Dr Who Theme on 8 floppy drives
May 11, 2012 – 9:10 am | No Comment

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!
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Synthesizer T-shirt that you can play
January 2, 2011 – 7:14 pm | 4 Comments
Synthesizer T-shirt that you can play

ThinkGeek has released a T-shirt with something resembling a Moog on it – that you can actually play. The ‘synth’ on the shirt features 5 different sampled sounds plus 8-voice polyphony (!). It …

Roland Gaia SH-01 review
June 24, 2010 – 9:59 am | 2 Comments
Roland Gaia SH-01 review

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 …

Every nun needs a synthi
March 17, 2010 – 2:18 pm | No Comment
Every nun needs a synthi

The EMS Synthi A was a portable analog synthesizer made by Electronic Music Studios (EMS) in 1971. The Synthi A was basically the same as a VCS 3, rehoused in a Spartanite briefcase. The synthi …

Wearable, solar-powered synthesizer
November 20, 2009 – 3:11 pm | One Comment
Wearable, solar-powered synthesizer

The Square Band is a portable, wearable, monophonic, solar-powered synthesizer. It’s meant to be worn around the wrist like a bracelet or watch, and has 8 buttons which trigger different notes in different octaves.

It’s …