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 Blog Articles:
This week (03.08.2010 - 10.08.2010)11.08.2010 12:06:06
Every week, a quick writeup of what we were up to.
Wesen:
- lots of freelancing projects, with a good amount of technology that will slowly make its way into ruinwesen products
- ordered the next batch of minicommand pcbs
- got the components for building ruin's kits
- holding an arduino workshop next week at hardhack at froscon, register if you want to build an automated paper robot!
- lots of work learning illustrator and illustration. i still suck, but i think the next designs for documentation and packaging will be sm00th
Ruin:
- Finished schematics for the biosc for wesen to build
see you next week!
This week (27.07.2010 - 02.08.2010) at Ruin & Wesen02.08.2010 13:39:51
Every week, a quick writeup of what we were up to.
Wesen:
- Freelance projects, freelance projects, to fund the next batch of MiniCommands. Keywords: ARM, USB, HID, Node.js, HTML/CSS, DMX, MIDI. Lots to blog about, regarding the technical points.
- Finished my portfolio website, which I need to put online. Will feature blog posts about those technical points mentioned above, which are not directly related to ruinwesen.
- Next batch planning almost done, because all the MiniCommands are gone. Wait... there's still one in Australia, and 5 in the US to be got.
Ruin:
- Laying out the manual is coming together. Proofreading as well.
- Wesen is playing test-lemming on building the first ones.
see you next week!
This week (20.07.2010 - 26.07.2010) at Ruin and Wesen28.07.2010 13:06:21
Every week, a quick writeup of what we were up to.
Wesen:
- polishing up portfolio website
- starting work on ruin and wesen website redesign (wait for it!)
- shipping out the last few minicommands of the batch, still 5 left in the US, and one in australia
- doing a crazy amount of freelancing to fund the next batch, crazy technologies, crazy code, more about this once it's all over. This explains why the wiki and website are a bit still at the moment.
see you next week!
This week (12.07.2010 - 19.07.2010) at Ruin and Wesen21.07.2010 11:38:22
Every week, a quick writeup of what we were up to.
Wesen:
- Added lots of drawings and starting to add text to the MIDI-CTRL wiki.
- Built a processing + MiniCommand + FnordLicht visual installation for ioactive, which is going to be playing during the IOactive freakshow party at Defcon in Las Vegas next week. Writeup will come after the party, explaining all the crazy magic behind it.
- Building some DMX devices for another project
- And of course, day to day business.
see you next week!
This week (05.07.2010 - 11.07.2010) at Ruin and Wesen12.07.2010 11:31:23
Every week, a quick writeup of what we were up to.
Wesen:
- check out this machinedrum disassembly
- midi-ctrl 0017 built on linux: instructions
- added text and graphics graphs for the midi-ctrl documentation: modules, GUI, MIDI, Encoder, GUI, Page, Sketch, MidiUart, Sysex, IO. More to come soon!
- working on a DMX side-project
Ruin:
- biosc cover is taking shape!
see you next week!
