[LAU] Open Source MIDI control surface

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Ken Restivo at 2008-11-28 08:32...
> It's so simple to make one with an Arduino, and a lot of code for surfaces that others have made is open source.

That could certainly be done - if you only wanted an 8-knob surface, the 
ADC is already on-chip.  I briefly toyed with the idea of using an 
AT90S8535 (or the ATMEGA version), using the onboard ADC, but decided 
that I wanted more knobs, so went for the external ADC.

But yes, for the Arduino, just add pots and MIDI interface.

Not sure what the performance of a device like this would be though, 
when you have an extra level of language involved.  Personally, I like 
to stick to C when dealing with microcontrollers (and for the real 
masochists, there's always assembly ;-))

Cheers

M

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