Here’s a DIY plate reverb, hacked out of IKEA parts for under $100
Can't afford a pricey plate reverb? Use some IKEA shelving and piezos and get something that sounds amazingly good in...
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Watch this video with tricks to get more out of KORG’s west-coast volca modular
It's still some of the most fun you can get with patching on a budget - KORG's volca modular. But...
Make your own MIDI-to-CV adapter in a skull, with a 3D printer and CircuitPython
Liz Clark over at Adafruit has a great DIY project. It's compact. It's beginner-friendly. It teaches you some simple embedded...
A DIY violin with a spring reverb tank inside
A funny thing happened on the way to the digital instrument age - builders rediscovered novel acoustic and electroacoustic inventions,...
mlre is an expanded version of the classic monome mlr, focused on performance
It's an even more performative monome. Creator sonocircuit has built a new take on the monome norns/grid app mlr, adding...
Liquid Sky UFO modules: wild sounds, enough space for your fingers, plant a tree
In this first teaser for Liquid Sky's instrument label, the makers promises gear that raises some great questions. Like, what...
The classic Buchla 208 / Music Easel gets a new DIY expansion – and it can sound totally evil
Plenty of classic moments in modular have been remade or cloned. This project goes further, and expands on the original...
Slimshader packs GPU shaders into your Eurorack for live visuals, thanks to RasPi
Start with visuals made from images or 3D shader code, then wire them up and modulate them in a Eurorack...
“Singing Daxophone” makes incredible eerie quasi-vocals out of an experimental instrument
The "daxophone" is a new acoustic instrument invented in the 80s. Its creator was a German typographer. It's name is...
Watch Troika Ranch’s history in dance technology, then dust off your Wiimote with Isadora
Return to the days of MIDI-controlled LaserDisc players - Mark Coniglio, creator of Isadora, walks through this history of the...
