Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI CC Controller – Part 2

This revisits my Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI CC Controller using my Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display PCB with a Waveshare RP2040 to create more of a "all in one" device. Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! If you … Continue reading Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI CC Controller – Part 2 →

Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI CC Controller

This takes my Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display and adds some potentiometers to turn it into a MIDI CC message controller. Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI CC Controller – Part 2 https://makertube.net/w/vz9RucdW1oi2XzAqPBa96g Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! If … Continue reading Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI CC Controller →

Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI Notes – Part 2

As I mentioned in Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI Notes I'm building a simple (in function, not in execution it would seem) MIDI note display out of my Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display. The first attempt showed there is potential, but I was rapidly reaching the limits of what an Arduino could do for me using … Continue reading Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI Notes – Part 2 →

Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI Notes

This is my first attempt at some kind of MIDI related visualisation for my Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display. I thought I'd start easy and simply map MIDI notes onto the segments and create a simple display. That turned out to be an awful lot more involved than I imagined... In fact, this is quite sub-optimal … Continue reading Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI Notes →

Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display

If you're not familiar with The Forbidden Planet, then it is an iconic 1956 Sci-Fi movie with an absolutely ground-breaking soundtrack of "Electronic Tonalities" by Bebe and Louis Barron. In one scene, when the humans visit an alien (the "Krell") science lab there is a large set of display dials around the room that logarithmically … Continue reading Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display →