MIDI and Music

I have a love/hate relationship with MIDI. More than half the projects I work on require some kind of MIDI interface, and I can *never* remember the hookup. All the diagrams on the web never indicate if the view is from the front, or the back of the connector. *And* I can never find a [...]

This pitch tracking interface was originally created to add MIDI capability to a Vacuum Tube Theremin. It was only after it was finished that I realised it could be used as the basis for a whole range of different electronic instruments. The idea is that this processor can be used to interface to a wide [...]

Can you top a laser harp…? After I published some of my earlier videos I get asked on a regular basis if I can create a MIDI interface that would work with any Theremin. So after completing the vacuum tube Theremin, I thought it was about time I put something together. The hardware tracks threshold [...]

Korg recently released the Monotron – a truly analog (yes it is, I’ve checked -  nothing but op-amps and capacitors and stuff). A pocket synthesizer with the same filter found on the MS-20 synth. Here’s a short video showing what I found under the hood – nice touch from Korg providing pre-soldered and labelled test [...]