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Custom Samsonite Suitcase Kick Drums
If you’ve ever stood in an airport baggage claim and thought, “You know what this Samsonite really needs? A 22-inch kick pedal and a mic input,” congratulations — you’re our kind of people. This custom kick drum started life as a humble suitcase, probably dreaming of Florida vacations and lost luggage tags. But now it’s…
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Recording Guitar Loops onto the OP-XY: A Practical Guide from Windowbed
Creator: windowbed (James)Video: Watch on YouTubeTags: #teoperator #teenageengineering Overview Denver-based musician and teacher windowbed (James) digs into how he’s been recording guitar loops directly into Teenage Engineering’s OP-XY, sharing a wealth of insights on setup, recording workflow, and mixing tricks. Using firmware 1.0.21, James walks through everything from creating a DIY count-in to understanding when…
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Mini Chord: An Open-Source Pocket Synth with Y2K Style
Sometimes an instrument lands in your hands and instantly feels alive. That’s the impression ACY shares in their recent video exploring the Mini Chord—a compact, open-source synthesizer designed by Benjamin Puavé (aka Benjamin Wild). Inspired by Suzuki’s classic Omnichord, this handheld box of buttons and a touch strip invites both seasoned musicians and curious tinkerers…
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Make Noise: The Asheville Workshop of Sonic Exploration
Tucked away in Asheville, North Carolina is Make Noise, a small team that has grown into one of the most respected names in modular synthesis. Founded by Tony Rolando, the company began with a simple mission: to create instruments that inspire musicians to discover new sounds. From the beginning, Make Noise embraced the modular format,…
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Conductive Labs Terrain Synthesizer
The Conductive Labs Terrain Synthesizer is a fascinating new instrument that merges the world of tactile control with digital sound design. Instead of knobs and sliders, it uses a pressure-sensitive, touch-based interface that responds to the movement of your fingers across a grid. The terrain surface can be mapped to synth parameters, allowing you to…
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DAW-less 2025: Do Less, Create More
For years, music production seemed inseparable from the computer screen. But in 2025, more and more artists are stepping away from the laptop in favor of hardware-only setups. The DAW-less movement has grown from a niche of synth tweakers into a thriving culture of makers who prize immediacy, tactility, and the creative spark that comes…
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The Self-Soldered Music Movement
Across kitchen tables, basements, and festival workshops, a quiet movement has been building. Musicians are no longer waiting for factory-finished gear. They’re picking up soldering irons, swapping schematics, and piecing together their own instruments. The result is a sound culture as raw and unpredictable as the tools themselves: the self-soldered music movement. Instead of polished…
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DRKMBNT’s Suitcase Symphony: New Live Setup at Home Made 2025
At Home Made 2025, DRKMBNT (Wolfgang Dorninger) arrived with a black suitcase loaded with three distinct live setups. Inside were five players from the Tiny Techno Orchestra on the top left, a deadBatteryMusic configuration on the right, and below them an array of FlipFloater instruments and effects: Benjolin V1-2, Drone Slider, Ugly Face distortion, FlipFloater…
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The Spitfire Audio Château Piano: A Sonic Time Capsule
The Château Piano by Spitfire Audio is a captured moment in musical history, frozen in time and made playable through your DAW. This exquisite library centers around a grand piano housed in a French château once belonging to Frédéric Chopin’s lover, George Sand. In other words, it’s got some serious romantic-era vibes baked in. What…
Homemade Music is published by Briyan Baker (GAJOOB, Tapegerm Collective, Discover Sounds, me) focuses on making music in your own space. It’s more about the activity than the technical.
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