Open source music hardware projects
This list of open source music hardware projects includes brands or projects relative to electro-music where schematics and firmaware are open-source. However it also includes projects which are not fully open source hardware as defined by the Open Source Hardware Association.
Audio equipment
Amplifiers
- AX84, a variety of music electronics projects.
Mixers
- Aurora, music mixer for DJ's
Electronic music
Controllers
- Monome
- O0SCC – controller that communicates via the open sound control protocol.
- Open Pipe
- OpenPipe
- Vectr 3D Sensing Controller
Enclosures
MIDI
- MIDIbox – The MIDIbox project is an open-source modular DIY hardware and software platform for MIDI devices like controllers, synthesizers, sequencers
- MIDIsense
Synthesizers and modules
- Adafruit Industries, has more than just the x0xb0x
- Barton Musical Circuits
- Bastl Instruments
- Befaco
- Circuit Abbey G8 clock divider
- Collidoscope
- deanm1278 on GitHub, various mostly Arduino
- DSO138 Oscilloscope Eurorack Mount
- eChanter
- Futur3soundz XFM2
- GMSN! (archived). See JoeEarlam/GMSNPure, an attempt to collate all GMSN's OS designs since it went offline.
- HackMe
- Hansy1010
- Lush Projects LushOne
- Mad Science Lab SSM1
- MeeBlip
- MiDispositivoMIDI
- Modular Synthesizer
- Music Thing Modular
- Mutable Instruments
- One Bit Groove Box
- Open-Modular.com, Open Source music design hardware and software
- Open NSynth Super
- OTTO - multi-track synth/sampler/sequencer/groovebox
- PreenFM2
- RealSIDShield, an Arduino shield to use a MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID to play .SID files.
- xnotox on GitHub
- Zoybar
- Zynthian
Sequencers
- Rebel Technology Stoicheia
- Lötklaus Pro – an Arduino based sequencer
Microcontroller based
Resources
- Adafruit Industries
- Zoybar social network
Tools & test equipment
- DSO Nano, a a pocket size digital storage oscilloscope.