10 songs in the month of February, I’m 2 songs in with 3 days down, so I’m ahead of schedule.  The album will be called Binary, and is a mish mash of stuff (so far at least).

Ableton to Max to Arduino to SX-150

I’m working on finding a way to make my sx-150 a black box synth.  The aim is to end up with a box with only a phono out and usb in, no knobs, buttons, or input.  First step will be trying out Mrbooks arduino control setup for the sx-150, the second step will be using a few digital potemtiometers to allow the arduino to control, what used to be controlled by the rotary knobs.  Then all I’ll need is a little max patch with those controls and I’ll have a digitally controllable analog sythn, for less than $50.

Ableton Midi clock to Max to Arduino to Music Box

This ones a little more adventurous.  The aim is to get a punch card music box, with a motor controlling the turning of the handle, this motor would be variable speeds to match a midi clock from abelton.  The music box will use something like guitar pickups to get the sound back into the computer for tweaking.  This project is largely influenced by Mapmaps awesome music box setup – just with an additional twist.

Auduino is based on the Arduino board. The audio is coming direct from Arduino PWM output with only a slight external reverb. No other effects were used.

Construction details and code here:
code.google.com/p/tinkerit/

The Stribe 1 has been launched and it looks really nice. I love the fact that it’s modular. $94 a pop, means you could pick one up a month and after 8 months you’d have a nice looking piece of kit.

I’m curious to see what’s needed above and beyond just having the modules. How much you need to do to get it working with the arduino and what max patches are available. I’m already thinking that a arduinome 64 with 2 or 3 of these strips off the side in the same enclosure could be pretty neat and very useful. I wonder if there will (or is) any cross fade patches yet. I’m very tempted to get a couple.

I have a fair share on iphone music making apps. This one has a certain Eno twist. Check it out.

I love this sort of stuff.