Audiovisual artists and craftsman Love Hultén shared this demo of his latest DIY synth build, TE-LAB.
The TE-LAB is an electromechanical sound machine, based on modules from Teenage Engineering & the Holograms Microcosm. It also features a custom-built tangible sequencer, inspired by Lomond Campbell’s turntable.
Check it out and share your thoughts on it in the comments!
This isn’t a DIY synthesizer build, it’s a DIY rehousing of already built synthesizers and effect pedals.
That’s what Love Hulten does, and the results are magical. IMO they cross the line where the sum is greater than the parts. https://www.lovehulten.com/
I know this is what they do, and I’m not trying to make a call on whether “the results are magical” or not, I’m simply trying to correct the headline statement in that this definitely is not a “DIY synth,” not any more than it would be a “DIY car” if I gave it a new paint job.
Right? He didn’t even fab his own processors or grow the trees for the enclosure. WTF?! Somebody deserves a huge ‘L’ for this. That’s exactly what I was thinking when I saw this art project too!
Don’t even start me on those people who reuse notes and chords. Get off my lawn and get your own notes!!
Completely disagree.
This project combines re-housing, elements built completely from scratch, and components based on TE’s DIY boards.
There’s a lot more DIY going on here than somebody soldering a Eurorack module, and the results are more creative and original than typical DIY synth projects.
I’m as impressed by this as I am by Bamana Brian’s projects which are DIY to the other extreme.
“An old one. Pre-Blackout, this is gonna
be tough. Not much from then and what’s
there is thick milky.”
Nice yellow wood stain matching the TE modular yellow. More yellow synths please.
welp, there it is.
Meh…..
I agree but it is a really nice rehousing.
About a year ago I bought two of these beautiful artful synths from a Facebook ad.
I still haven’t received them.
I see pictures of them at his site.
Don’t buy any of it.
I hope that was a joke. The images were copied and used by some Chinese company to scam people, if you actually paid for something from a Facebook ad you were conned into sending your money to a scammer. Here’s the warning that the creator posted on their Facebook page.
“There’s a lot of SCAM sites claiming to sell my work these days. Be aware and DO NOT BUY!!”
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=4601897859839564&id=866391970056857&m_entstream_source=timeline