The world is filled with nice open source music players, however why cease at utilizing open supply simply to play music? You may also use open supply to make music. All of the devices described on this article are certified by the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA). That means you might be free to construct upon them, remix them, or do the rest with them.
Open supply devices
Instruments are all the time a very good place to begin once you need to make music. If your instrument decisions lean in the direction of the extra conventional, the F-F-Fiddle will be the one for you.
The F-F-Fiddle is a full-sized electrical violin that you may make with a typical desktop 3D printer (fused filament fabrication—get it?). If you could see it to consider it, here’s a video of the F-F-Fiddle in motion:
Mastered the fiddle and concerned about one thing a bit extra unique? How concerning the Open Theremin?
Like all theremins, Open Theremin enables you to play music with out touching the instrument. It is, after all, particularly good at making creepy space sounds to your subsequent sci-fi video or space-themed celebration.
The Waft operates equally by permitting you to regulate sounds remotely. It makes use of Lidar to measure the gap of your hand from the sensor. Check it out:
Is the Waft a theremin? I am undecided—theremin pedants ought to weigh in beneath within the feedback.
If theremins are too well-known for you, SIGNUM could also be simply what you might be in search of. In the phrases of its builders, SIGNUM “uncovers the encrypted codes of information and the language of man/machine communication” by turning invisible wi-fi communications into audible indicators.
Here is in motion:
Inputs
Regardless of what instrument you utilize, you will want to plug it into one thing. If you need that one thing to be a Raspberry Pi, attempt the AudioSense-Pi, which lets you join a number of inputs and outputs to your Pi without delay.
Synths
What about synthesizers? SparkFun’s SparkPunk Sound Kit is an easy synth that provides you a number of room to play.
Headphones
Making all this music is nice, however you additionally want to consider how you’ll hearken to it. Fortunately, EQ-1 headphones are open supply and 3D-printable.
Are you making music with open supply ? Let us know within the feedback!
