Lo-Fi Orchestra – Neptune from The Planets

Inspired by the legendary Tomita, the Lo-Fi Orchestra presents the final piece, Neptune, from Gustav Holst's Planets Suite. This features the Adafruit Feather MIDI, Music and LEDs on the celesta, the Arduino MIDI VS1053 Synth as the 'harp', and the Raspberry Pi, Clumsy MIDI and MT32-Pi using the Fluidsynth soundscape as the voices. This has been programmed … Continue reading Lo-Fi Orchestra – Neptune from The Planets →

Universal Synthesizer Panel – Helios One++

The next Arduino synthesizer I've been wanting to try out, so will get the Universal Synthesizer Panel treatment, is the Helios One Synthesizer by "Blog Hoskings" (Gary White), who has provided a very comprehensive build guide as well as details into how the code works. Once again it is based on Mozzi and this is … Continue reading Universal Synthesizer Panel – Helios One++ →

Universal Synthesizer Panel – Auduino++

One of the reasons for creating my Universal Synthesizer Panel is to port over a range of different microcontroller based synthesizer engines to allow me to play with them without having to worry about building hardware. In this post I return to my Auduino MIDI Granular Synthesis and add a few more features. https://youtu.be/XZ8dcSQfuus Warning! I strongly … Continue reading Universal Synthesizer Panel – Auduino++ →

Lo-Fi Orchestra – Uranus from The Planets

Inspired by the legendary Tomita, the Lo-Fi Orchestra presents Uranus from Gustav Holst's Planets Suite. This is using the same Lo-Fi Orchestra setup as Jupiter, which is detailed in full here, but you can listen out for the MT32-Pi on timpani once again, the Adafruit feather on xylophone, and heavy use of the PWM and … Continue reading Lo-Fi Orchestra – Uranus from The Planets →

Lo-Fi Orchestra – Dance of the Knights

The Lo-Fi Orchestra presents the Dance of the Knights (also known as "Montagues and Capulets") from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet. Some of this was taken from the MIDI file sequenced by George Pollen. https://youtu.be/BvLWuo4fulY All music rights and copyright with original authors, composers, producers, artists, and so on. Kevin

Lo-Fi Orchestra – Thunderbirds

The Lo-Fi Orchestra presents Barry Gray's march used as the main theme for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Thunderbirds. The opening features my Raspberry Pi, Clumsy MIDI and MT32-Pi on timpani and borrows heavily from a MIDI file that I've not been able to find any credits for I'm afraid. https://youtu.be/53PtHxF9Q1Y All music rights and copyright … Continue reading Lo-Fi Orchestra – Thunderbirds →

Lo-Fi Orchestra – Baba Yaga, Great Gate of Kiev

The Lo-Fi Orchestra presents the final two movements from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition: Baba Yaga - "The Hut on Fowls Legs" - and The Great Gate of Kiev. I used the first few bars from the opening Promenade in my introduction to the Lo-Fi Orchestra, highlighting the brass section provided by the Arduino Multi MIDI … Continue reading Lo-Fi Orchestra – Baba Yaga, Great Gate of Kiev →

Lo-Fi Orchestra – Mr Blue Sky

The Lo-Fi Orchestra presents the Electric Light Orchestra's Mr Blue Sky. The (simplified) guitar solo is performed by the Arduino MIDI VS1003 or VS1053 Synth supported by the Arduino Multi Mozzi String Synth section. https://youtu.be/3Q-W2401jYo All music rights and copyright with original authors, composers, producers, artists, and so on. Kevin

Lo-Fi Orchestra – Serenade

The Lo-Fi Orchestra presents Derek Bourgeois wonderfully quirky Serenade. Who doesn't love a piece of music with a stylistic direction of "piacevole" in time signatures of 11/8, 13/8, an occasional 7/8 and finishing with a bar of 3/8. This piece features the Arduino PWM MIDI Synthesis with Mozzi and the Arduino MIDI R2R Digital Audio with a … Continue reading Lo-Fi Orchestra – Serenade →

Universal Synthesizer Panel – Part 6

This is the last part (for now) in a series of posts describing how I've approached building a "universal synthesizer panel" to house a range of microcontroller synthesis projects. In the first part, I detailed the general idea and overall design of the panel. In part 2 I built the IO panel. In part 3 … Continue reading Universal Synthesizer Panel – Part 6 →