User:Rob Kam/sandbox1/Talk:Arduino
- https://www.notesandvolts.com/2014/07/build-auduino-granular-synth-part-1.html
- https://www.notesandvolts.com/2014/11/midi-and-arduino-circuit-analysis.html Midi for the Arduino - Circuit Analysis
- https://web.archive.org/web/20141005065603/http://earthshineelectronics.com/products/deluxe-arduino-starter-kit Arduino Starter Kit - Earthshine Electronics
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150202070727/http://math.hws.edu/vaughn/cpsc/226/docs/askmanual.pdf math.hws.edu-vaughn-cpsc-226-docs-askmanual.pdf
- http://www.standuino.eu/ Standuino
- http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=438053#438053
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190820085435/https://nathan.chantrell.net/20110819/build-your-own-arduino-for-under-10/ Build your own Arduino for under £10
- Tayda: Arduino Nano v3 clone
Hi Lena.
My personal start 2 years ago was an Arduino microcontroller to output a square wave using the tone() function.
If you go that route, the book "Arduino for Musicians" by Brent Edstrom was useful.
The first filter I built was this:
http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-45231.html
It works surprisingly well for something so simple, and is happy on either the single 9V shown or +/-12V dual rail.
I use perfboard with single plated-through holes and make wire connections between every component.
Here's an early example:
Have fun, whatever you do.
Al
-- Hi Lena,
one of my first modules was a MIDI interface, and these were the two most useful links:
Amanda Ghassaei’s https://www.instructables.com/id/Send-and-Receive-MIDI-with-Arduino/
Larry McGovern’s https://github.com/elkayem/midi2cv
Sorry, I don’t know anything about MIDI control surfaces.
I find the MOD WHEEL control voltage useful to patch into whichever module might like it, but the rest of my synthesiser is all made of pots with real knobs on.
Al
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Hi Lena,
this is brilliant: you’re getting every possible answer to your original question.
Do you have access to any sort of MIDI keyboard?
You might like to look at this:
https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-Arduino-sound-synthesizer-with-MIDI/
That could be a good intro to following a circuit, soldering, working with Arduino and generally bodging things together to make a noise.
In fact I was inspired this week by your original message to add MIDI input to a module I built two years ago, and the code from that instructable sounds quite sweet.
This is a safer MIDI circuit, you don’t want to fry a borrowed keyboard:
If you don’t want to build an amplifier you can connect to an audio input like this:
https://sensorium.github.io/Mozzi/learn/output/
Al
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Hi Lena,
one of my first modules was a MIDI interface, and these were the two most useful links:
Amanda Ghassaei’s https://www.instructables.com/id/Send-and-Receive-MIDI-with-Arduino/
Larry McGovern’s https://github.com/elkayem/midi2cv
Sorry, I don’t know anything about MIDI control surfaces.
I find the MOD WHEEL control voltage useful to patch into whichever module might like it, but the rest of my synthesiser is all made of pots with real knobs on.
Al
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