Adafruit Industries‘ Noe Ruiz let us know about their latest project, the Mini OONTZ. Mini OONTZ is a DIY, open source, native USB MIDI controller, based on the Arduino Leonardo. It’s a grid controller, in the style of the monome, designed to be easy to customize and hack. Here the intro video for the project:
Synthino Demo at Maker Faire 2014 was uploaded by: Circuit Master
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Reader Devin Curry teamed up with Ben Gullard to create the Percussion Kitchen, an electronic rhythm instrument based on kitchen items – along with robotics and Arduino control. The duo set out to create something whimsical and fun to play. They started with a variety of kitchen items, ranging from a cheese grater to tupperware. The created a… Read More Kitchen Items + Robotics + Arduino Control = The Percussion Kitchen
Touch Board is a DIY toolkit designed for letting you use the world around you as a sensor. Touch Board lets you connect anything conductive to one of its 12 electrodes and trigger a sound via its onboard MP3 player, play a MIDI note or do anything else that you might do with an Arduino or… Read More Touch Board Lets You Create Projects That Turn Touch Into Sound
The Standuino microGranny is pocket sized handmade granular sampler. The microGranny uses microSD card to store samples. You can adjust many parameters of the samples and trigger them by MIDI. Here’s a video introduction:
Groovesizer Alpha – first taster was uploaded by: MoShang
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Guitarduino – Arduino/MaxMSP Guitar Mounted Midi Control System – Proof of Concept was uploaded by: thebishopgame
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Davide Mancini’s new company Soundmachines has introduced the RB1robotto – a voltage controlled ‘voice-oscillator’, built around the Babblebot chip and an Arduino microcontroller. Mancini describes RB1robotto as a ‘voltage controlled singer’, a source of pitched vowels and more. Here’s what Mancini has to say about the RB1robotto: You control the voice of the robotto with your well known CV… Read More RB1robotto Puts A ‘Voltage Controlled Singer’ Into Eurorack Modular Synthesizers
The Standuino Pi is a ‘mysterious drone synth’, available in a limited edition of 50 units. Features: several oscillators, wavetables and synthesis types settings accessed by randomizers 4 presets patchable clock sequencer internal clock or MIDI clock divider MIDI input Here’s a video preview:
Meganome — DIY Arduino MIDI Controller was uploaded by: JazariMusic
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