As shown in the video below, Tristan Calderbank is a very talented singer and guitarist, but what’s perhaps most interesting about his performance is the percussion section. Instead of a person (or an entire band) standing beside him, a robotic shaker, tambourine…

SunVox synth software allows you to create electronic music on a wide variety of platforms. Now, with his ZT-2020 project — which resembles a miniature arcade game — YouTuber “fascinating earthbound objects” has a dedicated input scheme.



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Floyd Steinberg turns his Raspberry Pi 3 into a virtual analogue synthesiser in his latest YouTube video. It's great, you should check it out!

Floyd Steinberg turns his Raspberry Pi 3 into a virtual analogue synthesiser in his latest YouTube video. It's great, you should check it out!

The Synthfonio - a Musical Instrument for Everyone: I like synthesizers and MIDI controllers, but I’m terrible at playing keyboards. I like to write music, but for actually playing said music you need to have learnt how to play an instrument. That takes time.…

Frank Piesik recently designed a robotic three-stringed instrument for his friend, Gregor, that features a unique sound and mechanical arrangement. Notes are selected by an array of 12 servos — four for each string — which pull down using a loop mechanism.…

Vintage typewriters are truly amazing pieces of technology, but unlike modern keyboards, they are decidedly one-purpose machines. William Sun Petrus, however, had other ideas for his 1920s-era Remington Portable typewriter, augmenting hammers with wires as…

This video shows an affordable way to add USB support to maker projects.
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The CH559 is a 8051 architecture based microcontroller that has built in dual USB Hosts. This allows to interface generic Keyboards…

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For those with certain physical restrictions, interfacing with a computer can be a difficult task. As a possible solution, Shu Takahashi and Pato Montalvo have come up with the Magpie MIDI hands-free interface. The adaptive tool, inspired in part by a harmonica…

Cassettes (if you remember those) are normally used to play back music and other audio, but what about using an old Walkman-style tape player as the instrument itself? That’s exactly what this project by Zack Scholl allows you to do, varying the playback…

Philip Karlsson Gisslow used a Raspberry Pi Pico to convert the signal from an electric guitar to MIDI.

Simple USB to MIDI adapter based on an Arduino Micro or Leonardo, optionally with the ability to filter the MIDI data.

This small, Arduino-based device enables users to sketch the waveform they want outputted onto a touchscreen.

DIY USB Midi Controller With Arduino: a Beginner's Guide: I love MIDI Controllers! They are some of the coolest yet most powerful devices for controlling mixed media - traditionally used to connect to music software (like Ableton Live) to play virtual instruments…

After attempting to learn how to play the piano after some previous experience with guitar and music theory in general, YouTuber EvolutionStoneware encountered a few difficulties when trying to learn the keys on a standard MIDI keyboard. Because of this,…

Andrea Lunaro created an open source MIDI controller for Lightroom using Arduino.