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| Participants | Dennis |
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| Status | Planning |
| Niche | Electronics |
| Purpose | Use in other project |
| Tool | No |
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What
I've got some Arduino Pro Mini's and some DIN5 connectors from Adafruit, so let's do something with it. Yay MIDI \o/. Some ideas:
MIDI enabled synth
MIDI in
Read the notes that are being transmitted from a keyboard or sequencer. Information about velocity and pitch bend would also be nice.
Sound output
Multiple possibilities here:
Arduino as synth
The Arduino is capable of producing sound on its own, so write/borrow some code and connect a jack connector to the Arduino and we're done.
Driving the Korg Monotron
I own a Korg Monotron and supposedly they are very easy to modify. It would be awesome to be able to play it with a decent keyboard.
Drive a sound chip
555
- Datasheet: http://www.alldatasheet.net/datasheet-pdf/pdf/161277/TI/NE555P.html
- Example synth: http://blog.makezine.com/2008/12/16/simple-diy-555-synth/
Yamaha OPL2 / OPL3
MIDI player / sequencer
Start with implementing MIDI out and go from there.
Opto-isolation
It is good practice and part of the MIDI spec to use opto-isolation (for MIDI in only?). I've seen examples without it, but I'm not taking any chances when it comes to connecting to other MIDI hardware. I've found a dual channel HCPL-2630 optocoupler which seems suitable.
