new sequencer

Ha!

Do you remember? Last time I thought my webcams ability to listen had died? apparently it didn't! Apparently I hadn't installed VLC yet (on my new desktop) and so Windows Media Player was at a loss when playing the movie and I thought the speaker had past away. But today I tried it with my laptop, which has a build in microphone. I thought that I could still make a video with sound using that microphone, but it wasn't needed, the webcam made an awesome attempt at recording the delicious sounds created by my Arduino!, so all is well :)

So first my original video that I made last week but didn't upload, because I thought it didn't have any juicy tribulations on it. (Thanks LCD Soundsystem for putting tribulations in my head...):

Sequencer working better from FrankBorsboom on Vimeo.

You can hear that it reacts kind of good (although the buttons don't always work so well). And it is nice to play with different tones which make the sequences instantly ten times cooler.

The second video has an addition! the Pot meter is connected and now makes the sounds even more fruity as all the tones can be made higher. And it registers it per program run so you'll hear a (somewhat) smooth increase in tone :). Lets hear:

Sequencer with tone difference from FrankBorsboom on Vimeo.

So this is all nice an stuff, I now wanted to see if i can make something like a cool sequencer like the tone matrix by Andre Michelle or some sort of drum computer. Of course I can´t operate something like 16 LEDS and also register 16 buttons, yet. So now I used 2 LED and 3 buttons:

The red LED lights up at the beginning and half of the runtime (being the time that is sequenced) and the green LED lights up every second 16th of that runtime. So this is to show when a sound is made and when some button press is registered.

This also means that per sequence only 16 tones can be generated and registered. Which is something i'm not really content with, I think.

anyway, without further ado (is this a word?) I present you the new sequencer:

New kind of Sequences from FrankBorsboom on Vimeo.

One good thing about this is that de broken buttons don't stutter anymore... but it also sound a bit more ... 'sluggish' i think. I probably need to work on it a bit. And maybe add a PotMeter? :)

I'm kind of seeing how fun it is to make some kind of musical instrument :). Although the sounds aren't great yet, it is fun to learn to program this way.

I came across this thing call a "Kraakdoos" I think it is cracklebox in English. Which sounds really weird, but I think I will try to make one... someday. Because it seems fun to me to build an instrument that doesn't need an Arduino to build its sounds, but does so by electronic processes. Maybe later I can use Arduino to process those sounds and make even cooler things with this :)

Also I'm still planning to do something cool with the toys/monsters :).

see you around!

frank