Jamie Oliver Awarded Top Honors With Silent Drum Controller

Jamie Oliver just won 1st Place in the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT) with a new percussion controller dubbed the Silent Drum. The Silent Drum Controller is a transparent drum shell with an elastic head. As one presses it, the head deforms and a variety of shapes with peaks are created reflecting the shape of the mallet or hand. These shapes are captured by a video camera...

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Ingenuity + Controllerism + Bong Hits =’s Fretless Fader

Well, I bet you didn’t see this coming… Even you controllerists out there have to be doing a little tongue waggin’ when it comes to this savvy Do-It-Yourselfin’ John Beez has created the Fretless Fader, which basically separates the crossfader from a Vestax PMC06 DJ mixer and puts it on rails for some “fretless” controller action. The inventive rail system is controlling the record’s pitch via...

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