010 – 9:32 am | No Comment
LEGO Mindstorms drum machine

LEGO tinkerer Peter Cocteau has created a complete DIY drum machine out of a LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick and 2 motors. Dubbed the NXT-606, it’s a monophonic sample playback device, with 24 percussion …

Amazing drum machine robot
June 23, 2010 – 8:33 pm | 2 Comments
Amazing drum machine robot

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 …

The first Drum Machine – Wurlitzer Sideman
October 26, 2009 – 10:42 am | 6 Comments
The first Drum Machine – Wurlitzer Sideman

The Wurlitzer Sideman was the first electronic drum machine ever produced (if you don’t count tape loops), sold as a Wurlitzer organ accessory beginning in 1959. It’s got some fantastically great sounds and the …

The Drum Buddy
September 10, 2009 – 10:54 pm | 4 Comments
The Drum Buddy

Functionally, the Drum Buddy is a 4 oscillator, light activated, mechanically rotating light-activated drum machine and the invention of renowned New Orleans musician, Quintron. Musically, it’s a heavy duty synthesizer/drum machine that makes …