Arduino Music and Audio Projects

CHAPTER 7

The DunoCaster

This chapter covers

• Creating a MIDI guitar

• Emulating the behaviour of the six strings

• Using I2C port expanders

• Creating touch sensors

• Using cool hidden LED construction techniques

• Using continuous rotation encoders

So far you have looked at the MIDI system and its messages. You have manipulated a MIDI stream to produce some fantastic effects and looked at simple instruments and controllers. In the last chapter, the project was a lot larger, producing a MIDI sound module that played a real harp. Now it is time to look at making a complex instrument, the DunoCaster. This is basically a MIDI instrument with the sensibility ...