Inspired by the legendary Tomita, the Lo-Fi Orchestra presentation of Gustav Holst's Planets Suite is now complete. The original Lo-Fi Orchestra project started off as an attempt to bring a range of my "Simple DIY Electronic Music Projects" together to "perform" a single piece. After a number of initial performances, I decided to take the … Continue reading The Complete Lo-Fi Planets
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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
Arduino Analog Keypad Mozzi Synth
Back when I was messing about with LDRs I made the comment that there are many different kinds of sensors you could use to replace potentiometers in a synth. Having now had a play with analog keypads, I thought they'd be a fun thing to try. The conclusion - it works, but I'm still deciding … Continue reading Arduino Analog Keypad Mozzi Synth
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++
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
Arduino Mozzi Sample Drum Sequencer
This project combines the Arduino Mozzi Sample Drum Machine with the code from the Arduino VS1003 Drum Machine and the buttons from the Analog Keypad Tone Controller. https://youtu.be/e_hVGe0Z_mE Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! These are the key Arduino tutorials … Continue reading Arduino Mozzi Sample Drum Sequencer
Arduino Mozzi Sample Drum Machine
There is still a lot to explore with the Mozzi synthesis library, so today I wanted to look at the "sample" options - getting the library to play pre-recording samples of sounds. https://youtu.be/eB7vzF_4zxY Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive … Continue reading Arduino Mozzi Sample Drum Machine
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
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
Lo-Fi Orchestra – Saturn from The Planets
Inspired by the legendary Tomita, the Lo-Fi Orchestra presents Saturn from Gustav Holst's Planets Suite. This is using the same Lo-Fi Orchestra setup as Jupiter, which is detailed in full here. There is a lot of dynamic nuance in the original, but unfortunately the Lo-Fi Orchestra doesn't really do nuance, it is mostly "on" or … Continue reading Lo-Fi Orchestra – Saturn from The Planets
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