Afrorack with a DIY MIDI-CV converter on the Nile, robotic shakers and kick drum

Our friend Brian aka Afrorack has kept up his must-see series of DIY video tutorials in his home Uganda. And as ever, he’s producing brilliant instruments and fantastic music on a budget, thanks to some serious ingenuity.

Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters

Afrorack continues to make richly textured polyrhythmic music and share secrets for cheaply producing powerful modular instruments with open tools. Here are some tantalizing updates from Uganda.

Peter Kirn - September 21, 2021

Make a DIY velocity-sensitive e-drum kit with Brian Bamanya aka Afrorack

No budget for an electronic drum kit? No problem. Brian Bamanya reports from Uganda on how to DIY the whole kit with readily sourced parts – and even adds velocity.

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2021

Watch a free program on modular audio synthesis and programming today

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2020

Pd patching, IRL: 3dPdModular is a modular synth with Pd, RasPi inside

Peter Kirn - June 4, 2020

dadamachines doppler is a new platform for open music hardware

Peter Kirn - March 22, 2019

Check out these amazing DIY controllers people made with OpenDeck

Peter Kirn - December 12, 2018

A marvelous sound machine inspired by a Soviet deep drilling project

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2018

Watch this $30 kit turn into all these other synthesizers

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2018

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