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hello! ad hoc test here.
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Hey Sean, loved your post on your guitorgan arduino project. I just watched Sammy G aka Samurai Guitarist video on the MCI-300 and found your Tumblr post after some googling. That’s an awesome set up. Have you played on it at all recently? Is the instrument featured on any of your band camp albums?
The original synthesized sounds on Sammy G’s video have a nice retro feel to them. I wonder how difficult it would be to emulate using the arduino sound generator module.
I made some Arduino instruments in undergrad and want to get back into it.
Thanks for sharing your project and inspiring me to build more.-
Tony, wow, thanks! I do play it as a guitar from time to time, but unfortunately I haven’t messed with the organ side in a while, mostly because the PureData (PD) patch I created to convert serial to MIDI used some non-vanilla modules and I didn’t know too much about project management at the time, so I’ve lost some code dependencies on that over the years, and I’ll need to do a little work to get it running again. That probably could be an interesting project come to think of it; to update that serial interface to something more modern/portable. I also have been focusing more on raspberry pi and RF projects lately, and it would be kind of neat to just have a pi reading the GPIO and, idk, sending OSC or MIDI or similar wirelessly and with low latency. Just thinking out loud.
I do not have anything “decent” recorded with it, mostly because I was generally having a tricky time with all my loose wiring, the inherent goofy note keying, and just lots of moving parts, so to speak. It made for an all around uncomfortable playing experience for me to be honest, plus the fact that if you played just off the fret a tiny bit, you’d hear the lower tone just before the intended tone, like a tiny grace note. It was tricky to get used to. But I’ve always thought that if I could tidy it up it and practice with it comfortably for awhile, it would make for a fun way to interact with soft synths and add layers to my guitar playing.
As far as using arduino for sound generation, I don’t know much about that, but that could also be a very cool way to make the whole user experience more fun and engaging, rather than feeling “tied to” a computer for synthesis. This reminds me, though, that I used some “clean up” code in PD to take care of string keying doubling issues that the original guitorgan’s logic circuitry took care of. All this to say that there were a lot of little problems to solve with my original mod that would need to be redone to get this project updated and working, but I think that’s part of the challenge and fun of it.
I will check out that video! Thanks for reaching out!
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