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Poor Man's Techno Synthesizer

ercoerco Posts: 20,261
edited 2011-10-18 10:05 in General Discussion
http://pvc-innovation.wonderhowto.com/corkboard/monster-tubulum-0130491/

Not Parallax, not even electronic, just cool. Nice to see a purely genius mechanical "app" to make techno music a la Blue Man Group.

Hey, what if we added servos to each drum head, wirelessly linked to a Propeller servo controller, then digitized and filtered each tubes audio output. Using ring modulation, we could generate holophonic stereo sound. Multiple enhancements using hifi, bluetooth, X-bee, Zigbee are just a matter of time...

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  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2011-10-18 09:39
    Very cool. How about adding an electronically-controlled slider to change the effective length of the tubes to adjust the pitch? The musician can then control the pitch with feet, pressure blowing into a mouthpiece, tapping a sensor with a drumstick or whatever.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2011-10-18 10:05
    I built a couple of these, (with less tubes), for a few museums and pre-schools. They are very rugged and hold up quite well with kids banging on them.



    Now, apply MIDI like this one I saw at Makerfaire NYC 2011:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3N7uKA-Wn68
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