Stylophone or Keyboard

Using Arduino Audio
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Hi,

Long time since I did anything with an Arduino, but I have the urge to finish a synth I started last December.

I have an existing arduino 5 dollar keyboard synth and also a stylophone with the guts removed.

Question is which to base the new project on ?

This is a quick demo of the filter New Arduino Synth Sequencer With Low Pass Resonant Filter - YouTube

and this is a quick demo of the five dollar keyboard, the new project will include the filter, arp etc etc from both projects its just a question of whether more people would build a donor keyboard version or a donor stylophone version ?

Basic version with Arp

Dual oscillator and delay added

Duane B

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What is a stylophone?

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http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/stylophone-n54ft

Ancient analogue stylus synth. Around christmas they normally have a promotion and sell them for 10 GBP which is reasonable as a donor enclosure, speaker, amp and keyboard/keypad/keystrip ? for an Arduino based synth.

They could sound much better with an Arduino inside.

Duane B

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janost:
What is a stylophone?

A musical instrument popularized in the 1960's by Rolf Harris, who's catch phrase "can you tell what it is yet?" strangely has not appeared in his current court case.

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Given the Rolf angle, maybe the keyboard is the right way to go.

Duane

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Go for the keyboard.
Appeals to most people.

As soon as I saw the Stylophone I knew what is was :slight_smile:
I don't think its musically useful. More like awful.

You probably have seen my dsp-G1?
The sound is great but using other than MIDI or a keyboard to play is really out of the question?

I was thinking of using a mic and analyzing freq and level to make it playable without any keyboard or buttons.

Sing or hum into it like a kazoo?