Julien Bayle can instruct you how to make a monome clones which is good because the monome always have a waiting list.
Music might have stopped me from being a misanthropic criminal so maybe this will change some that are ready are. Jail Guitar Doors is Billy Bragg’s initiative to provide inmates with musical instrument. I believe in personal responsibility so I have to believe in punishment. But locking people up and doing nothing to change there behave other than punishment never made much sense to me. I like this idea. Johnny Cash would approve.
Audiotuts has a list of affordable mics. It is a pretty good list me thinks. But you might want to check out Studio Projects which lower then mics I think are a good value.
Audiotuts also had this link below there mic list but it is a good link that you might have miss to Jake Ludington’s guide to making you own pop filter. Anyone could do this one.
Frank Zappa is not everyones cup o’ tea but he sure is damn quotable read for yourself.
I use Reason and Ableton Live together. Reason is the most incredable sound bank rewired into Live. Here is a good video on using the 2 together.
The Aurora Open Source Mixer might be the perfect solution for DJ types with a DIY streak that are currently unsatisfied with current mixers type MIDI controllers. I am all for open source projects like this but they are tricky to pull off. Most people don’t want to make there own PCB’s. And in the the case of this project the components are expensive if bought for one project. Keeping prices down with electronic is all about being able to buy in bulk. Thankfully there are plans for a kit. I am hoping it can work out to be affordable because it is an awesome little device that look great.
Great Scott who always sends me great links sent me these two:
Controllerism is a site decidated to the idea of creating live music using controllers of course. The have some videos that are a must watch for those interest in the computer being a musical instrument instead of just a fancy musical calculator.
This Wikipedia entry on “stutter edit” has lots useful info and I nice list of software to help achieve the task.
