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Help identifying this pcb thats supposed to be a theremin?

I've not been able to find this, and I'm hopeful someone here can help shed some light?

u/emasies — 4 days ago
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Speakers attached to theremin stand pole?

Does anyone have a setup with small speaker(s) that are mounted to the pole of your theremin stands? I have a Moog Etherwave with a heavy round base microphone-type stand, and would like to keep all cords and hardware as simple and contained as possible.

I’m sure this will pain many of you to heat, but my theremin doesn’t get much use other than to hang tote bags and other instrument straps/harnesses as of now, and I attribute that to the hassle of setting up the speaker(s)/amp and plugging in the power cord when I move it away from its usual storage/display spot on my music room wall. I’m hoping if I can find a way to attach one or two very small speakers to the stand itself and manage the cables so that the audio is always plugged in and set, and the power cord is easily unwindable at the bottom, that it’ll be used more than just once every Halloween. No FX pedals or other audio treatments are necessary beyond what the instrument produces naturally.

Has anyone set something up like this? TIA!

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u/Lemonpug — 9 days ago
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I built a touchscreen instrument (works great on iPad) where you can glide entire chords theremin-style

I've been building a small web instrument called Puntone, and it's designed with touchscreens — iPad and similar tablets especially — in mind.

The core idea: most instruments make you choose between precise pitches (keyboard, frets) or continuous glide (theremin, fretless strings, pitch bend). Puntone tries to keep both — and the part I'm most excited about is that this works for full chords, not just single notes.

Instead of just bending one note theremin-style, you can glide an entire chord voicing into another with your finger — the whole chord slides as one continuous motion, like theremin-ing a chord shape instead of a single pitch. There's a dedicated chord-glide / dual-pad mode built around touch: one pad handles the root note's glide, the other morphs the voicing on top of it. It feels much more natural on a touchscreen than with a mouse.

Other things it does:

  • Runs entirely in the browser (Web Audio API) — no install, no account
  • Single-note mode also has full-time portamento (the "one-note theremin" experience), playable with a PC keyboard too if you don't have a tablet
  • Adjustable glide time / decay in a settings panel
  • Built-in recording, so you can layer takes
  • No ads, no signup wall

It's a solo project and still evolving. I'd love feedback from people who actually write chord progressions — does gliding a whole chord feel musically useful, or does it read as gimmicky? That's the thing I most want to know.

Try it here: https://puntone-synth.pages.dev/

(Best on a tablet like iPad — touch is the primary input. Also works with Chrome/Edge on desktop via keyboard.)

u/LowFaithlessness426 — 11 days ago