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.

Watch a free program on modular audio synthesis and programming today

From Lyon’s Grame center, today there’s a free online workshop on patching and coding your own synths, including working with tools like the Faust DSP environment (even on the Web), VCV Rack, Daisy Eurorack, Arduino, Teensy, and more.

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2020

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

Hard patching, meet soft patching: it’s Eurorack modular, but with a Raspberry Pi and Pure Data inside each module – which means you can mod and make your own modules, too.

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

DU-NTSC is a modular visualizer, AV toy, and video generator

Peter Kirn - August 14, 2018

8BitMixtapeNEO is a glitchy hackable synth the size of a cassette tape

Peter Kirn - May 14, 2018

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