Music Thing Modular Workshop System: patch, hack, code, mic, jack in

Tom Whitwell and Thonk have revealed their latest: a complete modular system ready to be tote in its own hard case. The Workshop System has all the modular, patchable goodness you’d expect—contact mics and guitar/stereo line inputs—but it’s also got a computer inside, with unique programmable cards.

Get an ultra-realistic modeled cymbal plug-in for free: CHAIR EXC!TE CYMBAL

Chair Audio quietly launched a new plug-in, and it’s both free and wonderful. EXC!TE CYMBAL is, no exaggeration, realistic enough that you’ll do a double-take knowing this is a physical model and not in any way sampled.

Peter Kirn - May 8, 2023

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

CHAIR made an amazingly realistic snare plug-in – get a CDM discount, then play it on a table

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2021

A marvelous sound machine inspired by a Soviet deep drilling project

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2018

Watch a VU meter turn into percussion, control voltage

Peter Kirn - March 16, 2018

Down with Sequencers: The Age of Glass Finger-Drums Through Their Beats, Live [Videos]

- July 22, 2013

Slap That Desk: Turn Any Surface into an Instrument, with a Plug-and-Play Accessory

Peter Kirn - February 20, 2012

Kitchen Contact Mic Chemistry: Make a Mic from Baking Soda, Cream of Tartar

- August 22, 2011

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