Bass beat detect

Using Arduino Audio
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I'm making sound to light with arduino. It's work now with volume, but I want to make it work with frequency. I used normal sound wire from PC to arduino for sound detection. Can anybody help me to make arduino detect frequency?

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Probably the easy answer would be to use something like the MSGEQ7 chip that splits the signal into 7 frequency bands. A tutorial here and youtube example here Arduino MSGEQ7 Pantera - Walk - YouTube

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Hi,

I am also trying to do something similar.
Basically you have three options:

  1. analog filtering with something like the MSGEQ7
  2. FFT analysis (there are plenty of them on the net)
  3. some digital filtering, like a FIR

I am trying to follow the third option, but I want something simple and rough, like it is done here: http://www.instructables.com/id/The-LED-Matrix-Panel-or-LMP-for-the-Arduino-micr/
This guy basically implements three simple filters, but the code is poorly documented and I can't understand it very well.
As far as I have understood he sums the samples in a group of 2, 20 and 100. The more samples you add the lower the frequency, but then some magic happens that I can't understand :frowning:

Does anyone have some suggestion?

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but then some magic happens that I can't understand

Me neither. FIR filter is only possible with regularly - precise spaced samples, if that part is omitted, than everything else is just a non-sense.

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Hi,

in the end I made it!

the FIR isn't perfect but it's still a viable solution.