Auduino DIY Synth

If you’re into DIY and got an Arduino board, why not try to make the FOF/granular based Auduino synth in this video? Instructions are here Here’s another example, using the stylus controller from the Gakken SX-150 synth kit:

touch.listen.synth

The touch.listen.synth must be inspired by the cracklebox, but it’s capable of creating more complex sounds. And it’s got an audio output. Cool thing! More pictures here

OSC Controller nearly finished

The C++-based OSC-controler I’ve been working on for my master degree in music technology is nearly finished. Here is a screenshot: As you can see it’s on Windows, but since I’ve been using the openFrameworks library, it should be possible to compile it for Mac and Linux as well. The sound is generated in Max. [...]

Cute old computers plays Bohemian Rhapsody

I found this video through Synthopia. I just had to put it here. I wonder who has made this.. it’s real computer music!

Playmodes & OpenFrameworks

I want to show you some of the cool things that can be done with OpenFrameworks. I start by showing the projects of someone who calles themselves Playmodes. They have made an audiovisual sampler, using Native Instruments Reaktor for the sounds (controlling it via OSC) and OF for recording, manipulating and playback of video. It [...]

OpenFrameworks 0.06 released

Today version 0.06 of OpenFrameworks was released. There has been a lot of changes including the most important: new library Poco ( http://pocoproject.org) included – used for events event system for base events (setup, update, draw, mouse, keyboard) and constructing new events the addons.h system has been dropped in place of direct inclusion of addons [...]

Master project update

I’m currently working hard on my master degree project. I’m making a controller / sequencer interface program for touch screen (sadly no multi-touch yet). The program will have various functions, among them the drum sequencer that you can see in this picture: (never mind the colors, they are a little bit ugly) When the sequencer [...]

Bon Iver Night drive

I give you Bon Iver + someone driving at night: I love videos w/driving through city at night! Music: “Blood Bank” by Bon Iver Video by david l

Cool organic synth thing

I stumbled across a brilliant post on Synthopia, a video showing a demo of the project the Sound of Touch. The instrument is made by David Merrill at MIT and is based on using a contact microphone and DSP to record and manipulate the sounds. I’m glad to see that there’s still some good ideas [...]

Micro-OSC

The Micro-OSC (or uOSC) is a new approach to computing and sending data from embedded devices (microcontrollers). This new standard promises floating point numbers, low latency, and seamless integration with OSC-based software. The OSC-protocol is implemented directly on the embedded device, this means the OSC signals are sent directly from the board to your OSC-port. [...]