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2025 One Hertz Challenge: Learn Morse Code One Second at a TimeLearning Morse Code is no longer a requirement for HAMs in many jurisdictions, but it’s still a nice skill to have. [I_void(warranties)] wanted to learn, but couldn’t find a trainer that fit his style. What to do but build it yourself? Since we’re in the midst of a challenge, he took up the gauntlet and turned his need to learn Morse into a 1 hertz Morse code game.
In concept it is quite simple: a message beeps out in Morse, with a corresponding LED flash, all in one second. The player then has one second to type think they heard. Get it done fast enough, and a character LCD will tell you if you scored.
The project is based around an Arduino Nano; thanks to easily-available libraries, a PS/2 keyboard can serve as input and a 2×16 LCD as feedback with no real effort expended. For the audible component of the Morse challenge, an 8-ohm speaker is driven right off a pin on the Arduino. We won’t claim this efficient design only took one second to put together, but it probably didn’t take too long.
Of course this trainer, unlike some we’ve seen, only helps you learn to listen to the stream of dots and dashes. None of the others ever tried to fit a One Hertz theme, or [I_void(warranties)]’s particular learning style. For some, decoupling send and receive might be just the ticket to finally learning Morse one second at a time.

Indie Musician News Last Week: Health, Playlists, Websites, MoreCalling all independent musicians! Check out last week’s posts of tips and guides to navigate the industry. We’ve got info on optimizing your music website, mental health practices, Spotify playlists,. Continue reading
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Music Business News Last Week: Spotify, Dup Data, Apps & MoreCatch up on what’s happening in the music business news last week from a new look at the state of Spotify, the songwriter’s changing role, duplicate data’s detriment to the. Continue reading
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Free
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VLCAM
Release date:
1st Aug, 2025
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AudioDeluxe offers GForce AXXESS or Safari Pedals Gorilla Drive FREE with any purchase
AudioDeluxe is giving away a fantastic freebie with every purchase this month. You can choose between GForce Software’s AXXESS synth or Safari Pedals’ Gorilla Drive saturation plugin at checkout. The hottest deal I found on AudioDeluxe right now is Baby Audio’s Parallel Aggressor for just $9.99. That said, you’ll also find IK Multimedia’s Master EQ [...]
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Fabric 70 GlitchThis is a special plug-in that converts the input signal into noise. Can be used with Mac and Windows host applications that support Audio Units and VST3. According to the moving average number, a smoother noise signal can be output relative to the amplitude of the detection signal. Read More

Melda Production Analog Empire: Brass & Winds Analog Empire: Brass & Winds includes over 30 multi-sampled synth sounds, and features a dual-layer design that allows users to seamlessly blend between different sample sets in search of new and interesting sounds.

TOA's Newest Battery Charger: Introducing the BC-2000ATOA Electronics, Inc. has announced the launch of the BC-2000A, their newest Battery Charger."The BC-2000A is a dedicated battery charger for the WM-D5200 Digital wireless microphone and WM-D5300 Digital wireless transmitter," they said in a statement. "It works with the optional AD-5000-2 AC adapter. The BC-2000A employs a quick charging system for nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) batteries, allowing up to 2 units to be fully charged."LEARN MOREThe post TOA's Newest Battery Charger: Introducing the BC-2000A first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

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Win $1,000 and join our live beat battle with Southside in Los Angeles
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Digital Guitar of the Future has no stringsElectric guitars are great, but they’re just so 20th century. You’d think decades of musicians riffing on the instrument would mean there are no hacks left in the humble axe. You’d think so, but you’d be wrong. [Michael], for one, has taken it upon himself to reinvent the electric guitar for the digital era.
Gone are the strings, and the frets have vanished as well. The neck of this guitar is one long custom PCB, looking very sleek with black solder mask. Gold pads serve as touch sensors to give tone data over i2c (from unspecified touch sensing chips) to the Amtel Mega 32u4 at the heart of the build.
With no strings, strumming won’t work, so a laptop-style touchpad serves instead. That means every user interaction with this guitar is with capacitive touch sensors talking i2c. The X and Y coordinates of the touch, along with pressure are sent to the processor over the i2c bus, triggering an interrupt and offering quite a bit of opportunity for sound control.
Said sound control is, of course, done in MIDI. This lets the guitar control a whole variety of synths and/or software, and of course [Michael] is using more futuristic-sounding synths than a pack of guitar samples. That said, what exactly goes on with the MIDI controls is left frustratingly vague. Obviously fretting provides note selection, but does the touchpad just send a “note start” command, or are the X, Y and pressure data used in interesting ways? Is there multitouch support? The video doesn’t say.
How, exactly, the obviously-plastic body of the guitar was manufactured is also left unsaid. Is it a large resin print? SLS? It looks injection-molded, but that makes no sense for a one-off prototype. On the other hand, it looks like he’s selling these, so it may very well be an injection-molded production case we’re seeing being assembled here, and not a prototype at all.
For all the video leaves us wanting more information, we can’t help but admit the end product both looks and sounds very cool. (Skip to the 4:50 mark in the embedded video to hear it in action.) The only thing that would improve it would be a hurdy-gurdy mode. Thanks to [Michael] for the tip, and remember  we want to hear tips about all the weird and wonderful hacked-together instruments you make or find on the web.

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