Un bon article (en anglais) en 3 chapitres qui vous dévoilent comment construire vos propres plugins audio avec SynthEdit sur PC. Les Mac users devront se tourner vers Max/MSP ou Sonicbirth.

Je n'ai jamais eu besoin de graver des vinyles à l'unité, heureusement pour moi j'ai presque toujours trouvé des labels pour sortir mes prods. Cependant, comme tout le monde, j'ai deux ou trois tracks dans mes tiroirs qui n'ont pas trouvé chaussures à leurs pieds.

Alors, l'idée fait son chemin , et si j'en pressais quelques exemplaires pour voir ce que ça donne tout simplement? Je pourrais toujours en filer aux DJ's qui m'ont toujours soutenu.

J'ai donc fait un tour des offres et voici que j'ai trouvé :

Évidemment , le vrx2000, le truc dont tout le monde parle en ce moment. C'est un investissement , il faut vraiment être blindé et en avoir une grosse utilité pour se payer ça. Le prix "blaireau" est autour de 15000€.

Après il y a pleins de sociétés qui proposent de graver des disques à l'unité. J'en ai repéré plusieurs et : vinylgrabber, Gravit-recording, vinylogue, vinyl-pressing. Parce que contrairement à d'autres , ils ne gravent pas sur de l'acétate mais sur du chlorure polyvinyl. Il ne s'agit donc pas de dubplate et selon eux la qualité est similaire à celle des disques commercialisés (80% de la matière utilisé pour les "vrais" vinyles). Le disque pourrait être jouer 1000 fois. Ca je vous le confirmerais quand j'aurais vraiment testé.

Côté tarifs il faut compter à peu près 20€ par disques selon la durée de votre titre. 14 euros + 1.25 euros par minutes (T.T.C) chez vinyl-pressing. Pour 5 disques gravés , un de plus est offert. Pour 10, 2 sont offerts chez Vinyl Grabber. Ca doit pouvoir se négocier chez les autres aussi.

Je suis tombé sur le theremin "born to be wild" de Georges McDonald en cherchant des infos sur le FatMan Analog MIDI Synth. Un synth mono DIY dont le prix de revient -moins de 200$ - m'a mis l'eau à la bouche , vu le son de ce petit synth. Du coup ça m'a donné l'idée de construire un FatMan Analog MIDI Synth autour d'un 103SP. Faut que je me penche sur le projet…

When George McDonald stopped by for a catalog the other day he had these pictures of his setup back in Vancouver. It's the first triple theremin rig we've ever seen. George built his own theremin circuits based on an article that appeared in Popular Electronics in the early '70s, and fitted the antennae to this motorcyle fork with mic goose-necks. The pods where the antennae meet the goose necks are fittled with LEDs that light in synchrony with the music for effect. George most often uses his theremins as controllers, a typical patch might use a theremin pitch as the carrier for a balanced modulator on the guitar, and uses his shoulders and upper body to control theremin elements. The ARP 2600 cabinet in the right of the photo is used for a lot of processing.

George breaks all the rules. He has pitch and volume antennae reversed from their traditional positions, volume is on the right in his setup. He nulls volume so that approaching the antenna increases signal level and nulls pitch so approaching decreases frequency.

George McDonald
1028 Odlum Dr
Vancouver, BC V5L 3L6

Construisez votre propre harpe laser! Toutes les schémas sur ce site (en anglais). Un forum avec plein d'astuces. Le seul ennui avec cet instrument c'est que vous serez obligé d'enfumer votre studio…

Voici le site qu'il vous faut si vous n'êtes pas satisfait des contrôleurs MIDI , des synthés ou des séquenceurs qu'on trouve dans le commerce. Tous ces produits sont modifiables selon vos goûts et vos besoins, logique puisqu'il s'agit d'une formule DIY (Do It Yourself).

Quelques pages sont traduites en français.

Même si vous n'avez pas l'intention de vous lancer dans la construction d'un contrôleur MIDI, allez quand même voir les galeries de photos de ce site rien que pour le plaisir des yeux. Mais attention, ne venez pas vous plaindre si après vous trouvez que votre BCR2000 ne ressemble à rien…

Je connaissais spirit canyon audio pour ses incroyables impulses responses. En revanche je n'avais jamais remarqué qu'ils avaient aussi des ensembles pour Reaktor. Ces ensembles sont gratuits. N'y allez pas si vous cherchez un synth classique ou un séquenceur, il s'agit de texture makers que tout Sound Designer se doit de posséder.

The following ensembles are offered freely with no restrictions. As they are based upon work made freely available from the NI User Library, we can neither put restrictions on their use nor comment on any restrictions the original authors might have placed on their work.

C'est certainement le modular DIY (Do It Yourself) le plus hallucinant que j'ai vu. http://www.sdiy.org/pinky/. Allez le découvrir, c'est à tomber! Beaucoup de photos de toutes les étapes de sa construction, en revanche je n'ai trouvé aucun son, ça c'est vraiment naze, j'aurais vraiment voulu l'entendre. SI par chance vous trouvez quelques samples de ce DIY modular, laissez moi un commentaire. Merci.

Le titre du forum donne le ton : Edrum For Free. Ajoutez le slogan : "Don't pay, just play" et vous aurez tout compris. Comment construire sa batterie électronique pour 3 ou 4 €. J'ai sélectionné celle d'un certain VanHouten.

The rack

Consists of an old working desk system which i modified slightly to fit my needs. the cross-bar is of course a tube from a wrecked vacuum cleaner. One could make a whole rack-system just out of these tubes, they are perfectly shaped and they all have the same diameter, no matter which brand. All the stuff one needs for this should be available at a scrap-dealer of your choice. The clamps for toms etc came from a sanitary pipe system. To strengthen the toms from underneath i took a scrap roof-rack.

The pads

1. shoe-sole-material (the specific name is LunaSoft SLW) : just perfect! (this is neopren-like stuff from www.nora.de)
2. some shitty vinyl-album from second hand market works fine here. Vinyl is strong and flexible enough and in my opinion works better than metal plates. It is also easier to cut. Just try it!
3. piezo trigger (the standard thing) with a tiny rubber cushion underneath.
4. floor covering plates (i spared some from the kitchen floor).
5. old turntable chassis from scrap-dealer.

Fake cymbals

I sawed off the tails of previously broken skateboard decks. The cables come from old vacuum-cleaners at, guess who, my favourite scrap dealer, of course. this guy shurely deserves a medal of honor! He also gave me the umbrella : "if you make a drumkit out of scrap, at least it should look cool! thanks for this one!"

Costs

- about 5 euro to the scrap-dealer
- 10 for screws, clamps etc.
- 10 for cable-connectors, sockets and piezo's
- 25 for the LunaSoft 100x60cm (enough material for two whole drumkits)
So most of the money went into the top layer of the pads, but i think it is worth that because this stuff is extremely durable. i can only recommend it!

Je suis d'accord avec vous, elle est moche comme un poux sa batterie, mais je suis sur que certain d'entre-vous auront à coeur de nous réaliser quelque chose de mieux. Bon courage.

Voici un lien en français d'un type qui a construit son E-drum. Merci à Cox d'audiofanzine pour l'info. Le lien.

Plusieurs exemplaires de ce Speak & Spell modifiés sont à vendre sur ebay. Écoutez quelques samples ici.

Here's another carefully modified Circuit Bent Speak & Spell, ready for you to glitch and tweak at your next gig or in your studio. This is THE classic bent instrument, providing the richest and most dynamic variety of glitches and random sonic mayhem of the TI Speak series. My approach is to provide a simple and intuitive control layout designed to give you the best bends with a clean and balanced look.

I have modified this device as follows:

* HAND-E-GLOW - dual ultra-bright blue LEDs illuminate your hands as you play. The LEDs fluctuate as the volume of sound changes. Adds a very cool visual effect in semi-dark places.

[ RIGHT SIDE ]

* Main power toggle switch
Lets you completely disconnect the battery power to make sure it doesn't drain when not in use, or worse, wake you up in the middle of the night.

* Two-way loop switch
Flipping this switch UP will freeze whatever sound is being made. Flipping it DOWN will LOOP a short piece of the sound over and over rhythmically. Use the momentary release buttons to grab the next random loop sound.
Using the loops in conjunction with the glitch, and working the resulting sound with the pitch bend mechanisms, provides the most interesting possibilities.

* Momentary loop release buttons
Once you have the toggle loop switch engaged, use these to briefly release the loop in order to advance incrementally to find other freakish noises and tones. Many freeze points end up providing amazing melodic tones and even techno rhythms! Once you find a cool one, you can work it with the pitch bends.

* Tone buttons
These three momentary buttons can be used to play differently pitched tones. The ones on the side create a nice square-wave sound in low and high pitch. The one on the front makes a real loud sawtooth sound. All tones can be affected by the pitch knob and body contacts at any time, along with speech, glitch or loop sounds! You can pretty much play a song with some practice. Using them along with the body contacts gives you a sound much like an electric guitar with whammy bar.

[ LEFT SIDE ]

* Momentary distortion button
Unleash the evil voices! This gives the spoken voice sound a demonic, distorted overtone, and can add strange harmonics during a loop freeze.

* Toggle glitch switch
To get the machine into a raving glitch fit, flip this switch and hit the 'ON' button followed by various other keyboard buttons. With a little persuasion, this thing will jabber nonsense interspersed with tones and whole words - for MINUTES on end - with no further prodding from you.
This switch is OFF in center position, continuous ON in up position, and momentary ON in lower position.

* Pitch bend knob
This is one of my favorite mods. This will adjust the pitch of all sound (voices and noise) from very low to very high. You can almost play a tune with this when freezing loops.
I have used a trimmer to precisely tune the low range for maximum lowness without crashing.

* Pitch Bend Body Contacts
On the same circuit with the knob, these two contacts give you an organic control over the pitch. Your skin becomes a living variable resistor used to control the system's clock speed. The voltage and current are harmless. Touching the left contact drops the pitch, and touching both at once drops it even lower.
Use various combinations of pressure on the contacts to elicit notes or theremin-like sounds! Using this in combination with the lowest pitch knob setting will drop the clock to his lowest extreme limit of hopeless guttural doom!
Another interesting effect with this bend is that pressing firmly on both, while holding down the ON keypad button, gives you a hard-core stream of crashing, glitching madness, with static-like sound and frantic, random characters on the display. The TI engineers would not approve! Also, touching the contacts while touching the 1/8" output jack gives you a rapid, frantic glitch.
Go too far on this one and you may need to flip the power switch for a hard reset! :)

* 1/4" Amplifier Output
This is essential for plugging into an amp. The jack circuit is attenuated with the proper resistor values so that the sound comes out clean and clear from your amp.
This thing sounds great through an effects or delay pedal! (Check out my sound sample)
For recording to your computer via the sound card, use the built-in 1/8" line-level jack instead.