The ultimate air duo of keyboards and guitar has now taken a step closer to becoming a full band with the creation of the Air Drums by Israeli electronics tinkerer Maayan Migdal. His system is ...

Part of the reason MIDI has hung on as a standard in the musical world for so long is that it is incredibly versatile. Sure, standard instruments like pianos and drums can be interfaced with a ...

[Maayan Migdal] wrote in to share a really cool drum kit he constructed that has one special twist – no drums at all. Using a simple MIDI device and an Arduino, his “Air Drums” look pretty sweet. The ...

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James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Turning household objects into musical instruments isn’t exactly a novel idea — at one point or ...

I'm giving a lot of thought to picking up a guitar hero: world tour band kit bundle (which includes wireless xbox 360 drums). I have read several reports of using various video game drum controllers ...

This astonishing piece of motion tracking software watches you play air drums, and translates what you're doing into a MIDI signal in real time. It's a simple enough idea, but the execution works ...

Vochlea Music, a U.K. startup and alumni of Abbey Road Red, the music tech incubator from Abbey Road Studios, is launching a crowdfunding campaign today for “Dubler Studio Kit,” a new device and app ...

The Opposable Thumbs folks aren't the only ones who enjoy the occasional game of Rock Band around the Ars headquarters. Some of us who cover the Apple side of things have been known to rock the ...