World’s SMALLEST MIDI Controller | Made with Teensy & Arduino

[@mobypixel]

I still want the K.O. II, and a Juno 106, and a DX7, and a... Thanks for watching! Links to everything in the description.

[@JakobHaq]

Great video! Nice touch with the Lego flowers 😍

[@mobypixel]

Thanks, Jakob! It’s a fun learning curve for sure. I’m really looking forward to seeing your modular stuff!

[@420unreal]

I love creator content that encourages us NOT to give into fomo and ever increasing Gear Acquisition Syndrome, great vid

[@mobypixel]

Thanks @420unreal!

[@sketchaudio]

The irony for me is that I started developing apps as a side hustle to help me pay for music gear, but now I just spend all my time coding! 😂😂😂

[@mobypixel]

Haha, that’s awesome! And now that you can make the sounds, you don’t need the gear.😄

[@frodjim]

This is really cool. Might give it a try. I am looking for a way to use inno fader as a midi controller. Actually, three inno faders sending midi cc values through usb. In a reddit post someone said it was easy to do it with Teensy.

[@mobypixel]

Yeah Teensy isn't the cheapest, but it might be the best. Some other good options would be Arduino Leonardo or Raspberry Pi Pico.

[@LiveLoopers]

This is just the way way coolest. That teensy solo at the end should go in the book of records prossibly. The piece of gear I have desired for quite a while is a KORG nano key studio. Which I could get used for about $90 maybe. I imagine I could prossibly make some great music with it, but lately I've been having so much fun with no controller at all. The TE line of plastic gizmos seem so extra to me and always has.

[@LiveLoopers]

And 5 years ago really wanted a JD-xi but considering my budget and how strongly I didn't want to carry it around it was easy to resist.

[@mobypixel]

Thanks, Alex! I've seen that Korg controller around. I would think for what you do an MPC style layout might work well. (That's what I'm making next) 🤝

[@mobypixel]

Yeah, Roland makes great products. AudioKit needs to make a Juno clone. 😂

[@LiveLoopers]

@@mobypixel - Oh yeah. Don't even get me started on how badly I wanted an MPC or Maschine! That was DEFINITELY not in the budget.

[@eross21]

very cool, now can you up this build and add a way to change each button to any midi note you want? maybe an encoder for each button? so lets say i want to change the right button to a d3 midi note. i could rotate clockwise, or turn counter clockwise to move to a lower midi note? i’m not sure how. but it would be cool.

[@mobypixel]

Yes, you could do that. The default buttons in Control Surface don't have that customization built-in so it would require using pin-up and pin-down methods in your update loop. You could possibly set it up with one encoder and a MIDI Learn button. In that case you could hold down a learn button, select one of your note buttons, turn the encoder changing the note's value, and then return to the default state when the learn button is raised. Another option would be adding transpose buttons, but that would shift all the notes. I've not worked with save states on Teensy/Arduino but I'm sure that is a thing.😅

[@eross21]

@@mobypixel midi learn now that is interesting? so your saying i could click a button, and have the two button learn midi notes coming in from my computer to the arduino ?

[@mobypixel]

@@eross21 No, I mean in your Arduino sketch you could have a button that when held will allow you to change the midi note values of your other buttons. That would all have to be coded of course but the user steps would be: push and hold a button on my controller, tap the button I want to change the midi note value of, turn the encoder, and when I'm done release the button I was holding. Optionally the "MIDI Learn" button could toggle a boolean anytime it is tapped. That would prevent needing an encoder for every button. That's all just one option.

[@eross21]

@@mobypixel oh ok… cool thanks

[@mobypixel]

It turns out this build might have what you were looking for. I like the addition of LEDs too. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJ6cYZqrdtSBm6s

[@racheljones5614]

Can you make organ bass pedals?

[@mobypixel]

Thanks for the suggestion! That is a cool idea.

[@GreyDintZ]

2 more volcas, maybe three roland boutiques, and upgrade my td3 to MO. But seriously though, getting the S1 roland. Just cant afford the other dozen machines I want.

[@mobypixel]

Thanks for watching! Yeah, those boutiques look nice. I've not heard of the S1. I'll check it out! 🙌

[@GreyDintZ]

@@mobypixel it's the best sh101 clone so far, I think anyway. No keys and small knobs, but has midi, and you can map controls. Check out the bad gear review, very informative

[@williamsrdan]

Could an older electric keyboard, without midi outputs, be modified to be a USB midi controller? I have a Casio SA-77. The sounds on it are horrible except the wood block and laser beam... LOL.

[@mobypixel]

Haha! It's possible, but I think it would take a ton of work. You'd have to desolder everything and rewire the board.. Laser beams. 😂 Thanks for the comment. I hope you're doing well!

[@jvburnes]

Ended up here, because I'm a musician and a software engineer. I was just going to punt and grab a MidiHub, but they do everything but implement SYSEX messages which is strange. So I'll probably build a Teensy MIDI router and *just* implement SYSEX lol. Then I'll patch a MidiHub into it -- either that or MidiHub will get off their lazy butts and allow you to send SYSEX messages to do automation.

[@tranznart1]

Arduinoboy build please

[@mobypixel]

Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll look into it-sounds like a fun project.

[@diegopalomarelectronicmusic]

prophet 6, 5