Calvin Cherry, an electrical engineer graduate of University of Wisconsin – Madison, has created a new musical instrument called Music from Motion which adds layers of instrumental samples as he moves different parts of his body. Stop sniggering at the back!…
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UnicornHAT pulses a beat to SonicPi on the Raspberry Pi
I was watching Pimoroni’s Bilge Tank today and Phil Howard mentioned that there was now a way in Ruby to run Neopixels (WS2812, I believe, I could be wrong) and therefore it wouldn’t be a stretch to get it to be…
Play the Imperial March from Star Wars using a Raspberry Pi and a piezo buzzer
Dum dum dum dum-de-dum dum-de-dum. Leon Anavi has written an Instructable tutorial in which he takes a simple piezo buzzer, connects it up to his Pi and then uses C/wiringPi to play John Williams’ Imperial March. You can read the Instructable here.…
Creating electronic music on the Raspberry Pi
Everyone’s heard of Sonic Pi, the programmer’s method of producing music on the Pi. Seth Kenlon wanted to use the Pi to produce electronic music the more traditional way – by using synths, trackers and other software in combination. You…
Controlling Spotify with Slack and a Raspberry Pi
Oklahoma-based Aaron Krauss works at Staplegun where they have just moved floors to an open-plan office. They had a sound system installed but no easy way to control it as the hub was in their server room (which was nowhere near where…
New Sonic Pi book released by Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi
Sam Aaron, author of the popular music-creation program Sonic Pi has written a new book for The MagPi. The book has 10 chapters and topics include: Mastering live loops Building drum breaks Composing your own melodies Making random riffs and loops Learning…
Dr Who theme played on a Raspberry Pi Zero
Phil Atkin, who has previously done a lot with integrating synthesizers with the Raspberry Pi, has now pulled off a bit of a coup. He has installed and run his software on a Raspberry Pi Zero. He has then sequenced…
Live coding with Sonic Pi and Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi
The MagPi have published a tutorial that Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, wrote about live coding with his software. This tutorial has a twist, however, as it integrates with Minecraft: Pi Edition and allows you to build in the 3D world…
Four-track audio looper with a Raspberry Pi
Szymon Kaliski has put together a Raspberry Pi, some buttons and potentiometers and a lot of circuitry to build a four-track audio looper. You can record four eight-second loops and then adjust their playback with the buttons and potentiometers to achieve the…
Make an audiophile music player with Volumio on a Raspberry Pi
Trevor Appleton has written a great tutorial about using the Volumio operating system to create a music player with a Raspberry Pi. This is a great piece of software and easy enough to get going. If you’re an audiophile, you…