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

Lo-Fi Orchestra – Jupiter from The Planets

Inspired by the legendary Tomita, the Lo-Fi Orchestra presents Jupiter from Gustav Holst's Planets Suite. There are 11 Arduino Nanos, 6 Arduino Unos, 1 Arduino Pro Mini, 1 Adafruit Feather 32u4, and a Raspberry Pi using the following projects from this site: On brass: Arduino Multi MIDI Tone Module. On high wind: Arduino MIDI R2R Digital Audio … Continue reading Lo-Fi Orchestra – Jupiter from The Planets

Lo-Fi Orchestra – Mercury from The Planets

Inspired by the legendary Tomita, the Lo-Fi Orchestra presents Mercury from Gustav Holst's Planets Suite. This video features the Arduino Multi Mozzi String Synth quite heavily with the Arduino PWM MIDI Synthesis with Mozzi for most of the quadruplet runs in the flutes.  The Arduino MIDI VS1053 Synth gives us the harp and the Adafruit Feather MIDI, Music and … Continue reading Lo-Fi Orchestra – Mercury from The Planets

Lo-Fi Orchestra – Venus from The Planets

Inspired by the legendary Tomita, the Lo-Fi Orchestra presents Venus from Gustav Holst's Planets Suite. This features the Arduino MIDI R2R Digital Audio for the soft opening and the Arduino MIDI VS1053 Synth with a guitar sound as the "harp" and later the celeste.  This performance really starts to show the limitations of the Lo-Fi approach to … Continue reading Lo-Fi Orchestra – Venus from The Planets

Introducing the Arduino Lo-Fi Orchestra!

I've been wanting to do something that combined a number of these projects for a while, so in celebration of reaching (and now surpassing) 50 project posts (update: now over 100 - I celebrated with canons!), I am pleased to introduce the Arduino Lo-Fi Orchestra! Click here is the full list of Lo-Fi Orchestra performances … Continue reading Introducing the Arduino Lo-Fi Orchestra!

Arduino MIDI R2R Digital Audio

With all the excitement of experimenting with Mozzi, I never really finished my R2R digital audio series.  This final part adds MIDI to the R2R shield I built in Arduino R2R Digital Audio – Part 3. https://youtu.be/i6Y9QiTxTeQ Warning! I strongly recommend using an old or second hand keyboard for your MIDI experiments.  I am not responsible for … Continue reading Arduino MIDI R2R Digital Audio

Arduino R2R Digital Audio – Part 3

So this is where we start to get closer to some proper direct digital synthesis using the hardware developed in part 1 and moving on from the timer-driven code developed in part 2. In Arduino MIDI R2R Digital Audio I add MIDI. In Arduino PWM Sound Output I talk more about the theory of PWM. https://youtu.be/1MPNHMQ-2vs The … Continue reading Arduino R2R Digital Audio – Part 3

Arduino R2R Digital Audio – Part 2

Building on the Arduino R2R Digital Audio project, this uses the Arduino Timer functions to run our code in a more accurate and useful way.  I've now also added some potentiometers to my shield and a jack output socket. In Arduino R2R Digital Audio - Part 3 the code is developed further to support wavetable synthesis. In Arduino … Continue reading Arduino R2R Digital Audio – Part 2