This is a bit of an odd one, but I was asked to put something musically related together as a game to get in the spirit of the season, so I thought something along the lines of an Arduino adjustable tone generator with the aim being the player has to tune it by ear to … Continue reading Arduino Guess the Frequency Game
Category: Arduino Tone
XIAO SAMD21, Arduino and MIDI
I've had a few Seeedstudio XIAO SAMD21 boards (previously known as the Seeeduino XIAO) for a while but haven't really done much with them. I had a brief go with Circuitpython to build a CircuitPython USB to Serial MIDI Router but that is all so far. Having been inspired by a recent post on the … Continue reading XIAO SAMD21, Arduino and MIDI
Arduino “Make Your Uno” Synth – 5 – MIDI IN
Having now tried a number of stand-alone projects, I thought it was time to get the Synth Shield hooked up to something else. And for music, that means MIDI! This project looks at building and using a serial ("traditional") MIDI IN circuit for the Synth Shield. The full index of projects and my personal build … Continue reading Arduino “Make Your Uno” Synth – 5 – MIDI IN
Arduino “Make Your Uno” Synth – 3 – Adding GPIO
As you might have read, one of the main criticisms I had with the Synth Shield was that it didn't include an obvious way to get access to the unused GPIO pins on the Arduino. This is a great oversight in my view as the whole point of using Arduino is its hardware interfacing opportunities! … Continue reading Arduino “Make Your Uno” Synth – 3 – Adding GPIO
Arduino “Make Your Uno” Synth – 1 – Simple Tones
Having now built my synth board, I'm going to start to talk about some of the projects that I can do with it. The full index of projects and my personal build notes can be found here: Arduino “Make Your Uno” Synth. This post contains the following experiments: Controlling the frequency of a tone with a … Continue reading Arduino “Make Your Uno” Synth – 1 – Simple Tones
Arduino “Make Your Uno” Synth
As soon as I saw the Arduino "Make Your Uno" kit with the Synth Shield I wanted to get one and have a go. Unfortunately it wasn't available in the UK straight away and postage from overseas was pretty high on an already pretty high price, so I waited. But as soon as I saw … Continue reading Arduino “Make Your Uno” Synth
Arduino Tones – A New, New Hope
Having just completed my Arduino Nano Multi-tone or PWM PCB Build Guide I wanted an example application. So I went back to my Arduino Tone One Year On! project which was designed to do something interesting with my very first projects in celebration of one year of my blog! At the time, I wrote: "Note it should … Continue reading Arduino Tones – A New, New Hope
Arduino Nano Multi-tone or PWM PCB
My latest Lo-Fi Orchestra piece is calling out for more brass and woodwind, so I'm thinking about ways to expand the setup. One thing I always wanted to improve on is the banks of Arduino Nanos I'm currently using for brass and strings. This PCB design will hopefully provide a much neater solution to my … Continue reading Arduino Nano Multi-tone or PWM PCB
Arduino Touch Music – Revisited
This is a short demonstration of different ways to use my Touch Keyboard PCB, revisiting the following previous projects: Arduino MIDI Touch Piano Simple Arduino Music Keyboard Arduino MPR121 Touch Piano https://youtu.be/dc5dEkdLkxY Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! This … Continue reading Arduino Touch Music – Revisited
An Even Tempered Pico
I was having a bit of a discussion about tuning and temperament in music with Midi_in_out on Twitter, after they posted the latest update to their MIDISID project and we got on to talking about polyphony. I know the general theory behind natural harmonics vs the compromise that is the even tempered scale we use … Continue reading An Even Tempered Pico