One-Bit Drum Debuts at Spotify Music Hackathon

A project done in quite a hurry!

Shared at the Spotify Monthly Music Hackathon in NYC.

The goal was to intermingle an ancient musical practice with chiptune sounds.

http://openmikes.org/

http://openmikes.org/

Online program to generate chords from youtube videos

Seriously the future is here... Another program to generate chords from youtube videos!!!
Example:
https://www.youtab.me/…/nMTJ_0spI4v/jets-to-brazil/chinatown

 

This is even smoother than http://chordify.net!

 It's faster and has better division of the chords (they're not all lined up on the beginning of a measure). Wow!

(beware it's burning hot new and crashed on a few songs I tried!)

Concept for DIY Musicians: House Concerts

If you get the most excitement out of building and designing your own instruments, a DIY-performance scene could be a really fun part of it!  I found Shannon's short chat full of amazingly level-headed and professional tips.  Burn two minutes of time: you'll only hear advice this good once in a long while.

By the way, if you're curious about Shannon Curtis, preview her albums:

                              

Free Book on DSP in Python

Think DSP- Digital Signal Processing in Python

This book looks great - it's a work in progress by Allen Downey, a professor at Olin College.  Every example includes Python code to perform the calculations as well as read and write waveforms.  Many examples use music so that should be valuable to readers of this blog and people who like to DIYDSP.  So go ahead and download the free PDF or read it in HTML.

Axoloti - Embed A Digital Modular Synth In Your Instrument

This is very special to me.  This is exactly what I have been looking to do with the digital music instruments I have been designing and building - Give them a modular synthesizer editor.

This is a software and a hardware project.  It lets you graphically edit a patch for a DSP-based music instrument, then upload it into a small circuit board.  That means you can put that instrument into a box with sensors and controls, make a digital guitar, tune it to sound just the way you like it and even put all kinds of digital effects on it!  It's a very difficult and important project and I am sure it will lead to very many interesting kinds of new instruments, songs, performances and possibly even genres of art!

Here are the specs:

• Two 1/4" jacks
• Stereo headphone output
• MIDI Input
• STM32F4 processor (168 MHz w/ FPU)
• USB
• Modular synth editor on Desktop
• Cross-Platform support (Lin/Win/OSX)
• Approximately $100 incl. shipping

I highly recommend supporting Axiloti on Indiegogo.  I look forward to working with it a lot in 2015!

Binaural Sound with the Javascript Web Audio API

Live Demo of Binaural Sound with the Web Audio API

What is Binaural Sound?

Binaural sound is a way to make 3D sound!  Binaural means "Two Ears."

How does it work?  It starts with any sound you like, such as a dog barking.

Then it convolves that dog bark sound with a special signal.

The result: it sounds like the sound is coming from in front of you, or to your right or left!

Try out the real-time demo above!