retroremakes
December 15th, 2009, 21:20
Long and agonizing has been my wait for the pairing of a three-octave marimba's upbeat tonality and the synth kitsch of a MIDI player. Thank you, Player Marimba, for answering my prayers.
By deconstructing a standard marimba, assigning a mallet to each, and hooking the whole mess up to two MD24 MIDI decoders, Larry Cotton has found a way to enjoy the soothing plinking of a marimba that can be controlled by any a MIDI sequencer or keyboard. The result is, as you can see/hear, not far from magic. I just like to imagine how many shootouts could have been avoided if these had been around in the Old West instead of those rinky dink player pianos. [Highly Liquid (http://highlyliquid.com/blog/?p=247) via Make (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/player_marimba_goes_midi.html)]
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