Arduino Midi Wind Controller

Demo songs in the video in details.

Arduino midi wind controller.

When the button is pressed the value seen by the circuit changes to 5v without a resistor high. Basics of diy wind controllers. My blog about experimenting with arduino midi pd synthesizers and other music distractions. The arduino is programmed to be triggered by this signal s slope.

The arduino pin goes through the switch straight to ground low via a 10k ohm resistor. A little bit about midi midi musical instrument digital interface is a language protocol that allows different electronic musical devices such as samplers synthesizers effects etc. After this happens he requests the data and decodes it to know whether the note is valid or not and if it is he stores it and uses it to build the next midi packet. Sunday january 13 2013.

An arduino nano takes care of all this hardware and a 2 4 ghz radio module to communicate wirelessly to a base station. Connect this controller and any midi keyboard to your computer. Wind instrument arduino midi controller. Yamaha and akai have a series of wind controllers that emulate woodwind instruments and some smaller companies produce small quantities of instruments that emulate other types of.

Route the inputs in your favourite daw and open a breath controller compatible vst plugin such as swam s which simulate expressive and well articulated wind instruments combining the inputs from the keyboard and the breath controller. Once at the base station the midi data can be output to any number of. This means that you will be able to play more notes with minimum finger combinations compared to a normal wind instrument. By connecting the midi female pin 5 to the arduino digital pin 1 the midi female pin 2 to the gnd and the midi female pin 4 to a 220 ohm resistance which is connected to the arduino 5 v we can.