Here are some links to information on guitar effects:

Most DISTORTED Guitar Tone Possible?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkO-yau7jdQ

What does distortion look like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFSX93aPzmw

Understanding Distortion (Pt2) – Diode Clipping circuits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qs1H2qTAWI

Demonstration of Overdrive, Distortion and Fuzz effects on oscilloscope and with a guitar signal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NjeHHroOgI

The World’s Largest Guitar Pedalboard (world record)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWRfLuJ_NKw

She sings through guitar pedals and it sounds AMAZING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77iUH208XaI

Modeling A Guitar For Circuit Simulation
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/19/modeling-a-guitar-for-circuit-simulation/

Guitar effects have come a long way from the jangly, unaltered sounds of the 1950s when rock and roll started picking up steam. Starting in large part with [Jimi Hendrix] in the 60s, the number of available effects available to guitarists snowballed in the following decades step-by-step with the burgeoning electronics industry. Now, there are tons of effects, from simple analog devices that would have been familiar to [Hendrix] to complex, far-reaching, digital effects available to anyone with a computer. Another thing available to modern guitarists is the ability to model these effects and guitars in circuit simulators, as [Iain] does.

[Ian] plays a Fender Stratocaster, but in order to build effects pedals and amplifiers for it with the exact desired sound, he needed a way to model its equivalent circuit. For a simple DC circuit, this isn’t too difficult since it just requires measuring the resistance, capacitance, and inductance of the overall circuit and can be done with something as simple as a multimeter. But for something with the wide frequency range of a guitar, a little bit more effort needs to go into creating an accurate model. [Iain] is using an Analog Discovery as a vector network analyzer to get all of the raw data he needs for the model before moving on to some in-depth calculations.

Guitar Pickup Equivalent Circuits
https://macalisterelectronics.com/guitar-pickup-equivalent-circuits.html

An equivalent circuit of a guitar’s pickups, tone/volume controls and cable is useful when designing input stages for effects pedals or amplifiers. It makes simulations or calculations of how input networks modify the spectrum of the guitar’s output more realistic. This article covers some background on the topic and then goes into a technique for measuring the output impedance of a guitar and how to deduce the values of an equivalent circuit from the measurement. The equivalent circuit of a Stratocaster are given in the Conclusion at the end of this page.

Sebastian of Baltic Lab demonstrates how to implement overdrive and distortion effect DSP algorithms on the Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi
https://baltic-lab.com/2023/08/dsp-diode-clipping-algorithm-for-overdrive-and-distortion-effects/

Open Source Analog Effects Pedal
A modular platform for developing and trading guitar (and other) audio effects. Focus on, but not limited to, pure analog signal path.
https://hackaday.io/project/2311-open-source-analog-effects-pedal

Guitar Distortion With Diodes In Code, Not Hardware
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/23/guitar-distortion-with-diodes-in-code-not-hardware/

Guitarists will do just about anything to get just the right sound out of their setup, including purposely introducing all manner of distortion into the signal. It seems counter-intuitive, but it works, at least when it’s done right. But what exactly is going on with the signal? And is there a way to simulate it? Of course there is, and all it takes is a little math and some Arduino code.
https://baltic-lab.com/2023/08/dsp-diode-clipping-algorithm-for-overdrive-and-distortion-effects/

Guitar Effects With No (Unwanted) Delay
https://hackaday.com/2021/03/15/guitar-effects-with-no-unwanted-delay/

Raspberry Pi Pico – Guitar To MIDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu0Qsz2h3HE

Google has added a new instrument to its Chrome Music Lab: Song Maker. Song Maker allows you to make songs. Everything happens in the browser.

Song Maker is essentially an easy to use sequencer that lets you draw melodies in the browser. You are able to define a sequence of notes using a chessboard of sounds, and Song Maker loops over them repeatedly. You get to choose between a few instruments like a piano, strings, woodwinds, a synth and a marimba. There’s also a small rhythm section with drums. You can customize things like the tempo, as well as the scale, active range, and beats per bar.

You don’t necessarily need to know anything about music to write a song. You can experiment by throwing notes together. And it can be entertaining. Create your own simple jams using Chrome – and works also with Firefox.  It’s easy enough to use a child could enjoy it. And also adults can enjoy it as well. The finished product can be saved for your own personal enjoyment or sent to a friend by sending URL to song.

So now just start playing with Song Maker.  Here are some simple few minute tests with it: https://goo.gl/qRnE6t and https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5196028349251584 and https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5677850262765568

And once you have graduated from Sound Maker, there’s all kinds of more complex browser-based sequencers that you can experiment with: including the likes of Sampulator, Acid Machine, Google Music Lab’s Melody Maker tool and Sonant Live.

Check also my earlier Make music in your browser posting from few years back for some more browser music tools.

Now we have entered to the point that a Popular YouTube Artist Uses AI To Record New Album. Taryn Southern’s new single “Break Free” was composed by artificial intelligence. Actually the whole album I AM AI is claimed to be the first LP to be entirely composed and produced with AI. Southern used an open source AI platform called Amper Music to create the stems of “Break Free.” Actually AI is used also to make the following official music video for the “Break Free”. 

Break Free – Taryn Southern (Official Music Video)

The music track and video art were created using artificial intelligence, lyrics and vocal melodies written by by Taryn. Musician Taryn Southern on composing her new album entirely with AI article tells how artificial intelligence simplifies music production for solo artists and how it was used in the production. Southern used an open source AI platform called Amper Music to create the stems of “Break Free.” For each track, she plugs in genre, the instruments she wants to use, and beats per minute. In return, Amper churns out disjointed verses that can be rearranged into a song, and layered beneath Southern’s vocals. Toryn claims that you don’t need any knowledge of instrumentation to make a great song — you just need to have a good ear.

Amper Music Techstars Music LA Presentation 2017 Drew Silverstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQjIFVNsTwc

Is this time for lots of new interesting or dull music?

More videos on AI music:

Flow Machines: can machines help us to be more creative?

Tutorial: Collaborating with an AI Music Producer

Google A.I. just created music (CNET Update)

Daddy’s Car: a song composed by Artificial Intelligence – in the style of the Beatles

Computer-Generated Jazz Improvisation

DeepBach: harmonization in the style of Bach generated using deep learning

Mr Shadow: a song composed by Artificial Intelligence

Links to more information:

OK computer: When pop music meets machine learning

From Jingles to Pop Hits, A.I. Is Music to Some Ears

Musician Taryn Southern on composing her new album entirely with AI

Moog sounds come to define a generation of music, featuring heavily in songs by The Beatles, The Doors, Stevie Wonder, Kraftwerk and many others. Those sounds are still nearly 50 years later, regarded by many professional musicians as the epitome of an electronic instrument. In fact, as renewed interest in these monolithic beasts continues to grow, Moog’s influence on modern music remains as profound as ever. So it is a good idea to take a look at Bob Moog’s Beautifully Intricate Drawings of Synth Circuits. You can find them at Bob Moog Foundation schematics section.

Few years ago Google made for Robert Moog’s 78th Birthday this interactive Moog synthetizer simulator on your browser. The sound is generated natively using the Web Audio API. This doodle also takes advantage of JavaScript,Closure libraries, CSS3 and tools like Google Web Fonts, the Google+ API, the Google URL Shortener and App Engine.

Related postings:

The 14 synthesizers that shaped modern music

Make music in your browser

The best part for all makers: Wintergatan documented the whole build process in an eight part video series.

Here is Korg littleBits Synth Kit video by Electronic Musician Magazine

It seems you can play DJ with material from YouTube in your web browser. I found an interesting service YouTubeMixer where you can be a DJ that mixes between audio from two YouTube music videos. You just select two music videos that you want and then use cross-fader to change between them like DJ.

Basically it works, but there are some limitations on this service. For example you can’t change the speeds of the music and you can’t listen different thing that gets played out, both features needed for good DJing. In this application to get the music in, you have to copy the URL of the much video you want to get loaded to your deck (you need to get the addresses from your own list or do searching on other browser window). Please note that this YouTubeMixer supports only only http:// links as music source, so if your video URL starts with https:// you need to change that part to http://. Anyways nice and worth to try.

This is not the only application that allows you to you mixing of YouTube music video. There is another service called YouTubeMixer at http://www.youtubemixer.net/. It has the same basic features that the first mixer program with somewhat nicer user interface where you can do music video searching in the same window and easily send the search results to you playback deck windows. This application also works well.

Now you have the tools to have your own party music played from your PC.

ACID MACHINE BETA is a in-browser tool (uses HTML5 “magic”) that emulates Roland’s TB-303 bass synthesizer with built-in sequencer. It brings the essence of building a bass, lead and drum sequence to you without the need to install any additional software! (works well on Firefox and Chrome) It allows you to easily make your own ACID house music as the well-known “acid” sound is typically produced by playing a repeating note pattern on the TB-303 (like in this classic track).

According to Make acid house in your browser with Acid Machine article Acid Machine is described by developers Errozero as a “work in progress”, but it’s already working better than a faulty TB-303 found on eBay. As well as featuring two of the famous bass synthesisers, Acid Machine also features a drum machine. Acid Machine is making the dream of writing acid house tracks in the office a reality. Play with it for few minutes and you have some interesting sounding results!

Want some more drum machines?  Emulate four classic drum machines in your browser article tells about HTML 5 Drum Machine Emulator  that that can emulate five different kits: Roland’s iconic TR-808 and TR-909, the Linndrum, Elektron’s Machinedrum and an acoustic drum kit. You can create multiple 16-step patterns, manipulate the pitch and volume of each individual drum sample and even save patterns for the next time you visit the page. Once you’ve laid down your beat, you can even export the whole thing as a WAV file.

Or do you want to try to play with hip hop samples? Turn your computer keyboard into an MPC and recreate hip hop beats from Dilla, Kanye and 9th Wonder  with interactive hip hop sampler Sample Stitch. Sample Stitch  lets you reinterpret, record and even share your creations to Facebook and Twitter.

Protracker module player for Web Audio is web browser based player for those MOD file format music files. It allows playing back those old classic MOD files (for example beyond_music by captain) in your web browser. It is built using modern web technologies: This is a Protracker module player implemented in JavaScript using the Web Audio API. Protracker module player for Web Audio is somewhat experimental, but works already on many browsers (tested on Chrome 14+, Firefox 24+ and Safari 6+ ). The Protracker module player for Web Audio page has many MOD files you can load in and play. Source code available in GitHub. Enjoy the old Amiga music on your modern computer web browser!

If you want to check other similar software, take a look ar ModplayerJS.

Are you interested in making music on your web browser? If this is the case, check SoundBox, Online Sequencer, Virtual Keyboard, Virtual Piano, Raindrop Symphony, Patap,  AudioSauna, and many other…

The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. Theremins are distinguished by the fact that they are played without the performer touching the instrument. The musician moves his or her hands in proximity to the theremin to control the tone of the sound. I was told that mastering the theremin requires skills and lots of practicing, but only a few instrument provide the unique visual appearance of performance. The sound is quite unique for that instrument. Even if you don’t know theremin by name, you might have heard the sound of it at The beach boys -good vibrations or on the sound offects of some old scifi/horror movies.

The electronics of the theremin consists of two high frequency oscillators connected to antennas. When the player moves hand near the antenna, that changes the frequency of the oscillators, and that changes the sound (frequency or amplitude depending on antenna). Here is a block diagram of theremin from www.thereminworld.com Fred Tells All article.

All DIY persons now interested in theremin instruments can also view Make a Theremin video and check ePanorama.net theremin links.