Watch as the Maple Native board quickly turns into a guitar effect processor before your very eyes!
Monday, July 8, 2013
Maple Native Guitar Effects Pedal
Watch as the Maple Native board quickly turns into a guitar effect processor before your very eyes!
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Single Line C Digital Music Instruments
This One-Line Music Program in C started off the small craze:
A large number of interesting variations percolated in one place. I put a few into a CERB40 and can play them as if they were an octave-wide instrument through a pressure-sensors. No time for a video right now, but if you had been at AtParty2013, you would have seen it.
A world of brief, tingling 8-bit songs
People on this blog in particular >>> Counter Complex Blog <<< really acted inspired, writing additional one-line songs just by tweaking the algorithm a number of different ways and listening until it sounded good. I was able to type up some of them and put them into an STM32F4 processor, but more about that later :)
The author returned with a second, delicious-sounding one-line C program which I eventually turned into a music instrument:
A Smartphone App
The speed of the world shocked me when I discovered nowadays, you can buy a smartphone app that lets you type in formulas and hear the results and even play them out through the screen on your cell phone. I would love to rig that up to some larger, more formal instrument.
Repeating it with an Arduino
Nowadays, you can do this kind of thing with an Arduino:
Although I saw if you're going to go that right, get a quality CPU, like the Leaflabs Maple or Maple Mini:
While we're on topic of Arduino Instruments, here's another cool one, using a real keyboard:
Recalling Ancient Wisdom
One of the posters on that forum included this link in particular, which I found extremely interesting because it contains a curated set of ethereal sound programs just waiting to be unleashed:
Algorithmic Music Synthesis
To me, the original inventor of the DSP Music Box is Ethan Bordeaux.
A large number of interesting variations percolated in one place. I put a few into a CERB40 and can play them as if they were an octave-wide instrument through a pressure-sensors. No time for a video right now, but if you had been at AtParty2013, you would have seen it.
A world of brief, tingling 8-bit songs
People on this blog in particular >>> Counter Complex Blog <<< really acted inspired, writing additional one-line songs just by tweaking the algorithm a number of different ways and listening until it sounded good. I was able to type up some of them and put them into an STM32F4 processor, but more about that later :)
The author returned with a second, delicious-sounding one-line C program which I eventually turned into a music instrument:
A Smartphone App
The speed of the world shocked me when I discovered nowadays, you can buy a smartphone app that lets you type in formulas and hear the results and even play them out through the screen on your cell phone. I would love to rig that up to some larger, more formal instrument.
Repeating it with an Arduino
Nowadays, you can do this kind of thing with an Arduino:
Although I saw if you're going to go that right, get a quality CPU, like the Leaflabs Maple or Maple Mini:
While we're on topic of Arduino Instruments, here's another cool one, using a real keyboard:
Recalling Ancient Wisdom
One of the posters on that forum included this link in particular, which I found extremely interesting because it contains a curated set of ethereal sound programs just waiting to be unleashed:
Algorithmic Music Synthesis
To me, the original inventor of the DSP Music Box is Ethan Bordeaux.
- Since his work in the 1990s, creating a DSP Music Box is still a rare and special thing.... Although, somehow, there is an actual lecture on it. Who knew!
Monday, July 1, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Homemade Knob Array for Electronic Music Instruments
I built this to connect to my stm32f4. This technique will work with any common DIY microcontroller synthesizer.
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
SpinCAD Designer - a Graphical User Interface for the FV-1!
SpinCAD Designer GUI for FV-1 from SpinSemi
This has been long-awaited! Now that I have tried it out, I am confident it will breathe a breath of fresh air into this already outdelivering DSP chip.
Everyone knows the only problem with the FV-1 is that it's been hard to program... until now! Gary Worshman's new GUI makes it very easy to initiate otherwise complex and tedious programs for the FV-1!\
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Caspar Electronics Performance in Brookline, MA
Caspar Electronics At Cafe Fixe, Brookline, MA June 9th, 2013
Pete Edwards is an electronic music instrument designer. He has been working on some new synthesizer designs during his research at STEIM. We are very fortunate to learn that he will be giving a performance right here on the East Coast during his brief time in the U.S. We are looking forward to hearing his music and picking his brain in person about music instrument design.
A few years ago, Pete mentioned that he was introducing in focusing on the rhythm in his music. He mentioned to me on the phone a few weeks ago that he was researching unifying voltage levels in digital, analog and modular synthesizers. You can read a recent article on him and Phillip Stearns over at Synthtopia
Let's see what he's up to this Tuesday night in Brookline.
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