comp music with pic Sounds - Aka BeepMaster

[Dennis]

Hi Flipper

WOW this really is something !

You know anyone could (with some tweaking to a Jean Michel Jarre with a PIC !

Combine your PIC code with something Skimask was busy on [HTML]http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=5407&highlight=finger+touch[/HTML] and maybe a few Led's and a laser pointer or two and whammo you have a hit !
In fact , interface your Windows proggie with a media player, feed it to the same sound source and you have an LED touch DJ panel with sound to light !

I will keep an eye out for it !

Many thanks

Kind regards
Dennis

[flipper_md]

agreed that possibilities are totally endless


I already hooked a frequency bargraph on my board right aside, since I needed a frequency analyser to catch the sounds emitted by the pic in the first place.


here is a newer Beta version, with Basic MIDI output, and some other tweak.
http://www.flipperdesign.com/BeepMaster_midi.rar

watch out, it could be pretty loud and there no volume control
But i do like the midi sounds...a bit more than the PC beeper LOL

[Dennis]

Hey Flipper

Awesome !!
Will give it a shot and feedback when I can :-)
Maybe a light organ ??
[HTML]http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=5407&highlight=finger+touch[/HTML]
.....Or touch-sensitive :-)
Think the light-organ would be something even more quite unique as an add-on or option for your code (or new code!)

Would love to try it out if ever you get to do it !

Dennis

[flipper_md]

Hi Dennis

I'm not too sure on how things would get hooked between light sensor/program/ and another pic making sound?, but if you can describe the loop I might check into it.

I would hope to add multitrack capability one day, or maybe easier and more powerfull, a plain Midi track importer/converter.
Then a whole bunch of 12f683 would share the data, singing along


here is a light organ, sort of

[HTML]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZEpP_zzaw[/HTML]

i've just added it into my program, as default sample track.

[flipper_md]

updated program recently, some added functions and checks.

and created a new utility to process midi files for import(work ok with clean tracks, ie no multi-tones as the pic can't do that)


more info in this web page:
http://www.flipperdesign.com/projects_beepmaster.html

[Glenn]

Very cool, except that I can't get it to work, if I press any key (on the little piano-keayboard) that has a decimal point I get the error message "xxx.xxx is not a valid floating point value"


I GUESS that this can be due to that the official floating point marker in Sweden is comma (,) and not a dot (.) (even if many people use a dot anyway).

Would it be possible to fix this bug ? probably by reading that info from windows in some way ? ..it's actually the first time I seen this problem.

[flipper_md]

thanks for reporting this error Glenn

I believe you have pinpoint the bug. my programming didn't checked for coma or point separator.
Now it will update the frequency list at startup, after checking system settings.
(a message will appear in the application title area)

please redownload BeepMaster_midi.rar and let me know.