There’s a million and one ways to play around with MIDI and an Arduino. It’s trivial to have a ‘duino spit out a scale to a MIDI keyboard, or even respond to SysEx messages to change a lighting or ...

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This Arduino based MIDI volume pedal is capable of reading the position of an analog pedal, translating the A/D value into the proper numerical range, and sending MIDI signals to a synthesizer. A ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. First things first: not all keyboards are MIDI ...

This is a post that has been a long time in coming. Quite a few months ago, two manufacturers sent me keyboard controllers that are compatible with iOS devices, Macs and PCs, but it's taken me until ...

Both small children and cats have a certain tendency to make loud noises at inopportune times, but what if there were a way to combine these auditory effects? This seems to have been the reasoning ...

He's transformed an old bike into a rolling synth, smashed up a microwave to make a sparky drum, and more recently turned a games console into a music machine. Now Sam Battle of Look Mum No Computer ...

Just another gizmo I've whipped up in my office of insanity. I expect most of you won't have any idea why you'd want to build one of these, so I'll try to explain up front. Suffice it to say, "I find ...

Johan Von Konow's LEET Synthesizer is an affordable, fun modular project for those with an appetite for DIY electronics When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Of all the reasons we tell ourselves we can't record our own music, not having enough budget for the right gear definitely comes up quite often. In reality however, making music has never been more ...