Omnichord inspired MIDI controller
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- A capacitive touch-based MIDI controller inspired by the omnichord, with a slightly different control layout. The 12 keys select the root note, and the 10 buttons on the side select chord quality, up to 9th chords. The buttons latch, so you don't have to hold your hand on the keys the entire time, and you don't need to press them simultaneously either.
The sound I'm running here is the Box Harp from the Decent Sampler plugin (www.decentsamp...)
Next revision coming soon, with updated hardware and expanded capabilities!.
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I would love to build one of these as a kit, use my own RPI for this. Awesome stuff
Le Strum by Sixty Four Pixels is similar, available in kit form and pretty cheap.
I own a Le Grand Strum and can guarantee you’ll not be disappointed.
this is a lovely design, nice work.
I like the size that you afforded to the strum pads
Put a sequencer with additional complex arpeg in there too, and I'll buy one! Still cool as a more simple controller though. 👍
really incredible stuff. and i love the way it looks as well.
This is great! Reminds me very much of Chordian for iOS.
You could improve this design by having the touch strip so that there are different gaps in the chord depending on where you strum down. Eg the touch strips don't have to go all the way across. You might have one part where all the strips make up the chord, and just on from that 'every other strip', and then 'every third strip'. Then you would choose where to strum to get a different effect from the same chord. As for timing, you could either have those strips converging to maintain the same timing or double up those strips where were played. etc etc etc. In fact you could have an assortment of attachable strips with different spacing and timings to keep things interesting.
Very well done! Fortunately for us who lack the skills to build one of these Suzuki is releasing a new Omnichord with a midi out, I’m definitely getting one. My OM 100 was stolen and sold for heroin by my ex guitar player. The scum!
Well, you can still get your hands on an improved version of this since i’ll be releasing it sometime in the end of the year ;)
Sorry to hear about your stolen Omnichord, especially as hard as they are to come by at a good price.
Yeah, but it's £729!
that's super cool!
Would love to build one of these! Please lmk if you start selling kits or the Gerbers for the PCB!
Super cool design. Awesome
Wow that's cool as hell
so cool
Heresay he’s gonna try to develop this properly 🤭 YOU’RE TOO COOL MATE
Congratulation for the awesome idea
You need to commercialize this I think it could be seriously succesful
Best luck
Thanks! I’m working on 2nd revision right now and planning on a soft launch sometime in June and a kickstarter later in the year so keep your eyes out!
@@HappyWomWom Awesome!
Can't wait!
I LOOOOOOOOOOVE THIS IDEA
That’s damn cool
Wow! Would love to buy one of these!
Brilliant. Love this concept.
Awesome!
Great
Fantastic build, I love the way it sounds. Commercial kit model when?😅
Thanks! Though I can’t take credit for the sound 😅 that’s the decent sampler plugin. If all goes according to plan, commercial model coming to kickstarter by the end of the year! You can follow my IG or join the discord channel for updates! :)
Beautiful
Great layout idea!
great stuff man!
need this badly
That's awesome dude 😁✌️❤️
You gotta make a Clint Eastwood cover with it now
Great work !!!
Very cool!
I would like like to see as a video series. Please, share more video.
👍👍👍
Omg this is awesome. I would love to buy/build.
Nice work.kudos to you
so cool!
Dude, i love it!!
✌️ 💜
Incredible
Ahaha awesome, wanted to make this exact (almost) idea. Amazing and happy someone made it so that I’ll be able to use it. I was looking at a dedicated second row for minor chords, since they’re so common (and natural to every key). Also because of how chords usually are of the format (major/minor) + optional chord quality, so that you wouldn’t have to hold down more than 2 keys. But this looks really neat.
The core idea of able to select the root like this is much more useable and relevant for music theory than the mess of chords splayed across an omnichord.
Also, is a display needed? I was thinking a 7 seg for the key and then just roman numeral prints next to the keys numbered I - VII and similar indicator labels for the chord quality keys (dim, 7, add9 …)
Sorry for the unsolicited ideas but I’m super excited for you! Hope it goes well
Thanks! I had toyed with the idea of dropping the major and minor buttons and using them as defaults but i felt that keeping the ui consistent as root + quality is probably more intuitive.
I’m planning on adding a small oled or lcd as a display. I’m also going to add customisable voicings/ qualities with saved presets so i’m probably going to keep the keycaps blank
seems hard to control but sounds great
I imagine it's quite nice when anchored down
I would love to build one of these!!!!!! :D
SO COOL
That's awesome!
this is super freaking cool, i am very intrested if you ever wanted to explain more about the Rasp Pi you used for this Controller
I would buy this
I want to start using our raspberry pi to do stuff like this...
Do it! Making stuff is immensely fulfilling!
Wow an inspiring design! I was wondering where you got the buttons for the keys. I am working on a midi keyboard and would like to use the same black and white computer keys but can't find them.
my best guess is the switches are just any cherry style switch, the keycaps look like blank dsa profile keycaps.
Any plans to share the tutorial/schematics? Or are you going to try to put it to market and sell complete units? Clearly there are a lot of folks interested in making or at least owning one.
I’m in the process of developing this further into a fully fledged product! I’m looking at a major update sometime before June.
Honestly i’ve been floored by the reception, i originally only posted this video so that i could link it on my portfolio 😅.
put some rubber feet on that thing so you can strum without having to hod it down
Interesting project, it reminds me of another seemingly inactive project I saw on RUclips called The Chillophone 3000.
Would you mind sharing more about the software? What library are you using for MIDI on the Pi?
Yeah i remember seeing the Chillophone make its rounds.
The firmware is just coded in C, i used TinyUSB for the USB MIDI functionality. It’s fully supported on the pi pico so using it is not too hard and there are a bunch of tutorials.
Apart from that’s it’s just reading the touch sensor and keyswitch matrix and lighting the correct LEDs.
Love this! Any chance of a kit?
I'm in the process of refining the design and fixing some bugs. I'm hoping to either get a finished product of a kit out eventually!
@@HappyWomWomThat would be great!
@@HappyWomWomhow do we keep tabs on you for when your kit is available?
Hackharp
Does it come with that preset?
Yes! This will likely be the default chord selection and voicings. I’m working on configurable voicings for the next revision.
Its a stylophone but with a finger.
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I want one!
Sell me this or make a kit for it pls
can you make me one
sup with all these CHOMPI, OP-1, Korg Mini synth music devices? Does anyone REALLY want to play music like this? This seems utterly unfun. We need a regular ol' polyphonic digital synth with more than freegin 4 or 8 voices....
As someone who owns a Korg Monotron Duo, it's not just the modern day. I've got keyboards from the 80s thru 2000s in smaller desktop sizes like the PT-20, and the DR-220A drum machine. This is just the modern day take on that same concept.
The answer to why this stuff gets popular is honestly space and portability. You can throw this in a pocket or fit it in an apartment desk. It's also just fun to pick up and mess around with if you want a specific, but quick sound. I've used the Monotron a few times in music production already for a specific, monophonic analog synth sound.
Different layouts ime are good for coming up with different ideas or textures.
With omnichord-style layouts in particular, someone who isn't proficient at piano/keyboard will struggle to do wide, fluid arpeggios like that; whereas these things make it easy for anyone to do.
@GuyDude-hk8uy exactly, it makes for different play styles that are accessible to more people. I also forgot to mention how these devices are great if you build your own synths and whatnot, there's something satisfying about playing something you built.
I would LOVE an OP-1 but they are too damn expensive :( The mini Korg synths im not interested in.
i would buy this