Craig Dorety
About: I'm secretive, reclusive, inventive, and alive. Building things from scratch is fun. I build synth kits in customized cases, MIDI controllers, and various forms of art and machines.
Music: Kromatron
Custom-built from space-age plastics and psychedelic circuitry, this MIDI computer music controller for the 21st century allows the complete, dynamic control in a small guitar-like instrument.
It took 6 months of CAD design, some helpful design assistance and input from my friend Devin Becker and a lot of time nearly inside a nice Mori-Seiki CNC with some not-so-cheap, plastics. Many hours were spent with a soldering iron and experimenting with opamps. Now that I have started programming my own little micro controllers, I will be adding music and MIDI responsive lighting to the next incarnation of this invention.
Music: Komegatone
The Komegatone is a modified PAiA fatman kit put into a wonderfully custom case.
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Sarah Milstein (mutual) friend |
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Shawn Connally (mutual) friend |
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Dale Dougherty friend |
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Brent Green (mutual) friend |
Comments
ps, this may seem like a silly idea but
it might be cool to add a line of leds to the
outside edge of your controller and simply
attach them to a simple color organ styled
device.
a chain of lights that responded to the music would look like you were controlling them with the lights even though this would only be for show.
gratuitous thought but it just popped into my head for what it's worth.
keep up the wonderful inventing.
thanks for the friend add.
I look forward to seeing you at the Faire.
Do you have a performance slot?
I'll be performing Sunday afternoon, right before
Kid Beyond.
I'll see you then, hopefully. Nice controller, btw!
We gotta jam at the Faire...I'm bringin' down a mechanical percussion sequencer and a poor man's Blaster Beam.
That's right man space age plastics is what it's all about!
