Combatdave’s technoblog

Finally got an ArduinoBoy built, and to celebrate, heres a video of it in action:

From the youtube vid description:

LSDJ is running in “master” mode, and is sending clock data out which the Arduino then sends over usb. This is then picked up by a little processing app which I wrote which acts as an interface between midi and usb using the RWMidi lib (which I had to hack a little).

The song is just something I wrote quickly. Three channels running in LSDJ (PU2, wav, and noise), then some drums and QuadraSID from Ableton Live.

Sorry the sound quality sucks

So there we have it! Maybe I’ll put something up showing how I made this if anyone is interested – the nicest thing about it is that it required no soldering whatsoever! The only piece of equipment I used to make this was a pair of small scissors to cut the link cable and strip the wires. Not that I’d recommend using scissors to strip wire, but I was impatient and it worked

Anyway, feel free to leave any comments or questions, and cheers to Trash80 for all the help!

Arduino Arduino, ArduinoBoy, Chiptune

So, you want to make an awesome chip cover of your favourite song, but you suck at picking out notes by ear, oh no! Luckily theres a few ways to “cheat”, such as by working from guitar tab or midi file.

That being said, just running the midi file through your vst of choice will likely sound like crap, as will copying straight from the guitar tab. That’s why I’ve decided to write this:

A beginners guide to cheating (pt 1)

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Music Chiptune, Music, tutorial

Uncategorized Chiptune, Gameboy Light, Music