[sdiy] Getting Started with DIY Synths

[ShedSynth]

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

 

 

From: Lena Kolb <lenakolb2204 at gmail.com> 
Sent: 13 March 2020 13:19
To: ShedSynth <shedsynth at gmail.com>
Cc: synth-diy at synth-diy.org DIY <Synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Getting Started with DIY Synths

 

Yeah, i have a midi keyboard. But midi is quite a good idea. I may take a look at a midi controller with faders. Like a mixer controller. Do you have some links for that 

 

ShedSynth <shedsynth at gmail.com <mailto:shedsynth at gmail.com> > schrieb am Fr., 13. März 2020, 10:50:

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:

https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/56279/how-do-i-properly-receive-midi-with-arduino-with-6n138

 

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

 

 

From: Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org <mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org> > On Behalf Of Lena Kolb
Sent: 12 March 2020 22:00
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Subject: Re: [sdiy] Getting Started with DIY Synths

 

I'm open to anything. But a complete synth would be pretty sexy 

 

MTG <grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com <mailto:grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com> > schrieb am Do., 12. März 2020, 20:20:

Did the OP mention modular?  I don't remember seeing that.  It might be 
more gratifying to start out with a simple "complete" synth.
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