![]() Bad because cellists who are used to classic instruments, may have problem adapting to different sensitivity of instrument good because "electronification" beyond usual magnetic pickup on classic cello brings new sonic and playing possibilities. This all should enable anybody to understand, modify and improve my work, keeping in resonance with open-source ethos.ĭespite all the thoughts and work I put into the instrument, it is still different from real cello. Those files were all uploaded into files section, as well as 3D model that were drawn as fist inception, holding printable objects. In the project logs, I tried to capture the thoughts that were behind the design, as well as the build itself and documents after-the-fact, including redrawing the hand-drawn schematics into electronic form with various formats for your viewing pleasure and creating BOM. Most of the components were manually soldered on protoboards. This all required some thoughts, like abusing piezo speaker as tap sensor, using magnetic measuring tape as vital part of bow, but still, this device holds more than 300 discrete components to achieve the goal - analog synthesizers were never trivial.īody of instrument was made from plywood and 3D printed parts. Result is brought to power amplifier and played by loudspeaker. Signals from sensors (magnetic sensors to sense bow speed, tap sensors and force sensor) are mixed and brought to voltage controlled amplifiers and filters to set tone volume (dynamics of playing) and spectral characteristics (tone color). There are strings at the fingerboard, but the strings do not oscillate at all - those are pieces of resistive wire, pressing the wire against metallic fingerboard shortens the string length (just like for cello or other string instruments), this is sensed electronically and oscillator frequency is set accordingly. Ideas I came with are centered to harvest as much player's input as possible - this includes not only sensing of bow movement speed, but also bow pressure and ability to play double stops (two or more strings at once) and pizzicato style (plucking the strings instead of bowing). It's not the first time someone builds DIY cello synthesizer, but previous attempts had too little control of sound by player. This project is four-voice, mostly analog synthesizer, trying to mimic cello - with shape, sound and style of playing. ![]() ![]() I thought of instrument like this for a long time, now when HaD prize has musical challenge section, I decided to materialize my ideas. ![]()
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