Pi Pico PIO Poly Tone MIDI “Pack”

This is a simple "pack" design for the Pi Pico PIO Poly Tone Keyboard providing 8-note tone-style polyphony with MIDI in functionality. 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 for the main concepts used … Continue reading Pi Pico PIO Poly Tone MIDI “Pack” →

Pi Pico PIO Poly Tone MIDI Keyboard

Following on from the Pi Pico PIO Poly Tone Keyboard here it is combined with one of the DIY MIDI Interfaces to give an eight note polyphonic MIDI tone module based on the Raspberry Pi Pico. In a follow-up post I develop a "pack" MIDI interface. https://youtu.be/uscUlgJ-NBk Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment … Continue reading Pi Pico PIO Poly Tone MIDI Keyboard →

Pi Pico PIO Poly Tone Keyboard

One of the obvious use-cases for the Raspberry Pi Pico's Peripheral I/O system (PIO) is in generating simple tones. Ben Everard from Hackspace Magazine did exactly that. You can read the full tutorial here or in Hackspace Magazine Issue 40. All the code for his PIOBeep.py can be found on GitHub here, and he leaves … Continue reading Pi Pico PIO Poly Tone Keyboard →