E-Ther: Unboxing & Demo (MIDI Theremin) 

First heard a Theremin on Big Bang Therory when Sheldon played the Star Trek theme with it. Cool controller. I like the way it is designed to easily add the Pi board. Great demo Kale.

5:10 all the local whales went crazy.... I can't tell you how thrilling it is to see your reaction to this. You have a few things yet to discover - eg the range wheel. Also note that the vertical control is also a distance sensor, so you can use it for the volume of the note, or a 'soft entry' as well as just triggering (depending on your host. In Logic, expression messages usually control the volume - where it makes sense, eg woodwind and brass). The jumper underneath controls whether that control sends expression or modwheel messages, so there are a lot of different things that you can do with that left-hand control. Thank you so much for this Kale and I can't wait to see what ideas you have for using it in music.

great vid.I,m in the uk and like Hobbycraft they make cool stuff too.thanx for upload

Neat you. I imagine I could waste a lot of time playing with it. 😁

That thing is pretty wild. Ha ha I don’t know if I ever told you I wear hearing aides (all the loud concerts I went to as a youth) anyway one of those tones nearly did me in ha ha. But I does sound like a theramin. You always find the “coolest” instruments.

Cool that whilst wearing a Nostromo shirt you finagled with a doo-hickey that produced sounds that one would hear on the ship itself!!!😎😎😎😎😎🤘

Can you do the Star Trek theme with it, yet? Rolling on floor with laughter... very cool The choir sounded cool. Strings not so much. The pipe organ sounded like an a alien whale singing. What else can we plug it into

Sorry, but I disagree that it's "well worth the money". Of course, it's useful as a MIDI controller, but it appears that the volume level (unlike a proper theremin) cannot be varied, only "switched" on & off with your left hand. Plus you need to spend extra money just to get an audio output, via the Pimoroni sound module. Something like the Open Theremin (DIY or ready-made) is much better.

I think for beginners, it might be good to figure out the distances to the individual notes and put them on a ruler of some sort, at least til one gets good enough to consistently get the same notes. I don't know if a fretboard would be a good template... But a strip of acrylic with the notes etched or sharpied on would work... Theremin was an unsual fellow.... he disappeared in 1938, but his (lover? she's not listed as a wife) Clara Rockmore continued performing and became a virtuoso on the instrument. There's a biography on them. Or you can look at the wikipedia entry for Leon Theremin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Theremin