Watch as a telephone is transformed into a DIY analog drum machine

Push-button telephone. Analog drum machine. Arduino Nano. DIY amplifier. Shashwath Sundar, aka simple_but_nerdy, makes the telephone-drum machine fusion seem like it was meant to be.

Go watch Polygonia’s videos on Ableton Operator hi-hats and more

Polygonia, aka Lindsey Wang, is expanding techno into imaginative blossoms of percussion and pattern. But she’s also doing some terrific tutorials. Where to start? A terrific breakdown of constructing high hats from scratch in Ableton’s Operator might inspire you.

Peter Kirn - March 18, 2024

Mindmeld Shapemaster LFO-MSEG for VCV Rack and creating drums

Mindmeld Shapemaster Pro is a must-have add-on for the VCV Rack modular environment. It’s a multi-stage envelope generator, VCA, and complex VCO, and for starters, a video out today will show you how to use it to make drums.

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2023

2020 is the insane, single-window beat machine from the future – and it’s landed on macOS

Peter Kirn - July 20, 2023

Free modular recipes for sound and sequence in VCV Rack, with the creator of JW-Modules

Peter Kirn - June 9, 2020

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