So this follows on from the first part and adds MIDI, some buttons to control the keyboard and gives it a voice of its own. https://youtu.be/NUaCPR0LRTM 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 are new to microcontrollers, … Continue reading Yet Another Toy Keyboard USB MIDI Controller – Part 2
In this second part of my Simple MIDI Serial Monitor I show how to use MIDI callbacks to handle the data and show how an independent serial interface could be used as the diagnostic port, thus allowing the hardware serial port to be used with MIDI. Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment … Continue reading Simple MIDI Serial Monitor – Part 2
This blog is full of MIDI projects, but I've just realised that I've never really done a "MIDI Data Dumper" type project, so building on my Simple MIDI Monitor and using the many MIDI transport options from Arduino Multi MIDI Merge, here is a serial MIDI data dumper. In Part 2 I show how to do the … Continue reading Simple MIDI Serial Monitor
Ok, I admit, there is a bit of a theme to some of my projects, but this keyboard that I found in a charity shop was such a dinky thing that I had to do Just One More (TM). Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not … Continue reading Yet Another Toy Keyboard USB MIDI Controller
Having built my adaptor into a small box, I've gone back to add a mode button so I can include all the different applications into a single sketch. This builds on the previous parts in this series. Part 1 - Understanding the telephone hardware and interfacing to an Arduino. Part 2 - Decoding the rotary … Continue reading Vintage Rotary Phone MIDI Controller – Part 7
There is an interesting video going around social media of someone playing a simple drum beat at 120bpm, 119bpm and 121bpm and you can hear the rhythms going in and out of phase, so I thought it perhaps time to update my Arduino Mux Slider Phased Relays to actually play a rhythm. https://youtu.be/hpoJ7eNfn_8 Warning! I … Continue reading Arduino Slider Phased Rhythms
The other application I wanted for my Arduino USB MIDI Mux Step Sequencer is as a general purpose MIDI controller. In this case with 16 potentiometers mapped to MIDI CC messages. This is building on the following previous projects: Arduino USB MIDI Mux Step Sequencer Arduino and USB MIDI “Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi Synth – Part … Continue reading Arduino USB MIDI Mux Pot Controller
This post revisits an older project - the Arduino MIDI Mux Step Sequencer. Or more specifically, part 2 of that project that used an off-the-shelf 16-potentiometer shield for an Arduino Uno. Except this time, I've paired it with the "upgrade" to my Arduino Uno to make it USB MIDI compliant. https://youtu.be/amagp7ANns4 Warning! I strongly recommend using … Continue reading Arduino USB MIDI Mux Step Sequencer
I've been dabbling for a while with USB MIDI on an Arduino, but I've never really walked through all the options available or pulled together in a single place all the projects I have, so this post looks at all that in a bit more detail. Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand … Continue reading Arduino and USB MIDI
I wanted to revisit my "Bare Metal" Raspberry Pi Synth as I only really just got started. But having left it some five months since last having a look, I had a bit of updating to do! But then this post describes how I built and tried out the "minisynth" application from Rene Stange (rsta2) … Continue reading “Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi Synth – Part 4
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