Wacom Graphics Tablets for Music
Need to procrastinate that design project? Try hooking your Wacom tablet up to music software (or VJ app, or anything else that supports MIDI input). New tools for Mac and Windows translate gestures, pressure, and even tilt from the tablet to control messages that can be used by music apps, synthesizers, live video applications, and…
Foldable Guitars and Mobile Guitar Rigs
With portable tuners, recorders, and the like, it’s pretty easy to take your whole music rig mobile—but what about that guitar, in an enormous case that makes it look like you might be carrying a 30s-gangster semi-automatic rifle? Stewart Guitars specializes in guitars with detachable necks; they fold neatly into a suitcase, the instrumental equivalent…
VowelSynth: Homemade Speech Synth
While this won’t fool your school principal a la Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, it’s still a cool project. This synth has a set of strings attached to DSP chips which “play” a certain sound when struck, or in this case, touched. The resulting music/cacaphony sounds pretty eerie. It works like this: When you lay your…