Ruin & Wesen
Welcome to Ruin & Wesen! We are a small but growing company creating digital and analog musical instruments. We build high-quality handmade MIDI controllers, sequencers, analog and digital synthesizers, drum machines and custom creations. We believe that creativity is best served by mixing the analog and the digital worlds. Analog for its humanity, its vivid sonic richness, its hands-on approach. Digital for the ease of use, the reproducibility, its beautiful algorithmic depth and its ease of programming. For us, customization and flexibility is key. This is why our products are DIY compatible, and come with extensible source code, software, schematics and documentation. Because it is YOUR instrument and YOUR music.
Latest News:
Ruin Wesen Support Forums Online23.06.2009 13:27:26
The Ruin & Wesen Support Forums are now online at forum.ruinwesen.com. It's the place to post all your firmware requests, support questions, suggestions and just plain RW general talk, we'll try to answer as best as we can. Stay tuned for a few discussion threads detailing what we have in mind for the future of MiniCommand and MidiDuino development.
MidiDuino Library for Arduino 17.06.2009 03:20:11
I am very proud to announce the first release of the MidiDuino library for Arduino. MidiDuino is a library for sending, receiving and synchronizing over MIDI. It's the result of a lot of hard work. It supports running status, all common MIDI messages, callbacks for parsing MIDI streams, Sysex messages, and has very tight PLL for generating MIDI synchronization (either generating an internal clock, or synchronizing to an external clock).
The MidiDuino library is basically all the MIDI functionality of the MiniCommand made available for the Arduino (with a few limitations). It comes with a nice PDF manual with a small walkthrough tutorial, and some schematics for interfacing your Arduino to MIDI.
Enjoy, and get your MidiDuino here: MidiDuino page. Don't forget to check out the FAQ.
Ruin - Happy Drone Day17.06.2009 03:20:11
Happy Drone Day is a minimal rhythmic drone album recorded in 2008. The recording process served as an exorcism for a rough period. Atmosphere is thick on the album; sounds of slow decay and rusting textures. A perfect listen for napping, zoning out, concentration, traversing a barren wasteland, etc. Enjoy!
Happy Drone Day was released as the first ever release on the bitkins netlabel, you can either get a digital download on the bitkins website, or order a physical copy from kunaki. Don't forget to check the other releases on bitkins, they are teh awsum!
Wesen - Zwiebel EP17.06.2009 03:20:11
I'm super proud to announce my first release, called ZWIEBEL EP, a 3" CD limited to 100 + digital release on rednetic records, in a series of minimal techno EPs. Get it over at rednetic, click here to get to the shop. Read more on our blog!
Also mixed into a wonderfully lush and deep set by Martin Schulte that you can get for free on the rednetic website. Been listening to this on loop for the past few days!
Synevo VST by Ruin17.06.2009 03:20:11
We just released the second wicked crazy modulated random percussion synth called Synevo by Ruin, for more tasty crunchy psycho drums. Check it out on our blog!
